![]() ![]() Piet Hein Hoebens with Marcello Truzzi evaluated some psychic detective cases in prewar Germany that were featured in Tabori's Crime and the Occult (1974), concluding the cases had been misreported. According to Hall the alleged paranormal phenomena from the rectory were the result of natural causes such as various creaks heard from the movement of rats or the flying of bats in the house also, pranks such a local village boys throwing stones at the house or tramps trying to keep warm by lighting small fires in the rectory. Hall criticized Tabori and Underwood for selective reporting. Tabori and Peter Underwood in their book Ghosts of Borley (1973) wrote they believed "some of the phenomena were genuine" at the Borley Rectory. Stephen Potter in a review wrote the book "gives us one of the best brief accounts I have ever read of the scientific examination of the claims of spiritualists, and the delusions of such great men as Oliver Lodge and Conan Doyle". In The Art of Folly (1961), Tabori included a chapter that documented the fraud of various spiritualist mediums. ![]() He later worked as a journalist in Hungary and London. from Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm University and graduated as a Doctor of Economic and Political Science at Pazmany Peter University. Tabori moved to London in 1938 and made his home at Stafford Terrace in Kensington. His father Kornél (Cornelius) was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, but with his mother he managed to escape the Nazis, fleeing Budapest. ![]() Tabori was born on 5 August 1908, in Budapest, Hungary. ![]()
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