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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Masuaki Kiyota
- Masuaki Kiyota (?? ??, Kiyota Masuaki, born 1962) is a Japanese psychic known for his alleged ability of thoughtography. Kiyota was tested by investigators in London by Granada Television and the results were negative.
- It was discovered that with tight controls, Kiyota was unable to project mental images onto film.
- He could only achieve success when he had the film in his possession without any control for at least 2 hours.Kiyota feats such as metal bending were endorsed by Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff as evidence for psychokinesis.
- However, skeptics and magicians have written that Kiyota is a clever "trickster" who performed his feats by magic tricks.
- According to James Randi "Kiyota's Polaroid photos were apparently produced by preexposing the film, since it was noted that he made great efforts to obtain a film pack and spend time with it in private." In a 1984 television interview, Kiyota confessed to fraud.
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