Right on my corn, you clumsy oaf!’ she cried in agony, and mumbling apologies I went out into the night in the rain… These are descriptions of Flint's activities and those of the people who attended and recorded his sessions: Two Worlds Publishing Co. 2000 Edition (Now available directly from the Leslie Flint Educational Trust)

Mrs. L. Piper was a gifted medium who also enabled voices of the deceased to speak. Dr. James Hyslop, a professor of logic and ethics at Columbia University, initially a skeptic, was converted to accepting the afterlife after he studied Mrs. Piper and she repeatedly produced high quality evidence for the afterlife. In Life After Death (1918) he wrote, In a court of law, we would look for some motive for actions intended to defraud. We would need to find a reason dozens of people would take extraordinary pains to hold thousands of contrived seances and create the over 120 recordings now in the Leslie Flint archives. The activities would have required the involvement of a great number of people if they were orchestrated and created as fraud. That would have required some reward, usually money, for the large number of people present at the seances. No money has been involved in the recordings in the Leslie Flint archives. No motive for them other than to provide them for humanity as records of people in the afterlife speaking has ever been present. Researcher Melvin Harris examined the tapes of Flint's direct-voice mediumship and wrote "I have to conclude that his spirits are awfully mixed up. His Valentino speaks with a stage French accent – shades of Charles Boyer – while his George Bernard Shaw sounds like an irascible English colonel, with no trace of his precise and memorable soft Irish brogue." Harris believed Flint to be a fraud and compared his mediumship to the fraudulent medium William Roy. [4] Then Kite materialised - there have been attempts at materialisation for several weeks at this series of Monday sittings, which are of an experimental nature - and advanced towards one of the sitters, a man named Turner. The spirit touched Turner’s knees and took hold of his arm, as if trying to shake him. Not only that, but the descriptions are consistent with the insights of mediums recorded now in many books, such as The Supreme Adventure, Analyses of Psychic Communications, by Robert Crookall, (1961, James. Clarke & Co., Ltd.). Crookall's book is based on accounts from a variety of mediums.It was a remarkable feat for the people no longer using bodies to create a voice box and attempt to mimic what they sounded like while still in a body on Earth decades or centuries before. The ectoplasmic voice box has not a molecule of the long-dead throat disintegrating in a grave somewhere. And yet consistently, those who knew the deceased said the qualities of the voices matched the people who had died. Physical mediums generally do not work alone. They work with a group of people who are harmonized in intent and purpose who share their own life energy to augment the physical medium’s life energy. It is like a sports team that supports their star player to accomplish a goal. This group of people interested in supporting the medium meet in what are called séances or circles. They sit in a circle to help spirits communicate through the person in the circle who has the greatest gift, or energy, as a medium. Thomas Sutcliffe. (4 October 2000). Arts Private View: Wilde About the Web. The Independent. p. 10. You can judge the veracity of the speakers by simply listening to some of them. Listen to Ted Butler's description of what happened to him in the days after his death, or to Al Pritchatt's account of his death on a battlefield of World War I. You will hear real people speaking about what actually happened to them. Nothing in their messages suggests insincerity or deceit; all of the other recorded voices have the same candid, genuine quality. Let us start from the beginning regarding the development of Leslie Flint’s physical mediumship. Flint was born in 1911 in England. His father left the family when he was a young child and his mother, who preferred partying with male companions, left Leslie to live with her mother. As such, Leslie was raised by his maternal grandmother in conditions of poverty.

Gladys Lorrimore who attended a séance denied that the supposed "spirit voice" from Flint's direct-voice mediumship was her husband as the voice did not sound anything like her husband. Another of Flint's spirit voices was supposed to be from Helena Blavatsky, however the voice had no Russian accent. [12] The skeptics don't take into account the length of the conversations while being utterly natural, real and meaningful in their nature; or the impossible features of some of the recordings such as voices changing over in mid-sentence or some voices changing pitch; some voices going on and on for over 10 minutes without ever stopping for breath; the strange fact that none of the voices ever coughed or cleared their "etheric" throats; and the incredibly weird descriptions of bubbles coming out of a sitter's (Mr. George Woods) hair as described by spirit communicator and former British school boy, Bobby Tracy. Leslie Flint was often heard speaking or coughing independently of the voices floating around him, which totally rules out ventriloquism. How would one be successful at ventriloquism in the dark anyway? a b Bud Carroll (26 February 2002). The Materialistic Wall. Trafford Publishing. pp.216–. ISBN 978-1-55369-121-1 . Retrieved 25 July 2011. At age 13, when unemployment was high in post-war England, Leslie Flint was fortunate to find a regular job as a groundskeeper in a cemetery. His supervisor, Mr. Hobbs, was a very thin, elderly man who was a know-it-all who Leslie reported wagged his “boney finger” to emphasize the wisdom of his statements.

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At no time did sounds come from his mouth. In no tests by qualified, skeptical scientists, was anything found to be fake or deceptive.