Was the Theatre in on the cheating?
I wonder if someone can take a radio into (or even near) the next theatre where she is performing to detect the radio transmitter that is being fed into Sally. That would all but seal her fate.
Some people on Twitter are talking about doing just that. She's coming back to Dublin in March 2012, but her shows are sold out, which honestly baffles me.
Sideroxylon said:
This is what is needed to get hard evidence. Someone with a good radio scanner and a knowledge of the frequencies typically used by such devices.
It could be that the theatre was correct and the people hearing the voices were sceptics who only interpreted what they were able to catch from the voices as being repeated by the medium 10 seconds later.
I wish one of the people who heard voices had thought to whip out a phone or something and press record. Without that, it's just speculation as to whether she had them working there, even if it seems likely.
It could just be skeptics, but the fact that it seems to have come from multiple, unrelated sources makes me think that it may not be simply an attempt to discredit her. Have you listened to the LiveLine interview in question? It's here, if you want to give it a listen.
I've seen her tv show, and the techniques she uses are so obviously cold reading that it's amazing anyone believes it. Worse still, she actually asks people to leave video messages, write her notes, and deliver photos of loved ones prior to the show starting. Even if she doesn't have a plant, there's enough info there for her hot reading to be radioactive (no pun intended). I've linked a few good examples of really obvious cold reading, and the bit on her website that tells you to give her all the information that she could possibly need,
here. (
Hilarious aside - Oh, there's a Bernard, why's he saying that. Audience member: That's my nan (grandmother). )
I've also gotten in touch with a friend of mine who's in the theatre business (lighting, specifically) to ask him if he knows the two lads mentioned in the article, or another contact, etc. I'll see if I can't do a bit of discreet digging on that angle and if I find out anything, I'll let you all know!
to smuggle in the necessary kit, past security. lol. There must be groups who have successfully done this before. Or is Popov the only one who's been caught out? What would be the security? Does anyone know the drill? Also, when you book are you given a specified seat number or do you sit anywhere. I've often wondered is that one of the ways she gets her info.. from ticket booking names addresses credit card details etc, which are linked to a person sitting in a seat that Sally will miraculously know all about.
