Dr. Edmund Bickerstaff lived during the the 19th century. He was a family doctor who would later work in Green Gates Sanatorium, Hampstead Heath, where he treated people with neurological disorder. At the same time he was employed in the sanatorium, he became an occultist in general. He conducted "witchcraft" experiments and robbed graves. His deeds were not kept in complete secrecy yet he was not reproached even by the police; which suggests that he had friends in high places.
On the Lockwood & Co. TV series, the motion-capture ghost performance for Bickerstaff is provided by Brendan Gibson.
Biography[]
On December 13, 1877, the group, implied to be including other curious people, tested the Bone Glass. The boy who in ghosthood would become known as the Skull suggested to Bickerstaff that the eager Simon Wilberforce would be willing to try it. Wilberforce did and died. Mary Dulac and the rest left quickly after the horror. Bickerstaff and Skull followed Dulac to have her look in the glass too. Dulac shot Bickerstaff in the head. Skull escaped. Dulac and co. took Bickerstaff's body back in his estate to conceal the murder. Dulac, haunted by all she saw during the Bickerstaff affair, would also disappear from society, only to be found many years later and author a book titled The Confessions of Mary Dulac in which she admitted to murdering Bickerstaff.
The affair would be lost to history for many years until the grave of Edmund Bickerstaff was discovered at Kensal Green Cemetery by Sweet Dreams Excavations and Clearance, a company which had been hired by DEPRAC as part of their new policy to try to make safe "Active Remains" before the ghost attached to them manifested and posed a problem to society. Suspecting correctly that they were dealing with a powerful Type Two, Sweet Dreams hired the psychical investigation agency Lockwood & Co. in order to neutralize the Source. Though they succeeded in doing so, the Bone Glass was also discovered with Bickerstaff's remains, kicking off a dangerous affair, as the Bone Glass was a highly desired relic among the darker elements of London society.