Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Ghost
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Ghosts is a letter written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Freethinker on 5 may 1929.
Letter
Sir, — I notice that in your issue of April 18, you accuse me of making "another bloomer," in connexion with the Nairobi photographic incident. It is in truth yourself who make the bloomers, for I have never seen a statement about Spiritualism in your paper which was not either untrue, or else one of those half-truths, the nature of which is proverbial. For example, in this in stance, you tell half a story, the whole of which is told in the enclosed extract. This tells how Mr. Palmer, after claiming to be the ghost, admitted to the audience (and to me in a subsequent letter) that the real ghost had afterwards appeared and terrified him. "When I had seen and felt its power," he writes, "I had no heart for further posing." If you believe him in one point, how can you discredit him on the other, and how can you sustain your contention that the incident disproves the existence of this particular ghost?
Arthur Conan Doyle.
[Our comment was based on a newspaper report of the meeting, we are not further responsible for it. Naturally we know nothing of the after confession of Mr. Palmer, and the ghost that made a late appearance. We leave readers to judge of the accuracy of our statements when compared with those of Sir Arthur's. — Editor.]
