{"id":122,"date":"2009-02-26T09:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=122"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:15:39","slug":"mina-crandon-aka-margery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Mina Crandon aka Margery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be posting more about the sad story of Mina Crandon later, she was a well-known medium who lived in Boston (and in New York for a time). \u00a0 But I found a reference to Margery (the name she went by in order to protect her identity) in a\u00a0May 10, 1947\u00a0Saturday Evening Post article about Bell Labs by\u00a0Milton Silverman titled, <em>Ma Bell&#8217;s House of Magic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn a purely extracurricular study, they observed the famous medium, Margery, as she attempted to send thought messages from New York to another medium on Boston.\u201d\u00a0 After the seance the engineers dryly reported, \u201cAs a means of communication, the method does not hold much promise at this time.\u00a0 It will probably not replace the telephone in the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before writing this book I would never have believed that Bell Labs would have shown an interest in Margery, (even as a matter of idle curiosity, as they seem to imply in this article) but I was always on the lookout for things like this\u2014any interest in the paranormal from labs, universities, the military and businesses\u2014and I found them often.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/margery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123\" title=\"margery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/margery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"608\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photograph is courtesy of the\u00a0The Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be posting more about the sad story of Mina Crandon later, she was a well-known medium who lived in Boston (and in New York &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-1Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}