No one seems to know who this man is or was. I wrote to the e-mail address at the end of the video asking for more info and received this reply:
"Hi,
As you can imagine, I've received many new e-mails. Sorry again for this blanket answer.
I didn't want my personal e-mail address posted on Youtube, so I put up a new one I created from my initials. This has nothing to do with any marketing company, or competition.
I digitized the original footage - from U-matic, - and added subtitles to it. A French friend of mine did the translation. I didn't make any cuts to the material. What you see is everything that was on the tape.
From what the guy was saying, I guessed the shooting year and I added "1980" in the frame corner.
I was really disturbed when I first saw this footage. I posted it on YouTube in the hopes of learning more about the man claiming to be the psychic. I didn't expect to have so many angry reactions.
I don't know who this guy is or was. I'm very anxious to know more. It's important to me, but I'd rather not get into that.
The two leads I found in the posts:
- Someone posted a screenshot on aufeminin.com which supposedly shows the same psychic in the audience of "L'Heure de Verite", a French TV show presented by Francois-Henri de Virieu in the 80's. The person who posted it didn't say which video it was from - it might be a load of Bull... anyway it doesn't give us the identity of the psychic, since he's just in the audience.
- Someone said the man was Albert Florintie but nobody found anything on him.
I've decided to remain anonymous here.
I am not willing to share how I got my hands on the original tape. If you'd rather believe I made it myself, that's fine too - and probably more reassuring.
Personally, I give far more credibility to this video:
PS: In answer to the many technical questions: the original footage was on a 3/4" U-matic tape which I digitized to FinalCutPro in HD through a MNR11 noise reducer. I re-EQ'd the soundtrack, added the subtitles and the "1980" in HD on FinalCutPro, exported it in HD and uploaded it to YouTube - that's actually my day job.