This year was clearly to be a major re-launch or big push to try and promote this failed and flawed psychic who is so desperate to become popular and be a “psychic star”. I say this because his website this year advertised 103 shows at venues across the UK (also includes 2 in Ireland).
These commenced from 2nd February and went through till 19th November. Ticket prices ranged from £10-20 depending on location. These included shows where he was supposed to work on his own and others where he was to work with others.
This was in very sharp contrast to the 25 that had been advertised the previous year (although he cancelled 3 so actually did 22).
Well where you do you start? There is so much which went wrong.
By Lester:
Some of you may remember Philip Holden as the psychic who got exposed on BBC3 show Bullshit Detectives.
Well not only does Philip break the law with his psychic exploits, he has now taken that next step by sexually assaulting a poor man suffering from a form of Autism.
This Is London News reported:
"A Tooting medium at a spiritualist church who sexually assaulted an autistic follower was sentenced to 12 months behind bars.
He was sent to Wandsworth Prison on Friday and ordered to sign the sex offender’s register for the next ten years at Kingston Crown Court."
PRESS RELEASE
Children In Need Wales have ordered organisers of a so called 'Pudsey's Feel Good Day' event to remove all official Children In Need branding from their publicity material, and have threatened legal action if they do not comply.
The event, due to take place at The Chepstow Senior Citizen Centre, Place de Cormeilles, has been advertised as involving a variety of so called 'therapists', 'clairvoyants' and 'healers'.
In particular the name of Gary Mannion stands out.
Official Press Release from BadPsychics.com, for immediate distribution
Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
Think of Keith Barry as a hacker of the human brain -- writing routines that exploit its bugs and loopholes, and offering a revealing look at the software between our ears.
As Arthur C. Clarke told us, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." So think of Keith Barry as a technologist, an elite software engineer of the human brain. Witty and direct, he celebrates human cleverness even while he's hacking it.
Barry's repertoire ranges from outrageous stunts driving a car at full speed blindfolded to mind control, including hypnosis and mindreading.
In yet another BadPsychics exclusive, we have got an official response from the Acorah camp (or should that be Camp Acorah?) regarding Tony Stockwells vicious attack on Derek Acorahs credibility.
As you may know Tony Stockwell recently became a pot and decided to call the kettle black, or in English he attacked Derek for not being the real deal.
I decided to approach Derek and Gwen and see what they had to say, I half expected them to simply give me the old "No comment" but instead what I got was much much more interesting.
By Jon Donni
Comedian George Carlin, a cult figure on the comedy circuit famed for his routines about religion, drugs and the demise of humanity, may have died earier this year, but his opinions on life and death live on.
George had an amazing knack of delivering his thoughts in truly entertaining fashion.
Here is one of his later appearances where he talks about The Bible And American Rights.
Enjoy
On Fridays episode of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, they asked the question.
"Most people believe in the paranormal True or False?"
What follows is a great bit of banter between the panelists, where they basically rip the shit out of the paranormal, and our old friend Derek Acorah even gets a mention. I wonder if Jason Manford is a fan of BadPsychics, as he even mentions "Mary Loves Dick"
Jason give me a shout if you are!
Anyway the clip starts off with a crazy exorcism which reminds me of some headbangers I used to mix with about 10 years ago.
Enjoy
By Jon Donni
As a representative of the Unknown Phenomena Investigation Association, and a serious student of paranormal phenomena in all its forms, I am disgusted at the debacle that was last weeks ‘ Village of the Damned ‘ edition of Most Haunted.
I have not viewed this programme for a number of years, due to the highly dubious content of the show, so my opinion maybe slightly biased. This aside, due to the locallity of the programme, and my associations with local venues, I felt I should watch given the knowledge of the appalling standards set by Most Haunted.
A week of stupidity greeted my eyes, refraining from hurling my hand control at the TV, but still I watched agape.
Letter Sent to a local Newspaper by Dave Sadler, Co-ordinator of the UPIA
People always like to defend Yvette and say how she has never faked anything on Most Haunted.
I beg to differ, so here are a few videos of Yvette doing things which look suspicious at the least and at the most demonstrate blatant fakery, make your own mind up.
**UPDATE** 6th November 2008
Added new clip of Yvette from Halloween MHL 2007
By Jon Donni
