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Daniel Dunglas Home


Daniel Dunglas Home (20 March 1833 – 21 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. 



 Daniel Home was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.  His parents could not afford to raise him so his Aunt took over the responsibility until his parents were better off.  At the age of 9, Home was able to rejoin his parents in Connecticut in the United States.

All it Begins

Upon arriving in America, his Aunt began to recount Home's extraordinary abilities.Beginning at the age of 4, Home was able to foresee future events.  It was recorded that he once saw a friend who had died a few days earlier. As he grows his powers also began to grow more powerful. By the age of 17,  the house began to exhibit typical poltergeist activity: untraceable knockings, furniture moving by itself, etc

 These things seemed to happen only when Home was present. This greatly alarmed his aunt to the degree that she threw him out of the house believing he was demonic.

The Medium

Once on his own, he gave his first seance and it was sensational: dead relatives were contacted and a table danced around the room and could not be stopped by human intervention. Home could even levitate people against their will. Word quickly spread and Home became a sought after guest in the homes of New England’s upper-classes.

Unlike other mediums in that time, Home never really charged for this services although participants of the seances donated him with gifts and money.

Home settled into London–living for free at the fine hotel of one of his believers–and repeated the apparently genuine seances that he had exhibited in the USA. He moved within the upper-circles of society (he held seances for Napoleon III and Queen Sophia of the Netherlands) and increased the phenomenon he was able to demonstrate. He added levitation to his repertoire and, again in well-lit rooms, Home would rise six feet off the floor in view of all present. The pinnacle of his career took place during a seance in 1868 when Home levitated, floated out a third-story window, and floated back into the room via another window.

Personal Life

Home married twice. In 1858, he married Alexandria de Kroll ("Sacha"), the 17-year-old daughter of a noble Russian family, in Saint Petersburg, his Best Man was the writer Alexandre Dumas. They had a son, Gregoire ("Grisha"), but Alexandria fell ill with tuberculosis, and died in 1862. In October 1871, Home married for the second, and last time, to Julie de Gloumeline, a wealthy Russian, whom he also met in St Petersburg. In the process, he converted to the Greek Orthodox faith. 

In 1869 Lord Adare revealed in his diaries under the title Experiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Home that he had slept in the same bed with Home. Many of the diary entries contain erotic homosexual overtones between Adare and Home.

The End of Everything

In early 1854, Home was diagnosed with tuberculosis and his doctors recommended he journey back to Europe for the sake of his health. 

After more than 1,500 seances,the tuberculosis caught him up. He died 21 June 1886, and was buried in France’s St. Germain-en-Laye cemetery.

After his death so many researchers and debunkers suggested various philosophies as to how Daniel performed such seemingly impossible tricks. But still many of demonstrations is still a mystery.

Sources :

“Daniel Dunglas Home” Wikipedia
“Daniel Dunglas Home” Spartechsoftware.com

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