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Joseph F. Rinn

Joseph F. Rinn

(New York City, NY: 31st July 1868 - 13th October 1952)

Joseph Francis Rinn was an American magician and skeptic of paranormal phenomena.

Owner of a fruit and produce market in New York City when he met Houdini in 1889, showing him some new tricks. Amateur magician and psychic investigator, often collaborating with Houdini in the early 1920s. Investigated Eusapia Palladino (1910), John Slater (1921), etc. He was friends with another debunker of spiritualism the magician John Mulholland. Authored mystery magic play Zeno, which played in New York City 1923-25. Memoir is Sixty Years of Psychical Research (1950, 618pp).

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Joseph F. Rinn
Sixty Years of Psychical Research by Joseph F. Rinn

Houdini and I among the spiritualists.

This book is one of the most important sources of skeptical literature on paranormal investigation from 1890 - 1950. It includes obscure and forgotten newspaper records, material that today appears nowhere else. Its references to Houdini and clippings dealing with him provide important source material for research into Houdini.

  1. Early Days with Houdini. The Search Begins. Society for Psychical Research. The Feats of Stuart Cumberland. Tests in Muscle-Reading. Herrmann the Great. The Hen that Laid Gold Pieces. The Talking Kettle
  2. The Seybert Commission. A...