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12 de jun. de 2006 · Mina Crandon & Harry Houdini: The Medium and The Magician. Mina Crandon's followers believed she had genuine paranormal powers. HarryHoudini was equally certain she was a fraud. by Daniel Stashower 6/12/2006. Share This Article. It was a tense and rather peculiar gathering that took place on July 23, 1924, at 10 Lime Street, an elegant four ...
24 de nov. de 2015 · In the meantime, a woman named Mina Crandon was getting attention in Boston. Her husband—wealthy, handsome, and significantly older—was a prominent Harvard-trained gynecologist, married twice before. In the early 1920s, Dr. Crandon attended one of Sir Oliver Lodge’s lectures on spiritualism, and the two spoke at length that night.
21 de jun. de 2019 · Mina's success as a medium tapped into a nationwide obsession with "Spiritualism," a movement popular in the 1920s. She'd previously worked as a secretary and as an actress, but once she married a prominent Boston surgeon, she took her otherworldly "gifts" to the public, opening her home to séance guests and Spiritualist devotees. Soon, locals ...
Houdini’s longest and most publicized confrontation with a spirit medium began in 1924, when he took on a woman named Mina Crandon, known publicly as "Margery." Skip To Content Join the Conversation
Mina “Margery” Crandon. Mina “Margery” Crandon (1888–November 1, 1941) grew up on a farm in Princeton, Ontario but moved to Boston as a young woman. While working as a secretary of a local church in Boston, she met and married Earl Rand, a grocer. They had one son. She later met Dr. Crandon when she entered a Dorchester, Massachusetts ...
6 de abr. de 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.
Mina Crandon, best known as “Margery”, was a Boston medium who found herself embroiled in one of the most bitter controversies in American psychic research. Her followers claimed that she was one of the greatest mediums who ever lived, while her critics called her a fraud and blamed her for almost bringing paranormal research in America to ...
