Stock Photo - 1948 - Do You Believe in Spirits?: For the first time since the Fox Sisters 'table tilting and spirit rapping seance' in 1848, in New York, by Kreskin, Mr. E.S.P. - who is a master of extra sensory perception. Kreskin, who has been studying E.S.P. and hypaosis, believes that no supernormal psychic talents are necessary for E.S.P. but simply that telepathy and clairvoyance are natural talents, possessed, but unused by many people - which need only to be developed to produce these effects. Included in his seance to which he invited many well known personalities and the press were examples of table tilting, table rapping, and thought transference which produced a 'message' from the world-famous Houdini who died in 1926, All experiments were conducted using normal tables -and these strange effects were produced in normal light. A demonstration of table rapping at Kresking New York Spirit seance (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)