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  Mary Ellen Spook Scan

  Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library ·from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)

  Mary Ellen SPOOK Fire-spook of Caledonia Mills For generations of people living in Antigonish County the story of Mary Ellen Spook is well known. In 1922, H.B. Whidden wrote the following article entitled "My Experiences at the MaeDonald Homestead". Permission has been granted to the Antigonish Heri…

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  1922 newspaper coverage of the Fire Spook (unverified) Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  The Antigonish Fire Starter Scan

  Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library ·from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  Mary Ellen Spook site banner Scan

  Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library ·from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  Walter Franklin Prince, ghost hunter Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)

  SCIENTIST HAS GONE TO ANTIGONISH TO LAY GHOST DR WALTER FRANKLIN PRINCE, Director of the American Institute for Scientific Research of New York, Who Plans a Stay in the "Haunted House" in Nova Scotia, Where He Will Try to Discover the Ghost, If There Is Agy. It is a Mirachous Spook, and Arson and Cr…

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  Walter Franklin Prince with Alex MacDonald Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  Walter Franklin Prince at Antigonish, 1922 Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  Mary Ellen MacDonald Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  New York Times page of 16 March 1922, "Ghost Was a Girl, Dr. Prince Reports" Scan

  Uploaded by Lone Drifter, 2016 ·from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)

  'GHOST' WAS A GIRL, DR. PRINCE REPORTS Investigator Thinks Mary Ellen Started Mysterious Fires at Caledonia Mills, N. S. FOUND INFLAMMABLE LIQUID He Says She Has Had Dream States—Reporter Did Automatic Writing. *Academy of the New York City* *Dr. Walter Franklin Price of the American Research Societ…

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  1922 newspaper coverage of the Fire Spook (unverified) Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  Clipping from the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, 13 March 1922 Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)

  Slapped by Spook! Detective Carroll (above) says the Augustin shoot which has been identified as MacDonald at Caladonio Mills, Nova Scotia, him plucked the MacDonald says he was slipped. too. Scientists are investigating.…

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  Mary Ellen MacDonald, 1922 Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  The MacDonald house at Caledonia Mills Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (1922)
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  Mary Ellen MacDonald Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (Mary Ellen Spook Farm) (1922)

  The Antigonish ghost is a girl, 16 years old, according to Dr. Walter Franklin Pierce of the American Research Society, after almost a week's search for a solution of the mystery. It was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McDonald of Caledonia Mills, Nova Scotia—Mary Ellen Macdonald—who, impelle…

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  Walter Franklin Prince Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (Mary Ellen Spook Farm) (1922)
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  Walter Franklin Prince Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (Mary Ellen Spook Farm) (1922)
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  Artist's drawing of the MacDonald house Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (Mary Ellen Spook Farm) (1922)
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  Mary Ellen MacDonald, 1922 (screenshot of a CBC page) Scan

  Not stated; possibly Antigonish Heritage Museum ·from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (Mary Ellen Spook Farm) (1922)
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  Period newspaper photographs of people and places in the case Scan

  from The Caledonia Mills Fire Spook (Mary Ellen Spook Farm) (1922)

  HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THE ANTIGONISH GHOST HUNT? At the left is Angus MacPherson, who reported seeing many weird happenings. Dr. Franklin Prince (in first sleigh), as he makes his way to the Nova Scotia farmhouse. Other members of the party, including newspaper folk, follow…

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  Artist's illustration of the nunda Scan

  William Rebsamen ·from The Lindi mngwa killings, Tanganyika Territory, 1922 (1922)
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  Header image from the Occult World mngwa article Scan

  from The Lindi mngwa killings, Tanganyika Territory, 1922 (1922)
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  Image from the Cryptozoo-oscity mngwa post Scan

  from The Lindi mngwa killings, Tanganyika Territory, 1922 (1922)
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  Image from UFO-Sverige's Martebo article (content not verified) Scan

  Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige ·from The Martebo Lights (Marteboljuset) (1922)
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  Probably a portrait of Ingemar Gotvik Scan

  Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige ·from The Martebo Lights (Marteboljuset) (1922)
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  Lead image of the 2012 Hemmets Journal article (content not verified) Scan

  Hemmets Journal ·from The Martebo Lights (Marteboljuset) (1922)
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  Image from UFO-Sverige's Martebo article (content not verified) Scan

  Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige ·from The Martebo Lights (Marteboljuset) (1922)
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  Image from UFO-Sverige's Martebo article (content not verified) Scan

  Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige ·from The Martebo Lights (Marteboljuset) (1922)
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  Per-Erik Karlsson, witness living beside Martebo myr Scan

  Gun Wallier / Helagotland ·from The Martebo Lights (Marteboljuset) (1922)
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  Later illustration of an orang pendek Scan

  Ant Wallis / Centre for Fortean Zoology ·from J. van Herwaarden's orang pendek (sedapa) encounter at Poeloe Rimau (1923)
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  A man in Indonesia holding a fake orang pendek skeleton, c. 1932 Scan

  from J. van Herwaarden's orang pendek (sedapa) encounter at Poeloe Rimau (1923)
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  Homo floresiensis skull, for comparison Scan

  Wikimedia Commons (per the site) ·from J. van Herwaarden's orang pendek (sedapa) encounter at Poeloe Rimau (1923)
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  Later footprint cast from a CFZ expedition, unrelated to 1923 Scan

  Andrew Sanderson ·from J. van Herwaarden's orang pendek (sedapa) encounter at Poeloe Rimau (1923)
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  Portrait of Albert Ostman Scan

  from Albert Ostman's claimed abduction by a Sasquatch family, Toba Inlet, British Columbia (1924) (1924)
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  Header illustration used by Anomalien, not an event photograph Scan

  from Albert Ostman's claimed abduction by a Sasquatch family, Toba Inlet, British Columbia (1924) (1924)
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  Houdini, Malcolm Bird, Mina Crandon and O. D. Munn, 1924 Scan

  Houdini pamphlet, Adams Press, 1924 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Mina Crandon with "ectoplasm" on her face Scan

  Stanley De Brath, The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, 1930 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Portrait of the medium Mina Crandon Scan

  S. R. Morgan, Index to Psychic Science, 1950 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  The "spirit" hand, later said to be made from carved animal liver, from a séance outside the 1924 prize sittings Scan

  Anonymous ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Portrait of Mina Crandon, 1924 Scan

  Malcolm Bird, 1925 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Stereograph of "Margery" Crandon exuding "ectoplasm" during a test séance, 1925 Scan

  Society for Psychical Research / Cambridge University Library (MS SPR/39/15) ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Dr Le Roi Goddard Crandon Scan

  R. G. Pressing, 1947 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Walter Stinson Scan

  R. G. Pressing, Houdini Unmasked, 1947 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  The "spirit" hand at a séance, early 1920s Scan

  Unknown author ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  A "Walter" thumbprint in dental wax, later matched to the dentist Frederick Caldwell Scan

  Stanley De Brath, 1930 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Mina Crandon with Harry Houdini, 1924 Scan

  Malcolm Bird, "Margery" the Medium, 1925 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  A "materialized hand" making a thumbprint in dental wax Scan

  Stanley De Brath, 1930 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Automatic writing from the Margery séances Scan

  Stanley De Brath, 1930 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Prince, Comstock, Crandon, Munn and Houdini, 1924 Scan

  Houdini pamphlet, 1924 ·from The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize (1924)
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  Photograph of Fred Beck Scan

  from The Battle of Ape Canyon (1924)
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  Newspaper clipping labelled '1952 great ape hunt' Scan

  from The Battle of Ape Canyon (1924)