William Cartheuser

William Cartheuser (January 19, 1890 – February 25, 1966) was an American spiritualist medium.

Career

Cartheuser originally worked as a mechanic. He became a direct-voice medium who had utilized trumpets in his séances. Psychical researchers suspected Cartheuser was fraudulent. Pincock originally endorsed Cartheuser as a genuine medium but later broke connections, suggesting that he had turned his mediumship into a financial scheme.

Psychologist Henry C. McComas who observed Cartheuser at many sittings, detected his trickery. Cartheuser would get up from his chair, move the trumpets and produce all the voices himself.

Death Cartheuser died February 25, 1966, in Los Angeles, California.