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  1. Leonora Piper (née Leonora Evelina Simonds; 27 June 1857 – 3 June 1950) was a famous American trance medium in the area of Spiritualism. Piper was the subject of intense interest and investigation by American and British psychic research associations during the early 20th century, most notably William James and the Society for Psychical ...

  2. Oct 21, 2016 · When Leonora Evelina Piper (née Symonds) was 8 years old, she was out playing in the garden when she was overcome by a sudden and mysterious blow to the side of her head, accompanied by a hiss,...

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  3. The American medium Leonora Piper (1859–1950) holds a significant position in the literature of psychical research, having submitted for decades to scientific investigation. Unlike so-called ‘physical’ mediums, those that created psychokinetic phenomena in dark or dimly-lit séance conditions, Piper produced veridical ‘mental ...

  4. Jul 6, 2021 · Alexis Pedrick: Leonora Piper was a respectable Boston mother of two, who claimed to hear voices from the dead. She delivered their messages through automatic writing. She’d go into a supposed trance, and write unconsciously, transmitting messages from the beyond. And she got famous for it. By 1910, she was paid $20 a sitting. That’s 500 ...

  5. Piper, Leonora E (velina Simonds) (1859-1950) Trance medium of Boston, among the most renowned in the history of psychical research. Her work is credited with convincing Sir Oliver Lodge, Richard Hodgson, James H. Hyslop, and many others to believe in survival and communication with the dead.

  6. Mar 13, 2017 · Leonora Piper was one of the most famous spirit mediums of the 19th Century. She made believers of important scientists and thinkers, including William James, father of American psychology, and Oliver Lodge, the British physicist who contributed to the invention of the radio.

  7. Perhaps the world's most celebrated psychic medium, and certainly one of the most scrutinized, Leonora Piper not only possessed extraordinary gifts, but used them for the good of humanity rather than her own personal gain.

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