Anna Melloni Rasmussen (1898–1983) was a Danish spiritualist

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.Kragh, Jesper Vaczy. ''Danish Spiritualism, 1853–2012''. In Christopher M. Moreman. ''The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World''. ''Volume 1: American Origins and Global Proliferation''. Praeger. pp. 77–78.

Career

Rasmussen was alleged to have produced

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phenomena, such as moving

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s in sealed glass cases. She was endorsed as genuine by the psychical researcher

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. Christian Winther (1873–1968) of the Danish

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investigated her mediumship, producing a favourable report in 1930. The report was later disputed as new experiments from researchers at the

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in 1945 suggested all her phenomena could be explained by physical causes. In 1950, Rasmussen was exposed as a fraud as a secret camera had caught her using fraudulent methods to produce spiritualist phenomena. The exposure made headlines in Danish newspapers, seriously damaging the spiritualist community in

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