Fodor: The Alma Fielding Poltergeist, Part 2

In the heyday of spiritualism, Alma Fielding’s haunting and poltergeist activity in Croydon was initially impossible to debunk, a true diamond in the rough for parapsychologist Nandor Fodor. But was it legit?

Show Notes


Trigger Warning: Child death or lost pregnancy, traumatic events and sexual abuse.


Alma Fielding experienced a plethora of paranormal activity: flying objects, breaking glass, scratches and violence, psychic shoplifting, manifestation of objects and living animals out of thin air, and even astral projection. Fodor was eager to identify if these happenings were actually paranormal, or if Alma was consciously, or subconsciously, manifesting them – and if so, why were they being manifested?

References

Summerscale, Kate. “The Haunting of Alma Fielding, A True Ghost Story”; Penguin Press, New York 2021

Staff writer (May 19, 1964). “NANDOR FODOR, 69, A PSYCHOANALYST; Author of Theory to Explain Poltergeists Is Dead,” The New York Times, retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/19/archives/nandor-fodor-69-a-psychoanalyst-author-of-theory-to-explain.html

Editors (no date). “Fodor, Nandor (1895-1964),” Encyclopedia.com, Cengage Publishing, retrieved from: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fodor-nandor-1895-1964

Coleman Nelson, Marie (June 1964). “Nandor Fodor: 1895-1964,” The Psychoanalytic Review, retrieved from: https://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psar.051b.0155a


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