I remember the first time I watched Most Haunted! The leather faced, walnut skinned, self-proclaimed genius that is Derek Acorah twisted my melon. This mediums uncanny ability to predict tapping, followed by eerie wheezes just boiled my head!
I couldn't work out how such Voodoo as knowing the ghost story for a particular location could be true!!! What mystic powers this messiah of the choir of the spiritualist church displayed.
It was baffling...
Until...
I had a little think about it...
and realized that not everyone's memory is as goosed as mine.
Mnemonics. 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall.
mindtools.com
Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) changes his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere.
Wikipedia.
Still to this day I enjoy a good old fashioned episode of this British bastion of insane reality tv. There is nothing quite like watching an aging blue peter star, wandering around the stately homes of this once proud nation with an uncle fester look-a-like and a parapsychologist who is in it for the shits and giggles.
However, my innocent naivete has gone! The days when I watched slack jawed while Derek wheezed a whistling blast from flared nostrils as Yvette told everyone to be quite, before gasping "Did you hear that!"... are well and truly over 😪 🤓
Right, now I am off to watch the classic episode where Derek gets possessed... mnnnn, that's some good TV.
This post is in response to @mariannewest freewrite writers prompt, as well as being my second entry into #comedyopenmic challenge. I nominate @andywong31 + @dedicatedguy for some chuckles in the next round. I have to confess that I over ran the 5 minutes in the freewrite by about 30 seconds as my brain nearly exploded from multi-tasking. I also did take a while after writing to find the gifs and images for this post. I hope I can be forgiven? If not, I will come back to haunt you all with my terrifying nose wheezes 😉 👻 💨
