Augustin Lesage, an illiterate French coal miner who claimed he was guided in making extremely complex paintings by spirits, painting for the International Metapsychic Institute, a group that skeptically studies spiritualist phenomena, in 1927. [1000x762]

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Augustin Lesage, an illiterate French coal miner who claimed he was gu…

Augustin Lesage, an illiterate French coal miner who claimed he was guided in making extremely complex paintings by spirits, painting for the International Metapsychic Institute, a group that skeptically studies spiritualist phenomena, in 1927. [1000x762]

Upon seeing him paint, the Institute actually believed him.

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