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- The only thing mediums are in touch with are the cognitive blind spots of their victims.
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I'm an honest fake psychic. I perform professionally as a tarot reader. I freak out the clients and THEN explain how I work it all out. I've had people admit to spending thousands on "psychics" and thank me, but some still insist I'm double bluffing and I ACTUALLY have magic powers. :(
So you give a good explanation that of how you do this for theatrics and not for profit and actually explains how it works but they think your lying about lying? That’s weirdly depressing
Tetsu Hatano some people just need to believe in something other than themselves and those around them. In october I perform EVERY NIGHT for 6 hours. Honestly I will get maybe 3 people say nothing was right in the whole month!
Dean Jones i understand what you mean its just saddening that people would cling to that kind of hope even after you explain that its all bunk
Dean Jones I was a big fan of Psych and The Mentalist and learned a few things in college mostly to pick up chicks. As an adult, it makes me sad that stupidity is a layered demon
do you have any video footage of you? You sound like a really neat person and it would be educational to see your work. BTW you are awesome for being honest, the world needs more of you.
I’m never able to find the words to express the pure, seething rage and contempt I feel towards the frauds who profit from the grieving and most vulnerable. I remember a case roughly 15 to 20 years ago where a “psychic” called Sylvia Browne absolutely devastated the mother of a kidnapping victim by telling her (on national TV) “she’s not alive, honey,” “she’s in water” and described “seeing” her blood-stained clothing. Now, it had been more than a year and a half since her disappearance-similar cases and historical precedence meant the likelihood she would be found alive were _very_ slim-so a fraud like Browne would have felt on pretty safe ground making such a statement. The mother died shortly after of heart failure likely brought on from grief. Her daughter was found alive several years later.
For me, these frauds are just unforgivable. There are no words to describe them.
I put these mediums in the same box as televangilists like Kenneth Copeland, Jesse Duplantis, and Mike Murdoch
@@azizahamura2592 If you put em in a box with those wrinkly faced onion munchers, make sure to burn it lmao
Sounds like church.
I totally agree with you Tommy. It's why I do what I do. I have been asked to do a reading for a friend's family who lost someone to show how easy it is to manipulate the grieving (the mom had used psychics before and my friend was worried her old "psychic" would go knocking on the door when they read the local obituaries. And yes, these vultures LOVE obituaries :(
Where was the daughter all this time?
And this doesn't even cover more modern techniques. "Psychics" can have someone in another room looking up info on a person or place online and transmitting that knowledge back to them via small microphones and speakers. They can also leave people in a bugged room and eavesdrop on their conversations. If they work in a group setting they can pay someone to be a plant and get a perfect "reading" on that person to butter up the other people.
Yep. "Cold reading" is for rubes and amateurs. Professionals use "hot reading," which relies on researching the people that are coming to see them. If you have to make an appointment, then chances are the 'psychic' is using the time between when you made the appointment and when you arrive to look into you and your family history so as to give a more accurate reading.
They're also good at flattering their victims. If they tell them what they want to hear then they got them hook line and sinker.
I use Facebook....
don't forget Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. It's amazing how much you an find out about a person through their social media accounts
@@wordforger let's not forget the faith healers being fed info by ear phone.
One of the most iconic magicians in the world, Harry Houdini, was famously skeptical of mediums and them taking advantage of people (partly out of guilt because early in his career, he and his brother pretended to be mediums to support his family). Then at one point, when grieving for his late mother, he turned to one to see if it could get him any closure.
The first thing the medium said was his mother wished him a Merry Christmas. However his mother was Jewish.
From that point, he spent a good part of his career debunking them. Even willing to severe friendships because of it. Most famously with avid spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (ironic given his fame for creating Sherlock Holmes, who was synonymous with Logic and deductive reasoning).
Even on his deathbed he was willing to prove his point. He gave his wife a secret code that only the two of them would know. And if there was a way to reach out from the other side, he would send her that phrase from beyond to admit if he was wrong.
And she passed that on to a friend, and to this day magicians still hold a seance each year in honor of Houdini, 1) to commemorate him, and 2) to drive home the point that it's all fakery and trickery.
If you ever have the opportunity to see Terry Evanswood in Gatlinburg Tennessee he is a honest magician. He sat after his show and told us it was tricks of the eye- and he does not want to be known as a liar or fake. Its a show for enjoyment and he hoped we had fun. I loved his honesty and my children left excited to learn the "tricks" of magic! I had seen David Copperfield as a child and was in awe at how he was magical! It made me question my Christianity- Terry did not put that question out there and I loved that...but he didn't once bring up anything other than its fun and tricks of the eye.
@@healthteaspoonie I'm glad that he did that. I guess he didn't want children to ever be disillusioned by magic tricks.
Yes I'm surprised Adam didn't mention Houdini in this segment. Penn & Teller continue that tradition today
WOAH. Thank you for sharing this!
Nowadays, with social networking sites, google, etc, scammers can do work that seems even more impressive, specially if they have time to build up a dossier on a mark prospect.
Yes, they are known as tax officials enforcement who collect death duties. The government predicts every day the economy will improve and they take the payment for this service right from your salary so it convenient way to pay.
Sad they didn't mention Harry Houdini's crusade even once.
With Arthur Conan Doyle
They should've. Adam also should've debunked "Pet Physics " too. There are many pet owners out there who are deceived by those people! If they can't understand their own pet then they have a problem.
Or James Randi's.
@@robwilson4511 that was a great show. I don't think they ever met irl but doyle was indeed paranoid and houdini did in fact scooby-doo every psychic he can find. The fact that modern magicians still debunk psychics to this very day, it almost feels like there is a shadow war between magicians and psychics, like lumen sages vs umbran witches....someone needs to make a videogame about this
Houdini was an illusionist.
0:25 He is drinking expired milk bc it's still okay to drink it I'm crying 😂💓 (he made a video on this)
Lol ikr
I understood that reference 😂
Should be shown in every high school science class!
It would help shut up all the goths, "troubled teens" and Twilight fans. Also make this generation less stupid.
Jarosław Sobiński Really? I only hear assertions of ghosts from stupid religious preppy girls in high school.
Actually, Grandpa hated books. Now that I think about it, I was thinking of his TV guide. XD
when I was 13, my stepmother went to a psychic, and when her children/stepchildren came up, one of the things the psychics said was that I was gonna get a boyfriend soon. I'm almost 20 & very lesbian, so that definitely didn't come true 😂😂😂
Maybe your girlfriend was a man before the sex change? Fact is stranger than fiction sometimes.
@@Flughafenkaiser Then the psychic should have said instead " she will become a lesbian" instead of saying she will have boyfriend
@@fora1924 Guess the technique they were using was homophobic.
Breaking new: Universe is homophobic
My mom loves watching Hollywood medium, but so far he hasn't done anything to prove he's more than a talented cold reader in my eyes.
“Fake” psychics? You mean psychics.
I first learned about what Adam said about so called physics from a book by John Stossel. I felt bad for this one woman who got hoodwinked by those people. She was desperately looking for her sister who disappeared. Each time it came to a dead end.
52 fake psychics couldn't predict this bust.
After Houdini's mother passed away, he searched out psychics and proved them all to be frauds.
would love to be able to see the entire show in one go.
I predict you will one day . Lol
"somebody knows something about a book!"
That reminds me of the scene from Fiddler on the Roof where this guy (can't remember any names) said the Good Book says don't count your chickens before they hatch, and when he was called out, he said, "it said something about a chicken!"
I love this one time in a psychic TV show where she told a widow her boyfriend died from drowning. Turns out he died during 9/11
LMAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SexyWalrus9000 plot twist: he died drowning while the attack was happening, but NOT in New York.
Ken Renzo he was an office worker there.
my guess it her dead husband to make her a widow may not be dead a kill the boyfriend
calling a psychic fake implies that there is such a thing like a genuine psychic.
There are. Psychic is a Pokémon type, and Pokémon are real 😁
ZhangtheGreat thanks to Pokémon GO
Perhaps there is such thing, Swan. Perhaps there is.
I was making a joke, @@daviddong7730.
Shanka DaWanka i duno. My tarot reader told me some pretty freaky stuff about my depression at the time. It was a walk in consultation and she put down the cards and showed some pretty negative and guiltfull photos. This video is talking about cold readings, which obviously can be made up as the video shows. Tarot reading is and different thing. but also, tarot reading can be faked so I try to do my research before hand
There's a reason why you never see psychics win the lottery...
Reminds me of that blonde from Rhode Island. I just couln't watch her being serious.
Long Island
Isabella thanks for the correction.
@@papercottonI think he was trying to make fun of that blond
I'm a little surprised they didn't mention their justifications. I have seen some episodes of Long Island Medium and you can tell by the way she talks about what's important that she thinks it's okay because she's giving people closure, and they believe it and feel better. I dunno, artificial though it may be, that's why people buy it. Finding closure on your own takes longer and is harder, so if they wanna pay instead, that's kind of their choice. Tough subject imo.
Oh that is what most do... it's how they sleep at night. But as Pen and Teller said (paraphrasing) who the hell are they to decide a lie about the universe is what a stranger who is grieving needs.
I was a Tarot card.reader, I still have them and look at them. I had done some very odd and.specific readings that freaked people out but I was sceptical of their insight into the future or straight up fortune.telling.
But the deck (I always used rider-waite)is fascinating in itself. The major arcana I have always thought of as archetypes and the minor arcana as encompassing most of the average human beings misery (concerns) and some suggestions for each or warnings, heck even.identifying a problem. So the practical usefulness is random chance, just asking a question,.shuffling the deck and pulling a card may present an idea you may not.have thought of in the context.of your problem, something to consider not the dead.talking to you :-)
Kallen collins Im a beginner in tarot and Although I still am working on reading cards intuitively to me it seems very obvious that it’s not random because many times the cards jump out at me. And sometimes when I ask questions I kind of already know the answer to and I’m stubborn, I put the cards back in and reshuffle because I think “we’ll it didn’t jump out” and then the after shuffling the same cards show up again, making it clear it wasn’t random. Do the math. A tarot deck has 78 cards, what is the probably that out of 5 shuffles that the same card would show up. So no it’s not random. For the same reason if the “random” argument I never take cards from the top, I shuffle sometimes for five minutes until the cards jump out on their own. Sometimes depending on the question I could shuffle forever and nothing comes out because the question doesn’t serve my highest good or it’s been answered already and I’ve been too stubborn trying to shuffle the cards again seeking different results. Some weird things I notice is sometimes when I shuffle I can see the cards being rearranged and the order manipulated before my very eyes. And it’s really startling how some messages are so strong that a card fly’s right out of the deck. Of course not everyone has these experiences because of course not everyone is in high vibration energy. Having a tarot deck doesn’t make you a reader, you kind of have be spiritually enlightened to have those experiences. That’s what attracts spirit guides to you. And seeing by the comment section it’s very rare.
@@bonbon2225 I often have the same experiences, cards seem to consistently pop up in themes, it doesn't seem random. And yet if you look at the nature of randomness, random doesn't always look random. There can actually be runs in cards and people look and see patterns that are not there. I see the cards as a tool and for fun. If it's not random then what is it ? I think saying that tarot cards talk to you, tell the future then I think you are giving them too much power.
I enjoy them for what they are.
Kallen collins tarot has never been about telling the future it’s meant to be introspective. The tarot cards are simply a portal. What the reading gives is a current snapshot of the energies present. It only gives a glimpse of what could happen in the future if you keep going down the path that you’re going on. There’s no logical explanation for the ways that the cards behave when I use them. And it’s not like I’m scamming myself. I believe there is spiritual activity involved because I’ve seen it and felt it. The cards are a tool they have no power they are just a messenger. A way to communicate with the beyond and actually understand. Since humans can’t really speak with angels or spirits, although you sense their presence if you hear ringing in your ear which I often do, the cards tell a story of what message needs to be conveyed. There is no pattern that one sees. If the same card pops ups in multiple readings that obviously means something. There’s a 0.002% chance of getting the same card 3 times when doing tarot readings after shuffling each time. There are also certain cards that never come up for me in personal readings because that energy is simply not mine but when other people do readings it comes up for them. They’ve actually given me and a lot of people a lot of guidance in terms of making decisions and has helped me connect more with myself. It’s not really a novelty thing. But if you don’t believe then that’s that.
ITS ALL DEMONIC LMAO
What really creepy is when somebody you don't know are playing Ouji board with people you don't know, and somebody ends up asking stuff about somebody in the room ie when and where you were born, what your favorite things were, where you live, how many pets you own, personal information and all that stuff... when your watching the game, and not playing or saying anything.
You either got a stalker or a demon, and honey I don't know which is worse.
The demon 👀
"I live off exit 9 on the Turnpike." Exit 9 on the Turnpike is New Brunswick. Not only is she a fake psychic, she's not even from the Jersey Shore.
Ooh, do your 'spoiled milk is ok to drink' trick! That scares people!
Part of me wants to go to a psychic, ask them to contact/channel some fake relative and then curse out said fake relative.
Exit 9 on the turnpike is New Brunswick, gotta take route 18 the rest of the way to the shore 🤷🏻♂️ like another hour away
5:34 *_Mr. AdAm I dOn'T fEeL sO gOod_*
"Its in my contract no one can have bigger hair than me!" xD
The psychic reminds me so much of Janice from the show "Friends"!!
Let's be honest "The Jersey Shore-acle " would of been an awesome name for one of these shows :)
I have two topics that would be funnatural resources is forestry good or bad? Is the accepted forestry technique the most profitable? Importing of sand for beachesnatural vs artificial flavors are artificial flavors more environmentally friendly? are artificial flavors more economically feasible?
5:33 I don't feel so good.
Can we talk about how good that actress is though
I KNEW you were gonna do this video, Adam. I must be psyc-kick!!!
Psychics never win the lottery
Hey, it's the kid from "Mr. Robot."
5:33 Mr. Conover, I don't feel so good.
I just realized that the age of 60 I love Jersey Girls
I LOVE the actress playing the NJ oracle.
Gad Dam lmao no physics getting my money not even on Halloween lol 😂 🤣 😅 🤦🏽♀️
"fake psychic".. those 2 words have the same meaning because there is no real or genuine psychic
At least some ppl in this thread have some knowledge about history and the folklore of Houdini. Thank you to those ppl.
And the comments are a lot nicer even though i only got to this page through another.
Next he's gonna tell us that Garlic Bread is a scam...
Why does the Jersey Shoreacle remind me of Gina from Brooklyn Nine Nine?
1:23 "....and if those ghosts think people should give us money, also knock!" LMFAO!
"I don't feel so good" 5:34
5:34 mr adam i don't feel so good
“Chestal area” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol you know there calling out the long island medium 😂
There's also the "hot reading," comprised of some P.I. work, beforehand.
I find hilarious how chumps think that the "Hollywood Medium"
is the real deal and better than others when researching about
celebrities intimate secrets is actually easier than with unknown people.
"im sensing the name of the letter j, living or non living, extended family counts too. Maybe a Jason, Jerad, John...."
Me: holy crap, that is my Grandma Mary! She literally said that stuff all the time, she must be speak to you!
Like seriously, does anyone that believe this stuff ever consider their relatives sound like cryptic lunitics?
People who fall for such gimmick scams are the real fools ! There is no cure for stupidity
They list out common names? That’s prob why they don’t ask POC LOLL 😭😭
Harry Houdini would debunk psychics and spiritualists in his spare time.
My grandma's middle name was Jean and she died of smoke inhalation in a fire. But she didn't seem like the kind of person who would own a book.
5:34 *Snap*
Fake psychic? As if there's a real deal.
Okokokokok When they have no dirt on you & are right on the things they’d only be physically capable of knowing with said dirt, it makes you wonder.
I love how the video debunks psychics and in the comments I found a man and a woman telling the same story and advertising a psychic
That's the kid from Mr. Robot!
"I know lots of people with J names and most of them or dead." Sounds like real serial killer stuff.
does anybody think of chandlers ex girlfriend from F•R•I•E•N•D•S sounds like the lady in here like chandlers ex always says: CHANDLER BING in this funny accent but this lady says: BADA BOOM in the same accent and it’s cracking me up lmao
It's a service to help people.
Adam Ruins Everything or psychics?
Adam ruined this kids life and made him a murderer. Tsk tsk.
Stuart is adorable lmao
I can't stop watching
something in his chest OH yea his heart stoped BINGO i knew it
5:34 INFINITY WAR VIBES.
Erm, "fake psychic" is a redundancy in terms.
“The higher the hair, the closer to heaven”
Hairway to heaven
this was the kid who played on an episode of "Mr. Robot"
A...aand this is why Adam is awesome
Batman Of Konoha I’m not complaining ;)
The correct answer to the question "how do you sleep at night?" is ALWAYS "on top of a pile of money, surrounded by beautiful women". Doesn't matter if it's true, but you need to sell it for the smug satisfaction of providing a stupid question with a stupid answer.
People who are true psychics are too afraid and/or ashamed to let people know they're psychic. Truthfully, no one can communicate with the dead and anyone who says they can is a liar. I've watched all these television psychics work they always start with an incredibly general question like, "I'm connecting with a middle-aged woman whose name begins with M-A, Mary or Martha. Can anyone relate to that? If they don't get a response, they pile on to that by saying, "She says she passed from ovarian cancer." Now, someone in the audience has an aunt, cousin or mother by the name of Madeline. Then the medium will ask her to stand and give a whole series of statements about the person who died because they've been sizing you up since you stood up-watching your expression on your face and other little physical cues either you are giving them sub-consciously or obviously. Whatever they say, you react with your face. Your eyes widen, you slap a hand over your mouth and the other over your heart. The psychic keeps going. She says something to you that NO ONE but you and the deceased person know. What you may not realize is that there are universal signs that are common to all relationships. They're not reading your mind; they're reading your reaction and facial expressions.
Reupload?
Jerry Yuan yes
It was reupload be the people that help make it (sorry for bothering you if you already new)
So there are multiple dimesions, and possibly multiple instances of an entity if an entity were to dissapear in one dimension but still exist in another, if those two dimensions crossed then it would explain why we can see the ghosts of dead people.
Only thing I can believe would allow for the existence of paranormal activity.
And that is somehow scarier than a ghost. Imagine if all this time, demons were just aliens. Does that make them good, or bad? Dangerous or not? Who knows...
I wonder if I can prank my friends by pretending to be a medium
*If psychics were real they wouldn't need hotlines they'd call you*
Yeah, I saw that episode of South Park too
the difference between a scientist and a magician is black eyeliner.
This cute girl in my class back when I was in high school would claim she was psychic and could do readings. I saw once of her "miraculous" readings. She said to him she was seeing a girl, blonde hair down to her shoulders... the guy was all "Yeah.. Yeah... I know a girl at work like that"... or... someone in school... or the girl at the drive through... or seriously who doesn't know someone with blonde hair down to their shoulders? Yeah the pros are better then that, but the real lesson to be learned... high school boys will be convinced of anything if they think it will get them a hook up.
Oh. My. Gawd. Is that Janice?
Is Halloween meant to be scary? It's not Election Day.
Not all people from jersey sound like that I would know, I’m from there
I'm now tempted to hire one and when the do the cold reading I'll just say no that that way there gonna know nothing.
The title says “fake psychics” does that mean that there are “real psychics” 🧐🤔
In india it's a multi million dollar business... like LOTS of money. Almost everybody is into it. And yes my parents have spent lots of money into it that we started worrying about money
XD adam is a lowkey instigator 😭😂
High key lol
Rip mark edward
"Oh yeah, I know tons of people with J names. And they're all dead." O__O
Who was the little boy? He seems familiar
He was the kid from Season 2 of The Sinner.
Fake psychics? Don't you mean... psychics?
Who is that woman? I need more of her and her accent.
Is that the actress that did Linda on OITNB?
Pouuff im gone
I suggest you interview some Ceremonial Magicians.
Edgar Cayce never charged. And nor do i.
That kid is in Mr.robot!
Does that mean ghost adventures are fake?
Isn't that kid from "the sinner" tv show