Transmission psychics are investigating truth or deception. Scandal on TNT: “Battle of Psychics” turned out to be a complete deception. "Frank Confession" about the "Battle of Psychics"

5 February 2019, 12:29

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✔️ About the film:
Now it's a three-part series.
The first episode was filmed a long time ago, in 2017. The work on the second two parts took two years, and now, all those who did not have time to watch the recent broadcast on TV can watch “Going to Hell” on YouTube. The film is in good quality, absolutely free, there are no obstacles to watching.

✔️ Lyrical digression about the show “Battle of Psychics”

Personally, I watched the Battle of Psychics. Curious, interesting, but I never went into details: is it all true or not, are there really psychics out there, or are they all scammers?
What made me think was an incident with one of the most prominent participants in the show - TATIANA LARINA

I also watched “The Battle of Psychics” with her participation, so I recognized her name in the news and had a general idea of ​​what was going on in her life. Knew that she married Yulia Mitkevich, also a psychic whom I met on the set. And this summer, Tatyana Larina, humiliated and insulted, came to Shepelev’s show “Actually,” where she talked about what SUDDENLY she found out about her husband’s infidelities, that all this time Julius had been deceiving her, promising children together, but in fact he was using her money, organizing orgies, and in general, he was a schizophrenic, a drug addict and raised his hand against his wife.

I looked at all this with wide open eyes and did not understand what could push a woman who was supposedly a psychic to the whole country to admit that she had no prophetic abilities and, one might say, admit to her own inferiority as a magician, thereby putting an end to her career.

HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE COULD DECEIVE A MEDIUM, a finalist of the 15th season of the Battle of Psychics, in such a banal way?!

But, after the divorce, Tatyana Larina, not at all embarrassed, continued to sell her services as a “shoemaker without boots.” Now on her official pages on social networks there are numbers by which those suffering can contact the “magician” to solve their problems.

Now let's move on to the film.

✔️ EPISODE 1 OF THE FILM “GOING TO HELL”

This is the episode that impressed me the most. If I started watching from episode 2, I would hardly continue watching, limiting myself to it. And if from 3, then it’s unlikely that I would even watch it to the end.

From the very first frames, this series amazes with the cynicism on the part of all those who call themselves magicians. Hidden camera footage is presented (therefore the quality is appropriate), where members of the film crew join the lives of pseudo-magicians from the inside, getting jobs in magic salons and call centers.

Here, one of the healers laughingly tells how a client, driven to despair, committed suicide directly during the session:

And this specialist talks about the “sweetest” clients: hopelessly ill and lonely women and old people who have no loved ones who can open their eyes:

Well, the most disgusting guy, bragging about how he personally robbed a woman without arms and legs to the skin:

Another specialist teaches how to talk correctly with doubters:

Here is a very interesting story about the level of education of those to whom people entrust their destinies.

It should have said “The eldest daughter drinks, the middle daughter does too”:

EARNINGS:

✔️ EPISODE 2 OF THE FILM “GOING TO HELL”

At the beginning of the second episode, already familiar to us MARAT BASHAROV claims that in the “Battle of Psychics” everything is happening for real. It is very interesting to watch how his facial expression changes after the message that the film crew personally intends to test the abilities of the participants in the battle. Impartially.

And in general, after this episode, my neutral attitude towards this presenter changed to disgust. He's disgusting. The way he gets around, trying to avoid direct questions, how he blames not psychics, but those who turned to them, is disgusting to watch...

As for the tests that the participants were asked to complete, the famous task of “finding the person in the car” was not accepted by anyone except one - LEDENEV.

And I think he agreed to this because he knows from his own experience that trust in higher powers in people is ineradicable, and no matter how he disgraces himself in front of the camera for his lack of abilities (except for acting), this will not deprive him of his earnings.

How this test ended for him - see in the film.

I will say one thing - it's quite fun.

How much does he earn by taking in people in need? As the story progressed, I kept my calculations and quietly went nuts... Mostly those in need are single women, childless, working in low-paid jobs.

So, 6 minute session will cost anyone 17 thousand rubles.

And this seemingly sweet person is never limited to one session. Knowing full well that, for example, a modest teacher will be forced to go into debt to pay for 20+ sessions, which can only be paid off with a miracle or with available real estate, he resorts to further deception until the “patient” is completely ruined. It receives up to 30 people per day. Accordingly, his profit is 510,000 rubles. HALF A MILLION A DAY. I highly recommend watching how the sessions go and what exactly he promises to keep the fish from falling off the hook.

NATALIA BANTEEVA

Now, in my opinion, she is more popular than Ledenev. Considered the most powerful magician in the country. A representative of the film crew came to her and printed out photos of three prominent personalities: the president of one of the countries, a gigolo and a pedophile. Whom did Natalya recommend as an ideal husband candidate - see for yourself. I won’t reveal the intrigue)

I was so surprised. The fact is that this is the person whom I trusted during the battle, when I no longer trusted anyone. He acted as a kind of skeptic, sedate, commanding respect. But it turned out that under his leadership a sharashka office was opened, where the main attraction - an aura reading machine, an aura camera - was run by his wife.

At the moment of watching, I suddenly felt ashamed of myself and of the fact that I had at least some modicum of trust in this person. As it turned out, it was in vain. On what principle the aura camera works and why each person gets different results is shown in great detail in the film “Going to Hell.”

A fairly impressive volume (the final part) of the program “Going to Hell” is dedicated to her. And this information became a real revelation for me. The fact is that Boris Sobolev is the last journalist who interviewed her.

ABOUT June Before watching the film, I had rather fragmentary information, and I didn’t have my own opinion about whether it should be trusted or not. After watching the film, everything fell into place. What I saw was more than enough to understand who she was and how to relate to her.

About communication with the Pope, Brezhnev, about her awards and how she, in front of witnesses - doctors, took on hopeless patients and how it all ended - everything is shown. From now on, I will pass all information about her through the prism of the facts received. And I recommend it to everyone)

✔️ EPISODE 3 OF THE FILM “GOING TO HELL”

This series, although interesting in its own way, was the least memorable for me. First, an independent examination of modern magicians from the “Battle of Psychics”. No longer as famous as Banteeva.

And then - the exposure of psychics who made a splash during the Soviet era - Roza Kuleshova, Nina Kulagina. We went back a little to the very distant past and told how the famous mystical photographs were taken... that's all, however.

I have nothing more to say. So that nothing catches your heart. I would call this series the weakest of all in terms of intensity of passions.

But on the whole, this is a trilogy that is worth watching in order not to be fascinated by the miracles that the screen and people’s rumors endow with people who differ from the average only in their total unprincipledness and willingness to do anything for money.

A still from the first episode, which fully explains the attitude of healers towards people. As for consumables.

A former participant in the “Battle of Psychics” exposed the creators of the program. On condition of anonymity, he told the 360 ​​TV channel how he was asked half a million rubles for reaching the finals of the show. According to him, the deal was offered immediately after the non-disclosure document was signed.

Getting into the show guarantees good earnings in the future, says the channel’s interlocutor. The average price tag for the services of former battle participants is 30 thousand rubles and more. The techniques of magicians and fortune tellers who did not appear in the program are cheaper.

The clients of various magicians are gullible and desperate people. They are ready to believe in anything as long as they get help. And, of course, a psychic who demonstrated his supposed abilities on television during a rating time throughout the country is more credible than someone who publishes an ad on the Internet. It is with this calculation that people who call themselves psychics go to fight for the title of magician of magicians.

The same desperate people become the heroes of the show. Roman Ksenofontov, with the help of the “Psychics Are Investigating” program, wanted to find his missing wife, but in the end he lost his job, and his daughter was bullied at school. Psychics on camera accused him of his wife’s disappearance; the program was shown several times throughout the country. The viewer simply does not see that this is actually a staged show, says Roman’s lawyer Alexander Chumakov:

“There is such a concept in the work of psychics as “hot reading,” when a person receives some information in advance and then it is broadcast as some kind of discovery. The psychics who worked on Roman’s case did not provide any information other than what was given to the visiting journalists in advance. Journalists arrive one or two days in advance, ask everything they can, including what kind of injuries there were, what kind of cars there were, and then only this information “suddenly,” like a revelation, comes to the psychics. Roman also hoped that suddenly these psychics were really worth something, meant something and that they would help. And he is an ideal accused: he had some kind of criminal record, and on the day of his wife’s disappearance they had a fight in public. And he was shown on camera as a villain, and it was all because of him.”

Roman won the dispute with TNT. The court banned the broadcast with his participation and ordered the TV channel to pay only five thousand rubles in moral damages to the plaintiff, although he asked for 5 million.

In addition, the lawyer said that the services of psychics after participating in the show are much more expensive on the market than those of their unpromoted colleagues. The average price tag is 30 thousand rubles per session. The winner of the first season, Natalya Vorotnikova, takes more modestly - 10 thousand. Zulia Radjabova(second season) does not indicate the price tag. Apparently, it works by agreement. Some of her clients write in reviews that the cost of a session can reach 80 thousand rubles.

None of the former members would speak to Business FM. But the radio station managed to talk to the secretary of fortune teller Victoria under the guise of an ordinary client:

Victoria accepts on time. 30 minutes - 10 thousand rubles, hour - 15 thousand rubles. This is fortune telling on tarot cards, on runes, on the hand, clairvoyance. This is a consultation. If there is some kind of work, then Victoria looks, but it’s all from 10 thousand. If you come again, our price does not change.

Is there any guarantee - it will help or not?

Depending on what you wanted, Victoria doesn’t do everything either. She does not search or treat.

If I'm haunted by failures.

She can look at what it comes from karmically or whether someone is doing something. Cleaning Victoria costs 10 thousand rubles, you won’t need to come. You leave your data and photos, Victoria cleans them. She makes amulets, they are used for protection, for work, for business, for love. Amulets are made for the new moon, they also cost 10 thousand rubles.

But even those who charge less and work with low-income audiences get hooked on their services. Income is guaranteed, says Samara resident Daria, who herself came across psychic scammers and began to expose them:

“I called one woman, she already saw on the phone that I had a certain crown of celibacy. She said that I would never get married or have children and that I needed to run to her for help. And by that time I already had a full-fledged family and a child. When I told her that she was cheating on me, she blocked me. The other psychic seemed normal at first, but she managed to extract all the information from me, and then presented it as if she had felt everything. She took a thousand rubles from me.”

Another bonus: after the show, psychics become TV stars, for example, reading horoscopes on camera, and this provides high ratings for TV channels.

The Russian show “Battle of Psychics” is a Russian adaptation of the British Britain’s Psychic Challenge. There are similar shows in the USA, Israel, and Australia, and they are extremely popular. But this is no longer magic, but the professionalism of the team.

Mage Namtar Enzigal was caught red-handed by Boris Sobolev

At the beginning of January "Russia 1" a series of films premiered "Going to Hell" journalist Boris Sobolev, where the aura of mystery around Russian magicians and psychics was consistently and reasonably destroyed. They appeared as ordinary charlatans, feasting like vultures on human pain and weaknesses.

Sobolev’s two-year work included filming with a hidden camera revelations from the mouths of the show’s winners on TNT, producers of this show, as well as other persons associated with this, as it turned out, business. The journalist interviewed the TV show host Marat Basharova, which appeared in a very unfavorable light. After listening to accusations that the show was staged, Marat responded with a stock phrase about the genuine tears of the characters, but could not find anything to answer when Sobolev accused the producers of leaking and selling the data of test participants. Marat said that he was offered a million to give one of the show's participants incorrect tips, and also “joked” that the owners of the magic business should pay him interest.

Sobolev brought many stars of the mystical TV show to light: Namtara Enzigal, Roman Fada, Mehdi Ebrahimi Vafa and many others. There was a storm on the Internet. Marat Basharov had to make a statement about the ill-fated films. The actor responded radically, saying that he did not know Sobolev, that he was talking with another journalist, and that the entire interview was a forgery and a television edit.

Marat Basharov:

“I told you that there was no fraud or setup in this. And you didn’t understand my joke, like, they paid me a million dollars for giving the wrong advice. There is a contradiction within this joke, highlighting the absurdity of the statement. I called those who don’t understand this fools. "Battle of Psychics" does not take bribes and does not sell tips. If you blame prove it."

Sobolev responded by posting on his YouTube channel interview sources, where it is clear that Basharov actually talked with Sobolev.

Meanwhile, passions are flaring up on the Internet: Internet magicians and healers of all stripes began to talk in their own way about what they saw. In the wake of the hype, many popular bloggers recorded their thoughts on the topic of extrasensory perception and the show “Battle of Psychics,” Boris Sobolev himself has already become the subject of several interviews. And TV viewers even made a petition demanding that the “Battle of Psychics” be closed.

On the official page of the program on the Internet, new comments are constantly appearing with requests to organize a boycott of the TV show. People never tire of writing YouTube:

“I would like to thank all those who worked on this project for 2 years (!) and personally Boris Sobolev for the work done! I sincerely admire the care, impartiality and wit with which you approached the matter. So all of them! Including Basharov and Safronov! (Oh, they were spinning around like snakes in a frying pan!). Thanks to such investigations, faith in honest, incorruptible, real journalism still remains. Thank you! Bravo! P.S. We can only wish that this film would be watched by as many people as possible who continue to believe in all these “seers” and “healers””;

“I would like to note the correct sarcastic and ironic presentation of this film; it turned out very charming. And this is coupled with a relevant message, which is clear to every sane person, but the ignorant should familiarize themselves with so as not to get into trouble again. Bravo, Boris Sobolev, you and your team are great. It’s a pity that this material is rather an exception to the general content of this TV channel.”*

The 19th season of the show “Battle of Psychics” is currently airing on TNT.
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And here is the article for 2017:

Mikhail Porechenkov: “They pay for tips”

In the 10 years since “Battle of Psychics” has been published, 17 seasons have already been filmed. Each of them had their own stars. Having become famous, former participants in the battle earn a lot of money. One hour of their work costs an average of 15-40 thousand rubles.

The flow of magicians and witches does not dry out from season to season. Whatever the participant, the second Vanga and Nostradamus. And the audience is still haunted by the question: “Battle of Psychics” – true or a lie?

The former host of the show, Mikhail Porechenkov, added fuel to the fire.

“I worked with them for a long time. Bullshit, as they used to say in childhood. It’s all lies!” - Mikhail arranged an expose of the “Battle of Psychics” on the air of “Our Radio”.

Of course, I want to believe in a miracle, but how can one not accept as truth the words of the man who hosted the show from the 1st to the 7th season. Porechenkov told what the “Battle of Psychics” really is.

“At first it was very interesting to work. We really believed it, and then we understood the technology of work. There are people who give advice, who enter into contracts with them in advance. And when I realized that this was bringing money to someone, I left there. There were moments when the participants understood something. Although none of the psychics passed the test with which I came to them.”

How magicians work outside of the show

People talked about the fact that psychics pay for tips on forums back in 2009:

“One of the participants in one of the battles is the sister of my friend. It's all true, not staged, not a show. But there are those who pay, and they are pulled in and give the correct answers to the questions asked.”

“I know a psychic from the very first battle. The tasks are real, but the winners are really pushed and paid for.”

Someone tested the strength of the former battle participants on themselves.

“I went to an appointment with Zulia Radjabov (the winner of the 2nd season - Ed.), writes Alina. - I almost burst into tears with frustration because everything was gone! And about me and about my family. I gave 95 thousand.”

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However, not everyone criticizes psychics.

“I visited Natalya Vorotnikova (the winner of the 1st season - Ed.), writes a user under the nickname Van. - He doesn’t talk about the past, mostly about the future. At first I thought it was nonsense, but four years later almost everything came true. And she said it herself, didn’t ask anything.”

Julia Wang - psychic, socialite, model, actress, singer, hairdresser, reincarnation of Goebbels. Winner of the “Battle of Psychics”


Julia carefully hides her age, but the public believed that she was definitely over 30. Recently, her real date of birth appeared on the Internet - October 29, 1981. It is impossible to consider it accurate, since sometimes others appear. For example, October 19 instead of October 29, different years of birth - 1979, 1978 or 1988. In addition, Julia Wang's real name and surname are known. Actually her name is Yulia Vladimirovna Gavrikova.


The psychic states that she was born in Germany. In fact, she is from a small village called Neklyudovo, Borsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Julia considers her real father to be the spirit who initiated her into the secrets of existence. She mentioned that at the age of 12 she broke the head of the family with a brick due to domestic violence. Whether this is true is unknown.


Yulia Gavrikova began her modeling career at a young age, from the Nizhny Novgorod Model House. In the 90s, when she turned 17, she left with her mother to conquer Moscow. She takes a pseudonym more suitable for a model who wants to achieve a lot - Julia Wang. At the same time he studies vocals. During her short singing career, another pseudonym appeared - Flora. She achieved a certain popularity, performing in the capital's nightclubs until 2005.

Some oddities of Yulia Gavrikova deserve special attention. Her obsession with David Bowie has been going on since she was six. She believes that his texts are dedicated to her; he has been coming to her in dreams and the astral plane since childhood. I'm sure there is true love between them. Screenshots of her correspondence with a person who wished to remain anonymous were recently released. On them you can read about her fanaticism regarding Bowie. Interesting fact - he beats up a model in the astral plane. Wang calls the relationship with her “husband” torture. Perhaps these stories are a way to attract attention, because Julia Wang was not the only one who used such techniques. For example, Zhanna Aguzarova described emigration to America as an attempt to marry David.


The opinions of famous people about Julia Wang are often negative. Her ex-boyfriend, singer Danko, says that she is not a psychic, but an ordinary glamorous party girl, of which there are many. Alexander Gradsky forbade his son to communicate with her. TV presenter Ekaterina Gordon claims that he is going to sue “Battle of Psychics” as a project in which her former hairdresser Yulia Gavrikova is passed off as a clairvoyant.
Julia had to answer numerous questions about working as a hairdresser and Catherine. She claims that they are strangers: it's all about jealousy towards her ex-husband, a friend of Wang. But she was never interested in a career as a hairdresser.

Now Julia Wang looks like this. She does not conduct receptions, but sells homemade avatar dolls and spirits.

The sorcerers responded to Mikhail Porechenkov.

The reality show “Battle of Psychics” is at the epicenter of a scandal. The country is figuring out what kind of project this is? A huge scam or a unique experiment? Testing phenomenal abilities or the degree of gullibility of naive spectators?

Mikhail Porechenkov, who was at the origins of the creation of the “Battle of Psychics,” did not seem to be going to loudly expose anyone. I just said a couple of phrases on the radio about a project that I haven’t been working on for a long time. And he caused a real storm!

I worked with them for a long time. Bullshit, as they used to say in childhood. All lies! Yes, completely. I'm telling the truth. Have I upset everyone? - the actor asked the audience.

It turned out that I was so upset! Moreover, both the audience and the psychics themselves. And those who firmly believe in sorcerers and witches, rituals and shamanic dances, and those who believe that they themselves have a unique gift, immediately took up arms against the former presenter. They accused him of deciding to do self-PR in the name of a program whose ratings were off the charts.

The profession of a psychic - under different names - is clearly older than the profession of an actor. Personally, speaking at the “Battle,” I did not doubt for a minute the superpowers of my main rivals,” the white witch was indignant. - The spotlights go out - and ordinary life begins, that is, clients with their problems. So the title of psychic has to be justified every day! But for actors it is always important to attract the attention of the public. In different ways. And just like Mikhail.

But there were also those who rejoiced: finally a man was found who brought the charlatans who were fooling honest people into the open! There was even a call to close the “Battle of Psychics” on social networks, and to outlaw the “wizards” themselves!

DISCLOSURE OF PARTICIPANTS

However, it was not Porechenkov who began to discredit “Battle”. The reality show has been running on the TNT channel for 10 years. And all these years there are skeptics who claim: in fact, there is no miracle. All this is a staged show, played out according to the script. And not only amateurs - among the participants there are also professional artists.

The soothsayer Julia Wang, for example, graduated from acting courses at GITIS and was not famous for any special abilities before appearing on the show. She, then still Yulia Gavrikova, was busy with her film career: she starred in episodes of “Day Watch”, “The Best Film”, and appeared in the series “Balzac’s Age, or All Men Are Theirs...”. Well, when she came to the “Battle”, she quickly changed her biography and began to say that she was born from an alien.

But the shaman Ekaterina Ryzhikova - the one who looks more like a city madwoman - is actually a teacher at a children's film studio and the head of a theatrical art laboratory at the Stas Namin Theater.

Many other participants in the “Battle” also appeared in the acting field. On the Internet you can find dozens of sites where critics from the people dismantle the show literally to its bones and expose the participants.

They notice foreign objects in the frame, telling the sorcerers where the person is hiding. They find fraud in the program. Let's say here is a gravestone from afar, the date of death is visible on it. Change of frame - and now it’s a completely different year. One that fits into the concept of the story that “everyone in this family died within 12 years of each other”...

Viewers also found a girl who in one of the seasons was seen in a photograph allegedly “dead.” The beauty is alive and well, shining in the crowds of other TV shows.

All these blatant blunders in the program convince viewers that “Battle” is just a performance. And sometimes it's whipped up...

“I myself haven’t believed in “Battle” for a long time,” says clairvoyant Ziraddin Rzayev, finalist of the sixth season. - I have been critical in recent years. If at first it was a competition of professionals, now it is just a show. Participants know how to surprise by talking about the past. But this doesn't mean anything. Let them predict the future better, and it will be recorded by several media outlets. If it comes true, then the person is really worth something.

“NEGOTS ARE NOT ENOUGH FOR ALL SEASONS”

But the participants in the “Battle,” as it turns out, not only cannot predict someone else’s future, they also cannot see their own. That's why they constantly get into all sorts of troubles and shameful situations.

For example, the clairvoyant Irik Sadykov, having learned that they were looking for the missing Ilyin family in the Moscow region, offered his services in finding the parents and child. Arriving at the scene, he said: no, they didn’t drown, they were alive - they were kidnapped. He spoke loudly and poured out details. And literally half an hour later, divers lifted the bodies of the drowned from the bottom...

The high-profile PR that Irik was counting on did not work out.

After participating in the “Battle,” the price tag for the services of sorcerers and magicians grows by leaps and bounds: the cost of admission starts from 20 thousand and often exceeds a hundred. People in trouble bring their last money to change their fate, to receive hope or news about loved ones.

Alexey Druzhkov from Kurgan, as he himself says, is a sorceress Ilona Novoselova
for 30 thousand rubles she convinced him that his brother was alive and working at a construction site. Soon the man’s body was found; it turned out that he had been killed several months ago. “She's a fraud! He’s profiting from people’s grief!” - the deceived viewer cannot come to his senses.

You must understand that there are not so many unique specialists, nuggets in the country, there cannot be enough of them for all seasons, so all participants cannot be called professionals, explains psychic parapsychologist Daria Mironova. - In the first season, when I participated, everything was fair.

And now I assume that the “Battle of Psychics” has turned into purely commercial program.

All project participants are bound by a non-disclosure agreement regarding the terms of participation in the show. But their loved ones often spill the beans.

“I myself witnessed the drain,” says the ex-girlfriend of the “black doctor” Evgenia Znagovana. - He was sent by email in advance a complete description of the next test, all the information about those people who would come with their problem, facts about their lives. So that on the set he would amaze everyone with something that no one knew.

HOW MUCH DOES VICTORY COST?

Kursk astrologer Pavsekakiy Bogdanov assures: everything was bought in the show “Battle of Psychics”. If you want to go to the next stage, pay. Need a win? Give me 100 thousand dollars and call yourself the best.

All participants are scammers! - Bogdanov declares loudly. “Then people sell the latter in order to get an appointment with them, but these charlatans cannot help. Why weren’t I, Dzhuna, Chumak, Kashpirovsky invited to the program - us, who through our hard work earned the right to be called a psychic? Back in 2007, when the “Battle of Psychics” began, I wrote an open letter to the management of TNT with an appeal: “Stop the fuss of clowns!”

Former participants also tried to ban the program - those who lacked either money or the ability to make it to the finals. Yolanta Voronova filed a lawsuit against TNT last fall.

I want to stop deceiving people who go to the winners of the “Battle of Psychics” for huge amounts of money. These favorites work according to the script. They are not psychics, but actors! Let them write in the credits: the role of Pakhom was played by Sergei Pakhomov! - she is indignant.

“THERE IS NO SCRIPT!”

But Ilya Sagliani, who was an independent expert on several programs, believes that everyone cannot be sized up with the same brush. Different people come to the casting of the project - one goes just to promote himself, the other - try your hand, and the third - show your unique abilities.

“All the characters and their stories in the program are real,” he assures. - And there is no script! Whatever result the psychic gave was the one that went on the air. Of course, there are those on the show who became “psychics” five minutes before coming to the “Battle”. But many specialists amazed me with their gift - Kazhetta, for example, or Nicole. They helped me with advice and predicted the future. Ziraddin Rzayev, for example, once said that I would work on television and buy a blue car. Three years have passed, I have already forgotten his words. But everything came true! And my car is blue!

Ilya, like Marat Basharov, who has been running the program for the last seven years, was surprised by Porechenkov’s words that “everything is a lie.” He believes that, perhaps, Mikhail is expressing some kind of personal resentment towards the creators of the project. Iranian psychic Mehdi Ibrahimi Vafa, winner of the third season of “Battle,” agrees with him:

I would like to note that Mikhail Porechenkov once asked me to help his close friend, who was depressed. If he thought I was a charlatan, would he do it?

Meanwhile, more than 200 people have already gathered for the casting of the new season of “Battle”, who also call themselves psychics. And, probably, there is a possibility that among them there will be at least one real one. Or maybe the only real magicians on the program are those who create this show? Editors and directors who can make anyone, even the most random participant, a star?..

ANOTHER OPINION

Vlad Kadoni: It turns out that Porechenkov is a liar?

The host of “House-2” Vlad Kadoni could not ignore the controversy that flared up around “Battle”. After all, he himself fought twice for the title of the strongest psychic in the country and knows the entire “kitchen” of the TV show from the inside.

Vlad, how do you feel about Porechenkov’s recent words that the “Battle of Psychics” is “a bullshit, a lie”?

- It seems to me that it turned out that Mikhail set himself up. After all, whatever one may say, these words are against himself. Let's assume that "Battle" is a show with actors. Then it turns out that Porechenkov himself is a liar, who for three years, working as the host of this project, led everyone by the nose - he convinced viewers that psychics were real, although he himself knew that this was not the case.

Then how did he look into the eyes of those who came to the site with their pain for help - the mothers of killed and missing children, the relatives of those to whom misfortune happened? It turns out that he knew that the participants in the “Battle of Psychics” were charlatans and the entire program was a cruel setup, and together with everyone else, he fooled everyone for seven seasons for a good salary?

- But, they say, Porechenkov had a non-disclosure agreement - he could not immediately tell the truth.

There is no criminal liability for disclosing the secret of the creation of a program. You cannot go to jail - you only face a fine. Why didn’t he declare at the very first filming that he would not participate in this and leave, slamming the door? Therefore, an intelligent person will understand that he simply decided to lie, playing on a provocative topic. All this is cheap PR.

They forgot about Mikhail a little, and he decided to create an information occasion. In my opinion, very unfortunate. And he has already had such mistakes - everyone remembers the huge scandal he created against the backdrop of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, when he was photographed with a weapon in his hands in Donetsk.

Stas Sadalsky “looked” into the future in his blog: “Vlad Kadoni was detained. I had with me photographs of Mikhail Porechenkov, as well as a small human figure with a needle stuck into it.” It's clear that this is a joke. But tell me honestly: should we really be afraid of magicians and psychics? Shouldn't they cross the road?

You should be afraid of stupid people. You can always come to an agreement with smart and adequate people. I don’t know what needs to happen to me for me to really be puzzled by the damage to someone’s life. When I was young, I used to scare people with this. But those were more teenage frustrations. Unfortunately, you only understand the value of life over the years...

“I DON’T WANT TO IMPOSE MYSELF ON SOCIETY”

- You returned to Dom-2 as a presenter. Do magical techniques help on the project?

I left extrasensory perception and esotericism at the gates and fundamentally do not use any of my abilities. This would be dishonest to the audience: they must understand what is happening on the project, and for this the participants themselves, and not psychics, must speak. And in general, I use my abilities exclusively for myself and my loved ones and do not demonstrate them to anyone else.

- So you ended your career as a magician?

No, but now I don’t accept other people. I'm tired of struggling with hopeless stupidity. You open the Internet and read: “He’s not a psychic - he’s on Dom-2,” “That’s not what psychics look like” - and so on.

I don’t want to impose myself on society. It was brought up by Hollywood films and primitive laws of marketing. Now I'm more into traditional science. I worked in the field of psychiatry in a closed center for about two years. Now I’m gaining a different experience at Dom-2.

You probably regularly review your future? Are you clearing out difficulties along your path and attracting the necessary events?

I never do this. And to mom (witch Elena Golunova. - Red .), who is engaged in practice, I will never allow this to happen. I want to go through all my difficulties myself, without magical help. If, for example, I run to my mother for help, I will not learn to solve the problem on my own, which means I will become dependent on her gift - I will not take an extra step without her advice and will be doomed to receive constant nourishment.

- What about those people who go to psychics? Are they doomed too?

Not always. A person who cannot cope on his own needs to go to someone stronger. It’s like when you’re sick, it’s better to go to the doctor and not self-medicate. But if you are a doctor yourself and your mother is a doctor, then you don’t need to ask her for a prescription every minute.

"I'LL BE A CRAZY DADDY"

- Vlad, is there any way to have magical support without turning to psychics?

With my colleagues, the best psychics in the country, we created a subtle thing from an esoteric point of view - magic in perfumery. Psychics charge special substances for money, for marriage, for good luck - and they are used to create fragrances. Two famous politicians and several show business stars already have such perfumes.

- So you started this kind of business?

Yes, and not only that. I also opened a beauty salon. He brought together masters - make-up artists and hairdressers - who work with stars, with public people, and know how to create a holistic image.

Have you and Anna Devitskaya, the former producer of the “Battle of Psychics”, been together for six years? Why haven't you gotten married yet?

I proposed to her once - she refused. We didn’t communicate for almost six months after that. Now, perhaps, Anya would answer differently, but I do not want to repeat myself.

-Are you planning on having children?

It’s too early for me to dream about them, I’m not ready. I won't be much of a teacher. Children give me a fit of emotion. And if I have a child now, I will simply torture him with my care. I will turn into a crazy dad who is not able to grow a full-fledged personality. So let's wait until I'm ready...

The show “Battle of Psychics” is still a mystery to television viewers. Many fans of the show doubt that real magicians, witches and shamans participate in the “Battle”. Alexander Sheps, a participant in the 14th season of the “Battle of Psychics,” tried to dispel the myth that everything on the show was rigged.

Not everyone believes that a person can have paranormal abilities. According to Alexander Sheps, everything that happens on the set of the program is the real truth. But in order to finally debunk the rumor about staged tests and actors instead of psychics, he cited specific facts that you can’t argue with.

Alexander Sheps admitted that when he was casting for the “Battle of Psychics,” he, like many TV viewers, thought that everything was going strictly according to the script, and that only those who could play their role well would get into the program.

In fact, the show's script is based only on the staging of the tests. And the way psychics behave is pure improvisation. That is why the “Battle of Psychics” does not lose its popularity from year to year.

Another important confirmation that the “Battle” is a real struggle between psychics - the heroes of the program. Alexander Sheps said that psychics investigate real events and communicate with real people who turned to the program for help.

Not every person who has experienced grief will be able to tell the whole country about it; this requires a good reason. Such heroes have already come to the “Battle of Psychics” in season 14. These are relatives of the deceased hockey player Ruslan Salei from the Lokomotiv club, the parents of a tragically deceased boy from Dzerzhinsk, residents of a village near Moscow where an evil spirit lived.

Over all the seasons, a large number of ordinary people who needed the help of psychics took part in the “Battle of Psychics.” Alexander Sheps believes that the program would not be so interesting if actors participated in it.

As for the psychics themselves, Alexander Sheps said one interesting thing about this. As it turned out, a large number of people come to the casting who claim to have paranormal abilities. But only a few pass all the tests in the qualifying round. According to Sheps, of the 12 psychics, only half successfully passed the qualifying round. Since the organizers needed to recruit a certain number of participants, they had to invite to the “Battle” those who more or less coped with the tasks at the casting. Alexander Sheps did not disclose the names of those of his rivals who got onto the show not on merit. But, as he claims, in the 14th season of "Battle" there are those who really have the right to call themselves psychics.

It is worth saying that after six years of broadcasting, “Battle of Psychics” is still popular on Russian television and is one of the highest rated programs. For all this time, there was not a single piece of evidence that this show was a production. Psychics who have proven their paranormal abilities in the program still help people and actively develop their gift further. If you are interested in other secrets of the program, put and

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Alexander Sheps, a participant in the 14th season of the “Battle of Psychics,” was able to quickly win the favor of television viewers. Many claim that...

These days, all Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmastide - a special period between the Nativity of Christ and Epiphany, also known as Epiphany. For some, this is a wonderful time of celebration and joy, and for others, it is an opportunity to once again remind about such things that are far from religion, such as fortune telling, witchcraft and other spiritualistic frenzy. In all media, except Constantinople, of course, journalists publish all kinds of advice on how to tell something better for yourself and something worse for your enemies. Here is just a quick selection from the largest Russian publications and, alas, even the website of the Moscow Government:

You are unlikely to find among such materials information about the danger posed by “innocent fun” such as attempts to find out the future through witchcraft.

The show “Battle of Psychics” on the TNT channel has always stood apart in the media industry of promoting witchcraft to the masses. 19 seasons of the program were filmed, convincing millions of people across the country that magic not only exists, but is also, by and large, useful, and otherworldly forces below will happily help anyone who turns to them. Traditionally, in early January, on the eve of Christmas, the channel organizes real marathons of the program, replaying all the filmed episodes over and over again. Participation in such a show for many is a passport to the world of financial well-being - almost all participants after filming opened their own business - a private shop providing occult services for money. No one keeps track of the broken destinies of their clients.

According to the head of the Center for Crisis Psychology, Mikhail Khasminsky, people online are driven to psychics by laziness and unwillingness to make an effort:

Faith is given so that a person works on himself, and this is very difficult. And when you come to a grandmother, a fortune teller, someone speaks something, someone chatters something - this, of course, is always simpler, you do nothing, except give money. And people are ready to pay for any illusion, just to do nothing, if only they would be relieved of responsibility.

This year, journalists from another federal channel, Rossiya 1, decided to open this abscess. On January 8, an investigative documentary film “Going to Hell” was aired, which generally debunks the entire industry of magicians and healers and pays special attention to the “Battle of Psychics,” which has become a kind of locomotive for this business.

In an interview with journalists, the host of the program, Marat Basharov, assured that all this is true, and they can test any of the winners of the show.

And they started checking. It is clear that the presenter Marat Basharov is an interested person and is unlikely to admit that the whole show is a production. Therefore, journalists turned to the finalists and winners of the “Battles”. For example, they offered to take part in the filming of the famous magician Anatoly Ledenev, who, after meeting with aliens, began to have psychic abilities, which he masterfully demonstrated at the “Battle of Psychics.” One of the simplest tests for such figures is to search for a person in the trunk of a car. On TNT it was always a piece of cake for Ledenev. But something went wrong at VGTRK. He was never able to find the person in the trunk, and then honestly admitted that at the “Battle of Psychics” he was told the correct answer.

The host of the “Battle of Psychics” program is Marat Basharov. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

Also, Natalya Banteeva, whom fans consider almost the strongest participant in the project of all time, fell into the hands of the inquisitors from “Russia 1”. She has her own business - anyone can turn to her for help. The journalist brought to her a photo of three men from the Internet and said that she was choosing her chosen one in life from among them.

This service cost 35 thousand rubles in cash. The film is replete with such moments - journalists managed to catch many participants in the “Battles” in lies. And not one of them could confirm that they had special abilities. And the winner of the third season of the program, the Iranian sorcerer Mehdi, frankly named the amount that must be paid for winning the program - 350 thousand dollars. According to him, after a year of work, he not only recaptured this money, but also acquired good capital and luxury real estate.

Such shows, and first of all “Battle of Psychics,” brought the entire industry of fortune tellers and healers to a qualitatively new level. The scheme works as follows. The program is attended by those who would like to develop in this industry in the future. As they pass the tests, they pay to get the right answers and appear as great mediums in the eyes of a gullible public. You can immediately pay for winning the final, and then the editors “guide” the psychic from issue to issue, reporting the correct answers. Having reached the final or won, each of them receives their own army of fans, which grows on social networks, writes books, conducts paid seminars and, finally, opens their own business. It turns out that it was journalists and bloggers who became the driving force behind this profitable business. After the film aired, they repeatedly tried to contact the creators of “Battle of Psychics” to get comments, but this was not successful:

The creators of the show “Battle of Psychics” do not get in touch and do not respond to requests from journalists after the release of Boris Sobolev’s investigative film “Going to Hell.” The revelation, which was published on the Rossiya TV channel, talks about deception on the part of the creators of the famous project,

Writes, for example, the news agency URA.RU.

Photo: Monika Wisniewska / Shutterstock.com

Perhaps the worst thing in this whole story is that the Russian state is also involved in the scheme. It turns out that psychics can receive a special certificate from us, registered with the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology - Rosstandart. The authors of the film also addressed the question to this government department. When asked what criteria they use when certifying sorcerers, the official was unable to clearly answer. Despite the fact that Rosstandart approved the certification system for cosmoenergeticists and mediums, they were unable to clearly explain to the author of the film the criteria by which the assessment is made.

Again. We live in a legal reality where anyone can put on a black robe, take a plastic skull, receive a certificate from Rosstandart, and then go to the federal channel, where they will make him a great healer and seer, although he cannot even find the TV remote control. He will deceive gullible people with serious illnesses and dying loved ones, or naive simpletons who believe that happiness can be bought. He will do this solely for the purpose of making money, after which, without hesitation, he will tell you that all this is a production. But desperate people give their last, mortgage their houses, take out loans. Most of these stories end tragically. There is no need to talk about the spiritual harm of all this madness.

In general, “Going to Hell” is the right title for such a film. It’s scary to think that many of our compatriots are tempted by such television deceptions today. Isn't it time for law enforcement and legislators to address this issue? Despite all the mystical flair, this threat is very real.

Recently, interest in people with psychic or magical abilities has intensified. This was facilitated by the emergence of television programs dedicated to paranormal phenomena, and the most famous of them is “Battle of Psychics.” In front of TV viewers, psychics and magicians communicate with the dead, look for treasures, predict the weather, remove damage, make diagnoses, look into the past and future...

So what is “Battle of Psychics”, show or reality?

About the organization.

M.V.Vinogradov
The “Battle of Psychics” began with a conversation between the producers of the show and the director of the “Magic Power” center, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mikhail Viktorovich Vinogradov. Vinogradov claims that he selected psychics for the KGB and was the head of the top-secret center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he also top-secretly commanded top-secret psychics on top-secret missions. It was so top secret that even the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself had not heard about it. What a conspiracy! The conversation with the producers turned out to be productive, because it was the employees of “Magic Power” who were the majority among the participants in the first season, took prizes in the first and second seasons, and filming was carried out not only in the building of this center, but also in the apartment of the director, who (if anyone hadn’t noticed) became an independent expert of the program . His fame also grew, and with it, prices for the center’s services increased tenfold. Despite this, the queue of clients is scheduled for several months in advance. To serve this huge flow of clients, Vinogradov also opened the “Center for Legal and Psychological Support in Extreme Situations” (and doubled the capital). Participants in the “Battle of Psychics” work there. In general, the main centers that recruit psychics are “Magic Power” and “Life Line”. The client calls the center, he is informed that he will have to wait (several months or a year), but there is an option to get in literally the other day (today, tomorrow), only it costs twice as much as the previously mentioned price. And many, by the way, peck, scrape the bottom of the barrel and bring in huge amounts of money. However, the appointment may last about 5 minutes, and no one will return the money. Well, “the channel didn’t open” that day, what can you do)) They can also tell you that one session will not be enough and they will intimidate you with damage, etc., I will influence you psychologically, which will force the person to come and pay more. Those psychics who don’t even know psychology usually give up after the first reception. Clients either leave with nothing or realize that it’s all a scam later, when none of the “predictions” come true. There are quite a lot of different reviews about psychics on the Internet. Negative ones sometimes seem rare, and all thanks to specially hired people whose task, for a pretty penny, is to write wherever possible, praising positive comments about how psychics helped them. Naturally, people who are interested in this or that psychic will be more willing to believe positive reviews and fall for the bait.


After Natalya Vorotnikova took the main prize in the first season - a ticket to the James Randi Educational Foundation, everyone forgot about it, the producers, herself, the TV viewers, and Vinogradov. But someone wrote to Randy himself (who was in no mood) about “The Battle” and about Natalya, and he was surprised and laughed. This was made public, and the TNT people in response said something like “Oh yes... She should have gone to Randy... It completely slipped my mind.” It is obvious that in front of Randy, Vorotnikova will not be able to repeat her teletricks and prove that her piercing gaze is caused not by alcoholic delirium, but by a gift. Skeptics of “Battle”, the Safronov brothers, do not hesitate to tell everyone in interviews that everything that is shown to the viewer in the “BE” show is tricks and a scam.


Firstly, not all participants in the top ten are psychics. At the casting, several of the most prominent personalities are selected. A prerequisite is a great desire to build a business in the field of magic. This ensures that they will support the legend, because they are most interested in it. They also take several zero players who will lose in everything. Secondly, victory can be bought. In order to attract those who bought prizes, information leaks are practiced. Hints are also paid. Participants who have not received information create the illusion of the reality of what is happening with their natural reactions. From correspondence with Victoria Subota (participant in one of the seasons):

“How will they pass without draining if you can’t look at anything?! They drain almost everyone, but in doses. For one, everything, for the second, half of the information, for the third, 3 sentences...., and for the last, nothing, otherwise they will also be ignored, like me. That’s why fantasies about certain powers go down the drain. I know this whole kitchen!”

I will also quote Alexey Pokhabov:

“Sometimes leaking information is practiced. There are unscrupulous members of the film crew who have access to certain tests, to the organization of tests, and they can sell information. I was offered to buy the battle when I participated. Prices range from approximately $30 to $50-60 thousand. Naturally, whoever has money can afford it. But I don’t know what he will tell people when they come to him with real problems.”


Future finalists, even before the end of the season, open active sales of their services, and a considerable part of these funds goes to the production company of the project (kickback). Some tests are completely bogus. Everything is spelled out in the script, right down to how the psychics will look, behave, and what to say. At the same time, much in the image works on the show to impress the viewer or intrigue, arouse interest. These could be details such as a scarf, a foggy past, unusual behavior, strange magical attributes, etc. Types are selected. Here, for example, is a generalized list of participants in each season of the “Battle”: a black magician or witch in Gothic clothes and a menacing look, a clown (clown), a foreigner with an interpreter, a nyasha (a young man under 25 with a cute face), an offended participant from the previous season , who believes that he is worthy of first place, a young attractive girl, an uncle with a beard (type - a sage), a shaman (shaman) in skins, with staves, tambourines, and several more people for extras.

Summary of the "Battle of Psychics"
The main goal of the program is to convince the viewer that psychics exist. It is necessary to win over and subjugate a huge mass of people. For this purpose, a presentable scientist with the appearance of an intellectual, Mikhail Vinogradov, sits there in the role of an independent expert. And people are happy to be deceived. A small number of people do not fall for everything that is sucked in from screens and other media. The show's ratings are steadily gaining ground every year. The audience's perception of the show and psychics depends on the editing. If you need to show someone beautifully, they will edit it so that everything will be perfect and shockingly incredible. If they want to remove it and show it from the negative side, it won’t be difficult. Some of the participants have abilities, but only a person completely unfamiliar with magic would believe in the circus shown on TNT. The practitioner sees magic in a structured way, what is it for, and in what sequence. The viewer of “Battle” has a cluttered attic in his head. Not the slightest understanding of the structure of the work, but a lot of conclusions. Hence the belief in wonderful psychics who solve super problems in five minutes, quickly and painlessly. Relying on naive, gullible people who watch TV with their mouths open, and then collect their last pennies and run to the “wizards” in order to get rid of non-existent (in most cases) problems. It is easier for us to believe in a fairy tale than in our own strengths. Absolutely in all editions, all the most difficult tasks are definitely coped with. Otherwise, they would have destroyed the entire system of extorting money. People would understand that not all problems can be solved. But only one didn’t decide (having received his 50-100 thousand Russian rubles) - after all, he didn’t cope with one test in the battle. Eh, I went to the wrong one, because this one didn’t decide then, but that one did. Now I’m selling my apartment/car/kidney and I’ll go see someone who will definitely remove my damage/bring my wife back... But at the same time, psychics specifically give different information when analyzing situations with problems - each psychic says his own thing and mistakes are made. All so that people don’t believe completely, so that they will bring money later, and not complain about the lies.

In general, the main driver is money. More precisely, PR, which helps to make a lot of money from simpletons. “Battle of Psychics” is a commercial project that promotes individuals for the market of magical services. Makes these faces popular and recognizable, ensures a future influx of customers. Before the show you charge 30 thousand Russian rubles for the ceremony, and after - 70-100 thousand per half hour or hour, the difference is obvious. The life of the participants after the project is predictable - the opening of magic salons, the release of books (in which, by the way, they pour water, or, at most, they write something from everyday psychology), receptions at fabulous prices and tours that sell out halls/stadiums. A lot of suckers come to listen to them talk about all sorts of nonsense: how to attract money to yourself, awaken the psychic in yourself by immersing your ear in a jar of jam, etc. A game on the psychological level of the average population, a regular show to distract people from the affairs of the state.

About the participants.

V. Komakhina
The participants in the battle are randomly selected. For example, a scammer Mehdi(you can find a lot of indignant reviews on the Internet) or Mohsen Norouzi who makes a lot of money without helping anyone at all. IN Victoria Komakhina the demon is sitting. But I don’t want to delve into the fairy tales that she told there about her father’s ghost... Here at the gypsy’s Rosa Lyulyakova there are certain abilities - as she said to Basharov: “I curse you!” - and she sealed it: his dacha burned down, his license was taken away, his mother died. Nadira Azamatova says that she is surrounded by 30 angels - it is clear that they are demons. Season 11 Winner Vitaly Gibert- a clown, which ones to look for: “I will hug you, and everything will be fine with you, and I will remove the curse, and your personal life will improve. Make a wish - I’ll make it come true now.” What he can do well is talk nonsense.

Participant of the 7th season, hereditary witch Ilona Novoselova in fact, in the past - Andrey. From a family in which no one has any abilities. Andrei put on a wig, women's clothes and looked for adventures in that very place (in the literal sense) and asked everyone to call him Lyuda. And then Ilona appeared. I wonder how a former boy became a HERERAND witch? People who knew her as Andrei say directly that a sponsor appeared who got him involved in the magic business and turned an ordinary guy into a hereditary witch.

Natalya Banteeva- an interesting shot. A vulgar, boorish woman, convicted of theft, prostitution, drinking alcohol and appearing drunk in public places. Now an experienced alcoholic and criminal has risen and is committing major scams in her “Natalia Banteeva Personal Development Center.” Sells candles and trinkets bought from joke shops as charged talismans and amulets, organized "Wake Up" seminars and travels around the country with a bunch of charlatans. She has 100% powers, and they are not white at all. There is a demon inside her. You can clearly see how she changes when, for example, she yells at someone, and already looks like a man, not a trace of the woman. By the way, she also has a demon on her arm. What a legend this repentant witch created! The tale about the monastery, after which she supposedly became white-white, is nothing more than a cunning tactical move, because victory in the “Battle” gives a lot. And it is impossible to win by saying that she is a witch. People are more pleased to see bright and kind magicians, rather than hardened warlocks. And you can’t just escape from dark forces. Bald Tanya from “Battle” (I don’t remember her last name), who works on the film crew, is Banteeva’s best friend, and now the latter is anonymously listed on the staff of “Battle”, and selects rated and watchable candidates for participation in “Battle” at the casting, and Of course, he spies in his center those on whom he can make money. Go to Banteeva’s website in the CASTING section and you will understand everything yourself http://banteeva-centre.com/kasting. In seasons 10, 11, 12 and 13 there were her “students”, someone betrayed her, someone used her, but apart from creativity, they had nothing, emptiness.

Season 13 features an impressive witch Elena Golunova(has no abilities) behaves at least unprofessionally. When a practitioner goes to a churchyard, he does not indicate “I am the mistress here!” There is only one owner there and she must be respected. The churchyard is not a circus. Coming there screaming “I’m the coolest here” and with cameras may end up backfiring. The result of the series: working for the camera and complete disrespect for burial sites. By the way, when she runs to the cemetery, she has nothing in her hands. In front of the cemetery, she takes out of her bag (was someone carrying it? It seems like the witch doesn’t trust anyone with her things) a flashlight with a strobe light to scare away dogs. Not surprisingly, the animals fled. Regarding the test with treasure under water. Did you feel the cross? So it is not difficult to assume that there were drowned people in a large reservoir, and also people bathe there and may lose crosses and other decorations. Moreover, there is no way to check this. But she pressed for pity: “How can it be, he did me a favor, but I can’t help him.” All that was left was to cry some more to make it even more convincing. The ritual in the boat itself is something. Why did she cover her face, and specifically her mouth, and not her eyes? If you think logically, spirits don’t see the face anyway, they see the soul. And why should they bleed, why should the spirits be afraid of drowning again? Funny. I made a small cut - everyone around me oohed and ahhed: “Oh! She cuts veins!” Water with blood pours strictly to the 4 cardinal directions, and certainly not to “hold” it to anyone, and when it spills, a conspiracy is read, but the “strongest witch of Siberia” remains silent! In general, another circus!
Leonid Konovalov, participant of the 2nd “Battle”:

“I watched the latest episodes of BE-13. What Kadoni’s mother does: she cuts her hands, sprinkles some kind of powder, has nothing to do with extrasensory perception. This is some kind of quackery. This show is painful to watch."

Season 13 Winner Dimitry Volkhov in fact, his last name is Burikov, a former skinhead and Nazi. In order not to write for a long time, I will provide two videos from his past: first And second, as well as quotes about him from the forums, and I’ll let you draw your own conclusions:

“Oxide (OksID) stuck to him because of the online nickname-pseudonym that he took for himself, as in the case of Veles. His participation in this show for me personally only proved the fakeness of the entire program, because... He never showed any psychic abilities. He was interested in paganism, but was never a sorcerer. In general, I laughed almost to tears when I found out that he was on this show, like most people who know him. They made him into a Gibert type, staring piercingly, the fans themselves will do their job by sending SMS for him. Now I watch this show solely for the sake of extracting the lulz from his SUDDENLY revealed psychic abilities. I know him, and I am sure of the complete absence of any psychic abilities in this character. One thing pleases me. Dimka will become very famous thanks to this show. Don’t be fooled by quackery, that’s my main point.”
“Volkhov Dmitry (Veles) is a “student” of Natalia Banteeva. They are keeping silent about this so that people will not once again point the finger at Natalia Banteeva. And the original guy, red-haired Maxim Grigoriev, who allegedly abandoned the Battle, was a diversionary maneuver to avert all suspicions about Banteeva’s involvement. They all led seminars together as part of the “Wake Up!” project. even before “Battle 13”.
Leonid Konovalov, participant in the 2nd season of “The Battle” about Volkhov:
“As a psychic, he is a weak person. In some tasks it felt like a little information was leaked to him. For example, when, blindfolded, he began to describe, while in the palace, what pictures were painted behind his back. I don’t believe in his abilities at all. I don’t understand why he sets fire to all kinds of twigs and grass. I don’t see that these procedures put him into a trance or that it would help him with extrasensory perception. On the contrary, it seems that at times he feels some kind of awkwardness from such actions. I see that he makes “smoke” purely mechanically and sometimes even seems to blush with shame that he does it.” (Taken from Leonid's official website).


Kerro is not a redhead yet :)
Finally, the 14th season. Marilyn Kerro, an Estonian witch, or rather a fashion model))) She speaks and understands Russian perfectly, but still works with a translator. She went to seminars with Gibert and Mano all the way to the Urals. Now he works for the public. The goal is to shock and impress. For example, a task with a generational curse. This is already going beyond all limits, even people who are completely far from magic, but a little more attentive will understand that this whole action is a farce. She took a bottle of water, gave the fish eyes to two women to hold in her left hand, one woman is a participant in the situation, it doesn’t matter who the other is, the leader will do. Then put the fish's eyes into the bottle and add your own blood. Then she set the date of death of the damned. Then he cries and says that death can be deceived. He goes to the intersection (paved in the center of a busy city!) with the damned man and his mother. There the damned man and his mother hold a bottle together high above their heads, and their left hand on their heart (but in fact not on their heart or left), while she waves a knife behind them. Then the bottle breaks on the asphalt, she says: “Don’t look back!” And everyone returns in droves. She's bleeding herself. And at the intersection he hits the same bottle where the blood was poured. Like she bought it off with her blood? And in general, it’s funny that they managed to film the birthing ceremony in half an hour, maximum. While people have been filming this for months)))

By the way, in the 9th issue, when Marilyn was taking the test, a lamp fell there, however, if you rewind and look a couple of minutes before more carefully, you can clearly see that the lamp is already lying there))) And the falling effect could have been created by an ordinary thrown someone put an object there, because no one paid attention to the details - whether the lamp was there or not, so they simply created noise and said meaningfully: “The lamp fell.” Why didn't it go out by the way? If dropped from a height, the light bulb would most likely burn out. Complete nonsense.

And for dessert Alexander Sheps. Before writing about this interesting character, without being distracted from Kerro’s test with the falling lamp, let me remind you that in one of Sheps’ tests there was a falling of a painting, also supposedly mystical, but if you look more closely, Sheps stands with his back very close to the easel with a painting, then the angle changes (Sheps is taken in a close-up full-face), and he, moving back a little, catches the picture, however, due to the rapid change of frames in the editing and because of the angle, the viewer does not see the moment of contact between Sheps’ back and the picture. Meanwhile, in the VKontakte group dedicated to him, there is a sect worse than Jehovah’s Witnesses. There are more than 60 thousand subscribers on his personal page and 45 thousand people in the official group, and the number of fans and blind believers is constantly growing. And only women... The girls elevated him to the rank of god and no longer know how to bend to both the shepsik and the admin of his official group. The witch Olga (that’s what she called herself), from Sheps’ group, promised to curse all ill-wishers, since the full moon was coming soon. And all because of the messages where she wrote (a married lady with a child) that she wanted Sheps under the blanket. She, apparently, is not aware that Schwepsssssssssssssssssssssss special. He has Misha))) As soon as Misha was identified, Sheps hid him in his list of friends, but did not take into account that in Misha’s friends the “psychic genius” himself still appears))) I think that soon he will ask Misha to hide himself.

Sheps-toastmaster and Sheps before the image in "Battle"
Regarding his orientation, it is a known fact; this is confirmed by his registration on the relevant portals. The accounts have now been deleted, but resourceful people managed to take a screenshot. His email is indicated there, to which his verified VKontakte page is still linked (with a checkmark confirming that he is a real famous person; checkmarks are not just handed out). By the way, his number is 89269107102 (for fans and FANS).

A green checkmark means that the email has been confirmed.


An advertisement posted by Sheps himself on one of the forums (click to enlarge and compare the mail with the previous advertisement):


Shepsik was friends with Ilona Novoselova (the one who is Andrey), but she sent him because... he wanted to promote himself at her expense. Sheps' classmates (Samara theater actresses) claim that until December last year
He didn’t have any abilities; they suddenly appeared after he interviewed Ilona Novoselova. That’s how he met, and suddenly became a psychic))) As we already know, Ilona herself doesn’t have anything special, therefore, she gave Sheps the idea of ​​easy money, and he realized that it was a really cool idea to become a psychic. Now he is confident that a candlestick on a stick, colored lenses and bags of soil will help him breed suckers better. His VKontakte group, by the way, appeared when he passed the selection for “BE”, this seems to hint that he had not previously been involved in magical services. But he is being actively promoted to victory. Sheps paid more with Kerro. That's the whole point. Well, plus, don’t forget that Banteeva is in the battlefield and is preparing Kerro for herself, and maybe Sheps. So it’s clear where the wind blew from. The admins don’t allow old photographs of Sheps into the group, otherwise the whole magical image will be erased in 5 minutes)) After all, he is a media boy. They call those who know the truth envious and immediately send them to ban, and Sheps himself, like a touchy young lady, does the same. What is the reason for such capriciousness? Other psychics, as well as media persons, have not noticed such actions, they simply do not pay attention to what they say, and sometimes they say such things about them that mother, don’t worry! And what psychic has not been called a charlatan? It seems to me that such actions by Sheps only confirm that he was stupid, went to such a show without clearing information about himself in advance, where possible. And he himself suffered. So now we should ban those who tell the truth?)) All the same, the stupid youngsters who are fanatics will not believe in her, but will only believe Sheps, who created for himself an image a la the dude from the recently popular film “Twilight”, which made all the girls squeal. Sheps' calculation turned out to be correct))

Sheps studied at the theater institute (Samara State Academy of Culture and Arts) to become an actor in dramatic theater and cinema. Worked as an actor at the Hammer Theater; led television projects, including with the stars of the capital’s show business; was the presenter and administrator of the Special Events Studio "Atmosphere", a leading model of fashion boutiques, a showmaker, the organizer of the reality show "Ready for Anything" on the Skat TV channel, the general director of the ART-Leader group of companies entertaining people; wrote scripts, songs and sang (it’s better not to hear). I planned to release a solo disc with original songs. In Samara he was a famous DJ (DJ Alex Energy), TV presenter of the program “Agents of People's Control” (“Skat-TNT” and “TV-3”). I’ll add about the “Ready for Anything” show, which he wanted to organize in Samara in 2007. After things didn’t work out for him as a director, he started looking for suckers - he went to institutes and held auditions for a new reality show, collecting 500 rubles from those who wanted to get on TV. Naturally, there was no reality show. After collecting 500 rubles from a large number of people, he disappeared, and only this year surfaced in Moscow in the “Battle of Psychics.”


I also suggest you look video from Sheps past. Now Alexander Sheps is a psychic))) Initially he planned to get to Dom-2, but he was not considered interesting,

And then he recorded wherever possible, and suddenly a person similar to Sheps was needed to participate in BE. He galloped like a mad horse, because he understood that if he could appear on TV in such a program that was broadcast throughout the country, then it would be much easier for him to move on in life. It is practically impossible to find out anything about some incomprehensible person, and who needs that? He's a teen idol and they don't care about anything. He will be supported by gays and girls who are not doing well, but they believe that everything will be fine. The audience is not small! He performs strange rituals that contradict magical ones (for example, he sprinkles grave soil in a circle, although the circle is drawn in magic either for protection or for a pentagram, and certainly not with grave soil). I poured graveyard earth around, quickly bring my package!!! Wow!!! What else? Will the dead come and bite everyone? His staff is from a souvenir shop, only it has runes on it. For example, Dzhigurda was photographed with the same person))) Well, okay, that’s enough. Here's a link to his page, check it out for yourself.