Douglas Blackburn
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| Born | 6 August 1857 |
| Died | 28 March 1929 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
Douglas Blackburn (6 August 1857,
Boer republic."[1]
Telepathy experiments
During 1882-1883, Blackburn with
George Albert Smith took part in a series of experiments that were claimed to be genuine evidence for telepathy by members of the Society for Psychical Research. Blackburn later made a public confession of fraud, stating that the results had been obtained by use of a code.[2][3]
Blackburn's Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed appeared in The Daily News and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1911. It was re-printed in A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, 1985.[4]
Works
- Novels
- Prinsloo of Prinsloosdorp: A Tale of Transvaal Officialdom, 1899
- A Burgher Quixote, 1903
- Richard Hartley, Prospector, 1904
- I Came and Saw, 1908
- Leaven: a black and white story, 1908
- Love Muti, Everett's, 1915
- Non-fiction
- Thought-Reading, or, Modern Mysteries Explained: Being Chapters on Thought-Reading, Occultism, Mesmerism, &c., Forming a Key to the Psychological Puzzles of the Day, 1884
- (with W. Waithman Caddell) The Detection of Forgery: A Practical Handbook For the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents, 1909
- Confessions of a Telepathist, 1911
- (with W. Waithman Caddell) Secret Service in South Africa, 1911
- The Martyr Nurse: The Death and Achievement of Edith Cavell, 1915
References
- ISBN 90-420-0666-8.
- ISBN 978-1591020868
- ISBN 978-0786427703
- ISBN 0-87975-300-5
Further reading
- Trevor H. Hall (1964). The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney. Duckworth.
External links
- Works by Douglas Blackburn at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Douglas Blackburn at Internet Archive
- Works by Douglas Blackburn at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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