"A despicable plot"

Yes, folks, we're part of 'a despicable plot'! A despicable plot to do what, you may well ask. Well, according to Acorah's latest whinge published today in a newspaper, it was " to dishevel me with my new show ". It's taken him three years, but at last he's come up with an explanation for the Kreed Kafer episode, but his new story does more to further discredit him than to exonerate him. He now claims he was "merely sensing the negative energy of O’Keeffe’s earlier plotting."

“I’m sensitive. I pick these things up. I was picking up people talking and back-biting in the ether. “I heard these despicable discussions between people and it was sickening me to my guts. When we were doing the investigation I was walking around the area and the words hit me – ‘Kreed Kafer, Kreed Kafer!’ And I said it out loud. “They set out to dishevel me with my new show.”

Now, we know that Acorah was told all about the fictitious Kreed Kafer during the first walkabout, and we also know he was told that the character would not be used in the programme as there were no prison records to verify his existence. How do we know? Because Dr Ciarán O'Keeffe, Most Haunted's resident parapsychologist, told the then administrators of Bad Psychics forum all about it, and the information was made available to all moderators long before the programme aired.

But even if we didn't know the truth, how much sense does Acorah's explanation make? None. Well, none if Acorah really is psychic, or Sam really is his spirit guide, because if either of those were true, or even one of them, then Acorah would have known the "people talking and back-biting" was a set-up.

The fact is he did not know it was a set-up, because he is not psychic, and Sam is not his spirit guide, and he thought he was being clever to channel the South African whose existence was, so far as he was aware, unable to be disputed. As so often happens with Acorah, he was wrong, and he ended up possessed by an anagram, and with egg on his face.

Acorah has never tried to explain 'Rik Eeedles' [anagram of 'Derek lies'] at Prideaux Place the following week, or 'Ged Harken' ['hang Derek'] at York a few shows later, or 'the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' at Craigievar Castle. Why not? Quite simply, he can't. He was caught out on all of them, and the Kreed Kafer 'egg on face' became a veritable omelette.

Nor has Acorah ever tried to explain how he became possessed by a fictional character created by William Harrison Ainsworth in 1841. She was Viviana Radclyffe who appeared in a book entitled "Guy Fawkes or The gunpowder Treason, An Historical Romance, The Modern Man Pursues Drama and Bravery". So where could Acorah have got his information about Viviana if not from 'spirit'? A Google search for the ghost of Ordsall Hall throws up this Salford Museum website which says

"Then again, she could be the legendary Viviana Radclyffe, with whom the infamous Guy Fawkes fell in love with when he supposedly came to Ordsall Hall to plot the Gunpowder Plot!"

The clue, of course, is in the word 'legendary', meaning she only exists in a story, and if Acorah or his researcher had bothered to look at the Ordsall Hall history a little more closely they would have discovered:

"There was never any female of the house named Viviana and only the surviving sister of Sir John was Jane, then thirty years of age, and married to Sir Ralph Constable."

Let's move on to Acorah's claim that “They set out to dishevel me with my new show.”

If anyone can lay claim to 'dishevelling' Derek Acorah's [then] new programme it's the mole, or rather moles, who contacted me about the programme. They subsequently supplied me with raw footage of all three nights of behind-the-scenes video tape.

The resulting Double Exposure exposé of Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns Live at York proved just how far he was prepared to go in order to con viewers into believing he has a gift. It went far beyond just getting historical facts hopelessly wrong, and descended into farce with a spirit granny rubbing Syrup of Figs on a baby's chest!



DW: "Personally if it was me I'd say that one there that's got the picture in the window of you..... That 'd be really helpful"
Both laugh
Acorah: Wouldn't the people be able to see it?
DW: No, no, no... Alright?
Acorah: Yeah



Acorah: "Do we know this guy's name?"

No Derek, nobody's supposed to know who is on the other side of the door, remember? You just blew it ... again!

Acorah's currently touting for his 'new' television show on Sky Real Lives which starts in February, and promises ...

"... Derek in a studio with a small and intimate audience, giving readings from the world of Spirit."

Now where have we heard that before? Ah yes! On another little-known, little-watched, Sky channel of last century, Granada Breeze, where Acorah appeared on Psychic Livetime! His alleged faking on the show earned him a ban by ITV executives for many years. So Acorah's career has come full circle and he now finds himself back where he started - on a minor television channel, with only his fans for company.