What is your opinion on Mediums/Psychics?

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OkSurprise7342@reddit

absolute subhuman vermin who exploit vulnerable people for money - they should all be locked up

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Boredpanda31@reddit

My gran was a spiritualist. I believe she was able to do it, but I don't believe a lot of people can. Some people abuse it.

I only believed she had the "gift" because someone I know had her ring read by my gran and told me my gran was able to speak to her about things she had never told anyone about (very specific details of things that happened in an abusive relationship).

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Expensive-Analysis-2@reddit

Can your Gran tell me next weeks lottery numbers?

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Boredpanda31@reddit

She died 10+ years ago. Got a ouija board?

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Expensive-Analysis-2@reddit

Find someone with a "gift" like your dead nan. 🤷‍♀️.

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Boredpanda31@reddit

It was you that wanted to speak to her for the lottery numbers, not me.

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-FangMcFrost-@reddit

My mum went to see one a few months ago and when she came back, she was happy and all that and she told me some of the things the psychic said and I wanted to explain to my mum how the psychic would have known or said what they said but my mum was so happy that I just left her to be happy.

As for me, I don't buy what they sell as the majority of the time, it's just vague shit that they say with hopes that the person they're talking to will fill in the blanks for them which allows the psychic to continue talking nonsense and appear as if they're talking to the dead.

For example, the psychic my mum went to see brought up Cancer and said that my mum had lost a lot of loved ones to Cancer, which she has but then again, so has a hell of a lot of other people.

Then later into the session, the psychic mentioned "a man" who she could see was "pulling the waist of his jeans". She then asked my mum if she had lost a man in her life recently and my mum said yes, her brother (my uncle). The psychic then said that it was her brother she was seeing as she can see a resemblance between the man and my mum.

The psychic then said that my uncle was now happy because he's thin again and that my mum shouldn't worry about him.

My uncle died of Cancer and he lost a lot of weight during his fight with Cancer but I can tell you now, he was not happy at all about losing weight or having Cancer.

The last days of my uncle's life was incredibly shit for him and I know he didn't want to die as there was so many things in his life that he enjoyed, so I find it hard believe that my uncle spent his final months and days suffering and worrying about dying and then a few years after passing away he happily tells a random woman that he's happy to be dead because he's thin again.

Sorry for the rant.

I just don't like psychics and I miss my uncle dearly.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

Snake oil, the lot of them.

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Delicious-Cut-7911@reddit

I'm a medium and attend spiritualist churches. there are a lot of scammers out there. It costs £3 to attend church.

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laalaa1983@reddit

Never gave them much thought/thought it was bollocks until I saw one in late 2020. Tried to not give anything away - she didn’t have my surname, she didn’t have my address until the evening she was booked etc

She told me stuff there’s no way she could have found out elsewhere, she was so spot on with most of her reading & mentioned people/specific situations that aren’t anywhere public/online.

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Deep_Marketing8128@reddit

Same! I believe that there are some actually gifted ones, Just rare to 9cme across. But thing she told me were SCARILY accurate, some of which at the time i was like wtf this is not like me and now 3 years later has happened exactly

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laalaa1983@reddit

Same. Told me something that hadn’t happened yet but did in relation to a place I had no link with, which then happened the following year. Told me something medical stuff which isn’t public but true.

If all a series of coincidences, then very freaky ones.

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CyGuy6587@reddit

My mum and sister have seen one and did the same thing ie. Tried to not give too much away, and yet the medium still managed to give details only our family knows. I'm still not convinced though, there's gotta be more to it

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laalaa1983@reddit

Same, I’m not absolutely convinced. I didn’t give me surname so she couldn’t find me online, but even still - she knew stuff that isn’t online at all.

I’m such a logical person that it bugs me that I don’t know how she done it.

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Organic_Chemist9678@reddit

There is more to it. They found out things that you THOUGHT only your family knows. Mostly through combing through social media and your online footprint.

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WhiteDiamondK@reddit

The lowest of the low.

They generally prey on people who are hurting, missing loved ones. I used to work with someone who went to a psychic regularly as she lost her dad suddenly without being able to repair her relationship with him, and I wouldn’t listen to her talking about the “messages”. I made it known how I felt.

Some people say “Leave them, it’s providing a service to people who need closure” but it’s not. It’s lying, it’s manipulating.

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Mackem101@reddit

I used to live near a family who had a relation murdered when she was 15.

That family have spent a fucking fortune on mediums, because it was quite a high profile case, and still occasionally makes local news, they often get contacted by 'psychics' who apparently have been contacted by this poor lass from the other side.

Absolute scum, who take advantage of people at their lowest ebb.

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Relative_Dimensions@reddit

The tv show “The Mentalist” sums it up beautifully:

you gave her hope.
no, I sold her hope.

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Future-Rush5967@reddit

My friends wife died in a tragic accident and about 4 months later we was working one day (civils) and a man randomly came up to him put his hand on his shoulder and said “I know it sucks mate but she’s always here with you”.

All seemed very random, no questions before or cold reading and also we was about 6 hours from our hometown.

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Eilistraee__@reddit

Bollocks

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Silver-Doughnut-9217@reddit

Always been very torn on this subject. My dad was a psychic who was highly regarded. People would come to our house from miles away for his readings. They always left in tears and couldn't believe the accuracy. I've always believed it's bollocks. He got very ill and just before he died I asked him to send me some kinda message from 'the other side'. It's been 6 years and I'm still waiting.

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VxDeva80@reddit

Scam artists, taking money off desperate people, especially those who have been bereaved.

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thesaharadesert@reddit

Immoral vultures

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barrybreslau@reddit

Freud wrote about fortune tellers and concluded they were talented empaths rather than able to see the future. Mediums are similar I think. One way to look at them is immoral or profiting from grief, but some of them are providing closure.

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TheMinceKid@reddit

The last sentence is pure shite and you know it.

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barrybreslau@reddit

Well obviously the showy travelling circus type are bollocks. But there are also well meaning people who do it in private.

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jonewer@reddit

Weird how all these well meaning people charge loads of money isn't it?

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WebDevWarrior@reddit

If you think about it logically, if ghosts really did exist, adding up all the people who have ever lived and then died over the hundreds of generations of human existance... you wouldn't be able to move an inch without stepping on someones spirit (and considering psychics explicitly somehow focus on talking to whomever they want like a damn telephone call, the whole "passing over" thing doesn't seem to apply).

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geeered@reddit

The estimation is that people alive today represent around 5 to 6.7% of the total people (homo sapiens) who have ever lived!

(Not that that's a justification for ghosts, I should note!)

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DonkeyJousting@reddit

I wonder how far back in our evolution you’d get ghosts? Do other primates get ghosts? Or can human mediums only contact human ghosts? Do ghosts expire after a while? Did any mediums try to contact, like, the spirit of Ötzi the mummy in the Alps from 3000bc? Or is that too early? What are the spatial, temporal and genetic limitations here?

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lonehorizons@reddit

And are they affected by gravity or do they have to keep flying as fast as they can to keep up with the earth flying through space?

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motific@reddit

That's probably the nicest thing I've heard anyone say about them...

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jonewer@reddit

I'm getting a "P"... A name starting with "P"... Anyone? Anyone know someone with a name starting with "P"?

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Jlaw118@reddit

The only experience I have with them is my MIL went to see one a couple of years ago, and the medium told her she had another grandson on the way.

It came out a few days later that her daughter in law was pregnant. And found out a week or two later me and my partner were having a baby too.

Both turned out to be boys, born two weeks apart.

But I know typically there was a 50/50 chance of both genders and that mediums play on that, but it was just more she didn’t know either my partner or her daughter in law was pregnant

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You_are_Retards@reddit

cold reading is supported by statistical probabilities.
perhaos in the questioning your MIL said how old your DIL was and how long married and already had a son...
thats probably enough to guesstimate a 2nd child, and yeah 50/50 on the sex

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WhiteDiamondK@reddit

And not forgetting the “plants” in the venue who listen in on conversations.

“Oh I really hope I get a message from Uncle Bob”. Overheard by someone who passes the info to the “Medium” and away you go.

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You_are_Retards@reddit

Yeah right good point

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alloitacash@reddit

One of them was outed a couple of years ago, someone in the audience found the radio frequency for the mics and picked up everything the fraud was being fed.

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You_are_Retards@reddit

yeah the great randi exposed Popov in the 80s(?)

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GreatBigBagOfNope@reddit

I think Darren Brown did similar more recently too

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CuckAdminsDkSuckers@reddit

UTTER BULKLSHIT FOR CREDULOUS SUCKERS.

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SpaceTimeCapsule89@reddit

I don't believe any of it at all. I think they keep everything very vague and are observant enough to know which way to go when addressing someone specific.

The only situation I found quite baffling was my mum got us tickets to an audience with such and such 'medium'.

There was a lot of people there and she came out and pointed directly to me. It was 20 years a go and I was only 15 years old with my mum sat next to me who was in her 30's. She said sorry I will do my starting bit in a minute, I just need to talk to you first. She said there's a woman with dyed blonde hair and her make-up done nicely then before I even said anything she said she's your grandma and she died when she was only 59! My mum of course got upset because her mum (my grandma) died when she was only 59 and my mum was only 26. She went on to say I have to talk to you because your grandma wants you to know that you'll experience a struggle in life and you'll long for something that you'll struggle to get and she wants you to know that you will get it but you'll have to be patient. Then she said your 3 sisters will get what you want many times over before you do but you'll have grace and you will be blessed with it before you turn 30. Then she went on to do her show.

This was before social media. I don't know how she knew what my grandma looked like (me and my mum both had brown hair), I don't know how she knew the age she died or that I have 3 sisters. Basically though, I struggled with fertility issues and my 3 sisters all had children before I did, even my younger sisters. Eventually when I was in my late 20's, I had my son. I just find it quite baffling that she knew specific details and managed to predict something like that. I don't know if she was just lucky with guesses or what but she definitely didn't know me or my mum and we weren't asked to fill anything out before attending. It definitely helped when me and my husband weren't conceiving. I said we'll have a child before I turn 30, it will be ok.

Despite that experience, I still don't believe in it. I don't know what to make of that though!

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Many_Yesterday_451@reddit

Why don't you ask them my opinion 🤔

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Thestolenone@reddit

I know a medium personally, she definitely doesn't make it all up and I think she would rather have a normal life.Yes there are shite mediums who pad things out with good guesses to make thngs more exciting, there are probbaly complete fakes. I live in a deprived area of West Yorkshire where nearly everyone had a father who was remote and unemotional, they turn up quite often. But how did she know the specific name of my nephew who lives in my deceased son's house, when my Facebook is locked down tight and I have no other social media and my family live hundred of miles away? I've also seen some very specific things brought up by mediums at open circles where they have no idea who is coming in advance so couldn't possibly know anyhting about them.

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steak-and-kidney-pud@reddit

No. She does make it all up. She’s just very good at deceiving people, including friends. You’re being taken for a ride.

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Underwritingking@reddit

I think it is objectively bollocks. I think a large proportion of "practitioners" are flim-flam merchants, but I can accept that some of them may be simply self-deluding but genuine

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FordZodiac@reddit

I knew you were going to post this. :)

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Farting_Llama@reddit

Back in my late teens I used to knock about with people who were mad into this. People who did tarot readings, considered themselves 'witches', and in some cases, shamans, worlocks, 'empaths', 'readers' or 'healers'.

Picture the folk at festivals with stalls selling crystals and three-wolf-moon shirts. Seemingly harmless.

There was something comforting about them back then, I sometimes miss that. However, pretty much all of them fell right down the far-right pipeline, we're talking terminally online Facebook /Telegram bullshit, homeschooled kids, antivax, Brexity, Trumpy shit. Chemtrails! Microchips! Oh my!

One of the worst of them used all the mystic, foftune reading, tarot stuff to impress young ladies, and I mean young. Thankfully he's arsed his life up so bad that he's less able to do harm now.

I think we should be so wary of these folks. Most of the ones I know just turned out to be deeply silly people, but some are dangerous manipulators, and the 'woo' scene is a hunting ground for them, either as a money-grift, but also some real noncey shit.

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PowerfulStrike5664@reddit

Con artists/scum of the earth, should I say more?

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I_am_simply_a_potato@reddit

I like to think there is something beyond, and in the right circumstances we all can experience or witness something we can’t explain. That said, anyone that tries to make money off people claiming to speak to deceased loved ones I find to be terrible and fake. They call them ‘cold readings’ and I think John Edward’s was someone accused of doing this and he was so well known for being a medium or something. I see it as Hollywood magic for the most part.

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CautiousMessage3433@reddit

It doesn’t matter. They both work great

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No_Coyote_557@reddit

"is there someone here called Dave? No? Someone with a similar name, begins with a D? Or it could be a B. You sir, Bill is it? No Bernard, yes that's right. Have you lost someone close recently? No? Has anyone in your family...yes, I have someone on the other side with a message...she says don't worry, it will turn out alright...any idea what she's talking about ...yes, that's it!"

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DonkeyRhubarb76@reddit

Charlatans, grifters, liars and all round con artists. It's boggles my mind how people still believe in that crap when it's been debunked countless times. James Randi even offered a $1,000,000 prize if someone could prove their "abilities" and it was never claimed.

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amboandy@reddit

My favourite thing about psychics are the ones who can't spell "psychic, pyshcic, physic, pshychic have all been seen and laughed at

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Cock piss Partridge

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Expensive-Analysis-2@reddit

Piss kick? What's a piss kick?

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amboandy@reddit

new to the watersports scene?

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cgknight1@reddit

Total bollocks - I used to do cold reading as a party trick. I stopped because some people would not believe it was a trick.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Always considered learning it.

That 1st sentence betrays the sum total of my efforts

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Ok-Customer-5770@reddit

How did you do it? What was your technique?

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ChompsnRosie@reddit

You're here because you lost someone, am I right?

Clocks your age, any wedding band etc

You want to make contact with (husband/wife/child)? I'm feeling a spirit in the room now...it's, it's a man....were you close to a man?

Yes I was.

And they were taken away too soon, is that right?

Yes, they were, Ron was only 60

Cuts off Ron's here today. He wants you to know it's all.fine. he's happy. He's really happy. But he wants to know if you're still doing your hobby. Are you still doing it?

Well, yes I am...it's always good to knit

Ron says keep knitting, there might be a need for booties soon

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lonehorizons@reddit

“Does the name John mean anything to anyone here tonight? No? Actually I’m wrong it’s not a John it’s a Dave… Yes, you madam? I’m seeing a dog by his side. He didn’t have a dog? No I can see it clearly now, it’s a cat. He hated animals? Ok he wants you to know he’s at peace.”

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behavedgoat@reddit

Pleaee do a post on this ama

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chris_282@reddit

When I was about 16 I learnt the Tarot. I realised very quickly that it's vague enough for people to fill in the blanks themselves.

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7ootles@reddit

The tendency to fill in the blanks is itself a useful psychological tool.

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Relative_Dimensions@reddit

I’m genuinely impressed by people who can do cold reading; it’s a real skill. It’s such a shame that it’s so often used to con people.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Predators.

Beyond ridiculous.

A lady at work went to one. Came back with many stories..before you knew it, 4 other women went too

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CoffeeNoSugar6@reddit

I’m getting the word……..

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Expensive-Analysis-2@reddit

I'm only telling you what the spirits are telling me.

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OwnKing4640@reddit

You gotta be cruel to be kind, ey I’m just the messenger

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sicksquid75@reddit

Complete nonsense. Im not sure they actually know they’re actively scamming people or that they’re that egotistical they think they have some sort of gift.

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Organic_Reporter@reddit

Probably 50:50, I've seen some who appear to be obvious con artists and others that seem to be so deluded they truly believe they're speaking to the dead. I have been a couple of times, with friends and haven't really been impressed at all, it was always so vague. Once there was a slightly convincing story about a lost key, but that could well have been a plant. I went to a spiritualist church once, afterwards there was tea and mingling and a guy approached me who said he was training as a medium and asked if he could give me a message. It was apparently about a link to London. He seemed so very confused when I was adamant I didn't have even the slightest link to London for him to exploit!

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lonehorizons@reddit

I guess if they put one plant in the audience and pretend to know a lot of information about the person’s dead relative, the rest of the audience will go away remembering that as a massive success and forget about all the other failures.

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steak-and-kidney-pud@reddit

Remember Derek Acorah. “Mary loves dick, Mary loves dick”. Total fraud.

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lonehorizons@reddit

He got busted for having assistants mingle with the audiences in his live shows at the bar before the show started, they’d pretend to be audience members and chat with people about who they wanted to make contact with, then tell him all the details.

Also he predicted the date of his own death and got it incredibly wrong 😂

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WaveyDaveyGravy@reddit

Kreed Kafer

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JamJarre@reddit

Well it's either bollocks, or it's all true but neither big corporations nor the military are interested in taking advantage of being able to speak to the dead. If it were true we'd have put Derek Acora to work interrogating dead soldiers on enemy plans and summoning the dead in court to testify that their cybertruck totally didn't just burst into flames after all.

Mediumship doesn't pass the capitalism test.

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Special_Bench868@reddit

Absolute cunts. My MIL was into all that, and when she passed away, you couldn't go a week without one of her batshit friends claiming to have a message from her, it to have seen her standing next to us

It was really difficult to deal with

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b_of_the_bang_@reddit

I was working in a pub in 2021 for a time when it was open, they had a psychic night booked in but it had to be cancelled because of another lockdown, it took everything in me not to ask them why they hadn’t predicted it and why I now had I had to sort out all the refunds for grumpy customers 🤣

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Expensive-Analysis-2@reddit

I worked in one pub the psychic asked what time they were on? I said I'd thought you already know.

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Organic_Reporter@reddit

I also went to one where the booked psychic didn't turn up and someone else had to stand in, after we'd waited half an hour. I was eye rolling so hard it hurt.

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Askduds@reddit

There’s no such thing as either so no point having an opinion.

In other news, I hate scam artists, of which there are many.

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AnxiousAppointment70@reddit

Same as you, it's bollocks

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Gunbladelad@reddit

There may be some who "might" be genuine in their belief of their abilities, but I would say that 99.999% of them are just scammers.

Note I said they are genuine in believing in their abilities - not that they have any.

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hojicha001@reddit

You are correct, it's utter bollocks.

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

Lowest form of vermin

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imtheorangeycenter@reddit

"This act is for entertainment value only"

My mum practiced homeopathy, at least that had a measurable placebo effect.

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Expensive-Analysis-2@reddit

Is there a John in the audience?

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TheMinceKid@reddit

Dangerous scam artists that prey on the grieving. It's disgusting.

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bellathebeaut@reddit

Grade A Bollocks.

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FakeNordicAlien@reddit

I think that if there are people out there with genuine talents, you’re not going to see them on TV or advertising in magazines or putting on shoes for people.

It’s kind of the same principle as “reality” TV. If you’re looking for an actual partner, you’re not gonna find them on Love Island.

More or less everyone who gets into TV is a poseur, and everything you see should not be considered anything more than entertainment. Doesn’t matter if they’re a medium, a Turkey-toothed fame hound doing the rounds of Ex on the Beach and Love Island and every other similar show out there, someone pretending to be a therapist or a doctor.

Sometimes there’s an element of truth among the fakery; Dr Oz has a medical license, Dr Phil has a psychology degree. But if you listen to them for five minutes you can see they’re just caricatures of people. They may or may not realise it. Sometimes people start to buy into their own public image.

If there were real psychics, public forums - TV, live shows - are about the last place you’d find them.

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Adept_Thanks_6993@reddit

I don't believe in it, but I've gone to fortune tellers at fairs for entertainment value

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Relative_Dimensions@reddit

At best, they’re a bit deluded.

At worst, they’re stone cold confidence tricksters preying on the distressed and bereaved.

The professional ones are all the worst type.

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Embarrassed_Put_7892@reddit

Me and my husband have this conversation a lot… like when they go to charlatan conventions do they all stand around pretending they’re legit with each other or is it like ‘how have you duped someone recently?’

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Embarrassed_Put_7892@reddit

Me and my husband have this conversation a lot… like when they go to charlatan conventions do they all stand around pretending they’re legit with each other or is it like ‘how have you duped someone recently?’

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Embarrassed_Put_7892@reddit

I think they’re charlatans who prey on vulnerable and gullible people.

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Wonderful_Formal_804@reddit

"Does the name John mean anything to anybody here?"

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pajamakitten@reddit

I'm reminded of the Dara O'Briain bit on psychics where one asks and audience if the name Mary means anything to anyone...to an Irish audience.

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GruffScottishGuy@reddit

I remember it being "Has anybody here lost a Mary?"

Dara's like, "In Ireland?? We lose Mary's down the back of the sofa!"

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Shitelark@reddit

My mother was called Mary, and her brother was called Joseph (RIP Scarlet Fever.) And my grandparents were called... Mary and Joseph, Though we called her Nana Pol.

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spezisdumb42069@reddit

That's the name of my mum's best friend's husband's ex-wife's dog. How did you know?!

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jxs1@reddit (OP)

She actually said that yesterday!

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Dazz316@reddit

Jay?

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VFiddly@reddit

They're either lying or mentally ill

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Hammy747@reddit

Absolute grifters who prey on the vulnerable. No idea why it's still allowed

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BrilliantOne3767@reddit

I work with someone who has ‘the gift’ if you get her to touch you. All of her hairs stand up on her arm and she WILL ask you about people and give names. She keeps getting racing pigeons loving her as part of their journey.

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IcyMushroom2639@reddit

"Your great great great grandmother is giving me the number thousand. Does that make any sense at all?"

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BroodLord1962@reddit

Utter nonsense and simply their to prey on the gullible

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Bobbleswat@reddit

I think it's a load of old horseshit.

I do however think that doing a tarot reading can help someone gain insight about themselves through the process of providing random prompts that make them consider different aspects of their life and how they interact with/affect other areas. As long as everyone involved understands that's what's going on rather than thinking there's any mystical at play.

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Dranask@reddit

This from 2009. My sister and family live 100 miles (160km) away her daughter, my niece went to a seance. The medium told her to pass a message on to her uncle, me.

My sister told me that the medium had said to my niece the following.

“Your Uncle is divorcing tell him there is another man involved.”

I had not told my sister I was divorcing, the process had just begun, so there was no way anybody would know. I confirmed to my sister that yes I was divorcing but hadn’t told her as we were only just telling family. I also told her there was no other man.

I was wrong, he moved in with my ex 6 weeks after the divorce.

He was someone she knew before she met me in 1983 who was her boss back then and who for professional reasons she’d meet often.

It seems the Medium was right. So tell me are mediums fake? On that evidence no.

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dazb84@reddit

https://www.tiktok.com/@brianregantiktok/video/7176768824870505771?lang=en

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bladefiddler@reddit

As I sit here on the toilet reading this thread, there's a presence near me.

No, not the dog who followed me upstairs and is sat outside on the landing. A misty shadow stood over by the towel rail....

They're trying to communicate but the ethereal mist is too heavy! I can almost see their mouth - it's dropping open then widening like a smile or grimace but the sound is far too feint.

Now it's clearing a little the sound is growing. Po - heeh? Pah-chee, patchy? No. Bowl-chips? Ball-ships?

Ahhh, now it's coming loud & clear. BULLSHIT!

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Express-Training5428@reddit

Charlatans.

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frenzy1801@reddit

It's utter bollocks. A mix of cold-reading on the "psychic"'s side, and gullibility on that of the audience.

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abumaanu@reddit

It's all bullshit mate.

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Superb-Ad2048@reddit

I prefer large psychics

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tfn105@reddit

Grifters

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Shitelark@reddit

I like mediums, they encourage me to watch my weight and my chest size doesn't change so once I buy t-shirt it just adds to my ever growing collection.

Psychics, absolute bell ends.

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just_some_guy65@reddit

Con artists

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PoundshopGiamatti@reddit

I used to be convinced there was some truth to it: then I did some cold reading myself and was shocked at how easy I found it. I went through quite a lot of significant bereavement quite early in life, so I was looking for answers and a bit of an easy mark.

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HeriotAbernethy@reddit

Oh, I dunno. I went to one at a fair once for a laugh, so no pre-booking, no opportunity for research, and she was spookily accurate about a friend of mine. Off the top of my head she said that he had recently injured his right knee playing golf, and that he was the single dad of a teenaged boy who was a talented musician. That’s pretty specific, and it was bang on. No dead people were mentioned.

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WalterZenga@reddit

They already know what I think of them.

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rcp9999@reddit

Scum who feed off the bereaved. My ex bought a book on cold reading when we were students and scared the life out of loads of people, it's not even hard. I've got a brilliant story of one of these bastards coming a cropper if anyone is interested.

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rachw39@reddit

Ooh yes please!

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rcp9999@reddit

I was working in a pub in the south Wales valleys. They booked a psychic from Bristol. His opening shot was this. " I'm getting strong feelings about a particular job. Does anyone here have links to the mining industry?"

Every hand went up.

I laughed so much I nearly gave birth, and I'm a bloke.

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rachw39@reddit

Hahah oh dear!!! Even the best psychic should have a little think AND know the audience before they go on stage 😂

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rcp9999@reddit

I've honestly never laughed so much in my life.

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rachw39@reddit

I can imagine!

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Blue85Heron@reddit

I have a friend who’s a professional magician. He does tricks where he pretends to be able to read audience members minds. Then he explains that it’s all tricks and that nobody can really read minds.

Audience members consistently refuse to believe he didn’t read their minds. They are intent on being convinced.

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BastardsCryinInnit@reddit

Sums them up perfectly

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HorseBarrierRoad@reddit

If they're any good they already know. If they're not they're a scam artist and bullshitter.

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ThePolymath1993@reddit

Scammy arseholes exploiting peoples' grief.

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Rasty_lv@reddit

freaking scammers..

mediums, psychics, taro readers.. all are scammers.. worst thing is, my close family member is into taro shit.. god i hate it..

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Gullflyinghigh@reddit

Like the con artists asking for donations on account of their religious work, somewhere high on the Sky channels, they're bottom feeding leeches who prey on the vulnerable.

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Josie1Wells@reddit

They can open doors to evil that can be very hard to close

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pajamakitten@reddit

I am sure they will close them for a fee though.

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JRingo1369@reddit

How many times have you been ~~conned~~ read?

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alloitacash@reddit

Yeah, greed.

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stevebehindthescreen@reddit

I have a mate that's like, if you've been to a medium, he's been to a maximum. I'd say mediums are just as full of shit as my mate is...

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pajamakitten@reddit

They are not mediums or psychics. They are conmen or delusional; you can decide which is worse of the two yourself.

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JRingo1369@reddit

It is utter bollocks.

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captainhazreborn@reddit

Scam artists or mentally ill. No option in between, vast majority are the former and can get in the fucking sea.

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Haunting-Breadfruit9@reddit

Love this spoof of it all https://youtu.be/NoZDYQuSGsE?si=8jRnmC2UpQpDemGd

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markhw42@reddit

If they’re doing it for free, deluded. If they’re charging money, absolute scum. Should be a criminal offence.

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JimmyBallocks@reddit

fucking vermin preying on the desperate and vulnerable

I fail to see any reason why they should not all be done for fraud and have their livelihoods taken from them

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smoulderstoat@reddit

It's utter bollox.

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AdhesivenessNo9878@reddit

Absolute grifters and personally I think they engage in a very scummy practice where they make money off people who desparately want closure on big issues that the mediums know full well they see lying about.

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Scrambledpeggle@reddit

You're basically asking "is magic real?". No.

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nervous_veggie@reddit

Absolute fraudsters

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wyo_rando1962@reddit

When one of them predicts the winning lottery numbers I'll believe in them.

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SquiffSquiff@reddit

sometimes I have strong opinions on them and sometimes not. Most of the time I'm thinking 'medium'

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stebotch@reddit

At best entertainment at worst scammers.

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castielsbitch@reddit

Never been to one because it's all bollocks, but would love to go to one to find out exactly how bollocks it is.

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MrsCosmopilite@reddit

Charlatans of the cruelest kind. To prey on grief is utterly disgraceful.

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charley_warlzz@reddit

I generally think they’re scam artists/professional liars. However, i lost my nan a couple years ago and since then my aunts have started getting progressively more into psychics, because it’s comforting to them. So i wouldn’t go myself, but I dont really disparage them as much any more. I still think its scummy to take advantage of grieving people like that, but i understand the people who buy into it a little better.

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Ordinary-Break2327@reddit

They always ask someone aged 75+ "Your parents are deceased?" knowing chances are it's true.

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TankFoster@reddit

Con artists. I've got a bit of sympathy for some of the people taken in by them, often they're grieving and think they'll be able to "contact" their recently departed. It's disgusting that these scammers take advantage of them.

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Valuable-Wallaby-167@reddit

Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/F7pYHN9iC9I?si=CCFpOeo5EC4J2nXd

Nowadays it's incredibly easy to find out all sorts of info about people and pass it off as a psychic reading.

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LilacRose32@reddit

Frauds that prey on the venerable

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steak-and-kidney-pud@reddit

It’s utter bollocks.

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rumbletom@reddit

Utter bollocks, apart from when I was told I would never win the lottery..

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Sweet-Mention4356@reddit

Professional Liars

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ThereAndFapAgain2@reddit

I feel bad for the people that actually believe in that nonsense. Any reasonable person already knew it was bollocks, but just to drive it home, so that even those brain damaged enough to be swindled can understand, there have been many high-profile TV shows that put their claims to the test in a very public setting that they had no control over, and would you believe it, they failed spectacularly every single time.

There has also been test done in scientific settings that were less public but had the exact same outcome.

The "psychic" is just a person that knows their audience want to believe in their bullshit, so they play on that, people don't like to admit that they're wrong, in fact they will go well out of their way to convince themselves that they're not stupid and they were right all along.

These people have already separated themselves from any logic, any reason, so the illogical and the unreasonable becomes their reality.

The "psychic" knows this and uses it to profit, it's a simple as that really, I doubt there is any "psychic" out there that genuinely believes they can commune with the dead or see the future or whatever else, they're just grifters. Grifters of the worst kind imo because a lot of the time they're preying on vulnerable people who, while incredibly stupid, are often also grieving the loss of loved ones or other such tragedies.

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You_are_Retards@reddit

Utter bollocks

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Sidebottle@reddit

It's all nonsense. I think some people are more attuned to read body language and the like, but it's not magical.

Some are grifters, IME most are just delusional.

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