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One of the most thoroughly investigated trance mediums in modern times, Eileen Garrett contributed much to the understanding of mediumship. She cooperated whole-heartedly in all scientific tests of her abilities, established the Parapsychology Foundation in New York and a regional headquarters at Saint Paul de Vence in France.

As a child Eileen had playmates invisible to other children and her first psychic experience manifested itself shortly after the funeral of her uncle. In her autobiography Many Voices, she describes it thus: "One evening my dead uncle appeared to me in a vision, younger and more alert than I had known him...he told me that in time I should leave my aunt and the farm and go to London..." Ultimately she did, married, bore and lost three sons and divorced.

During the first World War she opened a hostel for wounded soldiers and married a second time to a young soldier who had a premonition of death. While dining with friends one evening Eileen had a traumatic clairvoyant vision of her husband being blown up with his comrades. She was notified a few days later by the War Office that her husband was missing believed killed in action.

After the war Eileen began working at the British College of Psychic Science developing her faculties for clairvoyance and telepathy. Her forte however was as a trace medium, her control spirits being "Uvani" a long deceased Indian soldier, and "Abdul Latif" who claimed to be a physician from the Court of Saladin.

The event that rocketed Eileen Garrett into world prominence took place at a séance conducted at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London on October 7, 1930, two days after the British airship R101 crashed in flames at Beauvais, northern France. Ostensibly the purpose of the seance was for Eileen to contact the late Conan Doyle through her control "Uvani" but instead, those present were astounded to hear a hysterical voice narrating the last moments of the flight of the R101 before it crashed. There was no doubt in the minds of the listeners that what they heard were the last words of Captain Irwin of the dirigible. Experts at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington in Bedfordshire who were given the notes taken at the seance, commented that it was an "astounding document", many of the details it contained were confidential.