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Helen Duncan, (Not) Scotland’s Last Witch
Stuff You Missed in History Class
What Is Ectoplasm?
On January 14, 1944, two officers from the Royal Navy attended one of these seances. They found Duncan standing there barefoot with she had this piece of white material. Police were outside waiting for a signal, and when worth blew a whistle to some of them, they came barging in. The material disappeared; it is generally believed that it got passed from hand to hand among the sitters, and somebody secreted it away. There are also reports that there was a hat band that had purportedly been manifested from one of the sailors aboard the barham but it was printed with HMS barham instead of just saying HMS.
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