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Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735. She was famous for producing ectoplasm. It has been suggested that she made this from cheesecloth.
Helen Duncan & The 1944 Witchcraft Act Trial
It's 1944.
Britain is at war. Allied forces are preparing for D-Day, London is still being bombed, and secrecy can quite literally mean the difference between life and death.
And at the Old Bailey, one of Britain's most famous mediums is about to stand trial under a law passed more than two hundred…
The WW2 Witch Trial of Hellish Nell
What made a working class woman from Edinburgh become such a threat to British intelligence services during the Second World War, that they tried her as a witch?In today's episode, we're telling you the story of Helen Duncan, aka Hellish Brown, a medium who lays claim to being the last woman in Eng…
Secrets and Séances
Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She claimed to speak to the dead, and even produce physical manifestations of their spirits. But when Helen Duncan seemed to know wartime secrets about the whereabouts of military ships, like the sunken H…
The Repeal of the Witchcraft Act (1951)
In our last episode, we left Helen Duncan in a British courtroom in 1944, prosecuted under a Witchcraft Act that was already more than two hundred years old.
Even Winston Churchill thought its use was absurd.
But the law remained.
For Britain's growing Spiritualist movement, that wasn't simply an e…
Episode 103: The Last Witch Imprisoned in Britain
Meet Helen Duncan, the Scottish psychic medium who became one of the most famous séance leaders in the nation…as well as the last person to be imprisoned in Britain under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. But if you thought this incident took place sometime in the 18th century, you’d be mistaken. Would y…
#187: Magic Cheesecloth and Secret Pleiadians
Today, Dan tells Jordan all about a fun new Project Camelot adventure where Sweary Kerry interviews a guy about Helen Duncan, noted spiritualist from the 1930's. Tune in to hear two adults pretend Helen wasn't a con-artist, stay for massive lore reveals about Kerry's roster of guests.
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A Gen X Halloween Special | Real Ghost Stories, Night Hags and Caribbean Folklore
Morgan (New York) & Sass (London) swap real ghost stories, Caribbean folklore & sleep paralysis nightmares in this Halloween special of Well, Hello!
Join us for an hour of spooky-season conversation: how New York and London celebrate Halloween so differently, where the holiday really comes from, wh…
Why we believe in the supernatural
Ghosts, witches, flying nuns, and spirits summoned from beyond the grave might seem to belong to a less rational age. But were our ancestors really so different from us in their beliefs? In this episode, historian Malcolm Gaskill joins Elinor Evans to discuss his new book, Worlds of Fear and Wonder…
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