Marconi at first thought the signals came from the spirit world
• Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings
A look at the time when scientists were - to some degree at least - interested in the shadowy world of spiritualism.
When the bizarre phenomenon of table-turning hit the parlours of Victorian England, the leading experimental scientist of the day, Michael Faraday, was called in.
After attending two seances, the deeply Christian Faraday devised an experiment to see if there was a rational explanation. He decided there was and dismissed supernatural causes as nonsense.