A Study In Spiritualism: What Happened When The Creator Of Sherlock Holmes Visited Tacoma

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

But what many Sherlock fans might not know is that the man who created the world’s most famous fictional detective — a character who epitomizes the rational and the scientific — also championed a mystical practice called spiritualism.

Spiritualism posits, among other things, that the living can communicate with the dead. Conan Doyle wrote several books on the subject, attended seances and traveled the world proselytizing for the cause.

And, in June 1923, the famous author stopped in Tacoma as part of a North American spiritualism speaking tour.

Source: The News Tribune