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Mina Crandon, née Stinson, and better known by her pseudonym ‘Margery’, was an American séance medium who was frequently investigated in the 1920s. Besides levitations and other psychokinetic phenomena, her mediumship was notable for the ‘direct voice’ of a male individual that seemed to originate independently of her vocal apparatus.
Bostoner Medium. Crandon war in zweiter Ehe mit dem angesehenen Bostoner Chirurgen Dr. LeRoy Goddard Crandon verheiratet, der dem in den 20er Jahren boomenden Spiritismus anhing. Beim gemeinsamen Besuch einer Geisterbeschwörerin weissagte diese den Crandons, Mina habe ebenfalls die Gabe, Geister von Toten anzulocken.
Dec 17, 2015 - Mina "Margery" Crandon (1888–November 1, 1941) was a wealthy Boston socialite who was declared a fraud by Harry Houdini in a famous series of seances conducted for the Scientific American in 1924.
The medium the book spends the most time with is the “witch” of the title, charming Mina Crandon who was known as “Margery”. She was the best hope of those running the Scientific American contest, because she was educated and never took money for exhibiting her powers, factors which made her seem more credible than the other mediums they tested, but there ended up being a lot of twists ...
Mina Crandon a.k.a. Margery. The famous medium known as "Margery" was born Mina Marguerite Stinson in 1888. She grew up on a farm in Princeton, Ontario, Canada, and moved to Boston as a young woman where she met and married a grocer, Earl Rand. They had one son. She later met Dr. Le Roi Goddard Crandon when she entered the hospital for an ...
30 de jun. de 2022 · Mina Crandon murió el 10 de noviembre de 1941 a los 53 años, deprimida y presa de las garras del alcohol. Tras el descrédito de Mina Crandon por parte de Houdini y la cercana muerte del mismo, la médium de Boston que a punto estuvo de dar al traste con la reputación de Scientific American, continuó con su azarosa vida.
10 de oct. de 2015 · David Jaher's account of Harry Houdini attempt to debunk Boston society psychic Mina Crandon mixes history with high-wire theatricality — even though most readers will know who came out on top.
