One of the most iconic magicians in the world, Harry Houdini, was famously skeptical of mediums and them taking advantage of people (partly out of guilt because early in his career, he and his brother pretended to be mediums to support his family). Then at one point, when grieving for his late mother, he turned to one to see if it could get him any closure. The first thing the medium said was his mother wished him a Merry Christmas. However his mother was Jewish. From that point, he spent a good part of his career debunking them. Even willing to severe friendships because of it. Most famously with avid spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (ironic given his fame for creating Sherlock Holmes, who was synonymous with Logic and deductive reasoning). Even on his deathbed he was willing to prove his point. He gave his wife a secret code that only the two of them would know. And if there was a way to reach out from the other side, he would send her that phrase from beyond to admit if he was wrong.
And she passed that on to a friend, and to this day magicians still hold a seance each year in honor of Houdini, 1) to commemorate him, and 2) to drive home the point that it's all fakery and trickery.
If you ever have the opportunity to see Terry Evanswood in Gatlinburg Tennessee he is a honest magician. He sat after his show and told us it was tricks of the eye- and he does not want to be known as a liar or fake. Its a show for enjoyment and he hoped we had fun. I loved his honesty and my children left excited to learn the "tricks" of magic! I had seen David Copperfield as a child and was in awe at how he was magical! It made me question my Christianity- Terry did not put that question out there and I loved that...but he didn't once bring up anything other than its fun and tricks of the eye.
I'm an honest fake psychic. I perform professionally as a tarot reader. I freak out the clients and THEN explain how I work it all out. I've had people admit to spending thousands on "psychics" and thank me, but some still insist I'm double bluffing and I ACTUALLY have magic powers. :(
So you give a good explanation that of how you do this for theatrics and not for profit and actually explains how it works but they think your lying about lying? That’s weirdly depressing
Tetsu Hatano some people just need to believe in something other than themselves and those around them. In october I perform EVERY NIGHT for 6 hours. Honestly I will get maybe 3 people say nothing was right in the whole month!
Dean Jones I was a big fan of Psych and The Mentalist and learned a few things in college mostly to pick up chicks. As an adult, it makes me sad that stupidity is a layered demon
do you have any video footage of you? You sound like a really neat person and it would be educational to see your work. BTW you are awesome for being honest, the world needs more of you.
I’m never able to find the words to express the pure, seething rage and contempt I feel towards the frauds who profit from the grieving and most vulnerable. I remember a case roughly 15 to 20 years ago where a “psychic” called Sylvia Browne absolutely devastated the mother of a kidnapping victim by telling her (on national TV) “she’s not alive, honey,” “she’s in water” and described “seeing” her blood-stained clothing. Now, it had been more than a year and a half since her disappearance-similar cases and historical precedence meant the likelihood she would be found alive were _very_ slim-so a fraud like Browne would have felt on pretty safe ground making such a statement. The mother died shortly after of heart failure likely brought on from grief. Her daughter was found alive several years later. For me, these frauds are just unforgivable. There are no words to describe them.
I totally agree with you Tommy. It's why I do what I do. I have been asked to do a reading for a friend's family who lost someone to show how easy it is to manipulate the grieving (the mom had used psychics before and my friend was worried her old "psychic" would go knocking on the door when they read the local obituaries. And yes, these vultures LOVE obituaries :(
To expand on what Mark Edward said, the Jersey Shore-acle did what is specifically called "shotgunning." "Shotgunning" is a commonly used cold reading technique. This technique is named after the manner in which a shotgun fires a cluster of small projectiles in the hope that one or more of them will strike the target. The cold reader slowly offers a huge quantity of very general information, often to an entire audience (some of which is very likely to be correct, near correct or at the very least, provocative or evocative to someone present), observes their subjects' reactions (especially their body language), and then narrows the scope, acknowledging particular people or concepts and refining the original statements according to those reactions to promote an emotional response. A majority of people in a room will, at some point for example, have lost an older relative or known at least one person with a common name like "Mike" or "John". Shotgunning might include a series of vague statements such as: "I see a heart problem with a father-figure in your family." A vast variety of medical problems have chest pain as a symptom, and heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. "Father-figure" can refer to somebody's father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, or any male relative who is also a parent or has served in a parental role to the person. "I see a woman with blackness in the chest, lung cancer, heart disease, breast cancer..." Most people will know a woman who was diagnosed with one of these problems, which are among the leading causes of illness and death. "I sense an older male figure in your life, who wants you to know while you may have had disagreements in your life, he still loved you." Nearly all people will have had such a person in their lives, and nearly all of them will have had a disagreement.
And this doesn't even cover more modern techniques. "Psychics" can have someone in another room looking up info on a person or place online and transmitting that knowledge back to them via small microphones and speakers. They can also leave people in a bugged room and eavesdrop on their conversations. If they work in a group setting they can pay someone to be a plant and get a perfect "reading" on that person to butter up the other people.
Yep. "Cold reading" is for rubes and amateurs. Professionals use "hot reading," which relies on researching the people that are coming to see them. If you have to make an appointment, then chances are the 'psychic' is using the time between when you made the appointment and when you arrive to look into you and your family history so as to give a more accurate reading.
Nowadays, with social networking sites, google, etc, scammers can do work that seems even more impressive, specially if they have time to build up a dossier on a mark prospect.
Yes, they are known as tax officials enforcement who collect death duties. The government predicts every day the economy will improve and they take the payment for this service right from your salary so it convenient way to pay.
They should've. Adam also should've debunked "Pet Physics " too. There are many pet owners out there who are deceived by those people! If they can't understand their own pet then they have a problem.
@@robwilson4511 that was a great show. I don't think they ever met irl but doyle was indeed paranoid and houdini did in fact scooby-doo every psychic he can find. The fact that modern magicians still debunk psychics to this very day, it almost feels like there is a shadow war between magicians and psychics, like lumen sages vs umbran witches....someone needs to make a videogame about this
Totally and out of the whole alphabet how do they guess the correct front letter...and they could have died from anything car accident ect how do they guess correct Just taking the video as examples
@@crayonorphanageincorporated Is it though? If someone is delusional or misinformed, then they aren't scamming you. Scamming is about intentional deception.
Christian kathryn Grimes: Do you remember that small woman who played the Psychic on Poltergeist? Not too long after that movie came out she suddenly disappeared. The headlines read "Small Medium at Large."
All mediums should be made fun of. They are scum bags. I knew what this video showed for years, I could tell the first time I ever saw "Crossing Over With John Edwards" what he was doing... and that was edited so I am baffled so many people fall for it in real time. But doesn't change the fact they are vultures who feed on peoples grief.
DanTheMan Idk. I talk to dead people, but it’s not my job and I don’t do it for anyone or ask anyone for money. I’m also not here trying to become famous or prove I have special powers. I have no explanation for what I can do, but I can do it. When it comes down to it, either I’m insane (I don’t think so, but that is of course possible), deluded (also possible, though I don’t feel like that’s true) or lying. I’m not lying, so back to the other two possibilities-unless of course there is another possibility-the possibility that we just don’t know everything about the universe yet, and that over time, we may end up figuring it out. I know that’s true. This has always been something I have compartmentalized, because I am a non-religious person of science.
when I was 13, my stepmother went to a psychic, and when her children/stepchildren came up, one of the things the psychics said was that I was gonna get a boyfriend soon. I'm almost 20 & very lesbian, so that definitely didn't come true 😂😂😂
You know my Psychic, Madame Beatrice warned me about this Adam character. He has a bad Aura and is a Nerd. Madame Beatrice told me I had travelled in the past 10 years and I'll be damned if she didn't hit it spot on.
Wyatt Barone education has nothing to do with it you just can’t be a sucker. I have heard of people who do very financially well falling for these scams. Rule number 1 “if something is to good to be true, it most likely is”.
I mean, I frankly don’t care what others spend their money on, if they want to spend on this, let them. I find is a bit scummy, but something else would just come up to take advantage of them
My Grandma had a friend who worked in those phone lines which you can call and they give you reading over the phone. One night they would be understaffed so my grandma's friend asked her if she can come in for 1 night and fill a spot. When my grandma argued that she didn't have the skill necessary to do that her friend simply replied "Just say whatever and those fools will believe it"
i read the title as fake physics and i was like how is that possible and was looking forward to something literally world changing. so disappointed that it's just about psychics.
K K yes. sort of. But I have all the episodes, so I can watch them whenever I want. Apart from the ending which was rushed(hyping up red john for 7 seasons and finishing him up easily in 2 or 3 episodes was utterly dissatisfying), the whole series was a worthwhile watch for me.
One time I was doing this to my friends, and one of them called me out on the whole "J could be anyone" thing. So I'm like ok, fine, let's do something specific. Sometime in the next 10 minutes a brown car is going to pull up (we were hanging around outside a convenience store pay phone, waiting for a friend to call it. This was the 90's, we didn't have cell phones, we just knew where everyone hung out, and memorized the pay phone numbers for those places.) and it's going to be full of people you haven't seen in years. I totally pulled that out of my ass, fully expecting it to not happen, and we'd all have a laugh about it when it didn't come true. Except it happened. Brown station wagon full of kids he went to school with a few years prior, but lost touch with when his family moved across town. And he gives me this slack-jawed look of shock and probably a little bit of fear. I mean I'm not psychic and I don't believe in psychics, but I freaked MYSELF out being bang on the money like that. Never happened again. Total one off, pure random chance, with the best possible timing. I mean what are the odds?
Shanka DaWanka i duno. My tarot reader told me some pretty freaky stuff about my depression at the time. It was a walk in consultation and she put down the cards and showed some pretty negative and guiltfull photos. This video is talking about cold readings, which obviously can be made up as the video shows. Tarot reading is and different thing. but also, tarot reading can be faked so I try to do my research before hand
I first learned about what Adam said about so called physics from a book by John Stossel. I felt bad for this one woman who got hoodwinked by those people. She was desperately looking for her sister who disappeared. Each time it came to a dead end.
"somebody knows something about a book!" That reminds me of the scene from Fiddler on the Roof where this guy (can't remember any names) said the Good Book says don't count your chickens before they hatch, and when he was called out, he said, "it said something about a chicken!"
I unfortunately grew up with a "psychic" mother. I was able to figure her out when one of my ex's was having a hard time so i told my mother about it. All she did was parrot what i told her and pass it off as "this is what i'm hearing from your relative". We've tried to call her out but she just goes full blown victim mode. Through research i've been able to figure out exactly why she does it and it's really unfortunate. But it doesn't excuse this horrid behavior, even if they think they are helping.
I was a Tarot card.reader, I still have them and look at them. I had done some very odd and.specific readings that freaked people out but I was sceptical of their insight into the future or straight up fortune.telling. But the deck (I always used rider-waite)is fascinating in itself. The major arcana I have always thought of as archetypes and the minor arcana as encompassing most of the average human beings misery (concerns) and some suggestions for each or warnings, heck even.identifying a problem. So the practical usefulness is random chance, just asking a question,.shuffling the deck and pulling a card may present an idea you may not.have thought of in the context.of your problem, something to consider not the dead.talking to you :-)
Kallen collins Im a beginner in tarot and Although I still am working on reading cards intuitively to me it seems very obvious that it’s not random because many times the cards jump out at me. And sometimes when I ask questions I kind of already know the answer to and I’m stubborn, I put the cards back in and reshuffle because I think “we’ll it didn’t jump out” and then the after shuffling the same cards show up again, making it clear it wasn’t random. Do the math. A tarot deck has 78 cards, what is the probably that out of 5 shuffles that the same card would show up. So no it’s not random. For the same reason if the “random” argument I never take cards from the top, I shuffle sometimes for five minutes until the cards jump out on their own. Sometimes depending on the question I could shuffle forever and nothing comes out because the question doesn’t serve my highest good or it’s been answered already and I’ve been too stubborn trying to shuffle the cards again seeking different results. Some weird things I notice is sometimes when I shuffle I can see the cards being rearranged and the order manipulated before my very eyes. And it’s really startling how some messages are so strong that a card fly’s right out of the deck. Of course not everyone has these experiences because of course not everyone is in high vibration energy. Having a tarot deck doesn’t make you a reader, you kind of have be spiritually enlightened to have those experiences. That’s what attracts spirit guides to you. And seeing by the comment section it’s very rare.
@@bonbon2225 I often have the same experiences, cards seem to consistently pop up in themes, it doesn't seem random. And yet if you look at the nature of randomness, random doesn't always look random. There can actually be runs in cards and people look and see patterns that are not there. I see the cards as a tool and for fun. If it's not random then what is it ? I think saying that tarot cards talk to you, tell the future then I think you are giving them too much power. I enjoy them for what they are.
Kallen collins tarot has never been about telling the future it’s meant to be introspective. The tarot cards are simply a portal. What the reading gives is a current snapshot of the energies present. It only gives a glimpse of what could happen in the future if you keep going down the path that you’re going on. There’s no logical explanation for the ways that the cards behave when I use them. And it’s not like I’m scamming myself. I believe there is spiritual activity involved because I’ve seen it and felt it. The cards are a tool they have no power they are just a messenger. A way to communicate with the beyond and actually understand. Since humans can’t really speak with angels or spirits, although you sense their presence if you hear ringing in your ear which I often do, the cards tell a story of what message needs to be conveyed. There is no pattern that one sees. If the same card pops ups in multiple readings that obviously means something. There’s a 0.002% chance of getting the same card 3 times when doing tarot readings after shuffling each time. There are also certain cards that never come up for me in personal readings because that energy is simply not mine but when other people do readings it comes up for them. They’ve actually given me and a lot of people a lot of guidance in terms of making decisions and has helped me connect more with myself. It’s not really a novelty thing. But if you don’t believe then that’s that.
The medium explained. That's all they do up there in heaven. Like and dislike RU-vid videos. Ever wonder why the likes/dislikes exceed the views? Celestial plane views are not counted. YT videos that are truly naughty are demonetised. Get it? That's why there's "demon" in "demonetised."
Of course, when the psychic turns out to be incapable of being wrong even when she tries (& has no way of knowing she was right), that’s a whole new can of worms.
What really creepy is when somebody you don't know are playing Ouji board with people you don't know, and somebody ends up asking stuff about somebody in the room ie when and where you were born, what your favorite things were, where you live, how many pets you own, personal information and all that stuff... when your watching the game, and not playing or saying anything. You either got a stalker or a demon, and honey I don't know which is worse.
I'm a little surprised they didn't mention their justifications. I have seen some episodes of Long Island Medium and you can tell by the way she talks about what's important that she thinks it's okay because she's giving people closure, and they believe it and feel better. I dunno, artificial though it may be, that's why people buy it. Finding closure on your own takes longer and is harder, so if they wanna pay instead, that's kind of their choice. Tough subject imo.
Oh that is what most do... it's how they sleep at night. But as Pen and Teller said (paraphrasing) who the hell are they to decide a lie about the universe is what a stranger who is grieving needs.
You'd be surprised. There's also a lot of performance, charisma, and emotional connection used, which people don't always separate from the spiritual. Heck, certain groups basically equate emotions with spiritual forces. While the video was specifically about "psychics", those methods pop up all over.
I will say I watched that John Edwards show once, and even with it obviusly being edited all I thought five minutes in was "how the hell are people buying this?"
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I remember my step mother coming home crying because some random patient of her (she's a nurse) came to her and told her my entire family tree instantly and she repeated a specific thing her grandmother always told her for years. She didn't ask for money she just went "oh hey are you so and so, here's your entire family and deepest secrets you never told anyone". So I'm a bit confused. That can't be lucky guessing or there's a difference between real mediums and fake ones
PiousPuddle Maybe it seemed like a random person to your step mother, but there are people that do this to me all of the time when I get close to my home town. There’s a large number of people there who have a habit of knowing all of the family connections. And if her grandmother said something to her all of the time, most likely she also told other people the same thing. This is certainly only the coincidence of running into someone who recognizes her when she didn’t know who they are.
This is actually quite normal, I also have met people I have no direct connection too that know my family because they are good friends with my aunt or grandma. No psychics involved here.
At least some ppl in this thread have some knowledge about history and the folklore of Houdini. Thank you to those ppl. And the comments are a lot nicer even though i only got to this page through another.
does anybody think of chandlers ex girlfriend from F•R•I•E•N•D•S sounds like the lady in here like chandlers ex always says: CHANDLER BING in this funny accent but this lady says: BADA BOOM in the same accent and it’s cracking me up lmao
The correct answer to the question "how do you sleep at night?" is ALWAYS "on top of a pile of money, surrounded by beautiful women". Doesn't matter if it's true, but you need to sell it for the smug satisfaction of providing a stupid question with a stupid answer.
I’m skeptical about everything but I saw a psychic once, she was on old Eastern European lady. She was spot on with everything she told me and I don’t have an explanation of how.
