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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 457, 19 May 1932, Page 1

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Ghostly Hand at Seance Test. LONDON, May 12. Tests applied to Rudi Schneider, the young Austrian medium, during a midnight seance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research led to happenings so eerie that Dr William Brown, a psychologist, and one of Oxford’s most staid scientists was forced to confess that his nerves began to quail. Satisfied that he had eliminated all possibility of trickery, Dr Brown is convinced that Schneider possesses some unexplained psychic power. Schneider’s feet and hands were controlled by Lord Lamington’s son, and the curtains screening the cabinet, in which Schneider’s trance personality, “ Olga,” is supposed to build psychic power, began to move as though blown by a strong breeze, making the spectators shiver. “ Olga ” asked Dr Brown to place a basket on his knees, and it immediately moved, Dr Brown declaring that he felt a force within the basket. The top of the table before the cabinet was torn from its legs and flung over the heads of the spectators. “ Olga ” demanded flowers, and when Dr Brown held them he felt them being tugged at. Some of the spectators say that they saw a ghostly hand take the flowers.