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Such claims not only attracted the curious and converted the unthinking, but also received the attention of legal and scientific men.

In America, Judge Edmonds and Professor Hare undertook to expose their fallacy, but both had to admit the genuineness of some of the evidence. Jointly with Dr. George Dexter. Edmonds published a work entitled Spiritualism, which soon became a classic.

In England the truth of the phenomena gained the assent of such eminent converts as A. R. Wallace, Sir William Crookes, Professor De Morgan, and W. T. Stead. The London Dialectical Society appointed a committee to investigate the phenomena, and the report (1871) admitted the genuineness of the phenomena, but did not seek to explain their origin.

In America the believers in spiritualism are now very numerous, and have many newspapers, magazines, and books to explain and enforce their belief.

Notwithstanding this testimony, spiritualism has been in the past greatly discredited in England by the fact that nearly all public mediums in the late 19th century and early 20th century had been convicted of fraud.

The popular belief at the time seemed to be that the phenomena of spiritualism was the result either of self-delusion on the part of believers, unconscious deception on the part of the medium, or clever conjuring.

The investigations in the 1930's of the Psychical Society, seemed to show that there were forces connected with hypnotism and its kindred phenomena which may explain the occult occurrences of spiritualism by natural, though hitherto little known, laws. The interest in spiritualism was greatly revived during the First World War.

Apart from scientific curiosity and a love of the marvelous, the assurance of life after death was a consolation to the thousands who were mourning over their lost ones.

It also attracted many people who were anxious to obtain advice and information about mundane matters through mediums.

One of the most famous believers in the supernatural character of psychical phenomena at that time, was Sir Oliver Lodge, who in 1916 published a work entitled Raymond, or Life and Death.

Today Spiritualism is widely used, but there is still many who do not believe in it, even those that believe in Ghosts and/or UFO's have mixed feelings. GhostStations.com™ will not draw a conclusion one way or the other, it rests as always with you and your belief.