Post by Dave on May 21, 2013 14:41:41 GMT
While driving home from the Coach House in Babbacome last Sunday, I told Lyn about a shooting that took place in Torquay during the early sixties. I’m not sure how many people were killed, but it all started in the casino that formed part of the Carlton night club, it was later called Claries, but I’m not sure what the club is now called.
It got me thinking back to when I was just nineteen and newly married to hell wife and an event that happened one night in the Carlton Club. In those days it was considered a posh club and you would always find lots of sugar daddies in there with their very young ladies. It also had great cabaret acts that performed there and it was one such act that gave my brother and my new wife the scare of their lives.
It was a Saturday night and I was really looking forward to the cabaret as I had heard he was very good and would astound me with his act. I forget what his stage name was, but he was a hypnotist and I had never seen one before. He asked for ten people to join him on stage, my hand was first up and soon I was in a line with the other nine people. He did a few things with us all, trying to work out who was best to use in his act and soon it was just me and one lady left on stage.
He then put both us fully under his spell and I know you may have seen these acts before and thought it was all staged, but I can tell you that this was all for real. He had us doing simple things at first, one was sitting on a chair and riding a horse in a race, so I was getting my horse to race on and then he would shout out that there was a fence to go over. So I jumped up of the chair to get over the fence, then there was being a racing car driver and a few others.
He then told me I was in the pictures in the back row with the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, it did not take me long to be necking her and planting my lips on hers, only I later found out I had been kissing him.
The next thing that happened was really unbelievable; he placed my feet on one chair and my head on another, nothing in between and told me I was a board and a very strong board. He got two men who weighed over 30 stone between them to sit on me and told me to rise them up into the air and yes I did and I don’t know how.
The act was coming to an end and he told me every time I heard the word Carlton I was to shout out as loud as possible the word “Knickers”, so he started saying how he had loved performing his act at the Carlton and off I went shouting out Knickers, he used the word so many times and I was happy to keep shouting out knickers.
He had said during his act that if anything were to happen to him while I was under his spell, it could take someone days to get me back out of the spell. I thought nothing of it when he said it. The act was finished and the only thing to do was to bring me back, he counted to three and thanked me and said please return to your seat.
Problem was he had not brought me back and I was still sitting on the stage, some were getting a bit concerned in the club and I was then picked up by two big bouncers and carried off into the dressing rooms.
MY brother who we went with was shouting at him to get his brother back, hell wife was crying and also shouting that she wanted her husband back. It took him one and a half hours to get me back and I was unaware that there was a problem.
Has anything like this ever happened to you? Or has there been something else that has happened that really scared you half to death.
It got me thinking back to when I was just nineteen and newly married to hell wife and an event that happened one night in the Carlton Club. In those days it was considered a posh club and you would always find lots of sugar daddies in there with their very young ladies. It also had great cabaret acts that performed there and it was one such act that gave my brother and my new wife the scare of their lives.
It was a Saturday night and I was really looking forward to the cabaret as I had heard he was very good and would astound me with his act. I forget what his stage name was, but he was a hypnotist and I had never seen one before. He asked for ten people to join him on stage, my hand was first up and soon I was in a line with the other nine people. He did a few things with us all, trying to work out who was best to use in his act and soon it was just me and one lady left on stage.
He then put both us fully under his spell and I know you may have seen these acts before and thought it was all staged, but I can tell you that this was all for real. He had us doing simple things at first, one was sitting on a chair and riding a horse in a race, so I was getting my horse to race on and then he would shout out that there was a fence to go over. So I jumped up of the chair to get over the fence, then there was being a racing car driver and a few others.
He then told me I was in the pictures in the back row with the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, it did not take me long to be necking her and planting my lips on hers, only I later found out I had been kissing him.
The next thing that happened was really unbelievable; he placed my feet on one chair and my head on another, nothing in between and told me I was a board and a very strong board. He got two men who weighed over 30 stone between them to sit on me and told me to rise them up into the air and yes I did and I don’t know how.
The act was coming to an end and he told me every time I heard the word Carlton I was to shout out as loud as possible the word “Knickers”, so he started saying how he had loved performing his act at the Carlton and off I went shouting out Knickers, he used the word so many times and I was happy to keep shouting out knickers.
He had said during his act that if anything were to happen to him while I was under his spell, it could take someone days to get me back out of the spell. I thought nothing of it when he said it. The act was finished and the only thing to do was to bring me back, he counted to three and thanked me and said please return to your seat.
Problem was he had not brought me back and I was still sitting on the stage, some were getting a bit concerned in the club and I was then picked up by two big bouncers and carried off into the dressing rooms.
MY brother who we went with was shouting at him to get his brother back, hell wife was crying and also shouting that she wanted her husband back. It took him one and a half hours to get me back and I was unaware that there was a problem.
Has anything like this ever happened to you? Or has there been something else that has happened that really scared you half to death.