I arrived almost an hour early for the evening, and was directed to the room hired by The Simon Peters Company, where I joined a short queue. Inside the door I discovered two ladies at trestle tables taking the money, and behind them stood a slim man, whom I took to be his manager. I chose my seat carefully and watched with interest as around two hundred and fifty people, mainly female, took their places. I didn't expect to see Simon Peters yet as I had been told he liked to meditate prior to a demonstration.

On several occasions the slim man left his place behind the table, and walked down an aisle, between the seats, to the platform. There he would apparently adjust something, and return to his position by the door. On one occasion he helped a lady in a wheelchair to a position towards the front of the audience, removing a chair to make room for her.

Once again he made his way through the audience to the platform, and this time introduced himself - it was Simon Peters.

by Angela

I arrived at the venue at around 7:15 with the evening of clairvoyance due to start at 7:30. As I walked into the room through the door at the back right hand corner, there was a small table with two people sat behind it. The first person, who I recognised to be Simon Peters, asked if I had booked and asked for my name, and proceeded to draw a line through something on his list. I was then asked by the person sitting next to him (who I later found out was called Colin) for twenty pounds for the seats,. I paid and was given my tickets.

The seats were facing the opposite way towards the stage, where there was various electrical equipment on a table with speakers on either side, and Enya was playing through them. This music was fairly loud before the start, although it got quieter when Simon was channelling.

The chairs for the evening where separated into three sections, the one closest the door was six rows deep and five seats across, then there was a middle row seven rows deep and ten seats across and finally another row seven rows deep and five seats across towards the bar area, there was also a few tables in front of the bar. I chose a seat in the second to back row on the right side near the door. On all the seats was a flyer for Simon Peters and a second one with all the dates for the next month or so of his shows.

by Matt

A young lad who took his own life
SP Please don’t cry.
WOMAN It’s not that – I can’t believe it.
SP ‘I can’t believe I went and left you...’ This is what he’s saying..
WOMAN But it’s not me ...

A gentleman blown up in Bosnia
SP  D?  I’m sure it’s David.  His name.  David.
WOMAN  I don’t know what his first name was. 
SP        He’s like ‘my legs have blown off’.. 
WOMAN   I don’t know the full story, no.   
SP He has three children.  Three. 
WOMAN Not that I know of.  He had one. 

An older gentleman, a father. 
WOMAN    [no reply] 
SP  He’s showing me the funeral.  Three red roses, carried individually. 
WOMAN     I’m not sure. 
SP     ‘S’.  ‘S’.  ‘S’.  Is it Sid? 
WOMAN 6     No 
SP        What is it? 
WOMAN    Samantha. 

ADDITIONAL NOTE BY ANGELA: 

At least one reading has been left out of the tape.  There was an older lady sitting on her own in an aisle seat in front of me. 

Simon Peters got most things for her totally wrong.  The only bits of ‘evidence’ that stick in my mind are the date 15^th May, and a Ruby Wedding anniversary. 

The lady said that the date meant nothing to her, at which point Simon Peters ‘split’ the date into a fifteen, which wasn’t necessarily a date, and the month of May. 

He said she would be busy in May, and she agreed.  I think she said her Ruby Wedding anniversary had been in 2004.

SP: 6, 4, left? 6, 4 right?...right, 6, 4 oh back row 4, oh lady with
the black hair

He came to a woman who was sat right behind me on the back row.  She was fairly young, possibly early twenties.  As the lady was passed the microphone she started to get upset with tears in her eyes and could not speak for the first couple of minutes.

SP: I see a young man here, he's quite young, alright?

SP: You alright?
SP: Now you're all upset and your heart's going like this, and he's
running away from me, because he's saying "I knew I'd freak her out", and he's running off, so just try to relax a little bit, but this is contemporary to the side, ok.., a friend or what you call a contemporary to the side of you
SP: (to himself; come on, yes I will)
SP: He's showing me massive trauma, an impact ok,
SP: (to himself; oh don't do that come back, I will, I will)
SP: I'm having trouble with him cos he keeps running away, alright
Woman: Yes
SP: So do you understand someone to your side, ok who's quite young, who passed into spirit, he won't tell me exactly what at the moment but I'm working on it, this is a massive trauma and impact to his body, ok, hold the mike up
SP: Yes, no, don't know?
Woman: Yeah
SP: G, G, who's G?, G he's drawing G
Woman: Don't know
SP: Sounds like Gavin
Woman: No
SP: It's 2 syllables and starts with the sound G, but it's 2 syllables,
(inaudible) it's the way I've received this (cough) G, K, K, K also 2
names like K..e..v..i...n, ok 2 syllables like Ke.ee.vin, do you understand this?
Woman: Yeah but no
SP: I think the G is with him in spirit, alright, but the K is here, he
wants to give love to you, do you understand it now?
Woman: Yeah
SP: Ok
SP: Can I tell you this, he loves you so much, and he's making my life difficult, because he doesn't want to be........
SP: (to himself; has she put in her...packet....pocket, has she, hold
on)
SP: You've got something of his......
SP: (to himself; go on show me, what, show me, carries it in her
pocket, showing pocket)
SP: Are you carrying something of his in your pocket?
Woman: No
SP: Or did you carry something of his in your pocket? or in your
handbag?
Woman: No
SP: Ok, he keeps showing me, do you know what the image I get in my mind is he's going like this he's going * goes in his pocket*
SP: pocket, pocket, and it's just a picture  or you put
something in his pocket, or whether....I don't know
SP: (to himself; go on tell me some more, is that when you died?
Friday)
SP: He's drawing Friday
SP: Is that the day that he died, the day that he passed?
Woman: Don't remember
SP: (sigh) to himself; is it, what you are, you responsible for,
you are)
SP: He's responsible for taking his life,
Woman (looks puzzled)
SP This ain't you is it?
Woman: No
SP: He committed suicide, the person I'm speaking to in spirit, who is drawing me to you took his own life, this isn't you is it?
Woman: No
SP: No, and it was on Friday night, I'm on the back row aren't I, I'm about 4 in, so do you guys understand this over here? (to next section back row) can you pass the mike over?
SP: (to woman) I'm sorry sweetheart, it's not for you

The poor woman was left in floods of tears as the show went on. Any self-respecting psychologist should surely have known better than to just leave someone in such a way.
 

For at least the first year of his personal appearances, ‘Simon Peters’ constantly referred to his

other profession of ‘psychotherapy / psychology’

 in order to convince his audience that he is genuine,

or to use his own word,

'honest', in his mediumship.
 

From the website of the British Psychological Society:

“The number of people calling themselves psychologists and offering psychological services is on the increase. Some of these people have no recognised qualifications and are not answerable to any recognised professional body.

“To protect the public The British Psychological Society has been authorised by the Crown to set up and run the Register of Chartered Psychologists.”

5. Never to use their Membership of the Association as any form of accreditation for any commercial activity (other than the establishment of a bona fide Private Practice in Hypnotherapy) nor yet use their Membership to lend support to any beliefs pertaining to para-psychical matters (including all matters pertaining to the paranormal) and never to use Membership of the Association as any form of accreditation for the teaching in the subject of Hypnosis carried out by any category of Member (unless all details of such teaching have been submitted to and approved by the Council of Management).

Provided always that nothing in this Clause shall prohibit any Member concerning themselves with the paranormal or with instruction in Hypnotherapy on the understanding that their Membership of the Association is not referred to in any discussion or correspondence and specifically any publicity material referring to such interests.

However, Dr Michael D. Yapko, Clinical Psychologist, of California, states in an email to Emma Gee:

 

“The term hypno-anaesthesia is not one that I use. The one and only time I ever did a course on the use of hypnosis on pain management was about 7 or 8 years ago.  I provided a one day workshop at the Royal Society of Medicine. I have no recall for having done any other workshops on the same subject in London.

 

I hope this helps.”

The letters after his professional name are:

BHA. - registered with the British Hypnotherapy Association
DHA. - Diploma from the Hypnotherapy Association.
DPA. - registered under the Data Protection Act
DH. - practising within the Department of Health
NCH - National Council for Hypnotherapy
DAPA - Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association.

When the owner of this website published his article about Simon Peters being a plant for Derek Acorah at York,  Gwen Johnson, Acorah's wife and manager, emailed him  on 8th February 2005.  He forwarded the email to several people, including me.  In it, Mrs Johnson says:

"Derek gave a message to a person he did not know who at the end of the show identified himself as Adrian Wood. If my memory serves me correctly, I would think that Adrian Wood attended more than one theatre show."

 

 Yet just four weeks later, 'Simon Peters' appears alongside Acorah in Most Haunted Live.

And this is where their stories diverge sharply.

In the same email, Gwen Johnson denies that Acorah recommended 'Simon Peters', despite his claims.

"If Adrian Wood/Simon Peters or whoever he calls himself is implying that he is a close friend of Derek Acorah, or that he has received tutoring from Derek Acorah, this is untrue. Adrian Wood received a message from Derek during a theatre show and that is it. Derek Acorah has not recommended him in any way to any organisation."