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Helen Duncan, (Not) Scotland’s Last Witch
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Do You Really Know What Helen Duncan Said?
In January of 1944, Helen Duncan conducted a series of seances at the Master Temple Psychic Center in Portsmouth, England. It's widely concluded that these two seances, especially the second one, motivated British authorities to try to keep Helen Duncan quiet during the planning of D-Day invasion of Normandy. There are also some discrepancies about exactly what it was that Duncan said during this seance. In some accounts, she volunteered the name of the HMS Barham, and in others, it came from more of a cold read,.
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