A message from the other side…
… DEREK ACORAH’S A BULLSHIT ARTIST
Sorry. I don’t know where that came from- I must have been posessed.
Medium. Spiritualist. Charlatan. Fraud. Thief. Manipulator. Can we see any thread to link these words together?
Just in case you have not worked it out yet, I am a bit of a sceptic about the ability of certain people to communicate with the dead. This scepticism comes from the fact that the claim is absolute shite, and is a method of extracting money from people’s need for comfort following the loss of a loved one.
Anyone who has seen the episode of South Park where Stan uses cold reading to illustrate the fact that John Edward is not actually getting his information from the dearly departed will understand this point. These people are skilled at using sweepingly general, but apparently specific, comments to get the dupe to tell him things about a dead relative.
Having just watched the hilarious “Best of British Mediums”, it is so apparent to anyone who isn’t blinkered by their own desire to hear that their dead mother that these people are spouting possible details like a scattergun of shite! A three-tiered theatre, full of willing believers, and some numpty at the front asking if the name Olive means anything at all…
What are the chances?!
The greatest, or worst, of these parasites on tv today has got to be Derek Acorah. This bleach-blonde scouser (for my own sake, I need to emphasise that is not meant as an insult) came to public attention on Most Haunted, in which he seems to do his best to be Fred in the Scooby-Do cartoons. Guided by Sam, Derek’s Ethiopian spirit guide, Acorah goes round old buildings detecting the ghosts of people who have died centuries ago. All well and good, especially as there’s no real way of giving watertight proof as to whether this ghost is anything other than a steaming mound of turd.
Just to check details, I have been to the official website. I can not do justice to the section on Sam, so here is the link. Read it, and I dare you to keep a straight face: http://www.derekacorah.org/about_sam.htm Interestingly, Sam speaks bloody good english for a 2000 year old African fella. Lucky for us!
If you do go to his website, it is also worth having a look at the gift shop.
Now, through tenuous connections which are not worth explaining, Derek Acorah once gave me a reading. I don’t have the precise quote, but to paraphrase he said “I know you aren’t going to believe me, but you are not enjoying your work. You will travel and work abroad.”
Well, magically, he wasn’t entirely wrong. I didn’t believe a word of it. As for the rest, however, I loved my job, and still do. Unfortunately for Sam & Derek, my work is also so limited in jurisdiction, that I couldn’t even travel to Scotland and work, and I haven’t been to another country for over 10 years. All told, you’ve not really hit the bullseye there skipper!
There are a load of sites dedicated to the inaccuracies in Most Haunted, and i can’t be arsed repeating them. Just 2 points though. If a ghost from the 16th century, for example, were to talk/communicate/play charades to communicate, it would be like reading an original Shakespeare script. The English language has changed greatly in the last 200 years, so if Derek was actually posessed we would need a high school English literature teacher to explain what the chuff he was on about.
It is also worth noting, and I was told this by someone who worked on the production team of the show, that Acorah only ever became “posessed” if Yvette Fielding or one of the other herberts on the programme were getting more camera attention than him.
All told, I find the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters more believable!
Hahahah! The Stay Puft Marshmellow man rules. DON’T CROSS THE STREAMS!