SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
Our host; Dr.G had his first paranormal experience at only eight years old. With over five decades of storytelling, magic and paranormal story collection he is an award winning story teller on a mission to revive firelight and the telling of stories!
SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
A Radio Illusion You Can Do At Home
We guide a hands‑on radio illusion you can do at home with ten cards or any matching items, ending with a whisper‑led reveal that feels like real mind reading. We close Doctober with gratitude and share our posting cadence moving forward.
• listener mail sparks a promise of more magic talk
• step‑by‑step setup using any ten similar items
• fair shuffles of two five‑card piles
• secret selection and packet merge
• free choice to discard one to four cards
• face‑up deal pattern for controlled chaos
• whisper focus to frame the reveal beat
• finale where the named card appears in hand
• Doctober wrap and plans for weekly releases
We’ll get at least one episode up a week when it’s not Doctober, sometimes more
Hey everybody, it's Dr. G from Spirit Tales and Magic. Several listeners have sent us both kinds of mail. I shouldn't distinguish between the two, mail's mail, but you know, email and snail mail. What's the magic part? Where's the magic talk? So let's do a radio illusion, if you will. You must have a deck of cards for this. Well, not true, actually. You must have ten things that are alike that have a picture or a group of numbers similar to a card deck, but it could be it could be ten different business cards. So we will start this out assuming you have a box of cards, but when we get to the part where you're dealing two poker hands, that's two piles of five. So you're going to end up with ten cards on the table. Those cards could be ten pulled pictures. You get the idea. So first, let's take the cards out of the box and shuffle them any way you like. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. You can throw them down on the table and do a casino wash. Your goal is to just make sure that all of the things are mixed up. Then you're going to hold the deck face down and deal two hands of poker. So that's five cards. So you're going to deal two of those. So you have a total of ten cards, that's two piles of five laying on the table in front of you. If you did it from a card deck, put the rest of it away. However, you did it with whatever you did it with, there's two piles of five in front of you. That's what we're going to use. So you now have two packets of cards. Pick up the one that is to your left and shuffle it. Mix it up however you want to. Put them back down where they were. Now, pick up the other pile and shuffle it as well. Again, mix it up any way you would like it to be. Now it's pretty fair to say that nobody living knows the order of these cards. I would like you to look at the top card of the packet to your right. You must remember this card. It's highly important that you remember it. If you have to jot it down on your hand or something, but remember whatever it is and return it to its position face down. Pick up the other pile and drop it on top of the pile on the table. Now all ten cards are together. Now I will admit that I do know where your card is. I don't know what it is, but counting to ten is a skill that I have. So I know exactly what position it's in, because I know how to count. So we're going to make it a little more difficult. You're going to get rid of some cards, but listen up. You're going to deal some cards off to the side, and we won't use them again. However, I'm going to let you decide whether to deal one card, two cards, three cards, or four cards. It is entirely your decision. So if you would deal one, two, three, or four cards away. Put them on the side where the rest of the cards are. We're not going to use those anymore. It's now reasonable that I don't know where your card is because I don't know how many cards you're now holding. Now you've mixed them up according to my directions. Now I'm going to mix them up just a little bit. So let's turn the packet face up. Deal the top card of the packet face up onto the table. Take the next card and move it from the top of the deck to the bottom. Put the next card on the table. Take the next card from the top and put it on the bottom. Continue that until you're out of cards. You're going to end up having one card left in your hand. And you're going to just set that down as well on the table. Now these cards are currently mixed up in an order that nobody knows. I don't know, and certainly you don't even know. So pick up the entire packet and hold it face down in your hand. This is when I want you to do a couple things for me. Just hold those cards in your hand, close your eyes for one moment, and think about your card. Now, if we were doing this in the theater or at a seance show, I would tell you, please make sure you don't whisper what it is or any of that sort of thing. But I'm here now and you're there. Some of you are thousands of miles away from me. And trust me, I don't have your house bugged, so if you want to whisper it, you can. Remove the top single card. Hold it face down in your hand. Whisper to yourself the name of your card. Don't do anything else. And let me think about that for a second. There is no connection to you in the card you're holding. Discard it into the pile of discards. Take the next card silently to yourself. Say the name of your card and picture it in your mind. Don't look at it, don't do anything else with it. Just picture the card that you picked. No. I'm not getting anything there either. That card has no association to you. Throw it in the discard pile. Take the next card, hold it in your hand. Don't look at it. Silently say the name of your card. Wait a moment. Say the name of your card again in a whisper to yourself. Picture the card in your mind. Now say the name of your card out loud and turn it over because it's in your hand. That's the magic part. I've had a great time this Doctober, and I hope you have too. Many, many more things to come. We'll get at least one episode up a week when it's not Doctober, sometimes more. So keep your eyes and ears on us. We appreciate you. Be safe. We'll talk in the next day or so, my friends. Good night.
