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ORLANDO, Fla. — A team of psychic detectives is assisting Orlando police in their search for missing three-year-old Florida girl Caylee Marie Anthony, according to local news reports. The group, known as "Body Hunters" and lead by psychic detective Gale St. John, is "blind driving" around Central Florida in search for the toddler who was last seen June 16, Local6.com reported. "We will not even look at street names," psychic detective Gale St. John told the TV station and its Web site on Monday. "We drive and go completely on feeling instinct, chasing down what we call a person signature."...

Leduc said they advised her that Victoria's educational assistant (EA) had visited a psychic, who said a youngster whose name started with "V" was being sexually abused by a man between 23 and 26 years old. Leduc was also handed a list of recent behaviours exhibited by her daughter.

The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was "completely unprofessional" to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused based on a psychic's perception.

BARRIE -- The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was "completely unprofessional" to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused based on a psychic's perception. Barrie resident Colleen Leduc wants an apology from the Simcoe County District School Board, which called in the Children's Aid Society (CAS) to investigate. According to the board, the case is still under investigation, although Leduc says it was closed. Leduc immediately pulled her 11-year-old daughter, Victoria Nolet, out of Terry Fox Elementary School in north-end Barrie. "I have trust issues now," Leduc said. "What are they going...

They [CIA] said to me that they wanted me to meet President Carter to invest millions of Dollars in psychical research. So I said to them, "How do you want me to do it?" This was when he was President elect, not yet sworn in as President. So they said to me, "We will arrange for you to go to the White House on the day of the inauguration, and you talk to him there." "How are you going to get me into the White House?" "Don't worry." And to make a long story short, a girl came into my...

MARLBOROUGH – Police are looking for help in solving a convenience store robbery Monday in which two men used distraction techniques and what the clerk described as "psychic powers" to "get into his mind" and somehow make off with a large amount of cash. Marlborough Detective Steven E. LaMears said the clerk didn't realize until yesterday that he had been robbed by the two men. "He was embarrassed to come forward at first," LaMears said. "As he described it to me, he said it reminded him of when he would go overseas to his home in India and see the...

Calls were spreading on Monday for Princess Martha Louise to give up her royal title, to eliminate what's considered an inappropriate mix of her privileged position with her new controversial psychic venture. Even relatively conservative newspapers are criticizing the princess for "earning money on her princess title," as Bergens Tidende wrote in an editorial in Monday's editions. The newspaper, Norway's largest outside the Oslo area, also noted that "as a princess and theoretically an heir to the throne," Martha Louise "needs to relate to the rest of us others within a certain framework." The editorial questioned whether the princess' new...

Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it? Some scientists nowbelieve that the brain really CAN predict events before they happen Professor Dick Bierman sits hunched over his computer in a darkened room. The gentle whirring of machinery can be heard faintly in the background. He smiles and presses a grubby-looking red button. In the next room, a patient slips slowly inside a hospital brain scanner. If it wasn't for the strange smiles and grimaces that flicker across the woman's face, you could be forgiven for thinking this was just a normal health check. But this scanner is engaged...

Philly Authorities Shut Down Psychics, Astrologers and Palm Readers WEIRD BUT TRUE By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services April 28, 2007 -- They should have seen it coming, but maybe that was the problem. Philadelphia authorities shut down dozens of psychics, astrologers and palm readers after realizing there's a decades-old law on the books that bans fortune-telling for profit. The law states that fortune-telling "for gain or lucre" is a third-degree misdemeanor. No fines were levied, but they will be if "these people try to return to work," said a city official.

The Ministry of Defence has defended decision to carry out tests to find out whether psychic powers could be used to detect hidden objects. The previously secret tests - conducted in 2002 - involved blind-folding volunteers and asking them about the contents of sealed brown envelopes. Most subjects consistently failed to establish what was in the envelopes. The MoD said the study was to assess claims made in academic circles and found the theories had "little value". Revelations about the hitherto secret research is contained in a previously classified report released under the Freedom of Information Act. During the tests,...

In June of 2005 psychic Jeffry R. Palmer predicted that several planets similar in size to our Earth would be found orbiting distant stars and that the discovery of new planets will reach the hundreds if not thousands by the end of 2006. These predictions may have seemed far fetched, even absurd to many of us. But recent astronomical discoveries may prove Mr. Palmer's predictions to be correct.

CBS) Paris Hilton says she knows what people want, and she's about to give it to them. The hotel heiress and star of the reality show "The Simple Life" releases her debut album, "Paris," on Aug. 22. "It's a very fun album, it's very eclectic mix of music," Hilton tells CBS News correspondent Drew Levinson. "I know music very well, and what people like. I want to incorporate hip-hop, rock, pop and dance all into one album." Will it be popular? "I think everyone will enjoy it," Hilton says. Hilton rose to fame as a party girl and red-carpet regular...

To this day, John and Patsy Ramsey have lived up to their promise and continue to search for their daughter's killer. They have posted a composite sketch of a suspect compiled by the late psychic, Dorothy Allison, on their Internet site with the attached message: "Have you seen this man? This man may have been in the Boulder area in December 1996. ... We firmly believe that this most horrible of killers will be caught based on information provided by people who care about right and wrong. ... Please help, so another innocent child will not be a victim and...

COVINGTON -- A palm reader and self-proclaimed psychic has been put on probation for a year for trying to scam a Slidell business owner out of $5,000 in July 2004. Lecia Urich, of Kenner, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted theft of more than $500, had told the woman that a ritual during which money was buried would help lift a deadly curse. Urich, who goes by the name "Sister Jackson," also was fined $250 by State District Judge Reginal Badeau. Authorities said the Slidell woman was not the only victim. Kenner police said Urich told four customers that their...

SALEM — In a paranormal public hearing last night, dozens of psychics argued before a city licensing panel about what the future holds if Salem cracks down on rogue clairvoyants. Unfortunately, no clear vision emerged from the meeting. One side told councilors the city needs to embrace its standing as the Witch City by allowing more licensed psychics. But opponents warned that oversimplifying the process could bring predators bent on making an easy dollar, rather than ethically telling fortunes. The debate unfolded before a hearing of the City Council's licensing committee, which is pondering tightening its regulation of Salem's fortunetelling...

MARTINEZ — A well-known television psychic can testify as a witness in the murder trial of self-described soothsayer Susan Polk, a judge ruled Tuesday. Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Laurel Brady's decision came despite objections from prosecutor Paul Sequeira, who argued that allowing a psychic to testify could send the wrong message to the jury and could raise thorny legal issues. "If a psychic is going to testify and say, 'I am a psychic and I can see the future and I have solved cases with my psychic abilities ... the very nature of the testimony is that of...

Murder defendant describes being 'ashamed' to wed therapist she says she killed in self-defense, then delves into paranormal - Susan Polk stood before the court Wednesday morning, raised her right hand and swore to tell the truth, relinquishing, for now, her role as defense attorney to become the star defense witness in her murder trial. And then the defendant, who claimed in her opening statement to be psychic, told the jury she predicted the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, thwarted a papal assassination and heard her husband, whom she has claimed was an Israeli intelligence agent, discuss the death...

MARTINEZ - Murder defendant Susan Polk today began her defense against charges she killed her husband, telling the jury in an opening statement that she is psychic but not delusional. Polk, 48, said that not only did she live in an abusive relationship with husband, Felix Polk, for more than 25 years, but that during that time she used her psychic powers to thwart terrorism by feeding information to him because he was a spy. "If you doubt psychics exist, examine your own experience," she told the jury, alluding to the example of how birds and fish each travel in...

SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian federal police officer has been suspended for consulting a clairvoyant as part of an investigation into a death threat made to the country's prime minister, a newspaper reported Sunday. The officer, whose identity has not been released, reportedly consulted clairvoyant Elizabeth Walker after inquiries into the threat to Prime Minister John Howard hit a dead end, The Sunday Age reported. In a statement to the newspaper, an Australian Federal Police spokesman confirmed an officer was being investigated. "I can confirm we are currently investigating the matter. A member of the AFP has been suspended," the...

In TV2 show Sensing Murder, three psychics independently identified a spot at the falls as the burial site of Williams. The Tauranga woman disappeared without trace from her Gate Pa home on June 5, 1986. Her body has never been found. A man phoned police the day after the show screened, saying he knew of a skull at the falls. But his discovery was kilometres away from the spot the pyschics were drawn to - at the top lake end of McLaren Falls... Historic Places Trust archaeologists were able to determine that the bones were ancient, likely "pre-European" by marks...

LONDON - Derren Brown, it seems, can read the minds of pedestrians. He can beat half a dozen world-class chess players in simultaneous games, determine how many fingers people are holding up behind their backs and talk a London cabdriver out of being able to find the London Eye, the huge Ferris wheel that looms over the Thames. Naturally, none of his clever tricks will work on this psychologically astute interviewer, who plans to use mysterious journalistic techniques to unearth his darkest secrets. But the coolly charming Mr. Brown decides to try anyway. He produces a sheet of blank paper...

According to a report, the victim - whose name was not released by police because the investigation is pending - walked into the Delayed Criminal Investigation Unit in March. She told police that she went to the psychic - whose name was also not released - last year because she was having problems with her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. "The victim was suffering from evil influences against her spirit," wrote Jack Waters of DCIU. Apparently, the psychic dealt a hand of tarot cards for the woman and determined that the woman had a "dark aura" and that "bad spirits" were coming from...

If John Edward’s new book turns out to be as popular as his previous endeavors, we could soon see rosaries for sale at Wal-Mart.With Practical Praying: Using the Rosary to Enhance Your Life, the best-selling author and TV psychic medium is putting himself on the line in an entirely new way. “I had major, major blocks on a personal level,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’ve been very private about my rosary praying.”A book about the rosary wouldn’t be commercial coming from most writers, but Mr. Edward, 35, has such a built-in following of far-reaching fans that his book...

"The way of all peace is to scale the mountain of Self. Loving others makes the climb down easier. We see all things darkly until love lights the lamp of the Soul."The above words form the first tenet of Novus Spiritus. Within them lies the basic philosophy of the Society, namely: Life is a long journey of discovery, wherein each person must meet - and love - themselves, overcome their own fears, and learn the truth about loving. It is a process of perfecting the innate, God-given beauty of the Soul.   A B O U T   S Y L V I A   B R O W N E ,   F O U N D E R  In April 1986, Sylvia...

Jimmy Carter's Psychic Connection Former President Jimmy Carter reveals that he once used a psychic in a trance to do what the United States' satellite surveillance system couldn't - find a downed American plane. In an interview for GQ magazine excerpted in The Weekly Standard's Scrapbook section, Carter recalls: "We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic - a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. "So we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every 90 minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A Brazilian court will consider a psychic's claim that the U.S. government owes him a $25 million reward for information he says he provided on the hiding place of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Brazil's second-highest court, the Superior Court of Justice, decided on Thursday the Brazilian justice system could rule on the matter and told a court in the psychic's home state of Minas Gerais to judge the case. The lower court had earlier told Jucelino Nobrega da Luz it could not take up his claim and it would have to...

A Caryville man who once billed himself as a modern day Merlin will need more than a magic wand to handle his latest situation. He'll need a lawyer. David Marius Guardino, who claims he is a seer and sorcerer for the rich and famous, able to predict the future using a mix of telekinesis and clairvoyance, faces three counts of income tax evasion in a federal indictment handed up by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Knoxville. The 63-year-old Guardino made his initial appearance before federal Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley on Monday after a quick trip to an...

He says dead people talk to him and tens of thousands of people, without a doubt, believe him. John Edward became widely known through his TV show, "Crossing Over," where he connected audience members with their loved ones on the other side. He's still doing that in front of crowds, large and small, around the world. But long before he became a star, Edward said his mother would come back from sessions with psychics with messages for him."She says, 'Every time I go for a reading, they keep telling me you're going to be well known.' And I'm like, 'Would...

A jury sentenced a San Antonio fortuneteller to 12 years in prison Friday for stealing more than $200,000 from eight clients who came to her for help. Jennifer Evans, 24, sobbed after the judge read the sentence and then hugged her husband until she was pulled away by bailiffs. Before being led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, Evans yelled an explicative at the lead prosecutor who tried the case. Evans was found guilty of eight counts of theft by coercion Thursday after 10 of her former clients told jurors how Evans conned them out of money and harassed them...

Okay, I know I shouldn't be listening to Georgy Noory, but it is the only thing on late at night. I don't watch TV. Sean David Morton, a self-proclaimed psychic and remote viewer had a number of predictions. (I predict that, during an August heat wave in Southern California, he will be on the street selling his body by the hour for shade.) He predicted that the President would not finish his term. He also predicted that a draft would be re-instated in 2005. It would be changed to include men and women 18-28. Everyone would have to do...

Bellefonte police hope woman can spark new leads Bellefonte police have begun working with a California psychic in hopes of generating new clues in their investigation into the disappearance of District Attorney Ray Gricar nearly one month ago...

Psychic detectives, both "real" and fictional, are currently hot. They have been publicized on Larry King Live and seen in the new hit NBC television show Medium, which recently beat the science-based drama CSI:Miami in the ratings. Yet a close examination of psychic detectives suggests they are better at finding publicity than missing persons. A common pattern occurs in high-profile missing persons cases (such as Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, and countless others): dozens or hundreds of "psychics" offer tips (for free or for pay), yet when police follow up on the information, the vast majority of it ––or...

It's 10 minutes before the show goes live on the air, and nobody predicted the developing dilemma. The show's gossip reporter is having second thoughts about dropping his pants on live television to have his buttocks read by local television psychic Professor Jose Miranda. What about reading it over my underwear?" asks the reporter, clearly upset and looking very serious. "I can't see the lines. How do you expect me to give a reading?" the oracle answers, just as serious. "I have to see the lines." Following an ardent debate, the producers of the phenomenally popular and raunchy late-night talk...

CCSU researcher says lost city of Atlantis a myth Dr. Kenneth Feder, a professor of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University, is an expert in archaeological hoaxes and has written a book about the myth of Atlantis. He rejected a recent Atlantis discovery claim and the countless others that have come before it with the same simple argument — namely, that Atlantis' only location was in the imagination of Plato, the man who first described it. The lost land of Atlantis has been discovered. Again. In a press conference last week, a U.S. researcher named Robert Sarmast announced that his...

Cheese Enhances Psychic Ability LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Here's some food for thought: Eating certain foods can enhance your psychic ability. That's the "in-food-ition" from a Los Angeles psychic named Malena, who says eating proteins like cheese and bacon before a psychic reading helps you tune in and listen to psychic messages more effectively than going hungry. Malena says cheeses like cheddar and provolone are especially effective, especially when munched with black cherries and dark purple grapes. Vegetables also help a person's intuition and Malena says some scatter-brained psychics find munching on corn chips helps ground their spirit so...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A proposal to regulate psychics in San Francisco is catching the attention of law enforcement nationwide. That's because fortune-telling fraud is one of the hardest crimes to prosecute. Fraudulent psychics and palm readers are rampant in California according to police. They've taken consumers for millions of dollars. The problem is that perpetrators use fake names and are constantly on the move and victims are too scared or embarrassed to come forward. "I can see that you have a long-standing disagreement with someone in your family," says Detective Jan Cater from the Sacramento Sheriff's Department. She's giving...

Leave it up to San Francisco to possibly be the first city to implement legislation requiring psychics and fortune-tellers “to obtain permits, post their rates and stop tricking their clients.” The first two are mere technicalities, but that last one is the real clincher, because, unless you believe in the supernatural, psychics and fortune-tellers are by their very nature, tricking their clients. In covering this rather outlandish subject-matter, the Chronicle seemed to be taking an appropriately tongue in cheek approach, by beginning the article with “The future looked cloudy for dozens of fortune-tellers and psychics.” The legislation was put forward...

Thirty years after the Vietnam war the bereaved still hope their loved ones can take a place on ancestral altars, reports Kay Johnson in Hanoi They were childhood sweethearts who fell in love at 18, married at 21 and were swept apart by war. Now, all Nguyen Thi Gai has to remember her husband by are her wedding photographs and a carefully folded death certificate. But nearly 30 years after her husband was killed in battle with American soldiers, Gai has found new hope for burying him in his native village. Like thousands of other Vietnamese, Gai has turned to...

<p>SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ -- A quivering blob of ectoplasm is causing more excitement at Liquid Assets go-go bar than are the comely dancers baring their flesh.</p> <p>A dancer, Dee Dee, clad in a sparse turquoise costume sprinkled with silver and sporting gemstone navel jewelry, took a break from gyrating for some very attentive customers last week to share her experience.</p>

Drudge Headline: In his new controversial book BUSH AT WAR, Bob Woodward reveals interior monologues of key newsmakers, including a description of National security adviser Condoleezza Rice's thoughts -- as she watched television alone... WOODWARD CAPTURES CONDI'S THOUGHTS WHILE SHE IS ALONE WATCHING TV!

Does anyone think that the law enforcement should ask psychics for help in solving the DC area sniper case?

(KRT) - Some 6 million people called late-night TV psychic Miss Cleo, and the companies that operated her hot line are swamped with civil fraud complaints. Now, for the first time, the companies are facing criminal charges.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has learned that a grand jury in St. Charles County, Mo., returned a suppressed indictment Sept. 13 charging the companies and their two principal owners with criminal fraud.If found guilty, the owners could face a maximum of 10 years in prison and fines of $10,000, in addition to $20,000 in fines for their companies.Indicted are Steven L. Feder, 52, and...

Mon Jul 15, 9:38 AM ET Blind German psychic Ulf Buck (L) feels the buttocks of a client during a session in his study room in the northern German village of Meldorf near Hamburg July 15, 2002. Clairvoyant Buck claims that people's backsides display lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to reveal much about their character and destiny. REUTERS/Christian Charisius

BERLIN: Forget palm-reading. A blind German psychic has claimed he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Clairvoyant Ulf Buck, 39, claims that people's backsides have lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to reveal much about their character and destiny. "The bottom is much more intense -- it has a much stronger power of expression than the hand in my experience," Buck told Reuters. "It goes on developing throughout your life." By running his fingers along a number of lines on the surface of a client's posterior, he says he can...

News Home - Yahoo! - Help Limited Time Offer. FREE Shipping. While Supply Lasts! Home  Top Stories  Business  Tech  Politics  World  Local  Entertainment  Sports  Op/Ed  Science  Health  Full Coverage  Oddly Enough - Reuters     Oddly Enough | Reuters | AP | Reuters UK Blind Psychic Gropes Buttocks to See FutureTue Jul 9,11:55 AM ETBy Nick Tattersall BERLIN (Reuters) - Forget palm-reading. A blind German psychic claimed Tuesday he could read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Clairvoyant Ulf Buck, 39, claims that people's backsides have lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to...

To Shlomit Galperin, the future looked bleak. And she wasn't even a psychic -- yet. She was cleaning houses around St. Petersburg, Fla., to support her two kids, and there wasn't a lot of money in it. So when she saw the ad in the Thrifty Nickel -- work at home, earn good money, flexible hours -- she made the call. "You will be a psychic," she recalls the woman telling her. "What?" she replied. Clearly, Galperin is no clairvoyant. If she was, she would have already known that for the next four years, she was fated to be one...