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Joseph Francis Rinn (1868-1952) was an American magician and skeptic of paranormal phenomena. Rinn grew up in New York City. He was a friend of Harry Houdini and exposed many fraud mediums throughout his career.[1] He was a former one year member of the American Society for Psychical Research and a lifelong inquirer into psychic matters.[2] He was a member of the Society of American Magicians. His book Searchlight on Psychical Research (1954) was described in a review as the "death knell of spiritualism" as it exposed the fraud and tricks involved in spiritualist activities.[3] Rinn would offer huge amounts of money, up to $10,000 to anyone who could demonstrate a psychic event, however as nobody ever did, the money went unclaimed.[4] He was friends with another debunker of spiritualism the magician John Mulholland.[5] Rinn's work in debunking psychic phenomena has been praised by psychologists in the field of anomalistic psychology.[6] |
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