Today marks the birth of the man who created the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. To celebrate, here's one of the great detective stories in medical history.
Yeah, more people should be aware that Doyle was basically the opposite of Sherlock Holmes in many ways.
He seriously believed in faries, spirits, psychic powers, telepathy, etc. and claimed many mental illnesses was the result of being possessed by spirits. He held multiple public debates to defend this, and published several books on the matter.
He actuall believed Houdini used real magic. Despite knowing him and having Houdini repeatedly try to explain that it was just tricks and illusions. To the point where they had a pretty public falling out after Doyle absolutely refused to believe him and insisted that it had to be magic.
I like this story, along with the one about Houdini and his wife agreeing on a secret code that they would relay to their living partner so as to confirm the existence of ghosts, etc., if one were to die before the other. His wife died, he never received her message, and then dedicated the rest of his life to debunking supernatural bullshit.
Yeah, more people should be aware that Doyle was basically the opposite of Sherlock Holmes in many ways.
He seriously believed in faries, spirits, psychic powers, telepathy, etc. and claimed many mental illnesses was the result of being possessed by spirits. He held multiple public debates to defend this, and published several books on the matter.
He actuall believed Houdini used real magic. Despite knowing him and having Houdini repeatedly try to explain that it was just tricks and illusions. To the point where they had a pretty public falling out after Doyle absolutely refused to believe him and insisted that it had to be magic.
I like this story, along with the one about Houdini and his wife agreeing on a secret code that they would relay to their living partner so as to confirm the existence of ghosts, etc., if one were to die before the other. His wife died, he never received her message, and then dedicated the rest of his life to debunking supernatural bullshit.
Houdini was a real one
that is some advanced belief if the man himself revealed his secrets and yet you insist that no actually, i know better than you, it was magic!
“I reject your reality & substitute my own”
Adam Savage? Probably lots of other people nowadays.
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I’m fine with Adam Savage’s version, it’s the
that all too many people do nowadays, and it shits me to tears…
At least he was honest about what he was doing.