THEY were ‘hearing voices’ but not the ones they had been hoping for.
Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre last night denied allegations that a spiritual medium was being fed lines while on stage on Sunday night.
If you’ve read my blog before, you know that I am sceptical about those who claim to communicate with the dearly departed.
With so many ‘mediums’ having been apparently exposed in the past, it was a matter of time before another was also the subject of claims of fraudulent abilities.
Article below is content from the Irish newspaper. The Independent.
Audio footage from RTE
By Ken Sweeney and Kevin Keane
Tuesday September 13 2011
THEY were ‘hearing voices’ but not the ones they had been hoping for.
Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre last night denied allegations that a spiritual medium was being fed lines while on stage on Sunday night.
More than 2,000 people watched TV star Sally Morgan, alias ‘Psychic Sally’, seeming to make contact with the spiritual world at the sell-out performance.
However, callers to RTE’s ‘Liveline’ yesterday allege a voice at the back of the auditorium was relaying information to the 58-year-old while she was on stage.
“The first half of the show went really well but when the second half started we could clearly hear a man’s voice coming from the window behind us,” caller ‘Sue’ told ‘Liveline’ yesterday.
“Everything he said, the psychic would say 10 seconds later. It was as if she was having the information relayed to her.”
The audience member said a number of people in her row heard the man speaking, but when an usher heard him, the window closed and the voice disappeared.
Stephen Faloon, the theatre’s general manager, last night denied anything underhand was going on and said the voice heard by the audience belonged to two ‘follow-spot operators’ working for the theatre, and not Ms Morgan.
“These two guys, Stuart McKeown and Mick Skelly, are professional light technicians who were working for us, and unfortunately because a window had been left open, were heard talking.
Distraction
“But as soon an usherette heard them talking, and informed her supervisor, the window closed and the talking stopped.
“It was a slight distraction but that was the chain of events on Sunday night.”
The theatre stressed it would “never be a part of any scam”, or attempt to “mislead” its audience.
A spokesman for Sally Morgan Enterprises yesterday refuted the suggestion that the medium was being fed information during the Dublin show.
“There are absolutely no plants on Sally’s show. This is her gift and she has been sharing it for years with audiences and doesn’t need to do that,” said the spokesman.
The theatre said it had received “no complaints”.
“The only complains were about how long the queue was to meet Sally after the show. We were expecting 300 people and we got 700, which is a record here,” added Mr Faloon.
Ms Morgan describes herself as ‘Britain’s Best Loved Psychic’ and has said that her “psychic life” began before she could even walk.
“I heard voices when I was only nine months old. I saw my first spirit or ghost when I was just four,” she says on her website.
From a psychic practice that she first ran from home, the mother of three has gone on to star in television programmes for ITV and Sky.
She has penned two bestselling books on her life and work.
A third book on death has just been published.
In 2008 it was claimed that the Londoner had a waiting list of 72,000 people for her time.
Sally Morgan returns to the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin on March 27 and 28 next year.
- Ken Sweeney and Kevin Keane
Irish Independent
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Attendees of the show called into Irish station RTE with their versions of events.
Take a listen.
You decide.
Sue, Dorrie, Olive and Anna called in about going to see psychic Sally Morgan last night in the Grand Canal Theatre
RTE podcast
I’m guessing its a matter of time that investigations into these allegations step up, Sally will either demonstrate credible evidence of her ability. Confess, or eventually in this whirlwind of bad publicity and ruined reputation… she’ll popoff !
Until next time…
Sean Boon
Original Independent article
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/no-happy-medium-as-psychic-sally-sidekick-prompts-outrage-2874250.html
Tags: exposed, fake, fraud, medium, Psychic, sally morgan, skeptic
My take in brief: Not a psychic, but probably not being fed information.
My take in more detail: http://middleagedboy.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/why-i-dont-think-sally-morgan-hears-voices/