SPOOKS BY RADIO

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 10, 23 September 1927, Page 6

SPOOKS BY RADIO

NEW YORK’S MYSTERY NIGHT. In spite of a New York scientific journal’s offer to spiritualists of a prize of many hundred dollars for a strict test, i* successful, of spirit manifestations, no one has come forward to try for the reward. The spiritualists, ‘however, have invaded the region of broadcasting. The ‘New York Times" reports :- "he radio broadcasting station of WGL at the Hotel Majestic was turned over to the ectoplasinic denizens of the spirit world at 9.45 last night, and, according to the Rev. Mary Freeman, pastor of the Liberty Spiritualist Church, who hid behind a scieen, messages wrre received from President Woodrow Wilson, Voltaire, and Albert Snyder, who was murdered iast spring. SOUND-PROOF DOOR. "}ixtensive preparations were made by the management. ‘The lights were lowered, a sound-proof glass door was installed, and an assorted lot of musical devices were set un on a table before the microphone. ‘These devices included an Indian drum, a bass drum, a ’cello, a bell and clapper, a whistle and a glass. When all was in readiness the witnesses, including a sceptical man named John W. Stafford, from the ‘ "Scientific American," made a_ little half-moon before the glass door. They were on the look-out for impalpable movements in the atmosphere. FAMOUS GHOSTS ENTER. At 10 o’clock the three spirits entered the room, according to the Rev. Mary T'reeman. And then, five or ten minutes later, those who had tuned in on WGI, heard three sharp thumps on the Indian druin or a plucking of the ’cello strings. The noises were repeated at intervals, and after six or seven more minutes had elapsed they had increased in both volume and frequency. ‘What the noises meant to Mrs. I’reeman were summed up as follows :- "President Wilson predicted that the country would (or would not) go Democratic in the next election The static marred his prophecy, hut he said one thing or the other, Voltaire said le was very hannv in his new home. "ert Snyder said that his widow would never go to the electric chair for his murder, But they didn’t «understand his taps on the drum until Mrs, Freeman made evervthing clear, "When everything was over the members of an investigating committee said there had heen no fraud as far as thev could believe their senses,"?