Henry Slade

For the rugby player, see Henry Slade (rugby player).

Henry Slade (1835 to 1905) was a famous and infamous Victorian psychic who lived and practiced in both Europe and North America. Dr. Henry Slade (as he was commonly referred) was prosecuted for fraud on October 1, 1876 in London, England and found guilty. He was sentenced to 3 months hard labor although due to a mistake in the wording of the document Slade was able to escape England before an new indictment could be prepared.

Slade was defended in the trial by a group of eminent scientists who believed his activities were actually displays of control over the fourth dimension. Not least amongst these was Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leipzig, who went on to conduct several controlled experiments, using Henry Slade, to evaluate his higher dimensional abilities in 1877. Slade failed some of the tests carried out under controlled conditions but still succeeded in fooling the scientists in several other attempts.

External links

• Blavatsky Foundation.org 6 page pdf by Walter A. Carrithers, Jr.
• Powerful Psychic Reading Spiritualists and Mediums
• Albion Michigan History Notebook Article on Henry Slade published in the Morning Star newspaper on October 17, 1993, pg. 6
• Internet Archive of Library Books "Spirit Slate Writing And Kindred Phenomena" by William E. Robinson Munn & Company(1898 copyright expired) This book was scanned into the public domain by Google.