Staged Healings Identified By Investigative Reporters

In addition to the death of Carol Ruth Strubler, a 9-year-old girl Branham claimed to have healed in his video "Deep Calleth to the Deep", investigative reporters identified staged healings in the Branham campaigns.  The daughter of Mrs. Ethel Gledhill, for example, was "healed" twice.  This investigative report verifies the testimony of Alfred Pohl, a leader in the Branham Campaigns in Canada.  Pohl described his near loss of faith after several of the people William Branham "healed" were dying or remained sick.

In 1947, the Vancouver Sun caught the William Branham campaigns staging healings during Branham's famed Canada tour that sparked the Latter Rain Revival and Voice of Healing Revival.  Investigative journalists followed one of the people "healed" in the meetings to interview the family and learned that the girl pronounced "healed" in the prayer line had already been "healed" in previous meetings.  Reporters also learned that her mother was placed on a stretcher for the stage effect, but "was not really a stretcher case".[1] For that particular series of meetings, the staged healing was the "only miracle". 

Then the young girl got up from her stretcher and walked from the room.  I followed her and her mother, and found out this is the second time she has been "cured" by Branham.  Several weeks ago, her mother told me, she went to Calgary where Mr. Branham "drove out the evil spirit" and showed signs of improving, but "the spirit" came back.  Wednesday night she went again to be cured.  Her mother, Mrs. Ethel Gledhill, 4097 Victoria Drive, said her daughter Helen is suffering pernicious anemia following a bout with pneumonia, and was really not a stretcher case, but is confined to her home, unable to work.
MacFarlane, Charles.  1947, Nov 6.  Girl 'Cured' Second Time By Healer, Only 'Miracle' Here.  Vancouver Sun.