I love John Oliver and his expositions of fakery!
I don’t believe in the “For money” psychics but I am a believer. Had one lady who was a Reiki master tell me things about myself there was no way of knowing. She knew I had a birthmark on a certain part of my body. She also knew that I had an injury in another and knew that my brother was in the occult among a few other things. She was 100% right and no way she would have known. Real psychics don’t charge for their services and don’t put it out there. They just tell you things when the tome is right for no charge.
It's sad how these frauds take such advantage of those wanting to believe in something "other wordly" and some of the believers take psychic messages very seriously and make bad decisions based on false information. It may seem harmless in many cases, but there are some who use psychic messages to inform them of important matters regarding commitments and finances.
I was with my ex-boyfriend for 10 years before he told me that a ghost (of his previous ex-girlfriend's father) told him to take care of her, which to him meant that he should leave all his life savings to her when he dies, and so she is the beneficiary of his estate, in addition to him helping her financially after they broke up, even while we were together.
It was at the moment he revealed that ghostly message that I realized what a dead end relationship I had with this fellow who was a narcissistic lying cheat anyway, besides being stuck in a bunch of new age nonsense beliefs and so hearing him say that out loud gave me the courage to finally give him the boot a few years ago. That's the only positive thing that came out of any interaction with a psychic for me anyway.
I love john
@Sorcha he is and he goes after bad policies all over the world ...
My mother-in-law believed very strongly. Her hair dresser (and cross dresser) was a psychic. She told me once that, Harry (not is real name) couldn’t get a read on what happened to that little toddler who disappeared from his rural family home.
I looked off as if in a haze and said “ I see him. He is surrounded by water and he is no longer living.”
Ghoulish I know but I was just having fun.
Sure enough, they found him in an abandoned well. Dead.
To me rural means ponds, stock tanks, wells, ditches filled with water. And toddler means no sense of danger.
My MIL was astounded and wanted me to go see Harry for a reading. When I laughingly explained that I’d just guessed and had no “powers” she was miffed to say the least. But, til her dying day, she never brought up Harry again.
Of course, then Harry died and now I’ll never speak to my MIL again!