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Famously Dubious show can be easily searched for. And if it isn't vague statements to convince people that she's
easily searched, the celebs in question often actually conversing with their relatives. The
Mediums, Psychics, And don't know what he's talking about. We have combination of her personality and her ability to
only Henry's word to go on that he doesn't use cold read is what makes her such a captivating
Supernatural Investigators
Google, and with his predictions always figure. She clearly has a talent for reading
involving celebrities who are under significantly people, though the purpose she puts it to is
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it's hard to believe that he's the real deal.
James Van Praagh Is Neither A Good
Mina Crandon Exposed By Famed Lorraine And Ed Warren Continue To Medium Nor A Good Cold Reader
Magician Harry Houdini Be Hailed As Paranormal Investigators
Despite Fraudulence
The cases surrounding Ed and Lorraine Warren -
arguably the world's most famous paranormal
investigators - have inspired films like The
Conjuring, Annabelle, and the entirety of the
Harry Houdini, the famed American magician, Amityville haunting story. But they're also James Van Praagh, another medium who claims
began his investigation into the supernatural incredibly flimsy - apply the principle of to be able to connect people with their lost loved
shortly after the death of his mother in the Occam's razor to any of their numerous cases ones, is a frequent subject of examination for
1920s. Consumed with grief, he attended and it becomes obvious that there are far more skeptics. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
numerous séances in an attempt to contact his plausible explanations for the events than the visited Van Praagh's show in 2003, revealing not
mother; however, with each one he attended he presence of demons or hosts. Even if the only that the medium was not psychic, but that
quickly discovered the tricks and sleight of hand Warrens do have some truly supernatural cases he wasn't particularly good at cold reading
being used by the self-proclaimed mediums. under their belts, there's still a whole lot about either. His heavily edited show makes it seem as
From that point on, Houdini made it one of his these stories that doesn't add up. It's far more though he has a lot of hits with his psychic
life goals to discredit and debunk exploitative likely that, in the process of dealing with some reading ability, but the investigation revealed
mediums. Then, in 1923, he encountered Mina truly unexplainable events, they discovered that he actually spends far more time
Crandon - who was being considered by there was profit and fame to be had, leading to a floundering than he does telling people what
Scientific American magazine to be a true well-crafted image of being real-life they want to hear.
medium. To test her skills, Houdini developed a ghostbusters.
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fraud-proof cabinet for her to perform with, and
promptly discredited her when she failed. Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo
Deceptively Dazzles Crowds THANK YOU TO ALL FIRST
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Celebrities WORKERS FROM THE ‘X’
ZONE BROADCAST NETWORK
HOSTS:
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Gwilda Wiyaka
Kevin Randle
Dr Bernier Beitman, MD
Patti Conklin
Justina Marsh
Peter Marsh
Syndee Hendricks
Thomas Hydes
Kooch Daniels
Theresa Caputo gained fame as a medium for Larry Lawson
her down-home, earnest persona - listening to Kal Korff
Hollywood Medium's Tyler Henry gets by with her speak, you really get the impression that she Sharon Lynn Wyeth
his youthful good looks and odd habit of cares about you and your grief. But that's a Roberta Grimes
scribbling on paper to focus his psychic energy, carefully cultivated image, and one that suits her Johanna Carroll
but this modern-day medium is merely a skillful quite well as she uses cold reading and vague Joe Weigant
cold-reader and, most importantly, a Google- statements to make her clients feel like she
fanatic. Though Henry claims to know nothing really is receiving messages from deceased
about the celebrities whose deceased loved ones loved ones. Like many television mediums, www.XZBN.net
he calls upon, almost every fact he reveals on the Caputo relies on spectacle and intentionally