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Eileen Garrett

An attractive young Irish medium called Eileen Garrett leaped into the world headlines after a sensational seance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London on October 7, 1930.

Two days before the seance took place the British airship RlOl on its maiden passenger flight had crashed in flames at Beauvais, northern France, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Many passengers were killed in the horrific accident and the airship’s captain, Flight Lieutenant Carmichael Irwin, also perished. But the disaster was not uppermost in the minds of those who gathered in a small, darkened room at the National Laboratory as guests of its founder, Harry Price. Eileen Garrett herself did not know the purpose of the seance but had been prepared, as she always was, to offer herself for scientific research. Price was hoping that she would, be able to contact his old adversary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had died a few months earlier. Australian Price felt that if anyone could reach Conan Doyle it would be Eileen Garrett. She had been a personal friend and knew of his desire to try to ‘come through’ after his death to prove what he had always believed in life the reality of individual survival.

At three o’clock in the afternoon the seance started. After yawning deeply for several minutes, Mrs Garrett slipped into a deep trance. She spoke at first in the voice of her regular control, ‘Uvani’, an Indian, and conveyed various messages from the spirit world. But there was no sign of Conan Doyle.

All at once the medium became extremely agitated, tears rolled down her cheeks and Uvani’s voice spelled out the name Irving or Irwin. Then a different voice came through, a breathless voice speaking in rapid, staccato outbursts and full of anguish: ‘The whole bulk. .. too much for her engine capacity. ..engines too heavy. ..weather bad for long flight… fabric all waterlogged and ship’s nose down. ..impossible to rise. ..cannot trim. ..almost scraped the roofs at Achy. …’ On and on went the anguished voice, delivering highly technical information in a torrent of words almost too fast for Harry Price’s secretary, a skilled shorthand writer who was sitting in to record the seance. ‘Airscrews too small… fuel injection bad. ..gross lift computed badly. ..this exorbitant scheme of carbon and hydrogen entirely and absolutely wrong. ..never reached cruising altitude.’ The voice at times almost reached hysteria. When it eventually faded away, everyone sat in a state of shock. There was no doubt in their minds that they had been listening to Captain Irwin of the dirigible RIOI.

Three weeks later Mrs Garrett reported that she had heard again from Irwin and from Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, who also died. They seemed above all anxious that people should know what had gone wrong. One thing was certain. Eileen Garrett did not know one end of an airship from the other. Experts at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington in Bedfordshire who later read the notes of the seance called it an ‘astounding document’ and admitted some of the details it included had been regarded as confidential.…more…Part-2…

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