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5th January 2004
Below is an extract from the BBCi website that showcases Craig's
psychic history experiment.
Craig
Hamilton-Parker says he can sense the history of an object
simply by looking at it.
We challenged Craig with three historical objects, and offered
you the same challenge.
Item three is a clay death mask, cast from the head of
a murderer, Jonah Deathridge, who was hanged in Dorchester
prison in 1869. At the time it was thought that the bumps
on a persons head could reveal their character, and the practice
of frenology (feeling the bumps) became popular. This particular
clay head was used as a test piece for trainee frenologists!
Craig struggled at first, wrongly thinking that the head was
female. Then he correctly stated that a murder was involved
and that the piece is the deathmask of a man.
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What did
you think about item two? Were you right? Some of your answers
are below.
| Aaron, Southampton |
| Tricky one this -a bit androgynous.
But wait I have it ! It was the head of a crash test dummy
used by a Salisbury chariot manufacturer. The head may
have been styled on Boudicaa's. |
| Sheri, Kewaskum |
| it is a replica of what the skeliton
would look like as a person with muscles and skin and
is for teaching forensic type schooling. |
| Louise, Sunderland |
| skull that was found,and moulded
into the person |
| Alexander, Canterbury |
| A man who pioneered this new library.
I see a big library. He had an idea of what he wanted
of it. |
| Anette, Liverpool |
| a clay build up of a decompossed
body that was found belonging to a male aged about 40 |
| Joy, Birmingham |
| this item was made to attempt to
see what the person looked like. it seems to be a very
old person. I feel that the person was found and was bones.feel
that these bones were found in marsh land and may have
been for some kind of ritual. feel that the land where
this came from was very cold and also see a lot of tall
trees there. this feels as if it happened a very long
time ago. Feel that there is a kind of ritualistic reason
behind this. |
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