Acorah

There is something quite surreal about sitting opposite a grown man while he tells you about his adventures in a previous life; in Acorah's case, in Ethiopia, 2,037 "2,038 in January" years ago.

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But I've come to Potters Bar because Colin Fry and fellow medium Derek Acorah have asked me to; and they've asked me to because of what happened to Sally Morgan one late summer's evening earlier this year.

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Hearing is believing: Derek Acorah of Most Haunted says allegations of fraudulence “could set our sensitive work back 50 years”.

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After Emlyn Hughes had written off his brand-new car the day after Acorah had warned him to drive carefully, Shankly issued him with a stark warning: You're an apprentice-professional with the greatest football side in the world, Liverpool Football Club.

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In the end, I decide, there's virtually no evidence that either Fry or Acorah are using any kind of technical trickery to enhance their demonstrations; nor, indeed, particularly subtle forms of what has come to be called cold reading.

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Millennia later, Sam re-entered his life in a series of bewildering dreams, at the end of which he explained to Acorah: "You were allowed to follow your dream, but this is your gift that you should use to help mankind."

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If the ladies from the spiritualist church thought Colin Fry veered too much towards entertainment, I'm not sure what they'd make of Derek Acorah, who greets his audience with a heartfelt "Love you!" and is rewarded with a rousing "Love you back!"

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As they take their seats in front of a large screen, on which images of Acorah at the Pyramids, or in front of his car, with its GHOST DA licence plate, mingle with notices for sufferers of epilepsy and advertisements for the True Vision tour and Soul Journey CD, they seem – like Fry's constituency – up for it.

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Like Fry, Acorah is concerned that allegations of fraudulence "could set our sensitive work back 50 years, if people believed these accusations".

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When I speak to him in the interval, he confesses that he'd been sceptical until that moment, but could then not believe how close Acorah – and Sam – were to the mark.

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