Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

This is an episode of paranormal stories.

Today I'll be talking about Helen Duncan, a Scottish physical medium.

Known for producing ectoplasm during her sciences,

she gained attention when she revealed the sinking of HMS Barham before it was made public.

This led to her arrest and trial in the British courts.

Helen Duncan's name resounds in British spiritualist history

with a mixture of awe, control of sea and sorrow.

Born into modest circumstances in Scotland,

she became a woman whose life was marked by the extraordinary,

voices from the other side, ghostly forms stepping out of the darkness,

and the tender reunions between the living and the dead. Voices from the other side, ghostly forms stepping out of the darkness,

and the tender reunions between the living and the dead.

She was no charlatan in the eyes of her followers, but a vessel of truth,

a medium who carried messages from beyond the veil.

In the 1940s, when the world was consumed by war,

Duncan's assailances offered something desperately needed, hope. Families who feared for sons, husbands and brothers overseas found solace

in the pale faces of spirits she called forth, clothed in ectoplasmic robes. A story is not

simply that of a trial or a scandal,

but of a woman who bridged the gap between worlds in a time of crisis

and who suffered for the gifts she bore.

Helen McFarlane was born in 1897 in the small town of Callender, Perthshire.

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