PSYCHIC LIGHT.

Shannon News, 8 June 1923, Page 3

PSYCHIC LIGHT.

, SPIRITS AT THE CENOTAPH. It is only to-day that we hear from across the Atlantic that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been making a, startling revelation about spirit photography, and that about photographs taken as long ago .as. last November, on Armistice Dav, at the Cenotaph in ’Whitehall.

Thiei story of how they were taken is being toid in London by Miss Slea.d daughter of the world-famous W. T. Stead, whose biographer and assistant his daughter was. His story is:— “Some lime before Armistice Day last, year,” she said, “I myself received- a message from the other side asking if T couhl arrange for a number of spiritualists- to be present during the two-minutes silence. “This I was able to do, but it was not till afterwards that it. was suggested that, photographs should he taken. “Mrs Dean, a. well-known psychic photographer, agreed to take the pio turea. 'Mrs. De’an, Mr Sears, and' myself took up a position on the foot o! the lodge near the Ministry of Labour, and from there two: exposure were made.

“The first, an ordinary time exposure, was made .just before the Silence, ■and shows the crowd with a. light just above their, heads. The light is known as the psychic light, which is said to exist, in the presence of spiritualists. “The second plate was exposed during the whole of the Silence. When developed, it revealed a great many spirit faces above the crowd. The faces are a great deal bigger than those of the living.

‘‘Several of the faces have been recognised as those of soldiers killed in the war. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself recognised his nephew among them.” .

Miss Stead says she is convinced that Ihe pictures were genuine, and that thei places had not been tampered with.

A similar picture was taken on Armistice Day, 1921, added Miss Stead, and all the “spirit facets” shown' on Hie plate were recognised by relatives Auckland “Star’s” Special.