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 Mentalist
shut down radio station
In the Big Apple the question is whether or not self professed mentalist
Kreskin actually shut down a New York City radio station.
He believes that he did, but WOR on 700 kHz says otherwise.
Here's the story.
According to news reports, Kreskin was a guest on WOR's "The Joey
Reynolds Show." He was attempting an experiment where he was going
to make listeners feel like they were freezing cold, using his power of
suggestion. Kreskin instructed listeners to turn off their air conditioning,
and to reflect on the coldest experience of their life.
After conditioning his subjects, he told them that after he
spelled his name twice, K-R-E-S-K-I-N, and says the phrase, "chill
out," they were all going to experience an uncanny arctic chill throughout
their body.
After spelling his name twice and shouting, "chill out," Kreskin
says that instant pandemonium broke out in the control room of the radio
station. WOR Radio went off the air for at least 30 seconds and the mentalist's
public relations team says everyone at the station was asking if it was
conceivable that The Amazing Kreskin shut down the
network with his mental abilities? Did Kreskin zap WOR Radio Network?
Not so, says a station spokesman. Radio World magazine checked the story
out with WOR engineering executive Tom Ray tells. Ray told Radio World
that it was not Kreskins mind but an engineers finger that took the station
off.
Ray says that the board op accidentally hit a button on the Uninterruptible
Power Supply system that interrupted it. That's what dumped the studio
and it had nothing to do with Kreskin, Tom Ray says.
ARNewsLine
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