Case file · High strangeness
Carrington's letter to a fictitious mother
In 1909 psychical researcher Hereward Carrington sent the Bangs sisters a sealed letter to a dead mother he had invented, 'Jane Thompson', and received a reply signed with her name.
1909 CE · 41.88, -87.66 · status: hoax
The sceptical view
He concluded their slate writing was fraud and that their portraits were produced by switching canvases.