Actually I think you may be right JJ- the blood-and-gore don't look right to me, but a forensics person or a surgeon looking at that photo might be able to give a professional opinion about the likelihood of the photo being faked even by looking at the blood flow portrayed in that photo.
Still, 'psychic surgery' doesn't need clamps or swabs, so whoooooo knows?
It's hard to tell from the one photo but something like this crossed my mind: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-shape-up.html
I could be wrong of course, but if you lighten the image up in photoshop, the patient looks slightly odd and seems to have a wig lying across his face!
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OMG! I believe you are entirely correct! That's yer man himself!!Originally Posted by John Jackson
I believe it was at the London Dungeon. There were a bunch of psychic frauds, including Mannion, who went along there a while back.
So what was that about then?
Was it meant to be psychic surgery being performed or a demonstration?
Was it a real patient?
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I've no idea, I just know they were all there. Maybe they were on a group night out?
http://www.thedungeons.com/en/groups...s.html#content
Maybe the image is some sort of self-parody by a knowing conman...
That's what I'm wondering. Something like that.Maybe the image is some sort of self-parody by a knowing conman...
It would be great to have caught him out but there might be another explanation.
If nothing else, though, it confirms that he knows how to do fake psychic surgery.
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Has one of his "patients" even insisted on taking away the tissue allegedly removed from the body? It is supposedly their own property, after all. Then a quick check at a veterinary laboratory and an exposé on TV and in all the newspapers about which particular animal he got it from.
Sorry if I've missed something but is there a date on that photo?
I was about to say I have a photo that is very similar from the 'torture chamber' waxworks in Llandudno. He may have taken this for a giggle, but should be more careful, given his chosen line of 'work'.
I agree - it looks like a dummy to me. If this is Gary's idea of a practical joke it's a singularly humourless one, not that your average New Ager has much of a sense of humour.
And Trinoc, it's one of Gary's selling points that he DOESN'T do the chicken-giblets-and-fake-blood act associated with the Filipino "psychic surgeons". his version takes much less skill and doesn't result in any potentially incriminating evidence.
Last edited by Julia; 5th December 2008 at 02:47 PM.
Wasn't aware that Llandudno had a torture chamber waxworks. It is obviously a much livelier place than I had imagined! Must take a visit some time.
That reminds me of a joke, because of course Gary is a joke (in the rude sense of the word):
Young trainee nurse returns all flustered to nurses station after administering bed bath to good looking sailor.
"That man in bed 24 has got a tattoo on his willy. It says Ludo. I wonder why?"
Older, more experienced nurse replies:
"No it doesn't. It's Llandudno."
Sorry!!!
No, nurse, I said "Prick his boil" ...
(I'll get me coat!)
Well, that was when I worked there as a waitress about 20 years ago. I make no guarantee it survived the years. :)
I did clear this up on the BP forum.
It is a dummy and he did it as a joke.
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