CHAPTER 14:
CAN WATCHING URI GELLER ON TV GET YOU PREGNANT?
NOTES
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CLARIFICATIONS
Three stories are slightly amagamated here. Geller did a few European tours in Europe in 1974. The pregnancy happened in early '74, and then the album happened later that year: the policeman reporting his keys bending happened but in a separate broadcast to the other two. Though it is possible one of the hundreds of people reported that the album bent their items could have been an officer of the law.
Chingis should read Cingris, and does appear in Scottish mythology as well as Irish.
When I say tours around the island, I mean boat tours around the island. The word boat seems to have disappeared somewhere.
COPPERFIELD
The haunted beach was designed by Copperfield.
Siegfried and Roy
I say their careers began when they met as magicians on a cruise ship. This should read as they began their careers as magicians on a cruise ship, where they met.
Okay - here we go, possibly the most monumental mess up of this book. A source led me to believe that Shirley MacLaine believed that Roy Horn died on the night of the attack from Mantacore and was replaced by a look-a-like. It’s true that while she most likely believed this, she believed it happened years before. So this means that the person mauled that night in 2003 was a clone. The article I took this from was incorrect, however on further investigation, the book it came from, which is cited as THE Siegfried and Roy book got it wrong too. They say the clone was his brother Ray. He didn’t have a brother called Ray. Perhaps Ray was a nickname. However, the book doesn’t mention a “Ray” anywhere else. Another article says Ray was his cousin, but I can’t track this down either. Anyway, apologies to Shirley MacLaine & Ray Horn, if he's out there.
SOURCES
URI GELLER
Woman sues Geller
https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/housewife_who_became_pregnant_after_watching_uri_geller
I have conflated the story of the woman with another event later that year when the album released was caused hundreds of people to call in. The police officer is hangover sentence from a previously cut bit of text, and also relates to another broadcast.
Noweigen defence minister asks about rockets
https://archive.org/details/urigellermystory00gellrich/page/34/mode/2up?q=rockets
Peace at gorbechev and disarmament
https://archive.org/details/sim_punch_1990-08-31_299_7806/page/n37/mode/2up?q=peace&view=theater
Stopping the ship
https://archive.org/details/urigellermystory00gellrich/page/36/mode/2up?q=gary
Buys lamb island in 2009
https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1601.html
The size of lamb island, Egyptian treasure, brought over by Scota
https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1601.html
https://www.urigeller.com/why-i-bought-lamb-island/
Did Scota exist
Witches
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/07/uri-geller-says-witch-bones-on-lamb-island-in-scotland-16595608/
Dowsing to find the treasure
https://www.urigeller.com/why-i-bought-lamb-island/
Buried Albert Einstein’s orb there
https://www.scotland.com/blog/uri-gellers-scottish-island-egyptian-treasure/
DAVID COPPERFIELD
https://www.grunge.com/406439/the-truth-about-david-copperfields-bahamian-islands/
Drawing the lines from two place
https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvqm4y/the-magicians-retreat-234098-v20n8
He purchases 1 island and then snaps up the surrounding 10 other islands
https://www.businessinsider.com/rent-david-copperfields-private-island-2015-9?r=US&IR=T
Quote about it
https://mushacay.com/why-musha-cay/
Out with his cutlass
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781439109427_0/page/204/mode/2up?q=cutlass
Copperfield quote to Reuters
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781439109427_0/page/108/mode/2up?q=reuters
Biologist and others hired
https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvqm4y/the-magicians-retreat-234098-v20n8
“Gollner also became privy to other odd things happening on these islands, like a haunted beach where, Gollner was told, Sherpas were going to make it snow. “
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This is in relation to the fact he was creating myths about his island. It wasn’t really haunted, it was his myth creating that it would be haunted
Designing the phone manual https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781439109427_0/page/188/mode/2up?q=manual
Gollner’s book and dipping leaves into the water. Also in this book is the thing about the telephone directories
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781439109427_0/page/208/mode/2up?q=manual&view=theater
SIEGFRIED AND ROY
Need to get to the bottom of if he ddied three times during surgery. Must have ead it somewhere. - this says “at least once” and that his heart stopped ‘multiple times’
https://abcnews.go.com/US/surgeon-treated-roy-horn-siegfried-roy-tiger-incident/story?id=65698836
October 3rd 2003, Roy’s birthday
https://www.rd.com/article/siegfried-and-roy-tiger-attack/
Microphone tap on face, Tiger bit into his neck and dragged him off stage, fire extinguishers
The quote
https://people.com/premium/roy-horn-tiger-saved-my-life/
Grace Kelly & The Cheetah / Pope & St Francis’s Shin bone
https://lngfrm.net/the-tragedy-of-vegas-magicians-siegfried-and-roy/
£1billion in ticket sales
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/17/vegas-siegfried-roy-tiger-wild-things-mystery-exotic-animal-sin-city-counter-terrorism
His skull being removed and put into his body on the second surgery
https://archive.org/details/secretlifeofsieg0000lave/page/n23/mode/2up?q=brain&view=theater
Mirages Secret Garden
https://mirage.mgmresorts.com/en/amenities/siegfried-roys-secret-garden-and-dolphin-habitat.html
White Bengal Tigers
https://animalcorner.org/animals/white-bengal-tigers/
Mantacore & The Beehive Hairdo
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/siegfried-roys-animal-handler-breaks-silence-tiger-mauling-alleges-cover-up-1197216/
Meeting on a cruise and smuggling a cheetah on board (Roy was not the ship magician at this point. Was he into magic?)
St. Francis of Assisi bone as a present
Gracce Kelly party, tiger Chico goes into the kitchen, 1 billion in ticket sales
Mantecore is a ‘ghost’ tiger. Rare once every 100 years
https://archive.org/details/secretlifeofsieg0000lave/page/n9/mode/2up?q=ghost&view=theater
Questions over the spelling of the tigers name -it was reported as Montecore, but Roy Horn in the obituary for the animal gave it as mantecore
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/obituaries/roy-horn-dead-covid.html
Steve Wynn - beehive - and quote
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/horrific-injuries-suffered-siegfried-roy-21879144
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/horrific-injuries-suffered-siegfried-roy-21879144
Homophobia attack
Counterterrorism las vegas department
Roy Horn death covid 19
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/obituaries/roy-horn-dead-covid.html
The ending of this chapter needs fixing
Shirley MacLaine apparently believed rumours that (her friend) Roy from Siegfried and Roy died in the tiger attack in Vegas and that Siegfried had hired a lookalike to take his place to keep their Vegas show going
https://pagesix.com/2008/04/04/and-poof-they-were-gone/
Ultrasonic attacks
https://archive.org/details/secretlifeofsieg0000lave/page/n13/mode/2up?q=wynn&view=theater
Snagged testicle
https://www.readersdigest.ca/home-garden/pets/worlds-most-famous-animals/
Theory of animal urine in the woman’s hair
https://www.grunge.com/727500/the-new-siegfried-and-roy-tiger-attack-theories-explained/
Mouth odour
https://nypost.com/2022/01/05/podcast-unveils-wild-theories-in-siegfried-roy-tiger-attack/
Shirley McClaine
https://pagesix.com/2008/04/04/and-poof-they-were-gone/