Psychic Sally Revelations- Are all psychic’s frauds?
So, it’s out there – syndicated in pretty much every newspaper today.. Psychic Sally Morgan is a fraud.
These stories are obviously based upon some pretty heavy evidence, that being a couple of people in the back row heard some talking in the production box and the expression of opinions from well known skeptics such as Paul Zenon and Derren Brown.
I am not a fan of Psychic Sally, I have never worked before in any kind of paranormal investigation or psychic show with her, we have never spoken and I don’t even follow her on twitter or facebook and yet I still feel compelled to say.. I’m not buying it. I don’t know if Sally Morgan is a fraud, she certainly could be but she may well be a gifted medium – either way I will not base my judgement upon a very loose set of circumstance and opinion. Until The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail provide actual evidence (other than a semi-anonymous radio station caller called Sue) that Sally is defrauding the thousands who attend live or watch her television show I will continue to reserve those judgements.
On to the main point that has really bothered me about the story is how by “proving” Sally is a fraud it is now fair game to call ALL psychics and Mediums fake.
My own experience as a psychic, manipulating audiences using various tricks, led me to become a magician, which feels altogether more honest.
In the course of paranormal investigations with ISPi I have worked with a lot of psychics/mediums, some of which were wonderful and left me truly fascinated- some were truly awful and made me cringe with embarassment. I fear tarring everyone with the same brush just because one may or may not have been getting information via an earpeice is a great disservice to those of whom have a gift, a real gift and one they honestly share with people for the greater good. I of course have my own experiences which are some would now likely consider “fake” but that is for another blog.
Will sign this off with one story I was told, will leave out names and places for reasons which will become obviously apparent as I explain..
I recently visited the home of one of my closest friends, a former hospice/respite worker and now manager of a care home – she had taken on this home a few months before and almost instantly became aware of activity throughout the home that could not be explained, over the course of some weeks the staff explained to her that they were growing increasingly uncomfortable with how intense this activity which manifested in touching, shouting, visions and damage to equipment was becoming. My friend, concerned with the high turnover of staff and the escalating cost of equipment breakage decided to look into having a medium come in and give them more information on what was really happening and after some online equiries found a group who agreed to visit.
The day of the medium visit was an especially turbulent one, all staff were asked to attend in order to try and allieviate fears and concerns and whilst waiting for the mediums to start many reported pinching and grabbing at clothes. The mediums got to work, going floor to floor- (might I add, they had zero information on the activity, It is fully possibly that information of the location could have been gathered online but it had little to do with the actual “haunting”) the one part that really stood out to my friend was during the course of the locations “exorcism” she was told that amongst the dozens of spirits in the building was a young girl who played with other children in a wing of the building, she was at this point standing right beside them. The medium slowly dropped to her knees and softly asked the young girl to show that she was there- and then, with no trickery or props the frill from my friends long blouse was pulled out from her waist and up towards her chest, a childlike tug she explained. At the conclusion the mediums assured they should get no further problems and if they did to get back in contact, they REFUSED any kind of payment even though they had made a near 100 mile round trip in order to be there.
There has not been any reported incidents since and for the first time in many years, the home is running at a profit.
For many, it is not all about money, it’s about the ability to actually help make a difference in the lives (and death) of others.
There are rogue traders in every profession, you just need to check out watchdog to see that, but we don’t honestly believe that due to the actions of an odd few plumbers or builders that the entire profession consists of con-artists so why so quick to do so for paranormal workers?
Tags: Derren Brown, Fraud, Morgan, Paul Zenon, press, Psychic, Sally