cold reading

A couple of evenings ago, I went with 2 friends to visit some really interesting little shops downtown. At one point, while looking around a costume store, we were approached by a woman who told us she was a psychic and would like to "read" us. The first reading was free, with the hope of us...

Hello All, I have been speaking with a medium who said she has a message to give me from my mum. I don't know how she knew my mum has passed away. I am a skeptic but how can they know things about you when they haven't met you? She also said that she is an evidential medium and can give me...

Hi there, this is my first post on this forum and I apologize if I misspell some word because I am not a native English speaker. I don’t consider myself a professional sceptic but due to fact that it seems that mystical beliefs are getting a revival at the beginning of 21. century from time to...

I have been listening to Darkness Radio for sometime and I enjoy the total banality and how Dave Schrader allows the guests to babble on making fools of themselves, however, I was listening to the show from 7th August 2014 in which Mark Anthony, a psychic lawyer, gets in touch with dead people...

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and she told me that she'd been to a palm reader over the weekend. This woman (a geophysicist) is normally very reality-bound and so I was surprised to hear that she'd be dabbling in the paranormal. "Well," she giggled, "It was a gift from a friend...

I will be attending a John Edward performance in Queens NY on 5/12. Has anyone actually gone to one of his performances?

In SpiritEcho's abandoned thread, I offered to do Tarot Readings for anyone interested. Here we are. I will explain that I delved somewhat into Tarot during my neopagan phase, with mixed results. I do not believe that Tarot has any mystical or spiritual significance, but I do believe that the...

I am not sure that anyone here has seen this, but this is Orson Welles explaining cold reading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjPsnfysrp8&feature=related

Psychic Saly Morgan apparently caught Peter Poppoff style,being fed info . http://www.independent.ie/national-news/no-happy-medium-as-psychic-sally-sidekick-prompts-outrage-2874250.html Interestingly she posts a rebuttal on her own site...

Interview and cold reading with Vicki Monroe (Righteous Indignation podcast) I can see previous threads mentioning the Righteous Indignation podcast, but I first heard of it last night (at Skeptics in the Pub). The current edition is a break from their normal format, and is the complete...

I haven't seen the 'Family Guy' episode yet, but read a summary in the LA Times. According to the "Extra Large Medium" wikipedia article, one character demonstrates how cold reading works and how psychics deceive their clients. The full episode is being streamed here.

I bought an e-bool that uses the house, sun, tree picture test as a cold reading. I think its cool. Does anyone know a way to get more infor onthe psych version of the test and what it means?

This may have been mentioned before, I know I have asked the question before. Derek Acorah (the UK's number one medium, failed footballer and wannabe barber shop photo model) has a 'spirit guide' called Sam - full name Masumai. Now I have always thought Derek was a bit of a joker. His cold...

Hi guys--looking for a couple of books teaching cold reading. Any suggestions?

Here's an old Married With Children episode called "Psychic Avengers" where Al Bundy starts his own psychic hotline: http://www.hulu.com/watch/30698/marriedwith-children-psychic-avengers#s-p9-so-i0 Al Bundy realizes he can get fast cash with no investment and no credentials by starting a...

So I was doing some research on psychics and I came across Herb Dewey, a proclaimed psychic who is deceased. Dewey worked as a psychic for the Globe and did private readings for $20 as well as "claims to have discovered missing children", made celebrity predictions and said things like "said a...

Does anyone please have a bigger and better version of this pic?

Just a few days ago I got a cool thing in the mail from the folks at the Skeptic's Society. It's a little pamphlet on how to be a psychic. I liked it so much I wanted to reproduce it here for everyone... Note: much of this comes out of Ian Rowland's Full Facts Book of Cold Reading, which I...

Wow, I'm still researching the Jackie Barrett article and I came across this podcast from another "brilliant psychic medium" Joseph Tittel. He did a cold reading over the phone that was so bad that it's comical. You can listen to the whole thing here. I just listened to the first reading and...

After having read widely on the subject of cold reading over the last few years, analysing readings performed by the TV psychics, reading transcripts, etc. and participating on this forum, I've come to the point where I'm fairly confident I could convince a stranger that I was a genuine psychic...

I don't know if anyone here remembers Delmart Vreeland. This guy got arrested in Canada right before 9/11. He makes up a crazy story about the Russian Mafia and terrorists attacks on several cities, and he even composes a little list of major buildings in the U.S. and Canada. Well, then 9/11...

This is an online cold reading I gave to a friend of mine. I wanted opinions and ways to make it better. NOTE: The following looks long, but it's merely the formatting. Alex says: Are you an only child? Alex says: You are, aren't you Dylan says: Yeah Alex says: Your mother, she has blonde hair...

From his latest stand-up special: faWuLiTB1cs

This guy is selling a manual, aimed at magicians and mentalists, on how to "instantly boost your income" doing cold reading. And according to his FAQ, it's not just (or at all?) for magic or mentalism shows: (formatting as is from the source) eta: Maybe I'm not understanding this, but at a "psi...

I had a long conversation with a friend about cold readers. It started with “Why did you go to this conference of skeptics?” and got stuck around this: him: Why do you feel this urge to oppose cold readers? me: Because they lie to people. It would be OK if they actually provided something to...

Caught this programme http://www.psychicprivateeyes.tv/special.php How absolutely deplorable.To watch that snivelling creep Fry claim to have assisted in nailing the killer.I have contacted programme makers via website. If it's repeated I'll record it and upload it.:mad:

So the "Living" section of my local newspaper (how's that for irony?) had a big, gushingly credulous front-page spread yesterday announcing the impending arrival of pop-psycho Lisa Williams, who will be coming to a town nearby (where most of my adult students live) to help the bereaved channel...

A large gathering of pagens is going to happen near me between May 16-18. It is inexpensive to gain entrance and I have performed somewhat successfully last year at this venue during a Beltaine festival. For some reason I have a strong desire to understand how woo performers work. I possess an...

Does anyone have a copy of the generic personality profile that Randi uses to debunk astrology by giving everyone in a group of people the same reading? Derren Brown also did the same thing on his TV show. There are several groups I think I could educate with this method. It seems to me like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eigKsGTsfc&feature=related Really uplifting voice he has too! ;)