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Getting in touch with the other side from Swindon's Wyvern
12:13pm Thursday 12th July 2012 in News
Getting in touch with the other side
controversial TV psychic Derek Acorah comes to Swindon next week, for a show at the Wyvern.
The presenter, who describes himself as a ‘spirit medium’, has been seen on television’s Most Haunted and, more recently, on Derek Acorah’s Ghost Towns.
Acorah says his first supernatural experience came as a child when the spirit of his late grandfather visited him. When he told his grandmother she was not surprised, as she also considered herself to be a medium.
Acorah’s early career was playing football with teams such as Liverpool FC, Stockport, Wrexham and Glen Toran before leaving the UK to join an Australian team.
When his football career ended he returned to England to find a niche in life but was never settled. Eventually, he decided to make a living from his psychic abilities.
Tickets for Acorah’s show, which starts at 7.30pm, are £18 from www.wyverntheatre.co.uk.
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Highworth Lad
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12:41pm Thu 12 Jul 12
SockPuppet wrote:I thought so too !! - read on -
Wasn't he exposed as the obvious fraud he is many years ago? Surprised people still pay money to see him.....
TV Medium Derek Acorah, famous for his appearances on UK TV show “Most Haunted“ exposed himself as a fraud whilst filming at Bodmin Gaol. He overheard members of the crew talking about an inmate called “Kreed Kafer“, and, minutes later, became possessed by the ghost. However, “Kreed Kafer“ never existed and his name is an anagram of - "Derek Faker"
During the first episode of series 6 of Most Haunted, at Bodmin gaol, they finally broadcast something I had been waiting for, for months.
If you hadn't already realised, Derek Acorah had fallen for one of the funniest stitch ups ever.
When they were filming the episode, a couple of people decided to have a bit of fun and they created a character, a South African man called Kreed Kafer.
They deliberately talked about this fictitious character in earshot of Derek, hoping that he would use it during filming.
At the most they hoped he may say the name while "talking" with Sam, or round a Ouija board, but what they got was so much better, Derek actually became possessed by Kreed Kafer!
Of course there was no record of such a name, and LivingTV proudly put it on a caption that there was no records of such a person. They also spelt it Creed Kaifer, but as there was no records of this person, how would they know how it was spelt? So if you spell it phonetically as Derek pronouced it you get Kreed Kafer which was what was originally intended. Anyway at this point it was too late. As soon as they aired that clip, hundreds of people but the parts together and spotted something that just didn't fit
Kreed Kafer was the name spoken by Derek when they asked who had possessed him. But Kreed Kafer is an anagram of Derek Faker.
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Davey Gravey
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12:48pm Thu 12 Jul 12
PJC
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12:59pm Thu 12 Jul 12
Tonyblairisthedevil
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1:56pm Thu 12 Jul 12
"Mary Loves Dick" "Mary Loves Dick" in that fake possessed voice..
I dont know who Mary was but cleary she loved Dick
There used to be a website called fakephysics or something like that.. This man should be doing comedy
PaulD
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1:58pm Thu 12 Jul 12
beaulieu
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2:19pm Thu 12 Jul 12
KM1981
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3:07pm Thu 12 Jul 12
that's why I love Derren Brown so much as he exposes these frauds and even gives you the specific techniques they use e.g cold reading
Davey Gravey
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3:37pm Thu 12 Jul 12
OESMUM
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4:08pm Thu 12 Jul 12
SockPuppet
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4:27pm Thu 12 Jul 12
SockPuppet says...
12:17pm Thu 12 Jul 12
Surprised people still pay money to see him.....