When an inexperienced person sees an unusual phenomenon, he is usually unable to explain how this is possible. Here we admired, reading S. Holmes, how he could cut through the completely incomprehensible, and after “elementary, Watson”, all that remained was to smile. This is what most often happens with the «supernatural».
The sorcerer plunges into boiling water with pleasure (frames on television), but in the vat there is not water, but floating carbon dioxide, and the vat itself has a double bottom and, like a thermos, is not warmed up by a fire.
Boiling lead is poured into the hands or hot coals are taken. But the specialist has long been known. the composition with which the palms are previously rubbed (the crushed marshmallow root is mixed with egg white and the palms are smeared, which are then sprinkled with alum).
Healing is a total joke. Once Mesmer forgot his magnets and had to be treated with just a piece of wood. The result is the same.
On April 1, in one of the Kharkov newspapers “Fieldvi”, S. Mazurkevich “charged” each page from some kind of illness and jokingly wrote how to use it. Despite the obvious joke, rave reviews about the positive effect poured down.
In America, one of our compatriots made an announcement in a newspaper under the name of Mitrofan Abramovich Berkut, a black-and-white sorcerer dedicated to the 8th stage of the Northern Assembly, etc. that everyone can send their pictures and he will treat them. And after 3 months, those who find themselves grateful can send 50 bucks. Letters poured in from all over America. But the funny thing is that soon checks began to flow more and more. True, those of them that were discharged for M.A. Berkut, it was not possible to cash out.
In telekinesis, an illusionist Boris Sagipov (who ostentatiously repeated all the tricks of N. Kulagina, who was then simply caught by the hand), shared his trick with some students, after which they abruptly became psychics.
The well-known neuropathologist and hypnologist P.P. Podyapolsky, as well as a former employee of a secret laboratory that studied phenomena, K. Leontovich.
The famous Israeli illusionist Daniel Abelman ostentatiously repeats all the miracles, including Uri Geller and Roni Markus (bending spoons, etc.), guessing what was hidden in a box or envelope.
There is an anecdote about clairvoyants in general. One disappointed friend says to another: “I came home to this famous clairvoyant, I called, and from behind the door his voice: Who is there?”.
Or, for example, in a fit of jealousy, a sysadmin husband spied on his wife’s seditious correspondence, because the letters in her mailbox are just copies of those that first get to the server. Why not act out a righteous clairvoyant scene?
One creature made money by determining the sex of a poor child. In fact, his predictions were half correct, but no one could make a claim because if he predicted a girl, he wrote down in his ‘logbook’ that such and such a boy would be, and then innocently presented this with the words that he was not understood correctly. But the other half created a glorious rumor for him and attracted new customers.
Once an enterprising dude collected the addresses of all practicing magicians in the city and notified them about the preparation of a reference and bibliographic publication about the leading magicians and clairvoyants of Russia. To get there, you had to send information about yourself, photos, titles and a small amount from 100 to 300 bucks. The effect was amazing. Wishing to become famous sorcerers together sent information and grandmas. Clearly they were disappointed. That’s all clairvoyance. Maybe someone is furious and put soot on him, only the dude has not even lost his humor.
And the predictions of the most famous? For example, Zhanna Dixon, who, after Vanga, was considered number one. Everything that she openly prophesied for 1997 did not come true for a single gram. This sad list has been published. Princess Diana was predicted anything but death in 97.
Global predictions are often published, but nothing comes true enough to say about the exact hit.
The columnist for the Skeptical Inquirer, J. Emery, according to him, after many years of tracking forecasts, found only one more or less correct prophecy. K. Bernhard announced in 92 that scientists would be shocked by an earthquake in Florida (and there should not be earthquakes there according to geo-representations) and it would happen a few weeks after the strongest hurricane. Hurricane Andrew really swept through there, but the earthquake did not happen. Otherwise, she screwed up extremely badly.
Although there is a rumor that a group of scientists at Princeton University, headed by R. Targ, commissioned by the military to conduct research, managed to fix the phenomenon of clairvoyance. But in fact, the military stopped funding this group. And Targ’s stock market firm, staffed by a clairvoyant elite, quickly went bankrupt.