Douglas Blackburn
Douglas Blackburn (6 August 1857 – 28 March 1929) was an English journalist and novelist. Born in Southwark, he worked as a writer in the Transvaal and Natal from 1892 to 1908 and is regarded as a leading chronicler of the Boer republics’ final days. In 1882–1883, he and George Albert Smith took part in telepathy experiments that the Society for Psychical Research said were genuine. He later confessed they were fraudulent, saying the results came from a code. His pamphlet Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed appeared in 1911 (in The Daily News and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research) and was reprinted in A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology in 1985.
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