My sister talked me into shelling out $65 for a psychic reading when we went to Las Vegas back in 1999. I didn’t want to spend the money on a professional “guesser” but decided to play along. She went first and came out beaming.

Still a doubting Thomas, I walked into the small room and plunked down my cash. The first thing the psychic asked was what I did for a living. Shouldn’t she know already?

“I’m a writer.”
“Oh! I see you writing a romance novel, set in Wyoming.”
“No, I’m a horror writer and my novel is set in Arizona.”
“Oh.” A befuddled look crosses her face. Then it disappears and is replaced with a smile. “You love wide open spaces.”
“Yes. Will my novel become a bestseller?”
“Oh, yes. You’ll have several bestsellers.”
I nod, thinking, ‘A writer’s dream come true. Cool!’
She changes the subject. “You are heavily psychic.”
I’ve had some strange experiences, but I’m not about to dub myself a psychic by any means. I don’t tell her this, but I’m certain that she has gleaned this information from my sister, who was heavily into the New Age spiritualism at the time.
Then she asks me if I have any children and what their ages are. They were quite young at the time. She tells me about their futures and predicts that my family will enjoy good health.

I left the reading room, feeling lukewarm about the whole experience. Except for the good health, nothing she predicted has come true. The experience was entertaining, if anything. However, I must say that her predictions for my sister came true. My nephew was born the following year.

Coincidence? Most likely. My sister had undoubtedly told the lady that she was dating my then future brother-in-law. To this day, my sister is still heavily involved with New Age practices while I am still skeptical about psychic readers.

Quoted from Newsday.com

“Only one-tenth of 1 percent of all those who claim to be psychic are,” she said, basing her conclusion on 15 years of research.

Frauds use many techniques to make people think they are getting information from “the other side” when they are actually getting it from the clients, said Wendy, an artist and self-proclaimed “master” psychic who lives upstate. Wendy requested that only her first name be printed because of threats she said she has received from scamming psychics-mediums angry about her book.

I don’t know if this woman, who calls herself a “super psychic,” is any different from the other celebrity psychics or psychic readers out there. $550 for a 90-minute session is an awful lot of money to spend on something as frivolous as fortune telling. People will pay just about anything to listen to what they want to hear, though. Their obsession with psychic readings becomes as addictive as gambling, and these con artists know it.