There are a number of examples of teleportation to be found in the Bible (e.g. Ezekiel 11.1). There are also many examples to be found in Modern Spiritualism. Teleportation was described by Leslie Shepard as “a composite phenomenon between levitation and apports.” One of the classic cases was the teleportation of Mrs. Agnes Guppy, when she became a living apport at the séance given by mediums Charles Williams and Frank Herne. The two mediums specialized in apport séances. At one of their sittings someone jokingly suggested that they should apport Mrs. Guppy, who lived only a short distance from their séance room in High Holborn, London. This suggestion was greeted with laughter since Mrs. Guppy was a very large woman. But within a matter of minutes, a very large figure suddenly appeared, with a thump, on the top of the table. It was Mrs. Guppy, wearing a dressing gown, holding a pen wet with ink, and looking very startled. (see Apports) This was one of the best corroborated cases of teleportation.
Both Charles Williams and Frank Herne were themselves teleported at various times. Thomas Blyton wrote in his reminiscences, published in Light (April 11, 1931), “I was present on one occasion at a private home séance at Hackney, in London, when without warning or preparation, in total darkness, Mr. Frank Herne was suddenly placed in the midst of the sitters; and after recovering from our surprise and resuming the séance, Mr. Herne’s overcoat, hat and umbrella were dropped on the table.” Herne had been with friends, watching a play in another part of London.
The Sao Paolo medium Carlos Carmine Mirabelli was transported from the railroad station of Da Luz to Sao Vincenti, 90 kilometres away, in two minutes. He had been with friends at the railroad station, intending to travel to Santos. He suddenly disappeared just before the train was due to leave. A telephone call confirmed that he was in Sao Vincenti two minutes later.
Nandor Fodor recounts the teleportation of the medium the Marquis Centurione Scotto, on July 29, 1928 at Millesimo Castle. “The medium exclaimed, in a frightened voice, ‘I can no longer feel my legs!’ … An interval of death-like silence followed. The medium was addressed, then felt for (it was a dark room sitting). His place was empty. They turned on the red light. The doors were still securely locked with the key on the inside but the medium had disappeared. All the rooms of the castle were searched but without result. Two and a half hours passed when it occurred to the sitters to ask Mrs. Gwendolyn Kelley Hack to try and get into communication, through automatic writing, with her spirit guide Imperator. After several attempts … correct information came through: ‘Go to the right, then outside. Wall and gate. He is lying-hay-hay-on soft place.’ The place indicated a granary in the stable yard. The great entrance door was locked; the key was not in the lock. They ran back to fetch it and entering found a small door which had been previously overlooked. This door was also locked, the key being in the keyhole on the outside. They opened it with the greatest caution. On a heap of hay and oats the medium was comfortably lying, immersed in profound sleep.”
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