I recently interviewed the author and academic Joe Cooper, whose books include 'The Case of The Cottingley Fairies' and 'The Mystery of Telepathy'. Joe has been investigating Psychic Phenomena for decades and has a vast amount of case histories that he considers verify the truth of paranormal activity. One such case that Joe recounted to me involved the Doncaster based medium Sandy Sinclair. Joe Cooper told how he had joined Sandy in a séance or circle sitting and they had experienced Physical Psychic Phenomena in which the table in the centre of the group had risen without visible means and floated to the ceiling. Joe Cooper refers to this phenomena as 'Tiptology', it is probably better known as Table Tilting.

Following up on Joe's account of the levitating table I decided to contact Sandy Sinclair direct and seek her account of the incident. Not that I doubted the word of the erudite Mr Cooper. Sandy explained what had happened when she and Joe along with some of her friends had sat in circle. 'Joe was singing George Formby songs and we all joined in, it was a really happy atmosphere, suddenly the table began to raise off the floor and float in mid air. As we watched it continued to lift and rose up until it was touching the ceiling. We were all so pleased to witness this wonderful evidence'.

When two people tell me that they have seen something I, as a reasonable man, am required to believe them. After all if I sat on jury and two people said they had seen 'X' do 'Y' then that would be sufficient proof to convict. And yes I did and do believe Joe Cooper and Sandy Sinclair. But that was not all that Sandy told me, she went on to explain that at times she herself had been seen to dematerialise and momentarily vanish in front of witnesses. Now that may seem, to many people, to be a ridiculous claim. As I listened to this perfectly ordinary and gentle lady tell me of this seemingly fantastic feat I wondered why anyone would want to say such a thing, unless it were true. Now Sandy Sinclair has had her psychic powers and her gift of physical mediumship tested by a certain secret society so she is the real thing: No names no pack drill as they say in the Army.v

Sworn statements and eyewitness accounts of Physical Psychic Phenomena are usually all that the investigator has to go on. Those and personal observations. Actual hard forensic evidence is much rarer. However, in the case of the dematerialising medium Sandy Sinclair there was, she said, real evidence. Some days after I interviewed her Sandy sent me a package in the post containing statements from the grandchild of Helen Duncan, Mary Martin nee McIntosh, that confirmed that Sandy had communicated with the spirit of the late medium HD. Also a press cutting from Leicester City which reported Sandy's communication in a public demonstration to a Polish lady given in Polish, which is a totally foreign language to Sandy. Then I found the proof that Sandy had promised me, two photographs of her dematerialising before a camera. There were, according to Sandy Sinclair, seven witnesses to this event. Also these photographs had, Sandy assured me, been checked and verified by photographic experts and were absolutely genuine. They are quite remarkable and I have made them available, with Sandy's permission, for all to see: NOTE THESE PHOTOGRAPHS (JPG) ARE THE COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY OF SANDY SINCLAIR.

In the first photograph Sandy is seen sitting on a floral covered settee, her body looks completely solid but her head is quite transparent. The pattern of the curtain seen through her dematerialised head is quite distinct and would be almost impossible to superimpose.

Sandy told me that during the period in which she was seen to dematerialise she felt light headed and dizzy. She had, immediately beforehand, been sitting in circle with her friends communicating with the spirits. She assures me that no trickery has been used and that these are perfectly genuine photographs that constitute absolute proof of Sandy's amazing Physical Psychic gifts. You can judge for yourself. Do look and write and tell me what you think. I know that I believe in the truth of what Sandy told me and you may do too once you have examined the evidence. What you should ask yourself is this:

1. If these photographs are fakes HOW might they have been created.
2. If Sandy did fake them WHY did she do so? She makes nothing from letting me reproduce these on the PsychicWorld.net website.
3. Why would a well respected and fully authentic medium risk her reputation by fabricating such photographs?

If you think you have the answers, or are simply interested in this amazing lady then do let me know. In the months ahead Sandy and I along with The Joe Cooper and other experts in the field of Physical Psychic Phenomena will be investigating the matter further.

Here is a further photograph taken by Sandy Sinclair during a period of mediation in a darkened room. She told me that she heard a voice telling her to take this picture, lifted up her old Polaroid camera that has no flash and snapped the picture into the total blackness. This is the result:

(c) John G. Sutton 2000

I am John G. Sutton 

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