Case file · High strangeness
Jane Stanford's séances
After their only son died of typhoid in 1884, Leland and Jane Stanford founded Stanford University in his memory; Jane Stanford sought contact with him through Spiritualist mediums for years.
1884 CE · 37.43, -122.17 · status: account
The account
Her interest in Spiritualism is well documented in letters. She died of strychnine poisoning in Honolulu in 1905, a death still debated.