NOTES

1 Franz Hartmann, ‘Magical Metathesis’, Occult Review, Vol. IV, July-Dec, 1906, pp17-25.

2 Charles Fort, Lo!, Kendall, 1931, p27.

3 A cursory check shows that the word ‘teleportation’ does not appear before 1931 in American newspapers, the year

Lo! Was published. As to Fort coining the word, see: Bob Rickard and John Michell, Phenomena, 1977, p102; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort, The Man Who Invented The Supernatural, Heinemann, 2008, p246. 4 ‘The Teleport: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The Age’, Times of India, 6 Mar 1878. Thanks to Kay Massingill. 5 ‘The Teleport’, Riverine Grazier, Hay, NSW, 8 June 1878; ‘The Latest Wonder’, Capricornian, Rockhampton, Qld., 29 June 1878; ‘The Teleport’, Colonist, New Zealand, 1 Aug 1878; ‘The Teleport’, Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu, Hawaii, 23 Oct, 1878.

6 The Man Without A body’, Sun, NYC, New York, 25 Mar 1877.

7 Sam Moskowitz, The Crystal Man: Stories by Edward Page Mitchell, Doubleday, 1973, page iv.

8 The teleportation technology involves argon and pyramidal structures, but is not further explained by Jane. In Everett F Bleiler, ScienceFiction: The Early Years, Kent State University Press, 1990, p391.

9 Robert Duncan Milne, ‘Prof. Vehr’s Electrical Experiment’, The Argonaut, San Francisco, California, 24 Jan 1885, pp4-5. 10 ‘The Teleporon’, Longman’s Magazine, vol. 7 No. 5, Mar 1886, pp518-549. Stacpoole explains it away, to the chagrin of contemporary reviewers: “Teleporon, a medium for transporting the body to any distance… is only chloroform…” In ‘The Magazines for March’, Pall Mall Gazette, 3 Mar 1886, p11. “Mr. Stacpoole’s ‘Teleporon’ would have been better if he had given the reins to his fancy, and not pulled up to offer an explanation as improbable as the mystery itself.” In St.

James’s Gazette, 4 Mar 1886, p 7. 11 Sydney Whiting, Helionde, Or, Adventures in The Sun, Chapman and Hall, 1855, p20.