The Scole Report

The Scole Report records an investigation into a mediumistic group holding séances in a private house in Scole, Norfolk. David Fontana, Montague Keen and Arthur Ellison describe sittings conducted between 1995 and 1997, detailing reported moving lights, directed touches, apports, voices and images said to have appeared on undeveloped film.

The account sets out the séance-room arrangements, darkness, controls, tape transcripts and restrictions that shaped the inquiry. It also examines puzzles connected with purported communications, including references to F. W. H. Myers and Lord Rayleigh. The investigators present their conclusions alongside criticisms of the evidence and methods, making the book a substantial record of one of late 20th-century Britain’s most debated psychical-research investigations.