Self-styled spiritualist Chris Fleming, whose Biography Channel series Dead Famous: Ghostly Encounters is gearing up for its fourth season, told SCI FI Wire that he will branch out from celebrities into historical figures. For three years, Fleming has teamed up with British actress and skeptic Gail Porter to attempt contact with the spirits of Lucille Ball, Alfred Hitchcock, Buddy Holly, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Al Capone and others. This season, the real-life Mulder and Scully are going after Billy the Kid, Andy Warhol and Nat King Cole.
"This may be the last season," Fleming said in an interview. "We're on hiatus, and Gail has said she doesn't want to do this anymore." While taping the show in Los Angeles last year, Porter lost her long blond hair nearly overnight from the auto-immune illness alopecia. Fleming added that Porter is becoming less of a skeptic as she experiences some frightening moments, such as her body's being taken over by a spirit.
"Gail has seen and experienced a lot of things even beyond what we have on camera, but she doesn't want to believe it," Fleming said. "She begins to make excuses and clams up and pretends like things never really happened."
Recently, the duo tried to reach Rita Hayworth and Bing Crosby; Fleming said that Porter tried to rationalize and explain away some of the electronic voices and strange sounds recorded by their camera crew. "There are so many things that we didn't capture on camera, or things that were cut, like when we were in a bungalow in New Mexico and Gail heard someone weeping in a bathroom stall and no one was there," he said. "Then there was a series of footsteps, and she found nothing when she looked."
Fleming calls himself a "sensitive" and has recordings of spiritual contacts on his official Web site . For the future, he said that he wants to continue with his own paranormal show. "There is so much that we have recorded and you haven't seen," he said. "The show is edited to be scary, and a lot of what we saw isn't scary, but spiritual."
While shooting an upcoming episode of Dead Famous, Fleming said that he and Porter tried to contact Billy the Kid, but that she was felled by a spirit "walk-through": a ghost overtook her body. Some parts of that experience will make it into the final cut. But Porter insisted that nothing paranormal occurred.
In another episode, in which the pair reach out for late film star Rita Hayworth at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles, Fleming said they caught a ghost cat scampering across the screen. That footage doesn't make it into the show. "It very clearly wasn't dust, and I never saw anything like that ever captured on camera, and that's a shame," Fleming said. "But I am creating a show where I will try to convey the moral messages and spiritual understanding I have gathered from the three years of doing this. It should be more than just getting people scared. I've seen tons of ghosts. We can learn from them. We only use 10 percent of our brain and sight, and our hearing is not as good as other species. People need to open their eyes and turn the lights on to it." Dead Famous: Ghostly Encounters returns in the fall. ?Mike Szymanski
Source: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 0&id=36325
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