Finding the Ripper's identity using Mediums

[Night Stalker]

Does anyone know if any world renowned mediums, have ever claimed to have contacted the spirit of Jack the Ripper. If so is it documented and what names were given ?

The reason I ask is that a well known British Medium by the name of Derrick Acorah, claimed to have contacted the Ripper's spirit. This was while he was at the London Dungeons next to the Ripper exhibit. All he said was that the Ripper had a strong Liverpool conection. This made me think of James maybrick, but alas the " Ripper Diaries " have been frowned upon as bogus. Acorah, himself hails from Liverpool, so maybe a case of self promotion ??

If anyone has any serious feed back, please let me know.

[How Brown]

Night Stalker:

I admit to having watched that embarrassing program. It was awful...Acorah is to mediums what Bill Clinton is to monogamous husbands.

I also admit...ahem....to having thought of taking some photos of various suspects to a local well known psychic in my neighborhood ( Valerie Morrison ) after a former colleague was in Brighton with a local Brighton spookster checking under floorboards for the ghost of the Ripper...but I didn't do it.

Seriously,I only thought of doing that...man,if I admitted doing that in public....oy !;)

Ever hear of Robert James Lees? He's been portrayed in a pair of Ripper films ( with Michael Caine in 1988 and with Christopher Plummer in 1979. The former was called Jack The Ripper and the latter was Murder By Decree. )...He was a psychic in that era.

[Night Stalker]

HOW :

Yep, couldn't agree more !!!

Acorah now has his own show, with that oh so awful catchphrase, "coming to your town". Yeh, can't wait - NOT !

I haven't watched Murder By Decree, but I have watched Jack The Ripper.I thought Lewis Collins, was dreadful as the ever bumbling George. As for Mr Lees, I thought he was portrayed as a sickly weakling who couldn't do anything for fainting.

Talking of movies, have you watched Jonny Depp's effort, From Hell, I think it was called. What a load of BS. If I hear another, "cor blimey guvnar !" in an awful cockney accent I will scream.

Yor the man HOW & with that dry humour, you could go far.

[How Brown]

Yor the man HOW & with that dry humour, you could go far.--Night Stalker

Yeah buddy...I hear you. I get told to go far away as possible a lot.:rolleyes:

I like all Ripper flicks, NS....I enjoy them for the ambience and atmosphere...not accuracy. I'm very interested in the Victorian Period and even more so since I found out Robert Linford was born during that time period.

[Robert Linford]

Hey How

Me?.....old?....why that would be.....let me see.....um.....now then.....what?......er.....what were we talking about?


Night Stalker, actually How's the real old timer round here. What's more he can trace his ancestry all the way back to Fulk Bluetooth Brown - who was his dad.

Robert

[Dave O]

Robert and Howard,

Is it really true that television used to be in black and white?

Dave

[How Brown]

Dave:

Shhhh !! Robert hasn't heard about sliced bread yet !

We're trying to dumb him down. He's too damned smart as it is !

:rolleyes:

[Robert Linford]

I can remember silent radio.

[How Brown]

Oh yeah...that reminds me.....these Saxon vassals,I'll tell ya...

Robert...my uhh..my err.... Uncle Bluenose The Fierce wants his 12 pounds of dauber's dung by tonight or ye olde ass is to be placed in yon moat.

How

Barren Of Grey Matter

[Night Stalker]

"Cor blimey guvnar"

If you boys are that old, how come none of you caught JTR back in 1888,then ?

Seriously lads keep up the good work.....all work and no play makes jack a dull ripper.:thumbsupbud:

[Magpie]

Hi Nightstalker.

Humourous banter aside (nice ones though :) )

Pamela Bell published a book entitled "Jack the Ripper: The Psychic Investigation" which, given the usual lack of imagination with regards to JTR book titles, you can guess was an attempt to use psychics to catch Jack.

It's a dismal book, except that it features some of the best reproductions of the post mortem photos I've seen.

I also saw a show on UK telly in the 70's about a medium who investigated a nearby pub through which Jack made his escape (with the assistance of a helpful if none too bright barmaid). That medium claimed that Jack was a fishmonger (the program as I remember did not make the connection between fishmonger and Barnett that would have been immediate today). Supposedly Jack came in the pub, the barmaid allowed him to go up the back stairs and he climbed out a small back window and took off. The medium claimed that this was his "regular" escape route.

[Night Stalker]

Hi Magpie :

Thank you for the information, you would of thought some chancer would of tried to cash in, eh ?

I guess Houdini, was right. Mediums are sharlitans ! Believe it or not there's still a "group", who sit in a seance every year to converse with his spirit....no reply yet !

NS.

P.S. hope the spellings not too bad.

[Magpie]

I guess Houdini, was right. Mediums are sharlitans ! Believe it or not there's still a "group", who sit in a seance every year to converse with his spirit....no reply yet !

.

I didn't realize they still did. that was actually set up by houdini himself, along with friends and colleagues. Houdini claimed if it were possible to come back, he would. I remember watching it on TV one year, when James Randi was still involved--I don't know if he still is or not. I believe the secret message that Houdini was supposed to send was destroyed when the Houdini hall of Fame in Niagara burned down, over a decade ago.

[How Brown]

Useless Fact # 1001:

Harry Houdini's grandson was Gary Gilmore,the American man who killed two people and asked for the death penalty back in the 1970's ( He did have some good qualities..:thumbsupbud: ).

A book by Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song.....as well as a film. was made about the entire affair.

[Night Stalker]

Magpie & How,

Yeh I saw a show a few months back, with the American "sensitive", Chris Fleming, and he took part in one of the Houdini seances.

Don't know if you get the show - " Dead Famous ", in the U.S., it's good for a giggle.

Night Stalker -