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Basically
myself and my wife were Most Haunted Fans....although we were sceptical of
Derek we nevertheless were open minded.
My wife's father died of cancer about 18 months ago and things have been
happening in the house ... doors opening , lights being turned on at
night, but the most startling thing was while my wife was painting some
radiators, with aerosol spray in the bedroom she ran out of spray. So I
dashed out and told her to wear a mask which unfortunately was up in the
loft where I'd done some loft boarding. She decided not to out of
laziness ... about an hour later I returned and she was in a state.
Apparently there was a crash in the hallway and when she checked the loft
hatch it had opened itself and the ladder had been pulled down ... but no
one else was in the house and you have to twist the lock with a pole and
then actually pull the ladder down with the pole...
We saw that as a sign from her deceased father...
Anyway we found out Derek was coming to Oxford and bought tickets
......and then I made the mistake of e-mailing Derek's website telling him
exactly what had gone on in our house ....so he had my name, my wife's
name and some specific incidents to call upon.
However, I did not tell him the name of my wife's father or my wife's
maiden name. We thought he might want to come round as he was in Oxford
and check out if we were imagining things or indeed if there was genuinely
any activity, but he never contacted us... Instead we got an automated
response from his website saying he can't reply to individual requests due
to workload, etc, etc.
The night of the show came and the second person he called out was
me....so initially I was quite surprised.
Then he said he had a Mr Towers with him....( my father is still alive and
I didn't know my grandfather, so I was curious as to who it could be )
..so I asked him and he couldn't get it ...but then he asked if my wife
was with me ..... told me her name was Dee, and then said he had her
father with him.
Then he used, word for word, the exact same information I had sent his
website weeks before. By now we had rumbled him, so we asked the
name of this chap and his surname ... what he looked like etc., and he
couldn't answer ... then he went off on a tangent...
The next day I e-mailed him again, and told him what we thought ..we were
furious at being used to fill his pockets ... instead we got an e-mail from
his wife, Gwen, denying that he uses e-mails and that he never actually
gets to see them anyway because she deletes them.
She said I should send the e-mail in to her again and she would compare it
to the tape of the show ( apparently they record every night's show )
.....also that if I thought Derek was a fake she would arrange a private
reading to convince us. We did that, but we never heard anything
after that, and all subsequent e-mails from us have gone unanswered.
I'm afraid Derek is a fraud in our eyes, from personal experience, and he
should be exposed ... he's earning a lot of money from telling lies, and
ripping people off.
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