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Helen Duncan

Portsmouth, Hampshire

A medium jailed under the Witchcraft Act in the middle of the Second World War.

Helen Duncan was a Scottish spiritualist medium. In 1941, at a séance in Portsmouth, she was said to have revealed the sinking of the battleship HMS Barham before it was made public.

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When
1944
Where
50.8000, -1.0900
Group
Witches & witch trials

Visiting

The séance took place in Portsmouth's Copnor area. The Royal Navy museums are at the Historic Dockyard.

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