Talk:Franek Kluski
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Death
in my reading i can not find any information surrounding Kluski's death, being in poland in 1943 i suspect it was somehow related to ww2 but i can not substantiate that, if any of you have information regarding the death of this magnificent man, please post it and please contact me about it on my talk page, thank you.--Tophatdan (talk) 07:23, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Tone of article
I'm not sure where this bio is being sourced from, but the tone is inappropriate. §FreeRangeFrog 04:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
There are no independent objective sources for this article aside from various (cited in Polish) European occultist authors and psychical societies, so I summarized and trimmed to reflect the relative obscurity of the subject. - LuckyLouie (talk) 15:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
== Tone of article == occultists from 3 countries (england, poland and germany) cant be seen as independant sources? in any case i will be willing to provide a list of books concerning mr. Kluski's life and times if any of you wish to read in to the subject as far as i have, i believe the article should be restored in some length to its original text, and i propose that the 'tone' reflects the works research done by the 'occultists' from atleast 3 nations who studied him in his time.--Tophatdan (talk) 23:01, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Geley Fraud
There's an article in the SPR journal claiming that the psychical researcher Gustav Geley acted as Kluski's accomplice and helped him make the "materialization" molds. According to the article the paraffin molds were secretly prepared by Geley before the séance sittings. Its in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. (1994). Volumes 59-60. I don't have access to the paper. SPR journals are not reliable references so are not usually used on Wikipedia unless they can be clarified by other reliable references. Unfortunately I can't find any other mention of this, so it will be left off the article.
As for Geley, he was caught in fraud with the medium Eva Carrière. Geley had hidden photographs that revealed wires seen running from Carrière's head supporting fake ectoplasm. It's possible that Geley was involved in fraud with Kluski. Either way there was a fraud involved and Geley was not searched before his séances. The "materialization" hand molds are easily to duplicate by natural methods as magicians have revealed. Fodor Fan (talk) 20:18, 17 November 2013 (UTC)