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The Woods/Greene collection of direct voice recordings

Direct voice medium Leslie Flint

Leslie Flint was born in 1911 in a Salvation Army home in the London district Hackney. When seven years old he discovers that he is different from the other boys. He sees spirits of the deceased. But he learns to his dismay that his gift is little appreciated. When he is seventeen years old he attends a seance. He receives remarkable messages. A medium in Munich relays a message to him after having received his address from the spirit.
Then at a seance he falls into trance himself and passes on evidential messages to those present. He is not keen at his age to develop his gift and enters a career as a teacher of ballroom dancing. He enjoys his profession and forgets about spiritualism.
Then he meets again a former sitter of his home-circle, Edith Mundin. She persuades him to become a medium at her private circle. His mediumship develops rapidly. Their association ends in marriage.

Voices in the dark

Leslie hears, when going to the cinema, voices whisper in the dark. He is not the only one, people around him hiss for silence. When this goes on he is forced to leave the cinema. What has manifested are the first manifestations of the direct voice phenomenon. He develops the gift of physical mediumship and becomes a well-seen medium at other spiritualistic circles. In 1935 he gives the first public demonstration. This is followed by others in halls holding up to 2000 people.

The most tested medium

Leslie Flint has always fully cooperated with researchers who wanted to test him. Psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, ventriloquists, electronic experts and even investigators posing as sitters, have all had their go at him. His mouth has been sealed with tape and possible vibrations in his vocal organs have been tested by means of a throat microphone.
When he was observed through an infra-red viewer, what looked like a ball of mist was seen over his shoulder. This is supposed to be ectoplasm, an ethereal substance coming from both the medium and the sitters, which has a similar function as the human voice-box. The communicators explain that they concentrate their thoughts and attempt to speak as they once did on earth. Their thoughts are so translated in audible vibrations.

Flint is not the only medium with such gift, but he is certainly the last one to have demonstrated it with such clarity for almost half a century.
Leslie is said to be assisted by a team of spirits "on the other side". Mickey, his main guide, was a newspaper boy who tells of himself that he was run over by a truck when he was eleven years old. He has a talent of putting sitters at ease with his cheerful boyish voice. At the end of a sitting he always pops up to say good-bye.

In the many years of his mediumship Flint has welcomed thousands of visitors at his house at Westbourne Terrace, London. They have listened in amazement to a multitude of voices. All went away with the unmistakable conviction to have conversed with the spirit of a relative or friend, who is living in a better world, that is very real to them. None of sitters is known to have caught Leslie in any fraudulent act during all these years.
Alas, all that is sublime has to come to an end. Leslie has joined his friends in the other world in April 1994. His funeral was attended by many of his former sitters and friends. The medium's sollicitor, Aubrey Rose, paid tribute to him:
For over fifty years he sat in the darkness of his room bringing light through his mediumship, knowledge to the eager, comfort to the distressed, joy and laughter to his friends.

The Woods/Greene collection of direct voice communications

This site is dedicated to the memory of George Woods and Betty Greene who painstakingly recorded direct voices on their taperecorder and made it their lifetime work to copy them for everyone who asked for it without ulterior financial motives.

All the communications would have been of personal interest only, were it not that they have been recorded, first on wire or paper tapes, later on better quality tapes. Sidney George Woods sat with Leslie Flint from 1946 onwards. In 1953 he was joined by Mrs. Betty Greene who gave him invaluable assistance.
In 1956, the voice of Ellen Terry, a famous actress of the British stage, who died in 1928, came through and said to them:
You are going to have some remarkable communications. And I suggest you keep these contacts going regularly to build up the power, and to make possible this link which has been deliberately arranged for your tapes. The tapes you record give us the opportunity to reach many people in all parts of the world.... We shall bring various souls from various spheres to give talks and lectures. We need willing helpers on your side.

This marked the beginning of their self-sacrificing work which continued for seventeen years until Mrs. Greene's death in 1975. George Woods (1890) was to keep the work of distributing cassettes going in spite of his age for ten years more until he joined her.

In Great Britain these recordings were once well-known. Thirteen radio- and television programms were devoted to them. Now that the main protagonists have left us the phenomenon and the remarkable recordings thereof are in danger of being forgotten.


On this site I propose to give excerpts of the communications and further information in the coming months. So I invite you to return to it. Meanwhile, if you have a sound-card and the latest browser version, switch on your audio-player and, after allowing some time for loading the sound-files, listen to an excerpt of the voice-communication of Ellen Terry (photo) delivered on 27th January 1964:
"Here is complete unity and harmony and love. Here is truly brotherhood. Here is the wisdom of all time expressed in all manner of ways, by all manner of peoples, irrespective of any earthly ideas of class, or creed, or colour."


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Opening date this page: 12 August 1996. Update 1 September 1996.