Fake Psychic [Drama]

But Lamar Keene didn't go quietly. He published a tell-all expose in which he confessed that he was little more than a conman, a psychic fraudster, who manipulated people in their most vulnerable moments. And in doing so, he catalogued the many physical and psychological tricks he used to separate his followers from their money.

It wasn't just his own carefully-crafted reputation that Lamar Keene sought to destroy. He wanted to blow the whistle on the whole industry. He claimed that he had been part of a national underground network that included many other psychics, clairvoyants and mediums, who combined forces to fleece the unsuspecting public. He called it the “psychic mafia, ? and said that his confession made him a marked man.

But how much can we trust the revelations of a self-confessed conman? How much of Lamar Keene's extraordinary story is really true? And what can it tell us about how our emotions affect belief and our susceptibility to misinformation?

The series includes extracts from the book Psychic Mafia by Lamar Keene as told to Allan Spraggett, published by 1878 Press.

Dorothy . . . . . Lorelei King

Andrija . . . . . Michael Begley

Tom . . . . . Neil McCaul

Lillian . . . . . Christine Kavanagh

Warden . . . . . Chris Jack

Vicky Baker investigates the story of Lamar Keene, a renowned psychic who confessed to being part of an underground network that he called the 'psychic mafia'.