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W. W. (William Wortley) Baggally

Best known for careful investigations into telepathy and spiritualist claims in the early 1900s, this British writer approached the paranormal with a skeptical, methodical eye. His work sits at the crossroads of psychology, belief, and the long history of trying to test the unexplained.

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Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent

Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent

by W. W. (William Wortley) Baggally

About the author

William Wortley Baggally was a British investigator and author associated with the Society for Psychical Research in the early 20th century. He is known for writing Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent and for published reports on séances and mediums, including the controversial Australian medium Charles Bailey.

What makes his work interesting is the tone he brought to a subject that often attracted sensational claims. Rather than simply defending or dismissing paranormal experiences, he focused on close observation and on separating what might be evidence from what might be error, exaggeration, or fraud.

Today, Baggally is mainly remembered through these psychical research writings, which capture a period when scholars, investigators, and curious readers were all wrestling with where science ended and the supernatural seemed to begin.