A psychical researcher who turned up at three of the archive's most famous hauntings and tests. March 1922. As research officer of the American Society for Psychical Research, Walter Franklin Prince came to Caledonia Mills with traps, a revolver and a flash camera. No fires broke out while he stayed. In 1919 he had looked back at the Great Amherst Mystery and argued for trickery by Esther Cox in a dissociative state. In 1924 he sat on the Scientific American committee judging the medium called Margery, alongside William McDougall, Hereward Carrington and Harry Houdini.
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Psychical researcher, author of the 1919 critical study
Pro earlyBoston Society for Psychic Research investigator; author of The Case of Patience Worth (1927)
Pro earlyResearch officer, American Society for Psychical Research; investigated in March 1922
Pro earlyPsychical researcher and committee member