Fred Barlow
Fred Barlow (?-1964) was a paranormal photographer from Birmingham. He was secretary of the Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures (S.S.S.P.) where Arthur Conan Doyle was vice-president. He was also Honorary Secretary of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R.).
Barlow had a huge collection of psychic photographs which were inherited by E. J. Dingwall, which published in 1975 : "The Barlow collection of psychic photographs", and deposited them at the British Museum.
Fred Barlow and Arthur Conan Doyle
In 1922, Fred Barlow wrote the preface and chapter 8: Evidential and Scientific Aspects of Psychic Photography of Arthur Conan Doyle's essay: The Case for Spirit Photography.
In 1924, he was the Hon. Secretary for the donation campaign for Rev. G. Vale Owen launched by Conan Doyle. [1]
In his book The History of Spiritualism (1926), Conan Doyle mentioned Barlow: "In 1920 Mr. Fred Barlow, of Birmingham, a well-known investigator, obtained with this medium [photographs] extras of faces and written messages, under test conditions, on plates that were not exposed in the camera."
Related articles
- Psychic Phenomena Are Real. A Reply to Mr. Nevil Maskelyne, by Fred Barlow (june 1923, The London Magazine)
- Echoes of the Moss Case, by Arthur Conan Doyle (april 1928, Journal of the American SPR)
- ↑ Arthur Conan Doyle's letter: The Future of the Rev. G. Vale Owen (31 may 1924).
