Scottish-born Arthur Conan Doyle first visited Toledo on Oct. 19, 1894 discussed his captivating books featuring detective Sherlock Holmes. By the time he returned to Toledo 27 years later, he had been knighted by the king of England, fathered five children, buried a wife and a son, and married a woman he had adored for years, Toledo blade recently reported.
He met Toledo psychics Ada Besinnet when she was brought to England in 1921 by the British College of Psychic Science to give more than 100 séances at its London headquarters.
"She did so much good in England during her visit there last Fall," he wrote. "She consoled hundreds of persons bereaved as a result of the war, and brought to them strength and religious belief."
Gone on a Spiritual psychic crusade in 1922 through the United States, Conan Doyle, accompanied by his wife and three young children, he did a lecture and attended the seances. "I do not mind telling you that I am going to Toledo because Miss Ada Besinnet is there and I hope through her to communicate again with my mother, my son and some other dear ones," he said. "I have great faith in Miss Besinnet's psychic predictions powers and a deep respect for her intellect. She is a cultured woman and a courageous one, who, ever exposed to ridicule and merciless criticism, yet remains true to her belief, based on personal experience that it is possible to communicate with the dead."
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