The Stainton Moses spirit-writing and apparition corpus

Record summary

William Stainton Moses, an Anglican clergyman and medium, recorded automatic writing, séance phenomena and purported communications from spirits in notebooks later published in part as Spirit Teachings. His material is relevant to ghost-report comparison because it combines claimed apparitions and spirit identities with controlled-sounding séance description, theological interpretation and disputed witness testimony. It also illustrates the difference between a haunting report and a mediumistic textual corpus. The genuineness of phenomena and the reliability of the records were contested during and after his lifetime.