This is an excerpt from Voices Everywhere: The Mysterious Doris Stokes Effect by Linda Dearsley. Doris turned out to live on the other side of town, behind Fulham Broadway Station in a big complex built just after World War I for disabled ex-servicemen. Originally intended for veterans returning from the…
Doris Stokes (nee Sutton) was a professional medium and British spiritualist who was born in January 1920 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Following her marriage to husband John, she became known as Doris Fisher-Stokes; her professional name was shortened to Doris Stokes by her book publisher (so that it would fit…