Monday, July 5, 2021

The Bangs Sisters

From the Kinja archive:

Found this in the Paranormal Hoaxes section of the Forteana - Wiki Wormhole. They produced spirit paintings. Very successful con in Chicago in the 1870s-80s. A few careful skeptics finally exposed them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangs_Sisters

Magician Milbourne Christopher has written:

Wilmar (William Marriott) had read about the marvelous paintings produced during seances by a pair of Chicago psychics, the Bangs sisters. He wrote David P. Abbott, an amateur magician and investigator of alleged psychic phenomena, who lived in Omaha, Nebraska, asking if by chance he had solved the mystery. Abbott replied that not only had he duplicated the marvel, he also had added several touches to make the feat effective onstage. Abbott described the routine in detail. 

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