Douglas Blackburn
Born6 August 1857
Southwark
Died28 March 1929
Tonbridge
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer

Douglas Blackburn (6 August 1857, Southwark – 28 March 1929, Tonbridge) was an English journalist and novelist, who worked in the Transvaal and Natal between 1892 and 1908. He has been called "the great chronicler of the last days of the Boer republic."[1]

Telepathy experiments

During 1882-1883, Blackburn with George Albert Smith took part in a series of experiments that were claimed to be genuine evidence for telepathy by members of the Society for Psychical Research. Blackburn later made a public confession of fraud, stating that the results had been obtained by use of a code.[2][3]

Blackburn's Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed appeared in The Daily News and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1911. It was re-printed in A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, 1985.[4]

Works

Novels
Non-fiction

References

  1. ^ Gray, Stephen (1999). "Douglas Blackburn". Free-Lancers and Literary Biography in South Africa. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 13–58. ISBN 90-420-0666-8.
  2. ^ Polidoro, Massimo. (2003). Secrets of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims. Prometheus Books. p. 43. ISBN 978-1591020868
  3. ^ Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 161. ISBN 978-0786427703
  4. ^ Blackburn, Douglas. Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed. In Paul Kurtz. A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology. Prometheus Books. pp. 235-239. ISBN 0-87975-300-5

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