Psychics join the manhunt

How many psychics were accurate on 9-11? Hire them. Minimum wage...

Actually, my sister "saw" 9/11 about a week beforehand, but had no idea what it was. She wrote this in an e-mail to me:
About a week before the WTC attack happened, I was relaxing, and kind of daydreaming and I knew a plane crash had taken place and there was a fire. I saw bodies raining out of a tall office building (kind of a yellow brick building), which then dissolved.

Now, I was greatly disturbed by this "errant thought" and was kind of down on myself for allowing it to happen. I remember telling myself that if I was going to let my mind wander and imagine any sort of scene that I should be imagining something more pleasant. I thought the whole thought kind of ridiculous because I knew that planes didn't crash into buildings--a pilot would do anything he could to avoid hitting a building. And then I thought that if I was going to imagine a thought or a scene, that I could control it and I should change it to something more positive. So when I visualized it again, I imagined that the people were sliding down ropes instead of free falling. As much as I tried to reassure myself, the thought that I had felt terrible and it stuck with me for a couple of days.

Even while it was happening on 9/11, it took me awhile, maybe that evening, to realize that I had "seen" it before or what I had seen matched up with what happened.

I don't remember having had a psychic vision before. There have been many times that I've known something before it happened, but never anything like this. I wish I could have done something about 9/11, but I keep thinking that it must have been meant to happen and it couldn't be stopped.

She's disturbed by this. I don't think anyone has control over such visions, but if someone has the "gift," don't knock it.

I don't think anyone has control over such visions, but if someone has the "gift," don't knock it.

I don't discount the real, but very rare, gift of prophecy or foreknowledge.

I was knocking the frauds.

Your sister shouldn't be down on herself for not concluding that her "vision" was a fortelling of an imminent attack on the WTC. No other reasonable person would be. If this wasn't a coincidence, perhaps this was a sign to her for some future purpose.

I was knocking the frauds.

Oh, I didn't intend to be critical. I know--everyone on the thread was knocking the frauds. I agree that a lot of the people making a living at being "psychic" are a bunch of charlatans.

Can you help, though? When I saw this thread, I thought I might be able to find some support for my sister from anyone else who might have foreseen 9/11. I know about the rap album cover, the Dutch calendar, and the NJ minister with the newsletter. Anyone else out there?

I recall reports, one in Texas, I believe, and the other either in NY or NJ, of kids with Middle Eastern families possibly having guilty knowledge beforehand of the 9/11 attacks. Nothing about prophetic knowledge, though.

You ought to run a Vanity thread along those lines. See if any of the other FReepers have heard of such a thing.

Good luck, and ping me to the thread if you decide to run it.

9/11 is proof that psychics are bogus: if they couldn't predict even a vague hint that something REALLY REALLY BIIIIIIIG was going to shatter the nation's collective psyche around that date & location, they sure aren't going to be accurate with minor personal/individual nuances. Multiply this repeatedly with Princess Diana's sudden death, and various other huge events that shocked the psychic industry's clientelle, with nary a peep about "incoming!" even hours before it happened.

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