Leslie Ronald Young
Leslie Ronald 'Jimmy' Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show *The Jimmy Young Show*, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland.
Leslie Ronald "Jimmy" Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show The Jimmy Young Show, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland1.
On November 23, 1973, Young conducted a live on-air experiment with Uri Geller. Young asked Geller to bend a large key. Geller concentrated, and encouraged listeners across the United Kingdom to summon their own psychokinetic powers and bend metal in their homes. Live on national radio, Young exclaimed, "It’s bending right in front of me, I can’t believe it!"1.
Following the broadcast, the BBC switchboard was inundated with calls from citizens reporting metal objects in their homes inexplicably bending, and watches restarting. This event, which the Central Intelligence Agency referred to as "secondary consequences," led many people across Great Britain to believe they had bent metal with their own minds1.
Sources
- Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩
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