The Early Life of Irish Psychic and Trance Medium Eileen J. Garrett: Fact or Fabrication?, by Julie Coyle

From the back cover: Eileen Jeanette Lyttle (Garrett) was born in Co. Meath, Ireland in 1892 as Emily Jane Savage. She was a renowned psychic and trance medium, having first trained at the British College of Psychic Science. From 1930 she gained international notoriety from what became known as the ‘R101 airship séance’ following her trance communication with the spirit of the captain of a crashed British airship. In 1940 she moved to New York and some years later founded the Parapsychology Foundation. Not all the facts of Garrett’s official life story add up.