Case file · High strangeness
The R101 séance
On 7 October 1930, two days after the airship R101 crashed in France killing 48 people, medium Eileen Garrett, at a séance arranged by Harry Price in London, spoke as the dead captain describing the faults.
1930 CE · 51.49, -0.18 · status: claim
The account
Some said the technical details could not have been known to her. The séance was meant to contact Arthur Conan Doyle, who had died in July.
The sceptical view
Critics showed that much of the 'technical' talk was vague or wrong, and much was already in the press.