David Duguid

David Duguid (1832–1907) was a Scottish spiritualist medium and Glasgow cabinet-maker by trade.[1] He was well known for his automatic writing and spirit photography but was discovered to be a fraud.[2] His spirit photography was exposed when it was revealed he had used paper with chemically bleached-out images on them, and during his séances would secretly press the paper against a blotter dampened with a developing solution.[3] Harry Price wrote Duguid "was caught cheating over and over again. One of his 'extras', a 'Cyprian priestess', was found to be a facsimile of a German picture."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Rodger Anderson (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules. McFarland & Company. p. 45. ISBN 978-0786427703
  2. ↑ Frank Podmore. (1902). Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism. London: Methuen. pp. 130-133. ISBN 978-1108072571
  3. ↑ Joe Nickell. (2001). Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal. The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 260-261. ISBN 978-0813122106
  4. ↑ Harry Price. Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter. Putnam. p. 168. ISBN 978-0883560310
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