dumbass psychics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gale St. John contacted  Caylee Anthony's family and invited herself to work their case. In fact, nearly  every case psychic detectives procure starts with a cold call like this. They'll hunt down families who are desperate enough to exhaust every option, then they will  offer to help for a small fee. To truly understand how completely soulless the  practice is, consider the reasons why any human being would turn this into a  lucrative opportunity: Either they genuinely believe they can save the victim or  at least find the body --in which case it's deplorable that they would charge  money for information that could save a life-- or they are lying about their  ability in order to exploit families at their weakest moment. Either way it's  the moral equivalent of stumbling across a car accident and taking money out of  the victims' wallets before performing CPR.

 

Additionally, the type of "CPR" psychic detectives perform on these cases is  usually more damaging than had they done nothing at all. In 2007 a psychic  detective in Illinois was adamant that the body of a missing girl was in Silver Springs State Park.  After days of scouring the area police finally turned up a skeleton, not of a  young girl, but of a deer. Earlier this year a psychic in Hardin, TX convinced  police that there were 25 to 30 bodies buried on a rural property outside of  town. This time the police found absolutely nothing. You can even see renowned  psychic detective Sylvia  Browne consistently destroy the faith of desperate people on national  television:

 

No one is more cavalier about tossing around bullshit in the face of atrocity  than Sylvia Browne. She has given up on the foreplay that most psychics swear  by, there's no holding photographs and concentrating on the face or pretending  to channel a spirit, she just gets right to the business of fucking those sad people. Psychics are notoriously good  at taking credit for successes and shirking responsibility for failures when  they do readings, and that ability is what keeps their jobs lucrative.

 

When psychic Joe Power helped a Karen Matthews try to find her missing  daughter in 2009, he made several oblique predictions about the kidnapper and  where he had taken the girl. In actuality, Karen Matthews herself had kidnapped her own daughter and was holding her bound and  drugged in another town. After the mother was tried and sentenced, instead of  apologizing for his mistake, Joe Power claimed to have suspected all along that  the mother was responsible and to this day touts it as one of his great  successes in his books  and seminars. What he doesn't mention is why he never said anything and  allowed the nine-year-old girl to stay drugged and bound for another six days  before police finally figured it out on their own and made an arrest.