M. Guillaume de Fontenay.

Materialised Hands Photographed.

In the Annals of Psychical Science for April of this year, M. Guillaume de Fontenay contributes an article dealing with page 47 sittings he has held with Paladino, his specific object being to obtain photographic records of some of the phenomena produced. Four large photographs accompany the article. Two of these show a mass of white on the top of the medium's head, which is supposed to represent psychic matter in a materialised form. On the third the four fingers and thumb of a large hand, immediately over the medium's head, are distinctly reproduced, and on the fourth are to be seen, with equal clearness in the same position, all the fingers and thumbs of two large clenched fists, which appear to be grasping Paladino's hair. The medium's hands were tightly held by two of the investigators whilst the photographs were being taken, and in two of the pictures the medium's hands are to be seen securely gripped in those of the controls. It is admitted that fraud and hallucination are out of the question, and therefore, the question arises—"To whom do these mysterious hands belong?"