Vanguard (The Spirit Trap)

Mrs Vanguard was a medium who gave seances to the people of London. Her ceremonies were apparently so realistic, that it attracted the watchful eyes of Henry Gordon Jago and Professor Litefoot. Jago believed that the whole ceremony was a theatrical trick, but after thorough investigation, people who had met Vanguard during one of her ceremonies had become 'possessed'.

She was actually communicating with spirits from the 49th Century, who had requested her help in bringing them bodies so that they could reach their final goal: to possess her majesty the Queen herself. It turned out, she was under the control of the spirits and was actually an innocent civilian, pretending that she had the powers to speak to those dear to the people who visited her. (JAL: The Spirit Trap)