Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times. On the moving coffins of the Chase Vault in Barbados, he suggested animal magnetism or psychic force, possibly linked to Dorcas Chase. He also wrote about the Hydesville rappings, recording that seventy or eighty people came that night. 1926. Lord Combermere sent him the Combermere Abbey ghost photograph. Conan Doyle used it as a lantern slide in his lecture on spirit photography and wrote it up in Psychic Science. He doubted the date, believing it was taken on a Sunday afternoon shortly after the death.
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Discussed the case in The Strand Magazine, 1920
Defended the levitation in The History of Spiritualism (1926)
Spiritualist author who reprinted Marryat's account
Spiritualist author who accepted the event as genuine
Later defender of the phenomena in The History of Spiritualism
Wrote "The Combermere Photograph" in Psychic Science, 1926
Author who published the photographs in The Strand Magazine and The Coming of the Fairies
Visited four times and defended the case against the gas theory
Spiritualist author who defended the message
Author and spiritualist whose apparition was claimed at his own memorial
