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Pretty generally known, and the undesired notoriety brought so many requests to allow other visitors at the…

Date of account: Published 1923
Source: The Case Against Spirit Photographs
Reference: The Case Against Spirit Photographs · selected passage 50
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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pretty generally known, and the undesired notoriety brought so many requests to allow other visitors at the séances that it became evident to me that the proceedings must terminate

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pretty generally known, and the undesired notoriety brought so many requests to allow other visitors at the _séances_ that it became evident to me that the proceedings must terminate. So the next morning, after seeing E, I told him and the others that the whole thing had been a hoax, and that the photographs were frauds. I should like to add that with one exception they took it extraordinarily well, particularly when I explained what had been my object. They were still quite in the dark about _how_ the photographs had been done, particularly when I told them that there was no accomplice among them.

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