John Benedict Buescher is the former chief of the Tibetan Broadcast Service of the Voice of America. He has authored articles on radio broadcasting to Tibet and books on the history of Buddhism and on the history of 19-century American Spiritualism. He is a co-director of the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals. He lives in Georgetown, Texas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Broadcasts from the Borderland

The Mentalist Performance7 delete deleteMagicians, Mediums, Magnetists and

Astrologers9 delete deleteWireless Millennium23 delete deleteHuman Radios36 delete delete

Transmitting Secrets42 delete deleteThe Rise and Fall of Radio Mentalism45

[...] on the Air

Hope Eden49 delete deleteJulius Zancig63 delete deletePaul Karä68

[...] Yard Burial

Leona Lamar78 delete deleteHamid Bey86

[...] Secrets Revealed

Signa Serene93

[...] Am We?

Princess Wahletkä103 delete deleteJoveddah De Rajah113

5.Hypnotized by Radio

Vishnu and Zinniä119 delete deleteCharles Harad124

[...] Long Blindfold Drive

Francill133

7.Persuaded by Shadows

Norman Baker154 delete deleteGayle Norman II168 delete deletePhenomenä172

8.Spirits of the Air

Ethel Duncan177 delete deleteAlma and Zandrä183

9.Across the Border

­­Mel-Roy197 delete deleteRalph Richards206 delete deleteMarjah216

[...] on Belief

Koran and Rose Dawn221

11.A Family of Troupers

Alburtus244

12.Wizards' War

Rajah Raboid267 delete deletePrincess Yvonne and Doc Irving286 delete delete

Bob and Larry Nelson298

[...] the Audience Will Bear

Gene Dennis320 delete deleteJoseph Dunninger339

Coda

Appendix: Some Other Mentalists in Early Radio

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index