A Fortean who heard voices.
Raymond Cass was born 1921 in Yorkshire, England, and educated at Riley High School. This information comes from his official biography at the Raymond Crass Foundation. I have no reason to doubt this information, but also have not found independent corroboration. All the tidbits about Cass on the internet ultimately seem to come from this source. According to this same source, Cass was interested in paranormal phenomena from an early age—the onus coming from the horrid destruction wrought by the Great War. When he was seven, a voice called out his name through a turned-off radio, which prompted him to do further research, supposedly finding that there was a history of mediumship in his family and a fortune-teller who foretold his developing his own mediumistic powers. He was involved with the Hull Psychic Society, which seems to have been a local spiritualistic group.
Raymond Cass was born 1921 in Yorkshire, England, and educated at Riley High School. This information comes from his official biography at the Raymond Crass Foundation. I have no reason to doubt this information, but also have not found independent corroboration. All the tidbits about Cass on the internet ultimately seem to come from this source. According to this same source, Cass was interested in paranormal phenomena from an early age—the onus coming from the horrid destruction wrought by the Great War. When he was seven, a voice called out his name through a turned-off radio, which prompted him to do further research, supposedly finding that there was a history of mediumship in his family and a fortune-teller who foretold his developing his own mediumistic powers. He was involved with the Hull Psychic Society, which seems to have been a local spiritualistic group.