In earlier posts we’ve reported on Harry’s adventures in mind reading, with Theodore Roosevelt and others. Of course he’s famous for exposing fraudulent spiritualists: he knew their methods intimately because he had done the same thing himself, for a living! His methods are exactly those revealed in the above video, just a bit lower tech.
In a previous post we reveal the gist of his method for the big Galena seance, which we date at 1896, and at which, we hazard the belief, he crossed paths with Teddy Roosevelt, then police commissioner of New York City.
We’ve reported extensively on his connection to Roosevelt and his controversial sea voyage in Roosevelt’s company just before the outbreak of World War One. For that seagoing seance, which really fooled and disturbed the former President, Harry followed the principles in the above video, and also utilized one of his cardinal rules: if you want to get famous, make friends with the reporters!
(Thanks and a tip of the hat to Bill Tucker for tipping us to the video.)
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