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     david_mccarthy Intermediate Member Username: david_mccarthy Post Number: 202 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 216.227.104.206 |
James Hydrick was once billed as "the world's top psychic" by the tabloid newspaper The Star. Hydrick eventually confessed he was a fraud and admitted that he had developed his unique talent while he was in prison. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7471941094792399305&q=james+randi&hl=en Hydrick confesses.... From.. http://www.rationalresponders.com/james_randi_exposes_a_fraud_james_hydrick KOREM: Why did you feel that you had to tell people that you had powers that you didn't have? HYDRICK: Because I wanted attention. My parents would never give it to me. I would always be ignored or kicked around. I had to do this to make me feel good. It gave me confidence. Everytime someone thought what I did was very good but I'd never tell them what it was. I'd tell them it was something else. Because if I told them what it was they would say "Fine, it's just a trick." But I would always tell them it was something else so I would continue to get recognition. KOREM: You were on "That's Incredible" a few months ago and you really tricked them. HYDRICK: I tricked the whole world. KOREM: Yes. What did it make you feel like? HYDRICK: I did that to reach. It's like a hand reaching out for recognition. I don't know...I just wanted to be known. I needed to be recognized. All my life, I've been...I hate to keep going back to the past, but I don't know. I wanted to do that because it was different. I just wanted to see how open minded people were. I wanted to see if these people who were so-called intelligent and I was so-called dumb; I mean, surely I'm here for a reason. My whole idea behind this in the first place was to see how dumb America was. How dumb the world is. KOREM: How do you cause the objects to move? HYDRICK: People are looking [at the object] and waiting and so it moves, ok? Actually it didn't move from psychic powers it moved from something else - physical. It moves from air currents. KOREM: From where? HYDRICK: From my mouth. But you can't tell it because it took so many years of practicing to get this down pat to where you can't see it. KOREM: What you did, if I'm not mistaken, was to take somebody, hold their hand and get them to point at the leaf and then you could make the leaf move? HYDRICK: Right. It's called the power of suggestion. Once you can get a person to believe that he can actually do something - then perhaps he can do it. KOREM: What did you do? Can you show me? HYDRICK: First of all I'm not just puffing out the air because that can be seen. I am taking the air from my inside and making it come out in a way in which it doesn't show. I can direct the air in a way that it hits head on every time. I spent one year and six months in solitary confinement. All this time I had been thinking and thinking...then that's it! KOREM: You had all the time you needed to learn how to breath and make it move. HYDRICK: I had spent hours and hours. I'd hold by breath. Different breathing controls. So many ways. I could make deputies think someone touched them on their neck because I could breath in a certain way on their neck. continued.. | ||
| david_mccarthy Intermediate Member Username: david_mccarthy Post Number: 203 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 216.227.104.206 |
They would feel something and say "That's a ghost!" They would •••• on the floor and go running out of there! It was something that was fascinating to me and it got me recognition. I mean every deputy in that jail was so frightened of me. "That guy is possessed!" I remember when I was in the Chaplin's office. He taught me how to read and write. And I would convert people from bad to good. He told me that you had to turn them onto Jesus, the Lord. And he gave me a Bible and I'd read it. Then I got an idea! Now, I've never told Brother Joe this, and I've never told anyone this, but I would convert twenty inmates a day. That was my limit. I would have to convert twenty inmates a day. I'd get up there and start telling them about Jesus and stuff. And when I'd see that they were beginning to get turned off - I'd stop and say "You don't believe that it exists?" - I'd take a Bible and open it up and say "If the Lord is here with me make these pages move!" or I'd open the Bible and say "Hold the Bible. Father in the name of Jesus Christ make these pages move." And the pages would move! And the guys are going "Oh my God!!!" Everytime it worked. Then I would say "It's in you." Or I take a pencil and put it there and say I've got to call the Lord; but you are going to have the power to do this if you accept the Lord. The next thing you know you would see them with this big cross and handing Bibles out to people! When in Egypt performing for family members of the late Anwar Sadat, Hydrick relates how he healed a woman stricken by a heart attack. HYDRICK: She strongly believed that I could actually heal her. KOREM: What did you do that made her believe that? HYDRICK: I'd move things. I'd show her so many things. I would touch her and she would feel weird things. But its only in her mind. She wanted to feel those things. KOREM: Do you feel bad because you... HYDRICK: No! No! I don't feel bad at all. It would be different if you tricked them and done wrong, but I tricked them for their good. KOREM: Were adults fooled by what you did as well as children? HYDRICK: Absolutely. As a matter of fact, there was more adults fooled then children. KOREM: Why? HYDRICK: Because a lot of the adults are looking for something like this. They want to see something like this. KOREM: Do you think that parents watching this particular program might think that what you are trying to start was a cult? HYDRICK: Yes. KOREM: You did not want to start a cult? HYDRICK: No. KOREM: You know that you can't read and write and that you lack education. Do you think the possibilities existed that somebody could have used you to start a cult? HYDRICK: Absolutely! Kurbegovic. King Moharem Kurbegovic, the Applebit bomber, who blew up the airport in LA. He wanted to use me for a cult. Sirhan Sirhan who was part of the cult Aliens of America (AOA). These people wanted to use me as a leader of their cult. KOREM: How did they want to use you? HYDRICK: To brainwash people. By showing that this power came from something that it didn't. As with the Jim Jones incident. That would never have taken place if peoples' minds would have been open. It would have been stopped. Editor's note. Hydrick's connection with Sirhan Sirhan has never been verified. Hydrick is now serving time in jail. |
