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Allen Spraggett (26 March 1932 – 19 July 2022) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster, known for his works concerning the paranormal.
Biography
During the 1950s, Spraggett was a minister of the Open Door Evangelical Church. He transferred to the United Church of Canada to become a minister there, then worked as the religion editor of Toronto Star. In the 1970s, he wrote The Unexplained, a syndicated newspaper column concerning the paranormal.
In 1975, Spraggett hosted a Canadian television show called E.S.P. In 1976, M. Lamar Keene co-authored a self-expose of fraudulent mediumship, The Psychic Mafia "as told to" Allen Spraggett.
Spraggett was host of the CBC television quiz show Beyond Reason from 1977 to 1980. He also hosted the radio shows Sun Spots and The Unexplained on CFRB in Toronto.
In 1979, he was charged with two counts of gross indecency, based on allegations by youths from Winnipeg. Spraggett was acquitted of these charges in April 1980. However, he had difficulty in resuming his broadcasting and writing career after that trial.
During the early 1980s Spraggett provided the daily horoscope forecasts for the Pete and Geets morning drive show on CFNY FM in Toronto.
Spraggett was a believer in faith healing and wrote a biography of Kathryn Kuhlman. He described Kuhlman as the "greatest faith healer since Biblical times."
Reception
Bibliography
The Unexplained (1967) LCCN 67-26236
The Bishop Pike Story (1970) OCLC 119820
Kathryn Kuhlman : The Woman who Believes in Miracles (1970) LCCN 71-103843
Probing the Unexplained (1971) OCLC 208605
Arthur Ford, The Man Who Talked with the Dead (1973) LCCN 72-9600
The Case for Immortality (1974) LCCN 73-91365
The World of the Unexplained (1974) OCLC 4481248
The Spiritual Frontier (1975, co-writer with William Rauscher) ISBN 0385071892
New Worlds of the Unexplained (1976) OCLC 15765037
The Psychic Mafia (1976, co-writer with M. Lamar Keene) OCLC 2212880
Ross Peterson: The New Edgar Cayce (1977) ISBN 0385122985
References
External links
Allen Spraggett at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Harry Houdini
- Poltergeist
- Allen Spraggett
- Spraggett
- M. Lamar Keene
- Arthur Ford (psychic)
- Harry Houdini
- Camp Chesterfield
- Mediumship
- List of game show hosts
- Beyond Reason (TV series)
- Leslie Flint
