Colin Evans (medium)

1930s) was an early 20th-century Welsh spiritualist medium who claimed to have the ability to levitate but was discovered to be a fraud.

[1] In a flash-illuminated picture taken at a séance in Wortley Hall, Finsbury Park in 1937 Evans can be seen "levitating" in mid-air.

Evans was later discovered to be a fraud, as a cord leading from a device in his hand indicated that he had triggered the flash-photograph himself and that all he had done was jump from his chair into the air and pretend he had levitated.

[3] Magicians have pointed out that Evans's blurred feet in the photographs are proof that he simply jumped high into the air.

[4] During another séance held at North Gate Mansions, Regent's Park in 1938, Evans performed the same trick.