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Cold Reading: The Tricks
One of the tricks in the psychic trade. Making vague statements that will fit most people if they want them to Cold reading is a series of techniques employed by psychics, mediums and mentalists that...
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Long Island Medium: A Tall Story
Theresa Caputo is the winner of the 2012 Pigasus Award for Performance. But she is better known as the Long Island Medium, which is also the title of her reality TV show aired on the ‘Learning’ Channel...
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The Death of Sylvia Browne
by The Locke via The Soap Box Yesterday one of the world’s most famous fake psychics (I know, that’s redundant) died. Sylvia Browne, who had made many appearances on TV (most notably The Montel...
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10 Strange Tales About Paranormal Research
By Pauli Poisuo via Listverse Everyone likes a good paranormal tale. However, often the really interesting stories are not about ghosts and UFOs—they’re about the people who run after them with a...
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The Science and the Scam of the Séance
It’s surprisingly easy to trick someone into believing they’ve seen something paranormal. By Katie Heaney via Pacific Standard: The Science of Society The spirit Bien Boa which was discovered to be a...
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The Age of Unreason
Story H/T: The Locke @ Skeptic Wars The Internet was meant to usher in a new enlightenment, instead it is became the breeding ground of ideas increasingly at odds with reality. By Jamie Stanton via...
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Top 10 Ridiculous Moments in the history of Spiritualism / The Psychic Industry
By Jon Donnis via BadPsychics Number 10 • Helen Duncan Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a fraudulent Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned...
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My Not-So-Psychic Experience With ‘Long Island Medium’ Theresa Caputo
by Jaime Franchi via Long Island Press After my father died suddenly five years ago, I found myself sitting in the upstairs alcove of a high ranch in Kings Park that was decorated in gaudy crucifixes...
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