David Duguid

Who was David Duguid?

David Duguid was a Scottish spiritualist medium and Glasgow cabinet-maker by trade. He was well known for his automatic writing and spirit photography but was discovered to be a fraud. His spirit photography was exposed when it was revealed he had used paper with chemically bleached-out images on them, and during his séances would secretly press the paper against a blotter dampened with a developing solution. Harry Price wrote Duguid "was caught cheating over and over again. One of his 'extras', a 'Cyprian priestess', was found to be a facsimile of a German picture."