Charles Bailey (1870–1947) was an Australian apport medium who was exposed as a fraud.

He claimed with the help of his spirit guide "Abdul" that he could apport live items such as fish, crabs, turtles, coins, stones and antiques in the séance room.

[3] According to Joseph McCabe before the séance he had hidden the birds in the "unpleasant end of his alimentary canal".

The psychologist John Edgar Coover held strong doubts about Bailey and noted he been exposed as a fraud several times, most notably by the Society for Psychical Research.

Bailey was further exposed at a séance in 1914 in Sydney when a sitter pulled the drapery off a materialized "spirit".