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Psychic TV- The Truth
Are UK Psychic TV Shows For Real?
Have you ever watched a TV
show and wondered if the psychic and paranormal activity is real,
camera tricks or just a hoax for entertainment value only? (I'm not talking about the tacky live phone in channels that have sprung up)
Many
of us have. While obvious dram's are just that, some shows claim to be
streaming 'real genuine paranormal ability'. How do we know if this is
true?
Of course I cannot say with any more accuracy than anyone
else that all of them are genuine, but having been invited to be behind
the scenes on a few I can give you some idea of what I have witnessed
personally.
I witnessed some 8 shows being made from behind the
scenes for UK TV. What impressed me about the show was the length that
they went to, to ensure no trickery was possible. They decided to test
many popular psychics (those whom they could persuade to appear, in a
competition like format. Those with claimed psychic abilities were
assembled and contended against each other in an attempt to prove they
were genuine and authentic gifted with paranormal gifts such as E.S.P.
The TV show gathered a mix of psychics, astrologers, clairvoyants, aura
and tarot readers together. Who by various methods including
psychometry, Tarot cards, astrology data, were given one piece of
relevant data to enable them to see how much detail they could provide
by paranormal means alone on a mystery guest.
I was impressed by
the effort that the crew put in to ensure it was a valid test. The
psychics were picked up in the early hours of the morning before
filming and taken to the very basement of a studio, with no TV, no
newspapers, mobile phones or Internet. They were each assigned an
unknown crew members to accompany them the entire time they were at the
studio with a security guard over seeing the room in which they were
kept. They were not even able to go to the bathroom alone!
Additionally, several well known and respected members of the British
press were around the entire time to ensure and attest to 'fair play'
and they had access all areas to make double sure no camera tricks or
crew were enabling any cheating.
The psychics were given one
appropriate piece on info or contact in one form or another. The
astrologers were merely given the 'mystery guests' date of birth, the
tarot readers were placed in a room with the guest cloaked head to foot
in robes with their faces covered and able to ask the 'guest' to cut
the Tarot cards. The psychics versed in psychometry (the ability to
hold an object once owned or held by the guest and pick up information
on a psychic level from the object, often metal) were simply placed in
a room with a researcher given a key, watch, or in one case simply a
shoelace and had 30 minutes to tell the researcher and camera exactly
what information they could pick up about the mystery guest. Then the
show was made right away and all the info given.
Now as you might
expect (either because they were simply not genuine, very good or
extremely nervous many psychics performed poorly. However a handful did
not. One psychic who used psychometry produced fact after fact about
the mystery guest that was proven and confirmed by the person
themselves to be totally accurate. The psychic after holding an object
even spoke the persons first name and a snippet of information only
known by the guest themselves that they swore they had never revealed
to another living soul!
Next time you see a TV show about psychics, don't assume that it's staged without finding out how it was made.