MYSTERIOUS MEDIUM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 13

MYSTERIOUS MEDIUM

TRANSPORTED THROUGH LOCKED DOORS ' IN ITALIAN CASTLE A “monstrous and incredible pheno- “““ ot spiritualism, the “asporta“°a ( E e ” transportation) of a medium through four locked doors in an hist°riG Italian castle, is recorded by Mrs. Gwendolyn Hack, a well-known American psychic investigator. .he incident, which is regarded by spiritualists as a wonderful case of the dematerialisation and rematerialisation of the human organism, occurred at the feudal castle of Milleslm °’ , IQ , th , e . province of Savona, one or Italy s historic monuments. its history and legends are said to have proved fertile in supplying an “amb - ence propitious for “strong phenomena. The present owner, Marquis Carlo Centunone Scotto, was the medium who is described as having been mysteriously transported from one part hi - S T, home to anotlle r in the dead £ I? 1 ! - in the course of a seance neld behind locked doors on July 29, Present at the seance were 12 eminent spiritualists, including Mrs. Hack, Professor Ernesto Bozzano, one of the leaders of the movement in Italy, and two lawyers. All concerned have formally testified to the accuracy of the account, given by Professor Bozzano of the medium’s mysterious “asportation. Lights were extinguished at 10.45 p.ni. Various phenomena occurred when suddenly, at 11.30 p.m., the marquis exclaimed in a frightened voice: “I can no longer feel my legs.” A. “deathlike silence” followed, says Mrs. Hack, in “Modern Psychic Mysteries at Miiiesimo Castle,” and soon it was found that the medium had disappeared. fn the interval, Professor Bozzano says: "We did not hear the slightest sound in the room, no rustling of clothes, no sound of footsteps, no vibration of the floor, much less the sound of a key turning in the lock, or the door opening and reshutting.”