Johnson, Mrs. Roberts (fl. ca. 1918)
Johnson, Mrs. Roberts (fl. ca. 1918)
Direct voice medium of Stockton-on-Tees, England. Her powers developed after a sitting with Mrs. Thomas Everitt. Her principal control claimed to be David Duguid, the former trance painting medium of Glasgow.
A sitter at a séance held March 5, 1918, reported in Light as follows:
"I have never had two sittings alike with Mrs. Johnson. They are marked each time by some different characteristic. On this occasion, before each new speaker used the trumpet, I saw a faintly-luminous figure moving about. Then, again, all the voices were louder than is usual in ordinary conversation, so much so, that Mrs. Johnson on more than one occasion asked the male speakers to moderate their tone; otherwise neighbours and pedestrians outside might be attracted by the unusual noise. Most of our spirit visitors remained throughout the sitting, and verbally called our attention to the fact. This was the best direct-voice sitting which, so far, it has been my good fortune to attend."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle remarked on Johnson's remarkable power with direct voice phenomena, commenting on the nonreligious atmosphere of her sittings with humorous spirit communicators.