Harry price & The Séance of Rosalie

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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On a cold December night of 1937, renowned Psychical Investigator Harry Price strode up the steps outside a large, Victorian house in a quiet, well-to-do London suburb. He’d come to the house to partake in a séance, invited by a woman known only as Mrs X whom in their communications leading up to the night, had guaranteed a spirit manifestation for him. Price had seen it all before, he had crafted a career from debunking such fraudsters and in all likelihood, this event was to be much the same. Or was it? What unravelled that night has been the subject of fierce debate and deep research for over 80 years and still to this day, it leaves a web of tangled leads the likes of which any Hollywood scriptwriter could only dream of conjuring. SOURCES: Price, H. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research: A Critical Survey. Longmans, Green & Co., London, UK. Price, H. (1926). A Model Psychic Laboratory. British Journal of Psychical Research Vol 1, No.1, May-June 1926. London, UK. Hastings, R.J. (1964). Correspondence. Journal For the Society of Psychical Research: Vol 42 September 1964, London, UK. Cohen, D. (1964). Correspondence. Journal For the Society of Psychical Research: Vol 42 December 1964, London, UK. Medhurst, R.G. (1965). Harry Price and ‘Rosalie’. Journal For the Society of Psychical Research: Vol 42 December 1965, London, UK. Cohen, D. (1966). Correspondence. Journal For the Society of Psychical Research: Vol 43 June 1966, London, UK. Medhurst, R.G. (1966). Correspondence. Journal For the Society of Psychical Research: Vol 43 September 1966, London, UK. Randall, J.L. (2002). Correspondence. Journal For the Society of Psychical Research: Vol 66 January 2002, London, UK. Adams, P. (2017). The Enigma of Rosalie: Harry Price’s Paranormal Mystery Revisited. White Crow Books, Hove, UK. ’Science is Baffled’ (1939). The Sunday Mirror. 15 October, p.15. ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:48.0	On a cold December 9th of 1937, renowned psychical investigator Harry Price strode up to the steps outside a large Victorian
0:56.4	house in a quiet well-to-do London suburb. He'd come to the house to partake in a seance, invited by a woman known only as Mrs. X,
1:06.5	whom in their communications leading up to the night, had guaranteed him a spirit manifestation.
1:13.0	Price had seen it all before.
1:15.1	He'd crafted a career from debunking such fraudsters, and in all likelihood this event was
1:20.6	to be much the same.
1:22.6	Or was it?
1:24.5	What unraveled that night has been the subject of fierce debate and deep research for
1:28.9	over 80 years, and still to this day,
1:31.8	it leaves a web of tangled leaves, the likes of which any Hollywood scriptwriter
1:36.3	could only dream of conjuring.
1:39.2	This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
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