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Postby IAIN » May 15th, '10, 22:48

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Postby Wishmaster » May 15th, '10, 23:30

IAIN wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKh9Yh-GsU


Very impressive. Richard Osterlind does something similar with coins taped to his eyelids beneath the blindfold. His performance was more convincing. :D

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Postby Randy » May 16th, '10, 00:01

There was an thing on youtube or 60 min that pretty much exposed John Edwards. It had him in a room with about 5-6 people and he was doing his usual thing. The only problem is that he was completely wrong the entire time and only got ONE thing right. The first letter of the Executive producers wife's name. :lol:

It was pretty funny seeing him say things about " A car.." and the woman he was reading going "Uh no.." and rather than try to move on to something else. He would keep trying to tell her SHE was wrong. I found it ironic how he "seems" to get everything right when he has a studio audience of about 50 people, and yet when the numbers are down 5.. He falls on his face.

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Postby moonbeam » May 16th, '10, 14:14

When it comes to pyschics, mediums and contacting the dead - I've gotta admit I'm pretty much a skeptic, but my missus' sister had a reading a while ago which I consider to be quite spooky.

When someone tells you that they are in contact with someone on the other side and they give you information about past events, or personal information - it's explainable in the sense that the info could have been obtained beforehand, or just plain cold-reading, etc; but when they tell you something that is going to happen and it happens - that's a bit more impressive ..... let me explain:

My missus' sister, Emma, went for a reading and the medium claimed she was in contact with her father.
She told her that she could feel pain around the stomach - her father died in hospital due to complications after an operation on his stomach ..... not a bad hit, but not overly impressive.
She then told her that he understood why she wasn't there at the time of his death - all the rest of the family were there - Emma was in Florida at the time ...... again, not a bad hit but nothing out of the ordinary.
She then said that her dad knew about Monday and that he'd be there for her. It was her Auntie's funeral on Monday ...... again, not bad.
He then told her that he would turn the lights out on Monday so that she knew he was there. The lights then went dim and the medium said something like, "no, not now - wait til Monday" ...... yea so the lights were rigged.

Well, the day of the funeral came and the fuses blew in the fuse box in Emma's house - all the lights in the house went out. All the plug sockets, etc were unaffected - just the lights blew.

Well, I suppose she could have hired a sneaky sparky to rig the lights, but this is one mighty coincidence. I'm not a believer but this was one helluva hit .................

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Postby Robbie » May 17th, '10, 13:31

Col had a spooky meeting with a psychic in China when he was working there several decades ago. The psychic was a relative of one of his colleagues, who took him to meet her.

She started off by taking his hands and then dropping them in shock, saying, "You died!" When she took them again, she quickly amended this to "you died twice". Which was completely true, he had been clinically dead twice after his severe injuries in Vietnam. It's possible she'd heard something about his Vietnam adventures from the relative, although being pronounced clinically dead doesn't generally enter into his stories.

She then brought up several extremely personal things that were definitely unknown to anyone in China, e.g. that he had been born with a dead twin brother.

She finished by declaring he would die a rich man. When he said he was far more interested in knowing whether he would live a rich man, she couldn't answer that.

What's particularly interesting is that he offered to pay her and she refused to take anything.

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Postby Tomo » May 17th, '10, 13:40

It's not all fun and games. The individuals on this page are despicable: http://www.thinkjessica.com/?cat=20

It's not a "sceptic" web site. It's a campaign run by Trading Standards.

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Postby themagicwand » May 17th, '10, 14:08

Tomo wrote:It's not all fun and games. The individuals on this page are despicable: http://www.thinkjessica.com/?cat=20

It's not a "sceptic" web site. It's a campaign run by Trading Standards.

I used to get very similar letters from an evangelical "Christian" minister from the USA. At one point I was getting about 5 a week. I used to laugh at them but my wife got quite spooked. Thankfully they stopped a while back now.

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Postby Tomo » May 17th, '10, 14:40

themagicwand wrote:I used to get very similar letters from an evangelical "Christian" minister from the USA. At one point I was getting about 5 a week. I used to laugh at them but my wife got quite spooked. Thankfully they stopped a while back now.

When I first moved away from home over 20 years ago, I was plagued with chain letters. I never once did anything more than laugh and rip them up.

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Postby themagicwand » May 17th, '10, 14:43

To be honest it was my own fault. It was one of those Christian TV channels on Sky. They were offering "free" holy water blessed by this certain minister. Always in the market for anything that's a) weird and b) free, I applied for my very own sachet of holy water. The holy water arrived, and then the letters followed soon after.

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Postby Tomo » May 17th, '10, 14:44

themagicwand wrote:To be honest it was my own fault. It was one of those Christian TV channels on Sky. They were offering "free" holy water blessed by this certain minister. Always in the market for anything that's a) weird and b) free, I applied for my very own sachet of holy water. The holy water arrived, and then the letters followed soon after.

Now there's a marketing scam, I mean coincidence! :D

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Postby Mandrake » May 17th, '10, 15:10

The Holy Water was probably as kosher as Del Boy's Peckham Spring water!

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Postby themagicwand » May 17th, '10, 15:37

Apparently you drank it and then untold riches would be yours. I declined to drink it on the grounds that I had no idea where it had come from. Also the idea of drinking holy water seemed just wrong.

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Postby themagicwand » May 17th, '10, 17:05

moonbeam wrote:Well, the day of the funeral came and the fuses blew in the fuse box in Emma's house - all the lights in the house went out. All the plug sockets, etc were unaffected - just the lights blew.

I would hazard a guess that this was just one of the lines that the medium used a lot. If she had the lights in her office rigged, then obviously it was a routine she got some mileage out of. It just happened to hit hard this time around. Other times it wouldn't hit at all, and the sitter would just forget about it. Other times perhaps a bulb would blow or a torch wouldn't work, and the sitter would be impressed.

The rigged lights is the giveaway.

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Postby Beardy » May 17th, '10, 18:29

themagicwand wrote:The rigged lights is the giveaway.


Funny that ;)

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Postby themagicwand » May 17th, '10, 18:31

Beardy wrote:
Funny that ;)

Yes, but our lights weren't rigged! Honestly! You will never believe us, but honestly, the lights must have been buggered in some way, but it wasn't by us!

I predict that your lights will black out tonight to prove that to you. When that happens, will you believe me? :D

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