... and there's more!

Last night, on Whitenoise Radio [see edit below], Derek Acorah claimed that Sam made himself known to him on a Sunday afternoon, when he was sitting in his mother's lounge with his family, and he went upstairs to his bedroom to talk to Sam.

In his own book The Psychic Adventures of Derek Acorah he says this:

"One evening I was at home alone. I had just completed my evening meditation and was sitting listening to some music. Suddenly I heard a voice saying, 'Hello, Derek.' This was repeated four times. Then the voice said, 'I'm Sam.' "

In his article for the Sun newspaper, he says this:

"Many years later, I was sitting in the lounge of my mum and dad’s house chatting with the family and all of a sudden I heard this man's voice saying 'Derek, Derek, it's Sam.'I left the lounge, ran to the upstairs loo and quietly said 'who is it?'. "

Which one is the lie - or is the whole episode fabricated. Remember, Acorah had nothing to do with the supernatural until he, in his role as security guard, looked after a friend's New Age shop in Liverpool.

On Whitenoise Radio Acorah claims his grandfather, Richard, died two and a quarter years before he was born in 1950, after a terrible accident at sea in an engine room blow-back, where he sustained terrible injuries to the lower half of his body.

It's not true!
If it was true, it would make his grandmother a bigamist, as she married Willem Verbaan on 11th January, 1944.

No, of course Acorah's grandmother wasn't a bigamist, despite his ridiculous claims trying to re-write history and big himself up! Richard Courtney died in Liverpool on 13 March, 1939, aged 37. After an inquest, the Coroner gave the cause of death as:

Septicaemia following injury to the right ring finger accidentally
caused on board ship at sea on the 23rd January last.


Draw your own conclusions - is Derek Acorah is a liar? You bet he is!

Emma Gee

Edited 28 March 2009 - the Whitenoise Radio interview has been removed ...