Ghost Hunters?

March 23
6:30 PM
PPLD Cheyenne Mountain 
1785 South 8th Street

Come see Lance Burton’s documentary on two of the most interesting celebrities of the early 20th Century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72IBUiXJogc 

The day before Houdini’s Birthday.

Houdini's training in magic allowed him to expose frauds who had successfully fooled many scientists and academics. He was a member of a Scientific American committee that offered a cash prize to any medium who could successfully demonstrate supernatural abilities. None was able to do so, and the prize was never collected.

 Possibly the most famous medium whom he debunked was Mina Crandon, also known as "Margery" or the Witch of Lime Street.

Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Homes, was friends for a time with Harry Houdini, the American magician who himself became a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement in the 1920s following the death of his beloved mother. Although Houdini insisted that Spiritualist mediums employed trickery (and consistently exposed them as frauds), Doyle became convinced that Houdini himself possessed supernatural powers—a view expressed in Doyle's The Edge of the Unknown. Houdini was apparently unable to convince Doyle that his feats were simply illusions, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two. A specific incident is recounted in memoirs by Houdini's friend Bernard M. L. Ernst, in which Houdini performed an impressive trick at his home in the presence of Conan Doyle. Houdini assured Conan Doyle the trick was pure illusion and that he was attempting to prove a point about Doyle not "endorsing phenomena" simply because he had no explanation. According to Ernst, Conan Doyle refused to believe it was a trick. 

You will be in for an interesting evening. 

As always there is no charge for the events.

As always there is no requirement for connection to The Big Ten .

PPLD is only providing the room. They do not endorse The Big Ten  Conference  or Dr. Krauss.