Michael E. Tymn claims the Bangs Sisters communicated with spirits

Michael E. Tymn has a new article:

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Tymn claims

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It is difficult to believe these two sisters were anything but genuine mediums, even if modern references write them off as frauds.

However, according to Joe Nickell the Bangs sisters were caught in fraud many times. For example one researcher Stanley L. Krebs caught them out by the use of a secret mirror.

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The Bangses were exposed as tricksters many times. For example a minister, Rev. Stanley L. Krebs (1901) sat for one demonstration that involved producing a “spirit” reply to a multi-paged letter that he had been instructed to bring, sealed in an envelope. At the beginning of the séance it was placed between two bound slates. Careful observation, and the use of a small mirror that permitted viewing under the table, allowed Krebs to see how the bound slates were secretly wedged apart and the envelope dropped into Miss Bangs’s lap from whence it was transferred to a tray on the floor and drawn under a closed door. In time, after her accomplice/sister had done her work of steaming open the envelope and penning a reply, the seemingly impossible effect was completed.

Any thoughts? Michael E. Tymn seems to ignore all the fraud and claim these mediums were genuine and that spirits had produced their paintings and pictures. How can modern spiritualists like Tymn to this very day still be defending outright fakes like this?

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