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Higginson had a session at the headquarters of the
Spiritualist's National Union with the Elizalde's. Unknown to Higginson, a member secretly took away a sample of a blood clot that they had pretended to remove. The blood was forensically analysed and found to belong to a pig. Higginson was shaken by
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February 1976 he gave out names and addresses to his audience. The accusation was that information about his sitters was available from library lists, books and other documents, and that Higginson had been alone in the church for an hour before the sitting with the information.
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Higginson himself covered in cloth material. Frank Spedding wrote "the materialisations were crude fakes which should not have deceived anyone of normal intelligence". Before another séance Colvin searched the room and claimed to find
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41:Gordon Mons Higginson
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904:Edmund Smith Conklin
1079:Julien J. Proskauer
869:George Miller Beard
864:John Henry Anderson
602:Daniel Dunglas Home
319:History and beliefs
74:from 1979 to 1993.
1119:Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
954:William A. Hammond
757:Stanisława Tomczyk
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657:Carmine Mirabelli
617:Swami Laura Horos
567:Kathleen Goligher
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386:Spirit possession
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