Daniel Dunglas Home
Psychic, Author
1833 – 1886
Who was Daniel Dunglas Home?
Daniel Dunglas Home was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. His biographer Peter Lamont opines that he was one of the most famous men of his era. Harry Houdini described him as "one of the most conspicuous and lauded of his type and generation" and "the forerunner of the mediums whose forte is fleecing by presuming on the credulity of the public." Home conducted hundreds of séances, which were attended by many eminent Victorians.
There have been eyewitness accounts by séance sitters describing conjuring methods and fraud that Home may have employed.
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1833
Currie - Also known as
- D. D Home
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- Died
- Jun 21, 1886
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on July 23, 2013
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