a b Plummer, Mark (1981). "Doris Stokes Wrong – Police" (PDF). The Skeptic. 1 (1): 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2006 . Retrieved 3 January 2007. Ellen has also been bowled over by a celebrity medium called Craig Hamilton-Parker who astounded her live on air with a message from her dead father, but she says Doris is still her personal psychic and gives her constant advice from the beyond. Ellen lives with Derek, 68, in a house called Angel's Rest on the seafront at Hove, East Sussex. This is Ellen's story. Because she was clairaudient, all featured the word “voices” in the title. The latest book, Voices Everywhere, is subtitled The Mysterious Doris Stokes Effect. Whatever the truth, on the most charitable assessment, Doris Stokes was not all she seemed, and the most serious question marks hang over her." Linda continued: “As time passed, I thought I was walking further and further away from the Doris Stokes phenomenon only to discover years later that I’d been going round in a circle.

When she passed, I thought that was the end of it, but I realise now that she’s still working just as hard and the story continues. Stokes was condemned by the Church of England and other Christian denominations, which objected to spirit communication as an offence to God. She countered that her work was done for God, [4] and in accordance with the Bible's injunction to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world" (1 John 4.:1).At the time, Linda “didn’t appreciate how amazing it all was and how, all over the country, people were having their lives changed by Doris’ work. Linda added: “I’m amazed at how many people still remember Doris. Not only that, but they told me that she changed their lives.

He then said Doris had "opened the door" and let my father through, and gave an amazingly accurate description of him. He described Dad as a small man who'd had trouble with his legs before he died and said he was quite foggy when he passed over. That was spot on and I was very moved. Stokes was accused of using various forms of deception to achieve the effect of communicating with the dead. These included cold reading, [12] [13] eavesdropping, and planting accomplices in the audience. [14] [15] Evidence of audience plants [ edit ] We talked about a dancing clown musical box I've had since I was a child that plays the tune Send In The Clowns. Mum was trying to cheer me up, and over the years the music box has started up several times of its own accord whenever I've been feeling tearful. Doris Stokes Death The press couldn’t get over the fact that Doris appeared not to have accumulated the enormous wealth they were certain she must have possessed.Fanshawe, Simon (17 September 2005). "I know what you're thinking There is, says the US 'mind reader' Marc Salem, no such thing as reading minds. But being able to read people's signs and signals, he tells Simon Fanshawe, can be elevated to an art form where science meets our enduring need for mystery". Financial Times. p.1.