![]() ![]() He also asked that the first person to get some bending tell the group.īREAKING THE BELIEF BARRIER TO PARANORMALLY BEND METAL ![]() It would probably appear to “melt,” he said, for a second and then “harden” again so that it might take a few tries to bend it completely. We were to act upon the urge and try to bend our object. After a while, this experienced and authoritative man told us, we would feel an “urge” or “knowledge” that the metal would bend. We were supposed to chant, “Bend, bend, bend!” while lightly massaging our forks and spoons. I filched my small silver coffee spoon.Īs we sat around relaxed and in high spirits, the leader told us what we could expect. University of West Georgia Special CollectionsSome of the locals had brought their own flatware but many of us had swiped tableware from dinner. ![]() William Roll’s collection of cutlery bent by PK. After a banquet dinner with wine, a group of us, perhaps 30 or so people, met in a large comfortable sitting room with the goal of bending cutlery. She lost contact with her when she returned to England and hadn’t see her in years.īrian Forbes could have used any number of similar houses in Wimbledon, but he chose the one where tragedy had struck in the room he wanted to film the séance, and where Kim Stanley’s old friend lived.I took part in one such party at Cambridge University, UK in 1982 where I heard Kenneth Batcheldor speak. She informed the crew member that Stanley had been one of her closest friends in the States and that they had lived next door to one another. She already was aware of Attenborough, but when told that the other star was American, Kim Stanley she was deeply shocked. However, it was when she asked who would be staring in the film that she went pale and nearly fainted. She said that should be interesting as a previous owner of the house had committed suicide in the tower room by hanging himself and that his ghost was said to haunt the building. When told it was a drama which contained a series of séances, she smiled. The owner of the house, a woman, consented to the filming, and enquired what the film was about. “You’re are not going to believe this,” he told Forbes. The member of the crew returned some time later with a curious expression on his face. The house was just right for the director as it contained a top tower room which could be used for the séance.įorbes asked one of his crew to go and see if the owner would give permission to film in the house. They found what the wanted at a suitable gloomy pile in Wimbledon, South London. The fraudulent couples spooky, gothic home is the perfect haunted house backdrop to a ghost story without a ghost.ĭuring pre production Forbes and his crew toured London in search of locations to shoot the film, in particular the house where the séance of the title takes place and where the kidnapped child is held. On the surface the film is a crime drama, yet, underneath their simmers a tale which has a melancholy, atmosphere of loss and regret infused with a brooding eerie ambience. Yet, soon the couples plan to achieve notoriety and fame by Stanley’s fake psychic powers soon starts to unravel. A place where her husband has subsequently left the unharmed, but drugged and comatose child. While the police frantically search for the child, the medium visits the distraught parents and tells them that through her psychic abilities, she has located their kidnapped daughter. The girl is taken and held at the couples gloomy Victorian house. It tells the story of a neurotic, fraudulent, psychic medium (Stanley) who along with her ever faithful, but subservient, husband (Attenborough) plan to kidnap and hold for ransom the child of a wealthy businessman.
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