Estelle Roberts

Estelle Roberts (1889-1970) was a British physical medium who dressed up as a spirit.

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Roberts claimed to materialize an Indian spirit guide called "Red Cloud" in her séances. The paranormal debunker Melvin Harris examined some photographs of Red Cloud and wrote the face was the same as Roberts and she had dressed up in a feathered war-bonnet.[1] A photograph of Roberts can be found here which has the same face as "Red Cloud" . It's clear that Roberts and Red Cloud were one and the same, however spiritualist cranks who refuse to accept any evidence of fraud such as Michael Prescott and Michael E. Tymn claim that Red Cloud was a real spirit.[2]

Red Cloud (Roberts) also made false predictions such as claiming World War II was not going to break out and that there was going to be peace. As Roberts was a fraud who would dress up as the spirit during her séances it's no surprise that she refused to allow any psychical researchers or scientists to attend her séances.

Publications
  • Forty Years a Medium (1960)
  • Red Cloud Speaks (1938)
gollark: One of them was to make it so you had to pay some % of your patent's value to keep it (probably an increasing-over-time amount). Now, you might say "hmm but how do you assess value", which is an entirely reasonable concern.
gollark: There are various interesting proposals for adjusting them.
gollark: I mean, we have patent laws for that, no? They could use tweaking too.
gollark: Yes, I am in favour of that sort of thing.
gollark: What do you mean "competition laws"?

References
  1. Melvin Harris. (2003). Investigating the Unexplained: Psychic Detectives, the Amityville Horror-mongers, Jack the Ripper, and Other Mysteries of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 21
  2. Michael E. Tymn's spiritualist woo
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