Morris Lamar Keene (10 August 1936 – 11 June 1996),[1] was a spirit medium in Tampa, Florida and at Camp Chesterfield Indiana, where he was known as the "Prince of the Spiritualists".
Keene was the subject of a six-episode series, Fake Psychic, on BBC Radio 4 in February 2022.
[4] In 1976, Keene co-authored The Psychic Mafia, "as told to" Allen Spraggett, a well-known Canadian writer on paranormal topics.
The writer William V. Rauscher, himself a believer in psychic powers,[5] contributed a foreword and a bibliography and wrote that he had conducted 75 hours of interviews with Keene, during which Keene admitted that all of his psychic activities were done by fraudulent means.
There were telephone calls threatening his life and one night, while Keene was walking across his front lawn in Tampa, an unseen shooter fired at him and missed.