The Last British Woman Found Guilty Of Being A Witch In 1944 | The Blitz Witch
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- Tony Robinson is joined by science journalist Becky McCall to investigate the case of Second World War psychic Helen Duncan, whose freakishly accurate forecasts about military campaigns led to an MI5 investigation and her imprisonment under an archaic witchcraft law of 1735. Duncan was deemed a serious threat to national security, but she claimed she was merely visited by the ghosts of ex-servicemen who told her secrets she could never have known.
Tony Robinson and science journalist Becky McCall step into the unknown to investigate whether past paranormal events should be taken seriously or dumped into history's litterbin.
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My daughter died at age 26. My son arrranged too see a medium. The person had never being in my sons house. The first thing he said too my son on meeting, was “Did you straighten the picture on the staircases as you were going down the stairs”My son was shocked! He did exactly that! My daughter hated pictures that weren’t straight on the wall. The medium said my daughter was with him at the time. Make of that what you will.
That’s an easy one. Who doesn’t straighten their pictures when a guest is expected?
@@Simca33 Not that easy. My son went too see him! The Clairvoyant/medium never entered his house.
BS
@@windmill2270 You were there obviously. Lol
@@jeffpatton2758 *to…not too.
I'm appalled that someone could be tried as a witch simply for knowing something. What fear does to people is depressing.
Yes, a con man has used it to eviscerate the US.
Yes, especially when it’s happening today.
Actually the Witchcraft Act of 1735 as a product of Enlightenment declared "witchcraft" as fraudulent and made it a crime for a person to claim that any human being (including themself) had magical powers or was guilty of practising witchcraft.
So, Helen Duncan - before the law -- was tried as a fraud.
She wasn't tried as a witch though.
The law she was charged with made it illegal to accuse people of witchcraft. She was charged for claiming she had powers because she someone knew information she shouldn't and they didn't know who told her. So in other words they didn't know what else she would be told and would tell everyone. This was right when allies were prepping for their most important war efforts and they didn't want it all ruined.
Exactly, hatred and fear are very closely related
Exactly, why would anyone subject themselves to all that AND the mockery and judgement of others if that is not their true calling? There is far more hardship than reward for a true medium.
It takes a great deal of courage to go on that path
My uncle was a survivor of HMS Barham,and one day in the 1950's he cycled home from work,when a light summer shower of rain started.
To the utteralarm of my cousin and Imy uncle dropped his cycled and ran screaming into the house.
It had reminded him of that fateful day being theown 200ft into the air, then plunged 200t below the sea surface.
In 5hose days thete were not psycologically assistance venues,they just had to live with the horrors they had seen
That this woman was even arrested was tantamount gross injustice.
I was once a medium. I'm now a large.
thats funny, me too!
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From what I understand is that the "medium" in question offered at least twice to
give a demonstration for the benefit of the court of her receiving and passing on
information to them or for them to witness. The court refused to allow her to give
her evidence,- a demonstration in their presence showing that she was not receiving
her information from the Germans they refused to allow her her self defense and
convicted her anyway. It was a decision to put her out of the way out of circulation.
There was a war on, and either way it didn't matter, I suppose they figured even if it was spirits giving her the info, she was still telling people who shouldn't know. Silly, in hindsight, now, but I can understand why the fear at the time, given the climate surrounding London in WW2.
The Dear lady, I feel very sad that she was treated so badly. 💗🙏
The peace that the spirit brought to that woman was priceless. Genuine or not ( I happen to believe there are genuine instances) that is priceless.
Neuronaur Alpha Helen Duncan was a materialization medium back in the day when such mediums were rather common. Today it is all mental mediumship. She was a victim of her own un-educated stupidity! Allowing the spiritualist churches to get most of the money for a seance and give her a pittance. I have been to real materialization seances. Sadly this kind of mediumship has dried up.
@@teenherofilms "Mediumship" has fallen victim to the same thing that has put an end to ghosts, demonic possession, levitation, miracles, visitations, out-of-body experiences and sane people believing nonsense: the cell phone camera.
@@krisaaron5771 And in what frame of reference do you term in all "nonsense" as I have studied this subject for 50 years and know mediums who were tested and passed every test so, where does this bias of yours come from?
@@timward3142 "Nonsense" is any claim that can't be verified by evidence which, when independently repeated, produces similar results.
Incidentally, those mediums could have made serious money by presenting their talents to the James Randi Foundation. Just sayin'...
@@krisaaron5771 It's too bad many of those "Men" are just lazy, greedy perverts, though.
Helen Duncan was a true physical medium who was searched by a nurse both externally and internally before and after every seance and produced amazing evidence of the existence of ectoplasm which exuded from her mouth and nose and then manifested into spirit formats of actual people without any physical body but were recognisable by the relatives in the room. The sailor who came through from HMS Barham in 1944 that had been torpedoed and sunk by the Germans was instantly recognised by his mother and has since been confirmed in 2018 as Sydney Fryer a Petty Officer on that ship. There can be no more categoric proof that Helen Duncan was a genuine physical medium and was hounded, persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned by the authorities which left her physically and mentally demoralised and eventually led to her premature death. R.I.P Helen Duncan you were a true genuine physical medium.
The term "physical medium" is an oxymoron. Mediums allegedly deal with the "spirit" world, and "spirits" cannot manipulate or produce physical objects since it violates the laws of thermodynamics. They're ALL frauds. Period.
Do you mean psychic medium? Sounds like she was definitely that. Poor women, totally misunderstood by the closed of mind.
@@lindamckenzie4543 Everyone is psychic, not everyone is a medium. Please understand the difference. A medium can communicate with spirits who have passed over. I am a psychic, I can read what someone has done or will do, I can sense what is going on with intuition, I have been able to use telepathy. But I haven't been in direct contact with deceased persons. I have heard messages from spirit however when I was totally alone.
Thank you philcool. I believe Helen was 100% genuine.
She was the victim of other people’s insecurities.
I feel sympathy for people who are simply unable to accept that “there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”. It is their loss.
Ammonia it’s crazy to me that I always hear people say this yet, they usually consider themselves ‘christian’ which everybody knows requires pure faith. So, why in every other area of life would you expect proof? But in the one you consider most important, you go on faith?????
They just don’t have gift to see
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I hear that ! There truly is more then we'll ever know so far. So much more to learn about everything out there
Itl be too late if you don't believe . pennywise
Went to a medium. Was skeptical. Wanted to hear from two people who had passed over. The medium passed on two messages from them. They were specific. In both cases, the words and phrasing could only have come from my two dead relatives. Nobody else would have used those particular words, or known about them. But I knew. Okay, some mediums are frauds. And some are actual conduits for messages from the Other Side.
Your relatives talked to other people besides you.
Negative spirits imitate ❤ ones.
I was also decieved by mediums and now understand they are demonic spirits, praise the lord I was shown the truth of the gospel of the lord Jesus. We’re all sinners needing a saviour. I pray you receive the grace of God I received
@@Ibelievethegospelget help
I went to see a medium and he began the reading by saying your ma is here and she was met by Albert and Arthur and I was blown away. They are names of her brothers that passed away a long time ago and I thought he couldn't have guessed that
Helen Duncan was not the last woman to be tried as a witch in the UK; that was Janet Horne who was burned as a witch in Dornoch, Scotland in 1727. The last woman to be tried for this crime in England was Mary Hicks, executed in Huntingdon in 1716. The crime of witchcraft was abolished by the Witchcraft Act 1735, which was passed because belief in witchcraft was dying out among educated people during the Enlightenment. Unlike previous laws, which assumed that witches actually existed and were given supernatural powers by Satan, the 1735 Act was based on the assumption that anyone who claimed to be actually practising witchcraft was a cheater seeking to defraud people. Helen Duncan was prosecuted for falsely claiming to have spiritual powers, and the jury clearly believed that she was a fraud. She was not even the last person to be prosecuted under the 1735 Act, which was repealed in 1951; that was one Jane Yorke, who was convicted in 1944, a year after Helen Duncan, of "pretending to cause the spirits of deceased persons to be present". Unlike Helen she was not imprisoned but merely bound over to keep the peace.
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Agree
Would "pretending to cause the spirits of deceased person to be present" be classed as fraud rather than witch craft?
It seems that MI5 didn't really believe that Helen Duncan had genuine supernatural powers. If they did, she would have been spirited away to some secret location (Bletchley House with spooks) to spy on the Nazis (I see a nasty little man with a square moustache, he's...sitting on the potty and waving his hands wildly!) Their real motive would have been to shut her up to prevent her from causing demoralization and panic among the public. During the war, there were pervasive campaigns to silence any speech that could reveal critical information to the enemy (loose lips sink ships!), or any talk that smacked of defeatism or rebellion against the government. It is even possible that the Nazis practiced subversion by exploiting the British craze for mediums, which was only amplified by relatives seeking contact with dead servicemen.
@@mehhandleshe was not pretending, but what she did reveal was a war ship that had gone down killing all soldiers on board, people were going to see her for readings and young soldiers were coming through asking them to tell their mums they were ok, the government had not told the parents, and this is why they took her , god knows they can’t have someone letting their corrupt deeds come out
It’s despicable what they did to her‼️
I went to see a medium and she warned me of several events that happened in the future exactly as she’s described. One of her warnings was to stay away from the swan. I had a meal booked that week at a place called the Swan Hotel. I cancelled and it burnt down the night I was meant to be there. Another thing she told me was to expect a quick move in my location in September. On September the first I was called into my place of work and told with immediate effect i was being moved to another part of the country. Make of all that what you will.
I heard about this. She was not a witch, she was a medium. There is a movie that talks about Helen. It is called the afterlife experiments. Very interesting.
Necromancy is witchcraft. The Witch of Endor is a notable practitioner of necromancy in the Bible.
A medium is a witch.
@@hislamb9739lol
@@hislamb9739rubbish. Go back to school & study the English language.
@@hislamb9739 Both superstition.
It’s quite disgusting what they did to her...out of fear. And what that then did to her 6 children and disabled husband. They were more than likely split up...I can’t even think about it 😢
That was wrong to punish her children and disabled husband.
R.I.P to all our brave men and woman lost in wars
*women
And all the victims of wars may rest in peace to
@@Lion_Hamza And may all animals rest in peace who were hurt and killed in wars or by cruel humans.
Nicki Daisy Reddwoodd really? You compare animals to humans?
@@Tinthia82 This comment is a product of public schools. MAN is both. WOMAN IS ALSO MAN, JUST WOMB MAN. OR WOMB MEN (should NOT have to explain this part, but should NOT have to explain this at all. FRICKIN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS(whos offspring is ignorance) RUN AMUCK. 🤦♂️
Tony said he was off to a séance but that was not a séance but in fact a demonstration of clairvoyance.
Mediumship actually...
WARNING: This documentary, like so many others, has the most annoying 'background noise' added to the recordings of the people interviewed. There's no need for it and, as an attempt to create some sort of 'dramatic tension' for the production, it's an utter failure. Cutting the crappy sound effects would make the video a lot better ....
Dallas McQuarrie I always notice the background suspenseful eerie music when watching so called documentaries or unedited"real life footage"
I hate that drives me crazy! So glad I'm not the only one who finds it annoying LoL 👊🏼
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Dallas McQuarrie
I have to stop watching some of videos for the irritation of the background music. it perturbe my concentration.
You has to hear my landlady's fridge. Indescribable electric tone, you cant escape it to balcony, it goes though your head.
warning my neighbours very old washing machine makes a terrible screeching noise every day she uses it, its echoes thru to my house wish she would get a new one
clod hoppa
Warning..I see dead people.
I really appreciate "Timeline". Thanks for all these awesome history documentaries.
When the so-called psychic is asking questions he's not reading *anyone's mind* but probing for the guy's hot buttons. He asks very generalized questions about things anyone has a good chance of relating to, such as whether or not you have someone named Mary in your family. Anyone can observe human behavior and look for the high speed micro-expressions combined with posture changes, sudden nervous tics and use the moment to double down on the last question before making a commitment to a particular statement.
The questions, blanket statements and behavioural studying are called cold readings...the resource of con artists.
Sadly, too many employ these tactics and the genuine ones get tarred with the same brush.
We are Spirits having a Human experience not Humans having a spiritual experience..
"There is no death. Only a change of worlds." - Seattle
"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself...subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, & we are the imagination of ourselves." - Bill Hicks.
@william rivera Jealousy doesn't make you more knowledgeable.
@@uhlijohn There is never death, we ARE a renewable energy source.
Absolutely correct. The earth is the classroom where we learn lessons through challenges placed on our path as we journey through life. The spirit world is our home, where we return after the end of this life. We cast off our vehicle (our body) and become pure spirit
I visited a Psychic in Glastonbury once as my mum wanted to go. She struggled to read me and returned 1/2 the price of the booking, also the recording she gave me was blank. The only thing I remember her saying was in a previous life I was on stage. Often wonder what that was about!
She was a danger to national security and that in and of itself proves she was for real. Because if she were not nobody would have cared.
Or she was a loonie who was demoralising the citizens during an already stressful time.
Which would also make her a danger to national security, but for an entirely different reason.
I can’t choose sides😭😭😭😭😭😭
No, it proved she was getting classified information from somewhere.
It's not evidence of psychic abilities.
@@loud6037 getting info from the dead people who Churchill was responsible for killing to enter the war. The 1941 Hegelian dialectic ploys; both British and American.
@@AA-ke5cu I'm not saying that's not a possibility - to my mind a remote one, even if mediums DO exist, the large majority of those who claim it are still frauds - but of course there are many things we still don't understand about the universe.
That she had the information is not enough evidence to confirm that she got it straight from the mouths of the dead though.
Well, I do believe there are a lot of charlantans out there and I find them disgusting. But I also know that some people, who have the capacity to sense things on a different level, it has happened to me many many times, so much that I got scared of what I felt or sensed, it happened without me even intending on it or thinking about it.
I used to be able to read the backs of playing cards -- at the least, the color, with a more than 90% accuracy rate. Couldn't get my friends to play with me, even though it took effort and was obvious! Had a small stroke, and when I'd recovered, the talent was completely gone.
Nilly oh my me too😳
I’m a medium, I have for most of my life I can see them, feel them, hear them. Even know things. It freaked me out at first, me being 10 at the time.
Yes. It happens.
I also had several paranormal experiences when I was younger - none of which were scary or otherworldly. My mom had the ability to a much greater degree.
You will never convince a skeptic. They will always profess to know exactly how it was done in spite of the fact that they were not there and know nothing.
The same for the gullible believer!
@liberal slayer. It’s true that some people are gullible. Skepticism is the most extreme form of prejudice and ignorance. I have had psychic experiences so I know it happens. No skeptic will convince me otherwise.
Shirley Bailey I’m not an expert but I’ve had enough experiences to know it’s real. Sceptics have had no experiences. That’s why they are skeptics.
Its curious how 'skeptics' profess that there's nothing extraordinary going on, yet they continue to seek out such cases and show extreme interest in what they claim is plain old boring fraud.
Skeptics act as if they came out of the womb with knowledge of, and ability to exercise the scientific method - as if every belief and core value they assimilated since birth was empirically tested before being accepted or rejected, and therefore everything they now believe has been tested to be true. As if they have exercised their 'skepticism' against every piece of info they have ever come across since before they could even talk. This is obviously absurd, and everyone, including the 'skeptic', naturally holds views & beliefs that have bypassed any 'scientific' test, and therefore, any new information (such as 'paranormal phenomena') is filtered through an individuals personal & subjective lens of pre-ingrained beliefs that were never subjected to any kind of 'scientific' scrutiny. I would guess that a hypothetical life-long 'skeptic' who had TRULY been skeptical of EVERYTHING they had ever learned of would have a very unusual and exceptional outlook and would likely reject much of what today's 'skeptics' hold to be blatantly obvious - MUCH different to what one find's in those that like to think of themselves as 'skeptics'.
People will examine 'facts' according to deeply-held beliefs (which are largely acquired long before any knowledge of the scientific method), and despite frequently levelling such accusations against others, skeptics are nowhere near immune to this process, yet they are invariably and absolutely convinced of their own 'exceptionalism' to any kind of inherent bias or dogma.
Und13s Bomber I agree. They try to pretend to know everything when it’s obvious they know nothing. They are not right in the head.
"This place looks like a grown up Hogwarts and-"
Me: Sign me up!
This made me happy too. lmao
Lol.
Still waiting for my letter...
Standsted Hall 😁
Having done medium work, i can say it is a gift you have and i am not sure why it works or where the information comes from. Its a feeling thing and not a brain one. I read many people free of charge and enjoyed helping people with their lost loved ones.
Some times you get perfect results and others not quite as good, but i did impress every single person i read and scared many others as they became fearful of the reality of what i was telling them.
I have had a couple of bad demon experiences and 1 Angelic experience, so know there are both for a fact. I stopped reading because it started to drain me and brought me bad luck. I started to read the Bible and this states "Do not get involved with talking to spirits or medium ship etc"
If i am around someone whom i start to get an Adrenalin rush i will ask them if they mind me telling them about someone, as i am not pushing this and it helps them so much and brings them comfort. This i found does make me feel happy and its very rare i have had these kind of experiences.
Most witches today are very false and making lots of money over the internet by giving them hope over loved ones that have gone to another person. Even so if they were excellent its never a good idea to force your love on someone or force your ex to be tormented by you.
Good honest Witches tend to help you with your life and your problems and can help to bring you hope, luck and prosperity if you stick to what they say, but these are so rare i would say in England alone you would only find an handful and then you would never get to know who they were unless you knew someone who knew one of these gifted persons.
There are some people I wish you could read😒
You are a true reader You Speak from your heart It's Lovely that you have helped people over the years Many blessings to you
Sad thing when we need Baldric to explain everything in the universe!
Some questions that arise at once:
1) If the Barham had sunk but her loss was not announced, what reason would relatives of crew members have for attending a seance?
2) The man who shows Tony the upstairs room where the seance allegedly took place says the apparition of "Syd" wore a hat with HMS BARHAM on it. Syd was a petty officer (sub-lieutenant) and sub-lieutenants wore officers uniform of peaked caps. Only able seamen wore the flat sailors cap with the ships name.
3) In wartime, for obvious reasons of security, the ships name would usually not be shown on sailors hats. "HMS BARHAM" would therefore be replaced with just "HMS".
Three significant inconsistencies just 9 minutes into the programme.
More thoughts...
It bugged the heck out of me how little effort the 'team' put into investigating Duncan's trial. I am also surprised they spent so much time covering the Barham/Syd incident yet focussed so little time on discussing the Hood sinking claim. If Duncan did indeed make this claim before Hood even sank, then what is going on here? Speaking to the spirits of the dead is one issue. Precognition is a completely separate 'discipline' of the paranormal. Things just don't add up.
Also those photos of ectoplasm; so obviously laughably fake. I wonder why the team even made such a programme considering those dreadful end-of-the-pier fakes.
I don't really mind about the issue of precognition or spiritual power whether it exist or not. Never really care....if they are real fine. I'm not even scared of ghost....if they exist then I got the ghost of my ancestors all around me. Logically no evil spirit could be more dangerous than the combined spirits of my family far back into the dawn of time.
The main issue that I see is the matter of national security. On one hand medium should be more discreet with what they know or what they tell the public. On the other hand the authorities should act proactively to put into seclusion people who could cause secrets to go out. Not prosecution but temporary put them in safe custody....home arrest and perhaps give them pension or financial support for the trouble.
Many people don't understand that news like the sinking of the "Hood" could cause chaos and demoralization. I know this first hand being in south east asia where now we have ISIS terrorist spreading in our region. The authorities need to censor news and information. Not withholding the freedom of speech but for national security.
Even simple rumour of bombs or death threats could disrupt public peace and lead to chaos. So I think that is what the documentary is trying to explain....though sadly they failed to properly focus on this issue.
Medium or spiritualist....even preachers should be sensitive of the present political or social climate.
Well, I can answer your first question from experience. When a friend of mine was killed in the first Gulf War, his parents received notice that he'd been killed in action. No other information was made available until nine months later. Some allied POWs were rescued from the Taliban. It was only then that we learned Brian had died in a first, failed attempt. A helicopter shot down, killing him and four others. Two survivors. It's most likely the next of kin knew their sailors were dead or missing, but not the circumstances behind it, until after D-Day.
Dunno anything about the hats, though. And I totally agree with your assessments. Too much of this is ridiculous.
1. People do not only attend a seance to speak to the recently dead...some people did it for entertainment, for advice about various reasons.
2. Actually, all members of a crew would have a cap with the ships name on it, just because they were an officer does not mean they could not put a different cap on in death. I would assume you could choose what clothing you wish to wear at any given time and not have to wear what you died in for eternity if there even is an eternity for us.
3. you are applying life with a possible life after death.
In war time the ships name was not on their caps.
Why do people assume that a gift is a lie or a ploy? As a medium I am sad for these women. Even the man in the interview assumed the same shady deal.
I was tried as a witch in 1989 in a small town in West Bath, Maine, USA. They used the fact I had prophetic dreams and understood negative energy locations on the earth near Bath, to convict me. They took my two beloved daughters away from me, based on this "evidence". It was a therapists, a guardian, a judge and a stepmother who planned the hearing against me. I wrote a book about my life called "The Land of Broken Crystals: And The Girl Who Knew Too Much". I can't even watch this documentary..ut brings up so much pain but I do empathize.
I'm sorry to hear that. I once knew a man who had been a missionary in Africa and defended a woman being accused of witchcraft. Probably saved her life.
Psychics and witches are completely different from one another.
Agreed -- one is a natural talent, like perfect pitch, or being colorblind (not a GOOD talent ...). The other is getting "help" from some very dangerous places.
A psychics is just a person who has extra sensory abilities, a witch is some one who believes in a Natural based spirituality... however a person could be both, what they do with it or whether the person is loving focused or not depends on the individual as in all peoples no matter hat they believe or have ability to do.
Lol that's like saying the tooth fairy isn't Santa claus
Rly? What about telepaths? Isn’t that magic?
This case gets misunderstood by modern commentators who have no historical knowledge. Of course psychics and witches are different. The problem the British security services had was that they felt Helen Duncan's revelation about this tragedy was a potential threat to national morale at a crucial time in WW2. They had to find a legal way of stopping her and the only thing on the statute book was this ridiculous old Witchcraft Act which virtually everyone had forgotten about.because no-one had taken witchcraft seriously in England for 200 years. This was why it only got repealed in 1951.
How very sad for this woman.
As a child at primary school, we were lucky enough to have a library which included a book on the Paranormal...It was my favourite read...I can remember reading about Helen Duncan and looking at pictures of her 'materialising ectoplasm'...I must say, even as a child, I couldn't help thinking to myself that her 'ectoplasm' looked suspiciously like a pile of white cheesecloth!
She was an Infj , this wasn’t understood then. She wasn’t a witch. She didn’t like to be called that either. She was just trying to help people heal.
The seance guy in the beginning is probably a cold reader. He makes vague generalizations based on what you look like and watches your face as you listen to his guesses, then tailors his replies to what he sees what you react to.
Jn every group of 30 people there is guaranteed at least 1 person to have lost someone close in an auto accident.
@Lucifer_DCLXVI
Not all of them are liars.
A small percentage have the ability.
Billy Andrew name one.
VIIStar Admittedly cold readings are very common but what I don’t understand is when the most unlikely is predicted/stated.....
Statistical evidence is available with a Google search. Evidence gathered through extensive experimentation in well known Universities, paranormal psychology centers and the likes. Read books like Real Magic by Dr. Dean Radin. Man is more than what we allow ourselves to believe. Keep an open mind.
Love it, thanks for uploading. :)
Really good one! I enjoy watching these so much. THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US
Isn't it interesting the ectoplasm phenomenon seems to have pretty much disappeared in mediumistic work since then?
But it hasn't.
@@user-rd6dh4hq1j an example please. Your say so means nothing.
I think since they allowed scientists to test it and found out that it was made of cheesecloth, egg white and chewed up paper and loo roll, it’s pretty much gone out of fashion.
To develop any physical phenomena and people have to sit religiously, once or twice a week. People these days are not prepared to make that commitment
The (forced) confession of a woman by the surname of Duncan set off the British witch hunt, how ironic that the last woman to be imprisoned in the modern day UK were to have the same surname.
Naturally Duncan isn't an uncommon surname, but isn't there some sort of irony to it still?
Coincidental ,yes. Ironic, no.
That woman was truly annoying and heartless... And I couldn’t stand listening to her walking in her shoes/high heels 👠... The man cared about the truth...
we never die we are immortal beings this body we are in is only a tiny part of who we are
The moment people stop talking about you after your death, you'll disappear in the historical records, wether you like it or not.
People like to pretend that we have some greater meaning, because we're afraid of dying and being forgotten.
@@crusaderofthelowlands3750 we are not imortal but we have a greater meaning, otherwise life wouldn't make sense.
@@grazielaalmeida8438 We don't. It's just what we tell ourselves to make us feel more significant than we really are.
The world will continue with or without us.
Wether you live or die will only impact those close to you.
This might have been somehow a case of Remote Viewing, to reveal the sinking of the ship. There were several people who claim they had nightmares experiencing the fall of the Trade Center, September 11, 2001.
I had a dream of a mountain collapsing and loads of Chinese people tumbling in the slide. A few days later there was a small piece in our newspaper (this was around 1980, more or less) that 200,000 people died in a huge landslide in northern China.
I know one of those people - a sense of falling and a bit more, before she heard about the towers.
so much for psychology ! psychologists fail to discover i was dyslexic til i was in my 20s but are so sure about discounting this issue . Ectoplasm you notice was not explained away !
Helen Duncan did nt sit in the complete dark around a table holding hands either.
Psychology is a scam.
Hers was. Eggs and paper or sometimes cloth.
Someone gave her a pill to take right before a performance meant to disintegrate such things in her digestive system. Wouldn't you know she couldn't bring anything out that day. Weird.
Or the time they asked to x-ray her before a performance, she freaked out, ran and only her husband could calm her and convinced her to come back to do it. But strangely he wouldn't let himself be searched for anything he may have that she regurgitated when they were alone.
What a surprise! Tony Robinson! Love him!
Wow, some people are blessed with these gifts.
If you think dishonesty is a "gift."
I get messages all the time now that my mom has learned to text
this is probably the most random comment of 2017 xD
riggstwenty2 i did that to myson at first but i got a grip eventually v funny comment sweetipie😁
Is she alive?
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Lol😀
I seen ectoplasm after my mother passed away. No mediums or what not. I just walked in right after she had passed away and there it/she was. It looked like condensed cigarette smoke 💨. It was a small amount. I knew that was my mother. We even had a moment I don’t know how like we had when she’d been alive. We’d look at each other when she had to teach me a sad truth about life. An understanding that was deep. An apology and a look of you have to be strong because this is what life is. No clue how I got that from a thick puff of smoke but, I did. Then again I’ve had strange things happen my whole life. No one in my home at the moment. I was the first one in. No one smoked either. It was odd.
I feel so bad for her, there is no justice in the world.
Exactly, character assassination.
She was only jailed, not burned at the stake, floated, or hung, and she could've easily been executed for being a spy and/or passing on classified information. There is a comment above claiming Duncan had a contact in the Admiralty...
As soon as the professional 'debunker' Prof Chris French appeared I thought 'that's it, I'm outa here'. His regard for truth and objectivity is zilch, in my opinion.
Well he is BBC
Hear hear 👍
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
It’s amazing that still today, in the age of reason, so many people use ancient reasoning that gives supernatural explanations to that which has no immediate simple explanation.
Ask those who believe in the 19th century fairy tale called ":evolution."
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That’s my point. We continue to rule out supernatural explanations as we progress as a species. The pattern clearly points to the supernatural not existing, yet people still hold onto the belief in supernatural powers
My favorite mysteries are the ones that remain at least partly unanswered.
Who doesn't love a good story telling? I certainly do
The fact that we have to have an entire hour long program dedicated to this is insane. The wikipedia article on Helen Duncan was pretty clear she was a charlatan and not a very good one.
A group of U.K people... "I'm sensing an Irish father who gets loud when he isnt listened to." Someone says THATS ME!! no way that's unbelievable, NOT.
If a ship had gone down during the war, the first place that rumors and news would circulate is Portsmouth.
Very very true!
I just subscribed 💕 interesting topics etc…So Thank You !
I'm a physical medium. On my son's 34'th birthday. I had given all of the family members attending the party cameras with auto flash. At the highlight of the Event all the cameras went off at the same time. When I had the rolls developed at Walmart, the pictures were exactly the same. I was in the main frame with my son. And there was a mist coming up out of me in a serpentine fashion. The mist was shaped as a human. Serpentine, rising from me, but it was obviously my deceased daughter. While the cameras were going off. I could see everything below me for a minute. I could see everyone as if I were looking from the branches of the trees that were 6 feet above me. ALL of the pictures from ALL of the cameras showed the same misty person rising out of me. Some of us have it ALL the time. Some of us have it sometimes.
My Great Grandmother .....so the family story goes ... went into hiding during WW2 ... here in South Africa ... her fear was that the Government would inter her for her second sight !
How has your life been? Have you had bad luck? More obstacles than others you know? Just curious...
In the USA there's a whole town filled with psychics, mediums, spiritualists, etc. It's called Lilydale.
When you start out with a premise that mediumship is trickery of some kind, than that is what you will see. There was truly a lack of an open mind
Wonder how she actually knew such classified info tbh
The programme skipped completely over how she knew about the sinking of the Hood. Which leaves the content of the programme in doubt.
BBC what can you do, they tow the government line
Maybe they should do an extended show.
@Michael Did you know her or just speculating. Unspiritual People have not the ability to even grasp the slightest of what is possible in Supernatural realm.
Omg when the hms hood was mentioned I got chills
If he was faking it! How would he know so much information! That no one else could know! ' Some people just don't wanna Amit the spiritual world exesists ' there's mediums all over the world there not all frauds!
I think they dismiss it out of fear. It scares some people. So have at act with ignorance for their own good.
Baldrick from Black Adder's skepticism is making me cross. Great show !!
If she was so powerful, why didn't she just come back to life to do the interview herself?
Maybe because there are limits to her power and rising from the dead is beyond what she could do? I don't share these spiritualist beliefs myself, but that is very obvious possible answer to your question.
@@ukchristian28 I was clearly joking, but your comment intrigued me.
How is it an obvious answer? Why would her powers stop there? If she can talk to the dead, why can't the opposite be true when the roles are reversed?
@@crusaderofthelowlands3750 I just think that the answer I gave would most likely be the answer a spiritualist would give. I am not an expert on these things, but I don't think spiritualists claim anyone has unlimited power.
@@ukchristian28 But wouldn't that answer discredit their claims?
@@crusaderofthelowlands3750 I don't think so. Their claims would be discredited if they claimed to be able to do something and then failed to do it. As far as I know they don't claim that a dead person can come back to life.
No one can explain how she knew about the loss of The Hood in advance
This was really really good. Thank you for sharing. 🌞🌞🌞
I love Tony Robinson's documentaries
very upsetting to see that ship blow up while you can see sea-men jumping into the water and others still on the side of the it as it went up.
Yes ..... Very ..... RIP
I didn't notice that at first. Then saw your comment and went back to look more carefully. Very sad indeed :(
Just loved it as a story. Tony is always great. Fake medium or not don't really care.
I think that some folks have a gift. I think it's wrong to imprison them
True. If you think dishonesty is a "gift."
Just because someone can fake it, or fool you into believing a lie, doesn't mean everyone is a fake or liar. Once you've had one completely evidential experience of a psychic sort, you KNOW it exists.
Tony is the man I met and spoke to him recently on his book tour best most down to earth celebrity I've met bar my best mate from school who played for lfc but that's bias lol
who was the player?
Micah, ever hear of something called "punctuation"?
Micah Carruthers You're so lucky! He seems such a nice guy 😊
Perhaps she hung out in places that soldiers or sailors were in and overheard a conversation about the ship that she shouldn't have and decided to make money from it
be awake to every truth and your journey will complete - if when you transcribe your journey built on a pack of lies - what are you going to say?
Becky McCall, you knock my 81 years into a spin! talk about spiritualism, I instantly felt that I either knew you or know you! The latter impossible! The feeling is strong! Great work you two 😄
I am 62 now but spent my first 18 years being raised across from a graveyard. I had a mother who loved horror movies & scary stories and relied *heavily* on her Irish heritage & paranormal beliefs. Hearing creepy family stories & horror movies across from a graveyard was scary aa a child but incredibly exciting & thrilling too! Although I was raised Christian l never had any trouble mixing our religion with our otherwordly beliefs. I never considered it 'the occult'. In fact it opened my mind more to other possibilities!
At the end of the day, whether you believe in seances or any kind of communication with a dead loved one or not, the point to remember is that it at least brings great comfort to those who seeked.
Thanks for doing the seance Tony, brave man!👍🏻😃🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦
I'm Irish and we loved ghost stories when we were kids, everyone knew someone who say the banshee 🙂
@@martinashaw398 l used the name Banshee for one of my pups when I was a kid. First movie l ever saw in a theatre when I was about 9 or 10 was "Darby O'Gill And The Little People"- l was terrified!! Ha!ha! Especially as l was afraid of the dark & was in a big dark theatre! It was like an Irish horror story come to life as a wee girl, lol!
Happy Weekend from Ottawa!
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@shendaraalshedir……I don’t believe that you are Irish..no county in Ireland uses the phrase ‘wee’ as in wee girl. This is likely in Scotland.
@@lizsheridan5025 Why would someone lie about their heritage? My father was part Scottish but it was my mother of Irish blood that used the term wee ALL the time. Thanks for publically calling me a liar!!🇨🇦
@@shendaraalshedir1933 I ‘m sorry I am not calling you a liar. Your family may have been Scottish Settlers given land in Northern Ireland by the English. It was called the Plantation . England wanted to put an end to Scotlands claim for independence and offered money and land to Scottish settlers who moved to Northern Ireland . Bi 1800 there were more Scottish settlers in the North than native Irish. These were known as Ulster Scots or Irish Scots. The accent in Northern is recognised as being close to Scottish.
My grandmother was a medium witch.1900's.I still love her very much !😘
Have you ever tried to contact your grandma?
Another thing: why are séance’s always in the half light. Do one on a summer’s day in the middle of a huge lawn with no bushes or trees giving shadow. You can still produce a mood. Oh! No table but just sit in a square formation. The medium must have no one accompanying. If there’s no conjuring able and we get something “coming through” I might consider it possible!
Very interesting!
Hehe it's Baldrick! 🤣 #Blackadder
Ok now that's done, loved the program. 😄
Hears an Irish accent... "I'm hearing an Irish accent"... the room oooohs and ahhhhs.
They'll say anything to convince you the supernatural isn't real, but the truth is it's all too real. Be careful who you trust, but trust. The gifts have been given to those with the responsiblity to use them. We have free will, beyond instinct, beyond knowing. Use it for goodness, and goodness will return. To deny it exists, is to be unprepared. Protect yourself, be aware.
I have them, you are so right. You need to use it responsiblely. The angels don’t like cold readers, or people that are only in it for the money. It’s all about helping people that want to get in contact with their loved ones.
Love and light to all 🙏🏻🔮❤️❤️✡️
Real truth is a commodity that few are allowed access to ............
I’m loving bbc4 Witch podcasts and the Scottish witches podcasts . They chat about her in one of the episodes.
It fascinates me all of it. If you have not listened in and it interests you I’d recommend listening in .
So many woman were falsely accused . I need to listen to this 😀
Well Tony, I dunno when the last time somebody was locked up for being a witch but I do know that tomorrow,18th July 2019 ,is going to be the first time a British citizen was locked up for telling the truth.
So we evidently haven't come quite as far as we thought eh?
And, still today, if you suffer from paruresis and don't use illegal drugs, you'll be written off as guilty of using drugs per a urine drug test. Thankfully, it looks like that law is about to change!
What a wonderful documentary thoroughly enjoyed this bring back the time teams.
23:45 -- "...But it could have been spirits!..." -- "Trollface" Tony Robinson, lay Deez and nutz.
She spiked the tea? 'Allo 'allo 'allo.
I have always thought if someone was truly a medium, they would go stark raving mad before they reached adulthood. Can you imagine being a small child, and having a recently dead person telling you they were killed by their parent who had been sexually assaulting them? And what would have happened if you had repeated what the spirit was telling you? Or if a spirit was trying to tell you your step-parent wanted you dead? Or if it wasn’t even the big stuff, just the endless line of spirits want you to tell their family where they had left a key, to look in an unknown safety deposit box, etc.? I mean, what do we call people today who hear voices? Schizophrenic, deranged, mad....if you could somehow keep from being locked away, I think you’d NEVER tell someone you spoke with the dead because of what they would do to you if they didn’t believe you. And the only thing worse would be if they did......
That's why people didn't talk about it. Even kids know better. You wouldn't believe the secrets I kept. They knew better.
The part about these people being deranged or mad is not completely correct. In many Traditional cultures, a Shaman, who sometimes did some of the same things as a medium, was a valued member of the community. The stereotype is of a deranged person living on the edge of the community and controlling people through fear, but this was rarely the case. Shamans were usually well integrated members of the community with families who participated in all of work and activities that anyone else did. They were very functional, sane people who had what Anthropologists and some Psychologists call an "expanded consciousness" . Living within a small community and interacting with these people regularly, that could not get away with exploiting or manipulating people without being kicked out of the community. And yes, these very functional people contacted spirits and Gods and belived deeply in what they were doing. And even more interesting, I have read reports by Anthropologists and explorers who were baffled to experience that Shamans were often absolutely right. There's are a lot of accounts concerning the Inuit and the Aboriginies. I one recorded by Greenland explorer Peter Freuchen, a complete skeptic, a Shaman engaged in some kind of heavy work suddenly stood up, tranced out and calmly stated that so-and-so and his wife, who were living a distance away, had decided to come to visit and would be here in two days. He then went back to his work. Sure enough the guy and his wife showed up two days later. This was around 1900 when there was no communication between isolated communities. There was another incident where the entire community was packing up to go on the annual Caribou hunt, and the Shaman suddenly said the Caribou would be in an entirely different location. Everyone, who were risking starvation if he was wrong went to the new location and the Caribou were there. I am an Anthropology Major and a retired Counselor, and I personally believe that humans developed abilities like this to survive. Mediums may have some residual abilities of this nature, though there is a lot of fraud.
They took drugs that “expanded their consciousness”. ; )
hmm and why wouldnt they allow her to do a seance,she could have proved it to them but they wouldnt allow her to...it was a disgrace in my opinion they wanted her out of the way quick
I'm glad you remained open minded Tony. Look up Scott Milligan, who is an amazing physical medium today.
I put people under hypnosis and spirits come through all the time. You can listen to one of my sessions over on my channel. The video is Healing with Jeanette-Sister Dee 001. They come through really clear.
OKAY SO.. This is my ancestor!! I’m related to her!! She’s my distant cousin and Yea!!
Very Interesting
Watching From Australia.
Watching from Sydney NSW🐨🇦🇺
You know, if you predict a ship will go down often enough, eventually you will be right, especially during wartime. What kind of record did she have for her predictions over all?
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day...
My Nana (grandmther in Italian) was supposed to be a witch. According to my Dad, she would warn him every time he went out to have a good time, that he would get into a car accident. . Finally, after many such times of going out he DID get into a car accident. She said "I knew it.". My Dad said, "Come on mom, it was bound to happen sooner or later!" I guess if you are good at working the odds, you're a witch.
The British never imagined the Hood to go down. It was their flagship and supposedly the best battleship in the world. Normally Hood probably hadn't gone down but unknown to the rest of the world Germany's Bismarck was much heavier armed and plated than international agreements allowed. And Hood's decks were her vunerable point.
She specifically _named_ the ship!
One of the two *naval* lietenants, who brought the charges against her, wasn't exactly a stranger, as he'd attended at least one previous seance.
The arresting police found no evidence to support his claim that the 'ectoplasm' was actually a piece of cheesecloth.
A leading Mason at the time claimed she was never wrong!
She even got the ship names correct and when they went down, twice.
I never could understand why mediums need to belch forth the sheeting. Just talk to the dead and listen already!
I wonder if this poor woman ever received a posthumous pardon?