He was just an ordinary kid… originally that is.
It all started the night he watched a TV program on telekinesis. He was fascinated by the idea. That night, as he lay in bed, he really wished his alarm clock would rise up, circle the room and set itself back down again… and it did!
The following day in class he demonstrated his new-found powers, much to both the delight and horror of classmates and teachers alike. Not all onlookers liked the idea of a school desk floating out into the playground and back again through a different window.
Within days his story was being told in the national press, and after a couple of weeks he was getting international attention. With his parents’ full support, for there was an awful lot of money to be made, he quit school almost immediately, flying out to a Vegas casino, where he was due to strut his stuff for a crowd of high-flyers happy to pay astronomical sums for tickets.
In fact, it was the night before his big debut that he found out that it wasn’t him doing any of this clever stuff at all. He was being assisted. Nobody knows quite what happened in the luxury suite of the hotel that night, but sometime later, a friend and fellow illusionist recounted a late night conversation they’d had in a bar.
He maintained that after a night of heavy drinking it had come out that a poltergeist was responsible for these miraculous happenings. This supernatural being had found that the mischief it got up to was great fun at first, but it was now getting bored with it and wanted it to stop. His friend had then resorted to blackmail, saying that if it didn’t continue to perform he would expose it. This had done the trick for the time being, because poltergeists really don’t like being exposed.
It was on that fateful night after his last big show that the mischievous spirit decided that enough was enough and opted out of their partnership. Of course, nobody knows how it happened or what motivated his unseen host to end it the way it did… but it was sensational.
After repeated banging on the door to the showman’s room, the hotel manager unlocked the suite using a master key. He was found dead, lying flat on the floor, arms at his sides as though he were standing to attention, with no signs of being attacked or harmed in any way.
The means of his demise would have been a puzzlement in itself, but when he was examined more closely it was discovered that he was hovering just above the carpet!