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Florence Eliza Cook (ca 1856 – 22 April 1904) was a medium who claimed to materialise a spirit, "Katie King". The question of whether the spirit was real or a fraud was a notable public controversy of the mid-1870s.
During the heyday of Spiritualism, Florence Cook became one of the movement’s most famous mediums. She was noted for her ability to produce full-form spirit materializations, especially those of her spirit guide, Katie King.
Cook, Florence Eliza (1856-1904) The famous British materialization medium whom physicist and chemist Sir William Crookes investigated. The popular story of her mediumship opens in 1871. She claimed to have seen spirits and heard voices in her childhood, but this was attributed to vivid imagination.
The true tale of the respected Victorian scientist Sir William Crookes and his spirit-medium protégée Florence Cook.
Feb 16, 2024 · A medium named Florence Cook became famous for “materialization” séances. With the medium supposedly unconscious in a closed cabinet, a willowy female figure claiming to be the long-dead spirit Katie King walked through the séance room, beguiling such […]
Katie King was actually not a person, but rather a phantom: She was a walking, talking, ectoplasmic alter-ego of the medium Florence Cooke.
The most connected account of the mediumship of Miss Florence Cook, apart from that of Professor Crookes, is to be found in Miss Florence Marryat's "There is No Death," a most interesting book of practical experiences, which is now published in a very cheap edition (Rider & Co.).
