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Crandon, Mina Stinson ("Margery") (1889-1941) Famous American medium of Boston, whose phenomena became the focus of a major controvery over fraud and physical mediumship. Mina Stinson was born July 29, 1889 on a farm in Princeton, Ontario. She moved to Boston in 1904 and worked as a secretary to the Union Congregational Church.
6 apr 2015 · Mina Crandon. Though her hair looks dark in the black and white photos, contemporaries describe her as blonde. It seems to be hardwired into our brains to want to believe in miracles. It’s the only explanation why people will continue to believe in them even after they’ve been shown to be nothing of the sort.
14 nov 2022 · In the mid-1920s, a transatlantic team of physicians, surgeons, psychologists, and physicists gathered in the Boston séance room of the medium Mina ’Margery’ Crandon to study the extraordinary phenomena she produced in a trance state, especially the visceral, quasi-biological ‘ectoplasm’ that seemed to ooze from her body.
7 giu 2020 · 2020 Portrait of Mina Crandon by the artist Emerson Schreiner, commissioned by The Austin Séance. A controversial Jazz Age figure, Crandon stumped investigators for decades — including those with Scientific American magazine. Others, however, suspected fraud. Some activities associated with the Crandon séance room appear to have rational ...
Mina Crandon (more commonly known as Margery) is, perhaps, the most controversial medium in the history of Spiritualism. In her heyday, in the 1920’s, she spurred comments from some of the most noted Spiritualists and parapsychologists. Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, father of modern-day parapsychology, once said: “I think the main value of the ...
Medium Mina Crandon, also known as Margery, during séance: Alternate Title: Stereograph of séance: Creator: Unidentified photographer: Date: Undated: Subject: Margery, 1888-1941 Mediums--Pictorial works Seances Spiritualism: Format: Photographs Gelatin silver prints Stereographs. Extent: 20.2 x 25.3 cm: Digital Object Type: Still Image ...
5 dic 2023 · By Dr. Emma Merkling In late 2022 I began working on an INSBS-funded grant project on the scientific testing of the spiritualist medium Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon in Boston, c. 1925. ‘Margery’ was arguably the best-known medium in America at the time, having been made famous by a series of investigations into her mediumship initially funded […]
