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A team of psychics will travel to John Lennon-related sites, including India, where they will talk to a spirit reader who believes he can contact Lennon from the great beyond -- all for a pay-per-view special.

http://www.spiritoflennon.com

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You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper
And in the middle of negotiations
You break down

Any bets that this is exactly what will happen on the pay-per-view?

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Well, gee, Canuckistan, all I want is the truth. Just give me some truth!

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Maybe the lyrics from accross the great beyond will just be mistaken because someone in the next room is playing Revolver on their CD player...


"I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad
And you're making me feel like I've never been born"

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Maybe Paul McCartney is providing the financing for the Pay Per View???



"Sir Paul McCartney believes John Lennon haunted the recording of the 1995 Beatles single 'Free As A Bird' — in the form of a white peacock. The rock legend, Ringo Starr and George Harrison posed for a photograph outside the studio where the track was recorded — when the bird wandered in shot at the last minute from a neighbouring farm. The singer said: "That's John. Spooky, eh? It was like John was hanging around. We felt that all through the recording." McCartney also believes John made his presence felt on the single's B-side. He revealed: "We put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do. I think it was the line of a George Formby song.

Then we were listening to the finished single in the studio one night, and it gets to the end, and it goes, 'zzzwrk nggggwaaahhh jooohn lennnnnon qwwwrk.' I swear to God." "We were like, 'It's John. He likes it!"



http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=51451

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All you need is a certain haunted album, and John'll be there, ready to make you breakfast!

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All these TV mediums and seances make me sick to the stomach!

Have we gotten to an age were we are so guillable that we will believe anything?

On that note why is it all people "contacted" are always happy and in heaven, not once is there someone in hell.

I believe that mediums fall into two categories,

1. Con-Men/women, they are faking and they know it.
2. People who can talk to something not human,

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Originally posted by TheStig85:
Have we gotten to an age were we are so guillable that we will believe anything?

More like "have we ever left such an age?"
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The only occultic activity that day will be that the Maharaji scams Beatles fans from beyond the grave.

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Hang on a minute...Hold the phone!

I'm not going to get fooled this quick! -again. (I have been skeptical ever since Geraldo Rivera claimed two hours of my life waiting for him to open Al Capone's secret vault in Chicago to reveal....nothing.)

This special pay per view is on April 24th, right? They make it seem like it is going to be a live seance, but on their website they say:

"You will hear a voice--

COULD IT BE JOHN LENNON?

Our special infra-red cameras reveal a spirit--

IS IT JOHN LENNON?

And most AMAZING of all - music from the other side...

You've never heard it before, but it sounds so familiar...

COULD THIS BE JOHN LENNON'S FINAL THEME?


How do they know all of this is going to happen when it is still a month a way???

Oh yeah, I just remembered...they have psychics on staff...maybe they just asked their own psychics. Yeah, that has to be it...now if they could only get Geraldo to host it...

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John Lennon to Be Contacted on a Pay-Per-View Seance
...in the dark / With voices out of nowhere / Put on specially / by the children / for a lark? [lol]

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quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes:
Maybe Paul McCartney is providing the financing for the Pay Per View???


"Sir Paul McCartney believes John Lennon haunted the recording of the 1995 Beatles single 'Free As A Bird' — in the form of a white peacock. The rock legend, Ringo Starr and George Harrison posed for a photograph outside the studio where the track was recorded — when the bird wandered in shot at the last minute from a neighbouring farm. The singer said: "That's John. Spooky, eh? It was like John was hanging around. We felt that all through the recording." McCartney also believes John made his presence felt on the single's B-side. He revealed: "We put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do. I think it was the line of a George Formby song.

Then we were listening to the finished single in the studio one night, and it gets to the end, and it goes, 'zzzwrk nggggwaaahhh jooohn lennnnnon qwwwrk.' I swear to God." "We were like, 'It's John. He likes it!"


http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=51451

So Paul wanted to give Beatle-freaks something to get all superstitious over, and he ended up getting all superstitious over it himself. No one is immune!

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Swept away by my feelings, ashamed and confused
But just now it's enough to be walking with you
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quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes:
Hang on a minute...Hold the phone!

I'm not going to get fooled this quick! -again. (I have been skeptical ever since Geraldo Rivera claimed two hours of my life waiting for him to open Al Capone's secret vault in Chicago to reveal....nothing.)

This special pay per view is on April 24th, right? They make it seem like it is going to be a live seance, but on their website they say:

"You will hear a voice--

COULD IT BE JOHN LENNON?

Our special infra-red cameras reveal a spirit--

IS IT JOHN LENNON?

And most AMAZING of all - music from the other side...

You've never heard it before, but it sounds so familiar...

COULD THIS BE JOHN LENNON'S FINAL THEME?


How do they know all of this is going to happen when it is still a month a way???

Oh yeah, I just remembered...they have psychics on staff...maybe they just asked their own psychics. Yeah, that has to be it...now if they could only get Geraldo to host it...

Good point. For all we know they'll catch John on a really bad day.

I hope all they get is a ghostly "Bugger off would ya!?"

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TV seance: John Lennon asks for peace

Peace ... The Message is Peace." That's what the producers of a pay-television seance to contact John Lennon claimed the former Beatle said when communicating with them from beyond the grave.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-04-25T092325Z_01_N24345061_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-LEISURE-LENNON.XML

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Peace ... The Message is Peace." That's what the producers of a pay-television seance to contact John Lennon claimed the former Beatle said when communicating with them from beyond the grave.
Thank goodness they cleared that up. We might never have known John Lennon advocated peace if they hadn't intruded into the realm of the dead to ask him.

- snopes

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Are they sure the full message didn't read

Peace off ?

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Peace ... The Message is Peace." That's what the producers of a pay-television seance to contact John Lennon claimed the former Beatle said when communicating with them from beyond the grave.
"There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave to tell us this." - Horatio, Hamlet

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Man that whole thing was so weak Miss Cleo asked for a refund.

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