A British seance held in Shell Grotto, Margate, Kent, 1930 / A seance conducted in Bristol, England, December 1872 / A seance held by Magician William Marriott (second from right), England, 1920 / A séance with the table moving, held in Paris, 1900 / A mandolin levitates during a séance with medium Eusapia Palladino on March 13, 1903 at a home in Munich, Germany / A table levitates during Eusapia Palladino's séance at home of astronomer Camille Flammarion, France, 25th November 1898 / A séance taking place in at the studio of Baron von Erhardt, Rome, Italy, 1909 / The magician William Marriott demonstrating a fraudulent method to levitate a table, 1910 / A group of people in France hold a séance in an attempt to make contact with the dead, 1870 / The medium Marthe Béraud with an ectoplasmatic structure (materialization) on her head, 1912