I've worked my way through these recordings over the past few weeks. Has anyone else ever hear of Leslie Flint or even listened to these recordings?
I find them fascianating.
http://www.leslieflint.com/recordings.html
The mediumship of Flint began in his childhood, back in the 1920s, when he would go to watch the silent movies at his local cinema. During the picture people around him would ask him to be quiet and stop talking, as it was putting them off the film. Leslie never understood this as he could hear the voices too, only he assumed that they coming from someone else.
In his late teens, he tried to find out about the strange events that were occurring around him and went on to develop his gift in a Spiritualist circle. It became known as Independent Direct Voice mediumship, so called because the voices were coming directly from the spirit people and were completely independent of the medium. All that was required of him was that he sit in a darkened room.
Leslie Flint was tested by many scientists. Experiments would see him tied to a chair, gagged and holding a mouthful of coloured water, which he had to empty into a glass at the end of the test to prove that he was not a ventriloquist. A Dr Louis Young invented most of these tests and, along with members of the Society for Psychical Research, carried out further tests in infra-red light with a microphone attached to Leslie’s throat. Still the voices were recorded.
During the course of many years and many investigations, no one ever accused Leslie Flint of being a trickster or fake and his gift became known all over the world. People who had lost a loved one would come from far and wide in the hope of hearing the voices of their nearest and dearest speak directly to them from beyond the grave. So many people, as it happened, that Leslie had to hold group sessions to accommodate the demand for sittings