![]() And there’s a CIA guy with Project Stargate, the code name for the (real) secret government agency that explored psychic powers in humans, who used to work with Maureen. Wife Maureen is out of the picture, and the new generation of Telemachuses is showing signs of special powers. ![]() They take the show on the road until they are spectacularly debunked on live television.įast forward to the 1990s. ![]() They marry, and their three children also have psychic powers: Irene is a human lie detector Frankie has telekinesis and Buddy is clairvoyant. Early on, he thought it would be about con men in the 1970s who were pretending to have powers, but he eventually got to the point where he decided he’d have one con man, Teddy Telemachus, who meets a woman who really can astrally project. Gregory spent six months pondering the Telemachus family before he began writing the book. “I was always interested in these guys who claimed to have psychic powers and how they were really doing it.” “I grew up in Chicago in the ’70s, and Uri Geller was such a big thing, showing up on the ‘Tonight Show’ doing these amazing things,” Gregory says. Their story is both touching and hilarious, while affording a fascinating glimpse into the psychic world. ![]() The Telemachuses are famous on the psychic circuit, due to their feats performed on talk shows and late-night television. But then she said, ‘There are certainly a lot of characters, aren’t there?’ ” Gregory says with a chuckle. “Well, she’s my mom, so she said she liked it. ![]()
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