As she could not find a job for them, she provided them with a position in the Theosophical Society, where they did various chores, such as cooking and gardening.
Theosophists have said that Alexis' constructions were obviously newly built, and the secret doors could not be opened or closed silently or without strong effort.
After the Coulombs were dismissed, they went to their Christian missionary friends of the Free Church of Scotland, and gave them letters that were allegedly written by Blavatsky to Emma.
The chaplain George Patterson published extracts from these letters in the Madras Christian College Magazine.
In 1986 and 1997, Vernon Harrison of the Society for Psychical Research published a study on the Hodgson Report.