Extraordinary hoaxes of the 18th century
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Is He a Modern Day Equivalent of George Simanazar?
I'm sometimes asked if yoge is a modern day equivalent of george simanazar. I think so, and i men that's true of er. When ewi geller first burst on the scene, i think it was back in the 19 seventies. He appeared on the david dimbleby show, and he bent a spoon. And probably 99 % of people watching at that time genuinely believed that he bent the spoon by the power of his mind. If you turn round to to day, i think99% of people probably think that it's done by trickery. But, er, the point is that yoge still claims to day that he congenually bends spoons
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