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Michael Jackson's psychic The ghost hunters were led into the betrayed that trust. ” Jailing him, he also banned Lang from dies after predicting own stables of the hotel when Mr Date asked a spirit practising as a medium, clairvoyant, spiritualist to knock twice in answer to a question. And the death guests were hushed as two “ghostly” knocks or healer for 10 years. were heard from the ceiling above. Mr Francis said: “A member of staff and This date in science: First A WELSH psychic to Hollywood stars a member of the public wanted to see if including Michael Jackson has died after someone came down from the attic where the radio signal beamed to "predicting her own passing". knocking was coming from. Twenty minutes space Lillian Lane, claimed to be the number went by and then this guy jumped down. Our one celebrity psychic in Los Angeles, died on staff grabbed the guy and threw him out.” October 9 after a friend said she had predicted Ghost hunt guest Mike Grimble, 43, said November 16, 1974. This is the anniversary of her own death. the attic man claimed he was homeless and had the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately She worried she would die after being nothing to do with the spooky sounds. beamed into space with the intention of diagnosed with non-alcoholic liver disease last But sceptic Mr Grimble said he was contacting alien life. The broadcast formed part year, and she also battled with diabetes. wearing “designer jeans”. He claimed Mr Date of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade Dr Suzanne Yessayan, a friend and drove away from the hotel shortly after the man to the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. colleague of Ms Lane, said: "It is tragic. She had was caught. The broadcast consisted of a pattern of predicted her own passing and, on this occasion, Mr Francis said that Mr Date had been binary numbers. This message contained I hoped her prediction was wrong." banned from the hotel. information about the basic chemicals of life, Ms Lane, who died aged 53, hit the big He said: “We gave him the keys to the the structure of DNA, Earth’s place in our solar time after her encounters with Michael Jackson. hotel around 4pm in the afternoon to set up and system and even a stick figure of a human. Click She claimed he had contacted her for a I think he used that time to put someone in the here for an explanation of each part of the consultation while in London for a concert. attic. During the hunt later that night he was message. After a number of phone calls between calling out to the ghost world and asked for It took three minutes to send 1,679 bits the pair, Jillian, originally from Barry in South them to knock as an answer. of information – a snail’s pace compared to Wales, was asked to fly to America to help the “Well, it sounded like someone modern computer modems. According to the popstar.She was then forced to visit the Thriller knocking on the front door. He wanted his first SETI Institute: singer often during the night to avoid the evening running a ghost hunt to go with a bang The broadcast was particularly paparazzi onslaught outside his home. but it backfired in a big way.” Mr Date denied powerful because it used Arecibo’s megawatt Ms Lane had spoken about her sessions he planted a colleague in the attic to pretend to transmitter attached to its 305 meter antenna. with the popstar after his death in 2009. be a ghost. He said: “Absolutely not. It was The latter concentrates the transmitter energy She said: "Michael was a very sensitive guy and nothing to do with me, that is one of the reasons by beaming it into a very small patch of sky. The would hate what was usually written about him, that I left. emission was equivalent to a 20 trillion watt especially around the time of his trial for child “The knocking did not sound like what I omnidirectional broadcast, and would be abuse in 2005. am used to. I said on several occasions that it detectable by a SETI experiment just about "The one thing he seemed to lack was was odd, the noise was too extreme. I have got anywhere in the galaxy, assuming a receiving the one thing money couldn't buy - genuine a very good track record. It’s disgusting, I antenna similar in size to Arecibo’s. friendship." would never do that. At the time, some people expressed Dr Yessayan, 66, said working with the “I take what I am doing very seriously. It concern. They felt we shouldn’t be attempting 'King of Pop' was Jillian's "crowning glory". was a ghost hunt. No mediumship was promised to reveal Earth’s location in space to unknown She said: "She was a very giving, – it’s a fun ghost tour around the hotel.” alien civilizations. The 1974 signal went out in nurturing person and she could not understand the direction of M13, a globular star cluster how he was vilified by the press." Psychic jailed for tricking orbiting the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It She was laid to rest at Barry Cemetery was chosen mainly because it’s a large on Thursday after spending 40 days in an LA girl into performing like a collection of stars, that was available in the sky hospital before being flown back home to South porn star at the time and place of the ceremony Wales where she spent her last two months. [] Global star clusters are very far away. M13 is about 23,000 light-years from Earth. Psychic 'used mystery The 1974 signal is 39 light-years from man in hotel attic to spook Karl Lang, 49, “brainwashed” the two victims, us today. Bottom line: The first radio signal aged 26 and 27, using an “almost hypnotic ghost hunters' ability”. He encouraged one woman to “perform intentionally sent to space with the idea of contacting alien life was beamed outward from like a porn star” and told the other victim that he the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico on A PSYCHIC was yesterday accused of making was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Cardiff November 16, 1974. [] things go bump in the night by using an Crown Court heard. accomplice to make knocking noises during a The spiritualist, of Newport, South “haunted hotel” tour. Wales, who says he has been speaking to the Chris Date, a paranormal medium, dead since he was four, was found guilty last spooked guests when the spirits made contact. month of 12 counts of causing women to engage But staff later discovered a man had been hiding in sexual activity without consent between 2005 in the attic. and 2009. The court heard how Lang, who has Mr Date, who calls himself “Knight spoken at hundreds of spiritual churches around Guider”, reportedly told guests at the £12-a- Britain and attracted crowds of up to 1,000, told head tour he could contact the spirit world. the women they could enhance their chances of But the hotel owner revealed how his contacting dead relatives by acting staff spotted a mystery man climbing down outrageously. from the roof of the hotel. Matthew Roberts, prosecuting, said: Mr Date, 38, said yesterday he was “He brainwashed them.” unaware of the man in the attic at the Halfway Judge Patrick Curran told Lang: “This Hotel, Llanelli, South Wales. was designed to be more and more gross and it Hotel owner Paul Francis, 33, said there could only have been for your own sexual were 14 paying guests on the “ghost hunt”. gratification. They put their trust in you and you