William Cartheuser | |
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![]() Cartheuser (ca. 1927-1935) | |
Born | January 19, 1890 |
Died | February 25, 1966 Los Angeles, California | (aged 76)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Spiritualist |
William Cartheuser (January 19, 1890 – February 25, 1966) was an American spiritualist medium. [1]
Cartheuser originally worked as a mechanic. [2] He became a direct-voice medium who had utilized trumpets in his séances. [1] He was investigated by members of the American Society for Psychical Research. In 1927, he held a séance with Nandor Fodor in New York. [3] Psychical researchers suspected Cartheuser was fraudulent. [1]
In 1928, he conducted séances with the spiritualist Jenny O'Hara Pincock in Ontario, Canada. [4] [5] Pincock originally endorsed Cartheuser as a genuine medium but later broke connections, suggesting that he had turned his mediumship into a financial scheme. [5]
Cartheuser was investigated by the psychical researcher Hereward Carrington. He concluded that "a high percentage of fraud enters into the production of Cartheuser's physical phenomena." [6] [7]
Psychologist Henry C. McComas who observed Cartheuser at many sittings, detected his trickery. Cartheuser would get up from his chair, move the trumpets and produce all the voices himself. [8]
Cartheuser died February 25, 1966, in Los Angeles, California. He was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. [9]
William Cartheuser | |
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![]() Cartheuser (ca. 1927-1935) | |
Born | January 19, 1890 |
Died | February 25, 1966 Los Angeles, California | (aged 76)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Spiritualist |
William Cartheuser (January 19, 1890 – February 25, 1966) was an American spiritualist medium. [1]
Cartheuser originally worked as a mechanic. [2] He became a direct-voice medium who had utilized trumpets in his séances. [1] He was investigated by members of the American Society for Psychical Research. In 1927, he held a séance with Nandor Fodor in New York. [3] Psychical researchers suspected Cartheuser was fraudulent. [1]
In 1928, he conducted séances with the spiritualist Jenny O'Hara Pincock in Ontario, Canada. [4] [5] Pincock originally endorsed Cartheuser as a genuine medium but later broke connections, suggesting that he had turned his mediumship into a financial scheme. [5]
Cartheuser was investigated by the psychical researcher Hereward Carrington. He concluded that "a high percentage of fraud enters into the production of Cartheuser's physical phenomena." [6] [7]
Psychologist Henry C. McComas who observed Cartheuser at many sittings, detected his trickery. Cartheuser would get up from his chair, move the trumpets and produce all the voices himself. [8]
Cartheuser died February 25, 1966, in Los Angeles, California. He was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. [9]