Maybe they did? Have another Bell's Derek...hic...
Derek Acorah - Didn't see this coming!
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Maybe they did? Have another Bell's Derek...hic...
As you're all knowing, perhaps you should make it your personal quest to prove to everyone that such things are fake!
Personally, I realise that there's a lot of fakes out there, but I'm also not stupid enough to completely dismiss the fact that there could be something. Anyone who says that such things are 100% real or 100% are the silly ones.
Personally I am quite happy to completely dismiss anything that has never been proven. No medium has EVER been proven in any scientific test, and many, Derek included, have been proven to be frauds.
I have nothing against mediums, as long as they are open about it all being fake and just for entertainment. Like Derron Brown, He freaks you out a bit then explains how.
I like most haunted, or at least used to. I like ghost stories, I like history and I like being creeped out. I don't like them pretending it is real.
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Oh come on, the guy is full of ****. There are hundreds of examples of well known "psychics" or mediums, or whatever label you give them, getting it completely wrong, such as the lady who drank herself to death in America, at least in part because a psychic told her that her daughter was dead:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/psychic-sylvia-brown-amanda-berry_n_3238316.html
Stupid bitch.
Hahah!
I can see a way how "Psychic" phenomena might work. (And I do mean in a hard physics way) Personally, while most Psychics are undoubtedly charlatans, I wouldn't dismiss the possibility out of hand.
You are correct, a medium can't predict the future.
I'm on the other hand can.
(by using statistical modelling - the key difference being my method actually works)
How would the spirits know the future?
Because magic.
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Exactly.
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Apparently...
Yvette Fielding told Metro reporter, James Ellis that he was asked to leave after Ciarán O'Keeffe, a parapsychologist for the show, fed him misinformation to which he later responded during an investigation, presenting himself as being possessed by the spirit of a fictional character, which led Fielding and the programme makers to question Acorah's credibility. Acorah said he was possessed by the spirit of a man called Kreed Kafer.
In a later interview Ciarán O'Keeffe said that the character was a fabrication he invented, and an anagram of "Derek faker". O'Keeffe had fed this name to Acorah before the programme, and he had repeated it during filming. In a separate interview, the show's presenter and executive producer Yvette Fielding said:
"Unbeknown to us, Ciaran O’Keeffe had suspicions about Derek and decided to plant some information to see if it would be repeated. He left a piece of paper around with the name "Kreed Kafer" on it and said, within earshot of Derek, that he was a nasty South African jailor. When we started filming, Derek decided to get possessed by this fake person. The name is actually an anagram of Derek Faker. We tell people everything is real, then it turns out he was a fake, so he had to go ... I was more angry than anything. I was upset that someone we considered to be close could do that."
And they cant talk to the Dead, imho all "mediums" should be charged with fraud
There's nothing wrong with it if it gives people peace at mind.
Just like the dodgy tradesman who convinces an old dear to spend £1000 on a new boiler she doesn't need... If he convinces her she needs it and she feels happier as a result, what's the problem?
Just like the dodgy tradesman who convinces an old dear to spend £1000 on a new boiler she doesn't need... If he convinces her she needs it and she feels happier as a result, what's the problem?
I find myself thinking of a particular South Park episode:
http://youtu.be/bptjghTNUkE
http://youtu.be/jsWgNOAByFk
http://youtu.be/bptjghTNUkE
http://youtu.be/jsWgNOAByFk
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This stupid wench at work a few years ago went to see a palm reader. Came into work saying this woman was amazing and she was going to meet the man of her dreams in a few weeks.
She did meet somebody on a night out, married him within a few months, had a kid within a year. Separated just after having the kid, now divorced all within a few years.
Rather than think, she assumed the palm reader was right and could read the future. The idiot deserved it but these con artists should be ashamed of themselves!
She did meet somebody on a night out, married him within a few months, had a kid within a year. Separated just after having the kid, now divorced all within a few years.
Rather than think, she assumed the palm reader was right and could read the future. The idiot deserved it but these con artists should be ashamed of themselves!
As you're all knowing, perhaps you should make it your personal quest to prove to everyone that such things are fake!
Personally, I realise that there's a lot of fakes out there, but I'm also not stupid enough to completely dismiss the fact that there could be something. Anyone who says that such things are 100% real or 100% are the silly ones.
Wrong, such garbage can be tested to see if it is true or false and has been scrutinized methodically on countless occasions and been shown to be nothing more theoratiricals by con artists.
They are fake, there is 100% proof of that for all well tested examples.
