As part of This Morning’s Supernatural Week, Phillip and Holly have been taking a look at the negative side of psychics and mediums and spoke to a former ‘psychic’ who admitted he used to con people on a regular basis to see how much they would believe.
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Pip The ‘Psychic’ Goat Is A Fraud.
A forged signature was enough to delight his Shakespeare-obsessed father. So William Henry Ireland produced another document. Then another. Before long, he had created letters, poetry, relics – and an entirely “lost” Shakespeare play. What began as a son’s attempt to win his father’s approval became one of Britain’s most audacious literary hoaxes.
Britain has a long and glorious history of being fooled. From forged antiquities and impossible performances to mysterious princesses and women supposedly giving birth to rabbits, the greatest hoaxes succeed not because our ancestors were stupid, but because someone gave them exactly what they wanted to believe.
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