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 Study in London on October 7, 1930.
Two days b4 (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. However the disaster was not uppermost in the minds of those who collected 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/he always was, to offer herself for scientific research. Price was hoping that she/he would, be able to contact his/her old adversary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had died a few months earlier. Australian Price felt that if anybody could reach Conan Doyle it would be Eileen Garrett. She had been a personal friend and knew of his/her desire to try to ‘come through’ after his/her death to prove what he had always believed in life the reality of individual survival.
Eileen Garrett
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the seance started. After yawning deeply for several minutes, Mrs Garrett slipped into a deep trance. She spoke at 1st in the voice of her/his regular control, ‘Uvani’, an Indian, and conveyed various msgs (messages) from the spirit world. However there was no sign of Conan Doyle.
All at once the medium became very agitated, tears rolled down her/his cheeks and Uvani’s voice spelled out the name Irving or (perhaps) Irwin. Then a completely different voice came through, a breathless voice speaking in rapid, staccato outbursts and full of anguish: ‘The whole bulk. .. too much for her/his 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 info in a torrent of words almost too quick 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 ultimately faded away, everyone sat in a state of shock. There was no hesitation in their minds that they had been listening to Captain Irwin of the dirigible RIOI.
Three weeks later Mrs Garrett reported that she/he had heard once more from Irwin and from Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, who also died. They seemed above all nervous that individuals should know what had gone wrong. 1 thing was certain. Eileen Garrett did not know 1 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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