Didn't they see this coming? :O

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

The publisher of the Daily Mail has agreed to pay "substantial" damages to a psychic after an article suggested she had "perpetrated a scam" on a theatre audience, a judge has heard. :^O

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22988215

[bankhaunter]

They would have been better to have been satisfied to just call her a charlatan and not stated she used an earpiece.

[cee-dee]

"Didn't they see this coming?" No, of course they didn't, wocher think they are, psychic? :^O

[ronnybabes]

She must have tho'.

That's an unfair advantage!!  :^O

[kiss*my*pixel]

They didn't see this coming, clearly.

However - she would, if she was any kind of psychic at all

Good way to earn a substantial sum.

Might try it meself . . . . . . . .

[merehazle]

And some hope for spiritual comfort :^O.

They would do better writing to Santa, or Uri (cant bend a spoon without touching it) Geller. 

A well tested format for the sick and vulnerable.

Been going on for many centuries. 

Been a lot of these shows lately, the worst  'Most Haunted' IMO.

[bankhaunter]

Twenty years ago Peter Popoff was made bankrupt after being exposed as a fraud receiving radio messages from his wife.

He is back in business raking in millions in evil scams.

There is a video on You Tube clearly showing Sally Morgan removing an earpiece after coming off stage, she would have sued the newspaper, she has got a few million pounds a year income to protect.

[cee-dee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYOn976BN4 ?:|

[cee-dee]

Now some people do "get feelings", by that I mean sometimes a susceptible person might get a strange feeling that they should or shouldn't do something.

It could be a feeling that you ought to buy a lottery ticket, you do and win. (Yep, it's been done). It could be that you get an overwhelming feeling that you shouldn't take a flight you've booked. You don't take the flight, the plane crashes with no survivors! (Yep, that's been done too).

As to messages "from beyond the grave".... usually it's all cobblers except that a susceptible person "gets a feeling" about something connected with "the departed" and acts on it. The message didn't come from "beyond the grave" at all, their brain computed from lifes experience and their connection with "the departed" eg "What would Dad (or whoever) suggest I do?"

A susceptible person can't "force" such feelings, they just come or they don't.

A "real" psychic doesn't do the things the charlatans do, they are sometimes able to point to something having been "briefed" by all that is known of, for instance some mystery.

Psychic detectives have pinpointed locations of missing persons (dead of course) and how they've done that I dunno, do you?

[bankhaunter]

I don't think there has ever been a proven case where a 'psychic detective' has solved a crime or found a body.

Some have been involved but their 'help' would be just the same generalisations that all psychics work with, it's the scattergun approach.

Cold reading, I've seen the Barnum experiment done, quite funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4uBqdLaXI

Most people have some intuition and also know what someone they are connected to would say in a particular situation, so called psychics merely talk the answers people want to hear.

Many psychics are charlatans who leach off peoples unhappiness and insecurities, those who do it without pay and really think they are psychic, are simply fooling themselves and others