Franek Kluski

Franek Kluski, pseudonym för Teofil Modrzejewski, född 1873 i Warszawa, död 22 januari 1943, var ett polskt medium.

Enligt den franske forskaren Gustav Geley blev Kluski medveten om sina paranormala förmågor redan under barndomen. Dessa sägs bland annat ha bestått av så kallad materialisation, i hans fall fysiskt återskapande av mänskliga lemmar och av olika djur vid seanser.^[1]

Läkaren Antônio da Silva Mello ifrågasatte dock trovärdigheten hos Kluskis seanser,^[2] och illusionisterna Carlos María de Heredia och Harry Houdini kom på möjliga sätt att uppnå samma resultat som Kluski.^[3]

Vid sidan av Geley försvarade även författaren Arthur Conan Doyle polacken Franek Kluskis seanser.

Bekännelse

Ett par författare har senare hävdat att Kluski själv kallade sig bedragare och skojare, bland andra Joseph Rinn i sin bok Sixty Years of Psychical Research (1950)^[4] och forskaren Melvin Harris.^[5]

Kulski i andra sammanhang

Låten The Kluski Report inleder albumet Galaxy II (2021) av musikgruppen Amason. Namnet anspelar uppenbart på Franek Kluski.

Referenser

^ Geley, Gustav; Brath, Stanley De. (2003). Clairvoyance and Materialization. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-0766163140
^ Lycett, Andrew. (2007). The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Free Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-0743275231
^ Heredia, Carlos María De. (1923). Spirit Hands, "ectoplasm," and Rubber Gloves. Popular Mechanics. pp. 14-15
^ Rinn, Joseph. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists. Truth Seeker Company. p. 441. "The medium Kluski produced a paraffin hand of a spirit for Dr. Geley, but when Dr. Geley wanted to bring him to the United States, Kluski confessed he was a fraud."
^ Harris, Melvin. (1978). Strange to Relate. Granada Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 0-583-30342-0 "Doyle was also duped by Kluski, a medium who produced wax moulds, said to be made by 'spirit hands'! Yet Kluski later admitted that he was just a cunning trickster."

[1] Geley, Gustav; Brath, Stanley De. (2003). Clairvoyance and Materialization. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-0766163140

[2] Lycett, Andrew. (2007). The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Free Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-0743275231

[3] Heredia, Carlos María De. (1923). Spirit Hands, "ectoplasm," and Rubber Gloves. Popular Mechanics. pp. 14-15

[4] Rinn, Joseph. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists. Truth Seeker Company. p. 441. "The medium Kluski produced a paraffin hand of a spirit for Dr. Geley, but when Dr. Geley wanted to bring him to the United States, Kluski confessed he was a fraud."

[5] Harris, Melvin. (1978). Strange to Relate. Granada Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 0-583-30342-0 "Doyle was also duped by Kluski, a medium who produced wax moulds, said to be made by 'spirit hands'! Yet Kluski later admitted that he was just a cunning trickster."

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