Doyle's Albert Hall memorial service

At a memorial service for Arthur Conan Doyle on 13 July 1930, the medium Estelle Roberts told the audience she saw his spirit in a chair.

A memorial service for Arthur Conan Doyle, who had died six days earlier, took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 13 July 1930. Wikipedia says thousands of people attended. A report of the day, reproduced by the Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia, lists who sat on the platform: Lady Conan Doyle, Dennis, Adrian, Mary and Jean Doyle, and the medium Estelle Roberts. A vacant chair on Lady Conan Doyle's right carried a label with Doyle's name. George Craze presided.

During the service Estelle Roberts demonstrated her mediumship to the audience. Wikipedia records that she claimed to see Doyle's spirit in the chair. The Paris Review says she told the audience that Doyle had kept a deathbed promise to return with evidence that contact with the dead can be made, and that nobody else saw him.