Linda Gazzera
Italian spiritualist medium
About Linda Gazzera
Lived 1890 – 1942 (aged 51–52). Linda Gazzera was an Italian.
Linda Gazzera (1890, Italy - 1942, Brazil) was an Italian spiritualist medium.
During 1908–1909, Gazzera was investigated in a series of séances by the spiritualist Enrico Imoda who endorsed her alleged materializations as genuine. French psychical researcher Guillaume de Fontenay in an afterword for the book cast doubt on the authenticity of the photographs, noting that the materializations looked dubious and two-dimensional with suspicious shadows.
Skeptical author Joseph McCabe has written that Gazzera was exposed as a fraud in 1911. According to McCabe "Her materializations and tricks were simple. She brought her birds and flowers and muslin and masks (or pictures) in her hair (which was largely false, and never examined) and her under-clothing, and she, by a common trick, released her hands and feet from control to manipulate them."
In 2022, the counterfeit photographs were included in the exhibit Corpse orbit for the 59th Venice Biennale.
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Who was Linda Gazzera?
Italian spiritualist medium
When was Linda Gazzera born?
Linda Gazzera was born on 26 August 1890 in Rome.
When did Linda Gazzera die?
Linda Gazzera died in 1942 in Brazil.
What nationality was Linda Gazzera?
Linda Gazzera was Italian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Linda Gazzera. https://biography.guide/linda-gazzera/
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