Mary Marshall

Mary Ann Marshall (1880-1963), also known as Mary M, was a Canadian medium. She is most notable for a photo depicting tissue coming out her nose with a picture of Arthur Conan Doyle's face in it which she claimed was his spirit.[1]

Putting the psycho in
Parapsychology
Men who stare at goats
By the powers of tinfoil
v - t - e
Marshall with fake ectoplasm.

Biography

Little is known about Marshall; she was of Scottish and Irish parentage but later moved to Winnipeg, Canada after World War I where she joined the Hamilton mediumship group. Some websites seem to have confused this Mary Marshall with another British medium with the same name who lived between 1842-1884.[2]

Photos

Photographs taken at the séances with Marshall were taken from 1928-1933 by the surgeon, and parapsychologist Dr. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton (1873-1935).[3] As a spiritualist, Hamilton believed that the photos were genuine evidence for spirits.[4] However the photographs reveal that the ectoplasm of Marshall in her seances were made of cloth, tissue, and magazine cut outs of people.[5]

gollark: What? How do you use netcat with that?!
gollark: It's a shame we have not reached the cool™ point where whiteboards can trivially and cheaply be computers or something, so you can subtly erase unwanted parts remotely.
gollark: There must be some way to erase whiteboards remotely.
gollark: Erase it.
gollark: That sure does rapidly print Stop and some errors.

References
  1. The Mediumship of Mary Marshall
  2. Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology: Mary Marshall
  3. Psychic Research in a Winnipeg Family: Reminiscences of Dr. Glen F. Hamilton
  4. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton (1873-1935)
  5. Touching the Dead: Spooky Winnipeg by Tom Jokinen
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