Kathleen Mary Hervey Goldney (1894–1992) best known as K. M. Goldney was a British parapsychologist and writer.

Career

In the 1940s, Goldney worked with the mathematician Samuel Soal on ESP experiments with Basil Shackleton. It later was discovered that Soal had altered and faked the data from the experiments. Goldney was once a member of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research and an associate of

Harry Price Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British psychic researcher and author, who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and exposing fraudulent spiritualist mediums. He is best known for ...

. She was a long-standing member of the

Society for Psychical Research The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is a nonprofit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. It describes itself as the "first society to co ...

and worked as secretary from 1949 to 1957. In the 1950s, she produced a highly critical report with

Eric Dingwall Eric John Dingwall (1890–1986) was a British anthropologist, psychical researcher and librarian. Biography Born in British Ceylon, Dingwall moved to England where he was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge (M.A., 1912), and the Univer ...

and

Trevor H. Hall Trevor Henry Hall (1910–1991) was a British author, surveyor, and sceptic of paranormal phenomena. Hall made controversial claims regarding early members of the Society for Psychical Research. His books caused a heated controversy within the para ...

that demolished the claims of any hauntings and suspected Price's involvement with

Borley Rectory Borley Rectory was a house famous for being described as "the most haunted house in England" by psychic researcher Harry Price. Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley and his family, it was badly damaged by fire in 1939 and ...

to be fraudulent. In 1964, she came out against Trevor H. Hall, defending the chemist

William Crookes Sir William Crookes (; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing t ...

from allegations of misconduct with the medium Florence Cook.

Publications

*Samuel Soal and K. M. Goldney. (1943). ''Experiments in Precognitive Telepathy''. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 47: 21-150. *Eric J. Dingwall, K. M. Goldney and Trevor H. Hall. (1956)
''The Haunting of Borley Rectory: A Critical Survey of the Evidence''
Duckworth. *R. G. Medhurst and K. M. Goldney. (1964). ''William Crookes and the Physical Phenomena of Mediumship''. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 54: 25-156. *R. G. Medhurst and K. M. Goldney. (1972). ''Crookes and the Spirit World''. Souvenir Press.Dixon, Bernard. (1972)
"Crookes and the Spirit World"
New Scientist. 30 November. pp. 532-533 *K. M. Goldney. (1974). ''The Soal-Goldney Experiments with Basil Shackleton (BS): A Personal Account''. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 56: 73-82.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldney, K. M. 1894 births 1992 deaths British writers Parapsychologists