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BentNotTwisted · 12-30-2003, 07:33 PM

Eight years ago I met a woman who claimed she was psychic. She said she had some sort of spirit guide following her around and could communicate with it. I pretty much considered her a nut case until one evening we spent chatting over a bottle of wine. She started asking me about my family. I told her I came from a family of 10 children and that one of them had passed a way a few years before our talk. She asked me how he died and I said 'Why dont' you tell me?' She made several stabs at it which made me doubt her supposed ability. She said, cancer, heart attack, then she said AIDS. Considering he was my older brother it wasn't an outrageous guess. Still it was right on the money.
Then she asked the strangest thing. She wanted to know if I would be interested in talking to my dead brother. She said she would ask her spirit guide to try and contact him. I thought, what the heck. Maybe she'll try some more guessing games, get it wrong, and I'd be positive she was deluded. To condense what happened it seemed her spirit guide was able to talk to my brother and he had something important to tell me. My brother said an old high school girlfriend of his had been killed in an automobile accident and that she was trapped and could not move on to her next existance. My brother wanted me to try and help this friend of his, this ghost. What boggles my mind is this psychic only knew my brother was gay and that he died of AIDS. That's all I had told her. How could she know my brother briefly dated one woman late in his highschool years or shortly after. I never followed up to determine if the woman had died so I can't be absolutely sure of the woman's accuracy.
I know there are a lot of con artists who claim to have special powers and steal from gullible people. Have any of you come across legitimate psychics?

12-30-2003, 07:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Your thoughs on people who proclaim themsevles psychic Eight years ago I met a woman who claimed she was psychic. She said she had some sort of spirit guide following her around and could communicate with it. I pretty much considered her a nut case until one evening we spent chatting over a bottle of wine. She started asking me about my family. I told her I came from a family of 10 children and that one of them had passed a way a few years before our talk. She asked me how he died and I said 'Why dont' you tell me?' She made several stabs at it which made me doubt her supposed ability. She said, cancer, heart attack, then she said AIDS. Considering he was my older brother it wasn't an outrageous guess. Still it was right on the money. Then she asked the strangest thing. She wanted to know if I would be interested in talking to my dead brother. She said she would ask her spirit guide to try and contact him. I thought, what the heck. Maybe she'll try some more guessing games, get it wrong, and I'd be positive she was deluded. To condense what happened it seemed her spirit guide was able to talk to my brother and he had something important to tell me. My brother said an old high school girlfriend of his had been killed in an automobile accident and that she was trapped and could not move on to her next existance. My brother wanted me to try and help this friend of his, this ghost. What boggles my mind is this psychic only knew my brother was gay and that he died of AIDS. That's all I had told her. How could she know my brother briefly dated one woman late in his highschool years or shortly after. I never followed up to determine if the woman had died so I can't be absolutely sure of the woman's accuracy. I know there are a lot of con artists who claim to have special powers and steal from gullible people. Have any of you come across legitimate psychics?