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Through the entranced medium instructions were given to focus a camera upon a certain chair--having first…

Date of account: Published 1921
Source: The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
Reference: The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal · selected passage 38
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Through the entranced medium instructions were given to focus a camera upon a certain chair--having first placed a shawl over the back

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Through the entranced medium instructions were given to focus a camera upon a certain chair--having first placed a shawl over the back. This was done. Dr. Ochorowicz and Mlle. Tomczyk then left the room together. At the end of a certain length of time they returned, developed the plate, and upon it was found the distinct imprint of a small child's face, apparently belonging to a body, seated in the chair, and swathed around with the shawl in question! The experiment was performed in the hotel where they happened to be stopping; the photographic camera and plates were Dr. Ochorowicz's own, and the medium was out of the room, in the doctor's company throughout.

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