Eileen worked on many poltergeist cases with Hewat McKenzie. Her role was to assume a trance state after she had entered the troubled houses with the hope of contacting the cause of the disturbance, She said, " I often wondered if the whole matter was not a delusion until I saw for myself the breakage and, in some cases, wilful destruction. I was forced to the conclusion that these could well be some earthly beings with their own accounts to settle". She decided in the case of some polergeists the answer could be found to stem from young children in the house with too much repressed nervous energy and a sense of discontentment. Eileen also found "imprisoned ghosts".
At one farm house where a father of two boys had take awoman to live with him, Eileen discovered the pressence of of the first wife, still in the house, longing to tell her story of their greed, injustice and intrigue. The two boy were the unwilling channel of her polergeist activity. The farmer was terrified at what Eileen was dicovering, ordered her out of the house and even threw her unbrella at her. Eileen was called back, the farmer changed his ways, and settled his affairs decently and the poltergeist activity stopped.
On October 7,1930 Eileen leaped in to the world headlines after a sensational seance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London. Two days before the seance took place the British airship R101 on its maiden passenge flight had crashed in flames at Beauvais, northern France, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Many of the passengers were killed in the horrific accident, the airship's captain, Flight Lieutentant Carmichael Irwin also perished. The disaster was not on the minds of the people who had gathered in the dark little room at the National Laboratory as quests of its founder, Harry Price. Eileen did not know the purpose of the seance but was prepared to offer her self for scientific research. Price was hoping to contact a old adversary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had died a few month earlier. Australian journalist Ian Coster was there to simpliy to observe. Price felt if any one could contact Coan Doyle it would be Eileen Garrett. She had been a personal freind and new of his desire to try to "come through" after his death.
At three o'clock the seance began. Eileen slipped in to a deep trance. She spoke at first in the voice of her regular control "Uvani" an indian and conveyed various mesages from the spirit world. But there were no signs of Conan Doyle.
Suddenly all at onece Eileen became extemely agitated, tears rolled of her face and Uvani's voice spelled out the name Irving or Irwin. Themn a different voice came through, a breathless voice speaking rapid staccato outbursts and full of anguish: "The whole bulk... too much for her engine capacity...engines too heavy...weather bad for long flight...fabric all waterlogged and the ships nose down... impossible to rise... cannot trim... almost scraped the roofs at Archy..." The voice continued delivering highly technical imformation in a tolerent of words almost to fast for Harry's secretary, writing in short hand, who was sitting in to record the seance. The voice continued: " airscrews too small... fuel injection bad... gross lift computed badly... this exoritant scheme of carban and hydrogen entirely and absolutely wrong... never reached cruising altitude." The voice nearly reached hysteria. When it eventualy faded away everyone sat in a state of shock. There was no doubt in their minds that they had been listing to Csptain Erwin of the dirigible R101.
Three weeks later Eileen reported had she had heard again from Captain Irwin and from Sir Sefton Brancher, Director of Civil Aviation, who had also died. They seemed anxious that people should know what went wrong. There is one thing for certain Eileen did not know anything about airships. Experts at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington in Bedfordshire who later read the notes of the seance called it " astounding document" and admitted some of the details it included had been regarded confidential.
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