“They descend like vultures.
Never in the history of the world has a psychic solved a missing child case – never.”
Thomas Westbrook: Psychic shows like “The Long Island Medium” possess an editing room advantage,
in which they can take all of their misses over a several-hour-long recording, show only their hits,
and wow their audience.
But what happens when they go outside this comfort zone, appearing on other people's
shows, particularly live shows?
Well, our brains are still wired towards confirmation bias, where we focus on the hits and ignore
the misses.
That is, until we start to look for the misses, for the psychic cringe fails.
But this can get tedious; so to save you time, I've put together a compilation of just that.
This is Part 1.
Enjoy!
Theresa Caputo (The Long Island Medium): “Who lost the spouse?
I think I'm right, I'm right here.
Your wife is departed?
Is that her wedding ring?
Do you still have her chair?
Or did she have an issue with her legs prior to her passing?”
“Was there an issue with the legs where your husband was, er, was bed restriction.
Is that correct?”
Lisa Guerrero (Inside Edition): “So you always know...”
“When you talk to a family member, when you start a case, you'll know if this person
is dead or alive.”
Psychic Laurie McQuary: “Yes.”
“Every time?”
“Yes!”
“Does this girl look familiar to you?”
“Yes, she does.
I worked this case.”
“This is a girl who you said was beaten and killed.”
“Okay...”
“This little girl is me... and you told somebody that she's dead.”
“Wait a minute...
You didn't disappear?”
“I'm right here.”
“Well, that's interesting, isn't it?”
“All told, ten different psychics told our producer that Lisa had been murdered, and
the FBI says to 'Inside Edition' that they are not aware of any criminal investigation
that has been solved as a direct result of information provided by a psychic.”
Psychic Twins: “We do see massive energy grid blackouts and cyber attacks by May or June.
One feels like it's in the Northeast...
East Coast, New York area or Washington area.”
“We think Hillary Clinton will be elected President.”
“Wrong...”
“That is absolutely...”
“Wrong...”
Psychic Derek Acorah: “I'm starting with... with a gentleman first off, and um, with this man...
Who?
Reg?
And he's also mentioned Frank?
Thank you.
In his younger years, I can see the uniform.
In his younger years, please, I don't know what he was in the Air Force...
I don't feel he was a pilot because of his attire, but he's keen to show me that.
And he's transported back into the older age in which he passed.
He may not even be family; he may be just known to you.”
“No, no. Frank or Reg... anyone?”
“Okay. Could... Yes, please?
Could you, um, microphone, please?”
“Um, good afternoon.
My... my father, his name was Hugh, and he was in the Air Force.
He didn't fly; he was a civil engineer.”
“That'll do!”
“Glenys?
Do you know Glenys?
Or Glen-ess?
Living, physical?”
“No, it doesn't ring any bells.”
“It doesn't?”
Danny Robbins: “Earlier, I invited three mediums to a one-time Victorian chocolate factory, where they all
channeled the name 'George', an evil fat man who was the factory's first manager.”
“She's giving me the name of George.”
“George.”
“George...”
“The only trouble is that George is part of a made-up story that I planted on the chocolate
factory website a week ago.
Astonishingly, Goldie has actually summon the ghost of my made-up factory manager!”
“So what's his name?”
“I've got George and I've got Bull.”
Comedian Tyler Fisher: “Have you ever noticed how many psychic storefronts there are in Manhattan?
I wondered what would happen if I got my palms read at all of them.
Do you think they would say the same exact thing?”
“How long will I live?”
Psychic Sally Morgan: “And I don't know who put this lovely picture in here.
Oh, you're upstairs!
Is there something called the barn?
Is his name Bernard or Barn-ard?
Why would he say that?
Oh, your nan!
Sorry!”
“All the things that you channeled today like, you know, George Bull.
That all came from a story that I made up.
Does that mean that you cheated?”
“I did.
I don't think it was ever a chocolate factory.”
“That's the one thing it was, Goldie, I'm afraid.
See, you've even got the truth wrong.”
“Yeah, I know!”
“We dropped our psychics in the middle of a massive pine forest.
There's a rescue chopper waiting for them.
Our psychics have just fifteen minutes to find the chopper.
They've got a map that shows an outline of the area and then something belonging to the
pilot, a sort of personal effect – you know, keys, wallet, something like that.
And then our psychics will use that to sense, you know, the right direction.”
“How did they do?
Let's have a look.
Most of them veer off to the right and get lost, rather than making a fairly straight
path to the helicopter.
These aren't just any psychics; they are the top ten in Australia.”
“From hundreds of applicants, we've narrowed the field to the top ten psychics Australia
has to offer.”
“I can see it!
Oh... oh, no!
It's the car!”
“Time's up.”
“Almost nine years ago, Amanda Berry's mom went on 'The Montel Williams Show' where resident
psychic Sylvia Brown spoke of Amanda.”
Amanda Berry's Mom: “You don't think I'll ever see her again?”
Psychic Sylvia Browne: “Yeah, in heaven. She's gone, honey.”
“Then who's this?!”
Sylvia Browne “There are two jagged boulders which look really misplaced.”
“He could be found there?”
“He's near the boulders.”
“Is he still with us?”
“No.”
“Sean was found alive – not stuck between jagged boulders,
but in an apartment in suburban St. Louis.”
Magician James Randi: “Is it possible for a psychic to read the history of an instrument just by touching?
Please welcome Nella Jones!”
Psychic Nella Jones “That's just a little thing; that's just, uh, getting into a lock of some sort.
I felt glass with that one.
This one?
God knows why, I'm picking up a heavy tire, so I don't know what that's been used for.
Sorry, my darling, best I can do.”
James Randi: “You examined six objects.
You got no information from three of them, and you got incorrect information from the
remaining three.”
Psychic John Edward: “Was somebody murdered?
Like, murdered murdered...”
“No...”
Medium John Edward: “I feel like somebody passed from a suicide where their actions
brought about how they got there.
If anybody over there has somebody who crossed over like that, um, that's kinda how they
showed it to me.
It's connected to Michael, if that helps?”
“I had an aunt whose name was Moira?”
“Okay, I – I'm getting someone now whose name is Gg...Tt...it's an Oo, it's a Mm,
it's a Kk..”
“KENNY!”
“Kenny says, 'Hi.'”
“She'll be given the twelve biographies.
Then, she'll do a Tarot card reading on each subject.
To win, she has to match the person to the correct bio nine out of twelve times.”
“How convinced are you that you're gonna win a million dollars?”
Psychic Paula Taylor: “I'm convinced.”
“I see that you're a person that's ambitious.
I'm gonna go with this one.”
“And this is your final answer?”
“Yes.”
“If this is your bio, I want you to turn it towards the camera.
If it's not your bio, I want you to crumple it up.
Now.
It looks like you've got one right.”
“I still believe I'm psychic.”
“What do you make of that?”
Skeptic James Randi: “It's called, what's called – what's the term?
'Stubborn.'”
Magician Paul Zenon: “I guarantee you one headline you will never see is this one: 'Psychic Wins Lottery Again.'”
Thomas Westbrook: Thank you so much for watching.
This is part of a several-part series on the supernatural.
I'll be releasing Part Two of this compilation tomorrow, and next week I'll be answering
the question, “What's the Harm?” as well as revealing some of the tricks of the psychic
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