Daniel Dunglas Home (ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead)

Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced 'Hume') (March 20, 1833 – June 21, 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. His biographer Peter Lamont opines that he was one of the most famous men of his era. Harry Houdini described him as 'one of the most conspicuous and lauded of his type and generation'. Home conducted hundreds of séances, which were attended by many eminent Victorians.


According to Home, his cradle rocked by itself at the Cooks' house, and he had a vision of a cousin's death, who lived in Linlithgow, to the west of Edinburgh.
Being a Psychic Medium, he gave his first private seance at the age of 18. At this seance, Daniel's psychic ability was so strong that he moved a large, solid, wood table in all directions by simply touching it. Shortly after this seance, his psychic ability grew rapidly and his name spread all over the world.
As his psychic development continued, he could move a table by simply touching it with his finger. He could cause an accordion that was locked in a solid steel cage to play at will, simply by requesting the help of his invisible spirit friends.
Although his spiritual gifts were many, he possessed the incredible psychic ability of levitation. It was this ability alone that made him the most famous psychic of his time! Daniel could rise and levitate in the air, floating above the heads of his audience during his public lectures.
Why has Daniel Douglas Homes made it on our list of the three most famous psychics in America? Because all of his amazing psychic feats, including his levitations, were demonstrated in broad daylight!

Many accused him of being a fake but no one could ever prove his psychic ability to be anything other than a genuine psychic gift. He died from tuberculosis on June 12, 1886 at the age of 40.

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