"Katie King" and Florence Cook are photographed together proving they were two separate entities.

Here we see the materialisation medium  "Eva C"  producing ectoplasm - or "teleplasm", as it is often referred to - under controlled test conditions.

Those present at this experiment, carried out 13th March 1911, included Mme. Bisson, Bisson's sister, Prof. Charles Richet, M. de Fontenary and Prof. Schrenck-Notzing.

"Sceptics" often complain that genuine psychic phenomena has not been repeated in any laboratory anywhere in the world - therefore science can not accept it.

However, the vast majority are completely unaware that in Prof. Schrenck-Notzing's book  "Phenomena of Materialisation"  there are some 225 ectoplasmic photographs - all performed under strict controlled test conditions.  This does not include the experiments carried out by scientists such as Dr. Charles Richet,  Sir William Crookes,  Dr. T. Glen Hamilton,  Dr. Gustave Geley,  Dr. W. J. Crawford, to name a few.

In the photograph below,  Eva C's left hand is being held by  Dr. Charles Richet and her right by Prof. Schrenck-Notzing.

 

An ectoplasmic face can be seen excluding from the neck of the materialisation medium Eva C, who according to her belongs to an entity named  "Estelle".

This experiment, conducted with Mme.  Bisson and Prof. Schrenck-Notzing as observers, was performed 30th December 1911.

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The surgeon Dr James Gully takes the pulse of Katie King; one of the many tests to record the physical differences between Katie King and Florence Cook.

This photograph was taken by the President of the Royal Society, Sir William Crookes, and shows the surgeon Dr. James M. Gully recording the pulse of Katie King.

The experiments were held under strict test conditions, imposed by Crookes, who recorded physical differences in complexion, hair colouring, height, heart-beat, blisters, skin type, face and finger sizes, plus manners and ways of expression between the materialised figure Katie King and the medium Florence Cook.

All physical comparisons were different, proving they were two separate entities.

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Crookes stands arm-in-arm with the fully solid and materialised Katie King.

"I pass on to a séance held last night at Hackney  (London, March 29th 1874). Katie never appeared to greater perfection, and for nearly two hours she walked about the room, conversing familiarly with those present.  On several occasions she took my arm when walking, and the impression conveyed to my mind that it was a living woman by my side, instead of a visitor from the other world...  Mr. Volckman will be pleased to know that I can corroborate his statement that the  "ghost"  (not "struggling"  however)  was as material a being as Miss Cook herself"  said Crookes in his book Researches into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism.

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The photograph shows Katie King in the process of materialisation.

Some investigators claim that lesser-complete materialised forms offer stronger evidence of survival as they are near-impossible to duplicate by normal or fraudulent means.  Over a period of three years Katie King appeared to Crookes and his fellow investigators in many states of solidity.

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Katie King sits near the surgeon Dr James Gully to have her pulse taken.

This photograph was taken by Sir William Crookes using electric light.  Seated to the right is the surgeon  Dr. James M. Gully.

"One evening I timed Katie's pulse.  It beat steadily at 75, whilst  Miss Cook's pulse a little time after was going at its usual rate of 90.  On applying my ear to Katie's chest I heard a heart beating rhythmically inside, and pulsating even more steadily than did Miss Cook's heart when she allowed me to try a similar experiment after the séance.  Tested in the same way, Katie's lungs were found to be sounder than her medium's, for at the time I tried my experiment  Miss Cook was under medical treatment for a severe cough."

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Katie King proves her solidity by resting her arm on a sitter.

"Before concluding this article I wish to give some of the points of difference, which I have observed between Miss Cook and Katie. Katie's height varies; in my house I have seen her six inches taller than Miss Cook. Last night, with bare feet, and not "tiptoeing,"  she was four-and-a-half inches taller than Miss Cook.  Katie's neck was bare last night; the skin was perfectly smooth both to touch and sight, whilst on Miss Cook's neck is a large blister, which under similar circumstances is distinctly visible and rough to the touch.  Katie's ears are unpierced, whilst Miss Cook habitually wears earrings.  Katie's complexion is very fair, while that of Miss Cook is very dark, Katie's fingers are much longer than Miss Cook's, and her face is also larger. In manners and ways of expression there are also many decided differences

Taken from Crookes' Spirit Forms.

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Katie King stands in full view.

"Having seen so much of Katie lately, when she has been illuminated by the electric light, I am enabled to add to the points of difference between her and her medium which I mentioned in a former article.  I have the most absolute certainty that Miss Cook and Katie are two separate individuals so far as their bodies are concerned. Several little marks on Miss Cook's face are absent on Katie's.  Miss Cook's hair is so dark a brown as almost to appear black; a lock of Katie's, which is now before me, and which she allowed me to cut from her luxuriant tresses, having first traced it up to the scalp and satisfied myself that it actually grew there, is a rich golden auburn."

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Another photograph of Sir William Crookes standing arm-in-arm with Katie King.

"One of the most interesting of the pictures is one in which I am standing by the side of Katie; she has her bare foot upon a particular part of the floor.  Afterwards I dressed  Miss Cook like Katie, placed her and myself in exactly the same position, and we were photographed by the same cameras, placed exactly as in the other experiment, and illuminated by the same light.  When these two pictures are placed over each other, the two photographs of myself coincide exactly as regards stature, etc., but Katie is half a head taller than Miss Cook, and looks a big woman in comparison with her.  In the breadth of her face, in many of the pictures, she differs essentially in size from her medium, and the photographs show several other points of difference."

Taken from Crookes' article The Last of Katie King

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