A Ghost of a Chance
Media Type
Video
Date of Lecture
2-3-1994
Description of Lecture
The 1920's saw the heyday of the spiritualism movement. Many, even if not true believers, dabbled in Ouija boards, seances and automatic writing. The most ardent of believers was Sir Arthur Conan Doyla, the doctor who believed in using scientific methods to prove that spirits of the daed communicate with the living. The most Skeptical was Harry Houdini, the master escape artist who desparately wanted to believe but found only frauds amoung the mediums. Despite their opposing views , Doyle and Houdini became fast friends. This lecture will focus on what brought these two together and the singular incident whuch drove them forever apart.
Source
Source Inkwell 1994-02-02
Recommended Citation
Patton, Jennie, "A Ghost of a Chance" (1994). Robert Ingram Strozier Lecture Series (1993-present). 71.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/strozier-lecture-series/71
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