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“She Pulled That From Thin Air”: 30 Things Psychics Predicted That Ended Up Becoming True
“Yes, I’m getting something… You will have a very successful career. You will fall in love in the next six months. And someone that you consider a close friend will betray you. That’ll be $500.”
Not everyone believes that psychics are legit. After all, Psych taught us that keen observational skills can tell you a lot about a person in an instant. But who are we to say that clairvoyance isn’t real? And if you’re looking to be convinced, you’ve come to the right place, pandas.
Redditors have been sharing examples of predictions they were told by psychics that ended up coming true, so we’ve gathered their most fascinating stories below. Whether these were coincidences or not, we’ll never know. But we hope you enjoy this list, and be sure to upvote the replies that make you want to book an appointment with your local soothsayer!
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#1
"you need to go home and cleanse your entire house, you have to wipe everything down with vinegar, get ALL the dust"- I forgot about this crazy advice, which seemed a little like maybe she was fishing for an invite to a costly home visit. Until a few months later, when the health department made me aware that my kids had light lead poisoning, and I was mixing vinegar solution as part of the remediation process. She was reading cards on the street, I was on vacation, my kids weren't there, she pulled that advice from thin air.
PeepPeep the duck 3 months ago (edited)
My mum had a random one like that about a ‘grandkid on the way’ my little sister almost died twice having twins and a second kid, and I’ve been adamant since preschool that I won’t have kids/ be a mum etc. so mum ignored it and 10mnths later, my little sister was annoyingly pregnant again 😂 then tubes tied after the fourth kid, thank goodness - cos now I don’t have to worry about my baby sister dying anymore
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#2
Not much, but she knew my nationality (pretty impossible to tell from my appearance, zero accent) and she mentioned my father (deceased) and an old friend of his by name. I ran the name past my mother, this was indeed an old friend of his, someone I had never heard of, with an unusual name. She knew things she really couldn't have, and she did the whole thing with her eyes closed so she wasn't fishing or reacting to my reactions...
#3
I was pregnant and very sick so I wasn't gaining weight and was not showing, but I knew I was having a boy. I was also wearing a massively oversized hoodie because my mother had just died and I was depressed. The first thing she said was "your mom is here" and then she told me I was pregnant with a boy and I was going to have a girl later on. I told her that I was never doing the pregnancy thing again and she told me if that was the case I needed to be very careful because the girl was definitely coming. 3 years later I got a positive pregnancy test after a period and I now have a girl.
Jason Melvil 3 months ago
The odds of guessing both kid's gender is just 1 in 4. Hardly unbelievable. The thing is, if she would have the wrong gender that would be at least 2 years away? She'd hardly remember it by then or even bother going back to the psychic and tell her she's wrong.
#4
Not a psychic specifically, but there was a man in my hometown who would routinely sit outside the grocery store weaving and origami folding corn husks into dolls, roses, crosses, and other decorative items for $1.
He seemed very mystical and tranquil. People called him Jesus, but I don't know if that was a nickname or a moniker.
He stopped me on my way out one day to tell my family to drive safe, especially at night, even though it must have been late afternoon at most when I was finishing my shopping (maybe 4pm???) and full sun.
That same weekend, my entire family except the youngest sibling were in a horrible car accident involving a drunk driver speeding in the wrong lane and rear-ending us so hard we flew off the road and tumbled over twice, only stopping when we landed in a ditch.
Thankfully no one was hurt, and I later wondered why the corn husk man felt the need to stop me and give that warning. I never saw him again.
#5
I have a good one.
Years ago I had a pretty bad accident that led to a nerve injury in my arm.
The day I was told I would likely never regain movement or feeling in my hand and arm, I broke down and said to my partner "I won't be able to feel the top of my babies head with that hand"
Years later, I spoke to a psychic. She said "your nana wants me to tell you that it's going to be ok, you'll be able to feel your babies head with your hand"
She repeated my own words from a private conversation back to me.
A year and a half after that, I met a surgeon and he did some crazy nerve and tendon rearrangements in my hand.
It's not perfect, but I can now feel with 50% sensitivity.
The cool part is the surgeon made the decision to try this while I was already under, so I had no knowledge of him trying to help me regain sensation. If it didn't work there would have been no consequences.
Tldr; she repeated my own private words back to me from Years before then predicted feeling being returned back to my hand.
#6
When I was home from college for a summer after freshman year, a psychic told me a fiery redhead with either and H or W in the name would enter my orbit. She said that she would have a big impact on me but that our time wouldn’t last. She missed the mark on many other things so I didn’t pay the reading much importance.
Flash fwd 2 months into the school year, and I had a funny encounter at lunch with an attractive redhead. Before I knew her name i asked her out, she said yes and when I said I don’t even know your name, she said her first name that began with an H and her last name that began with a W. We dated thru the rest of college and she rocked my world for the better.
After college, I moved from where I was going to school back home for the industry. We kept a long term relationship for a year but I became too wrapped up trying to work and build my career to maintain the energy needed to make it work.
After we broke up, I met up with the friend I went to the psychic with and as we were walking past the psychic’s shop, those memories came flooding back to me. I stopped him, grabbed his arm, and recalled to him what the psychic said in a flustered state. He said he remembered the whole time and didn’t want to say anything while we were dating. V odd.
#7
My ex decided to leave and swore there was no one else. A psychic told me there was another woman involved (there was), that my ex would try to get a part of a bank account my mother had my name on that I had forgotten about (he did), and that my ex’s relationship would end very badly (it did).
#8
I was chatting with my psychic one random Tuesday, and she told me, “You’re going to move unexpectedly, and it’ll happen way faster than you think.” At the time, I laughed I had zero plans to move. A week later, my landlord told me they were selling the property and I had 30 days to get out. The craziest part? She even told me the exact street name I’d end up on… and yup, here I am, typing this from that street.
#9
A palm reader warned me I would never be a tv news broadcaster (my college major at the time). I was pissed. “What the hell does *she* know?” I asked myself. “You’ll be working in front of a lot of people in your career. But you won’t be in tv.”
I just retired from 30 years as a teacher.
She also told me to “take care of your neck.” I suffered a dissected cervical artery on a roller coaster 25 years later.
A card reader warned me of immanent death. I freaked out. She calmed me down: “Not you-not anyone in *your* family.”
My husband’s cousin committed s*****e in his office the following week. His mom-my husbands aunt-was in cancer treatments. She died 2 days after her son. Her husband had a massive heart attack a week later.
There was a double funeral for the loving couple. The son’s funeral was a quiet memorial service. We found out about it at his parents’ double funeral.
Jason Melvil 3 months ago
Let me see if I got this straight - Psychic tells someone something super vague like "take care of your neck" and TWENTY FIVE years later something happens to their necks? WOW SHOCKING! As for not being on TV, you mean the thing that happens to most people? Also, hardly a surprise if the psychic telling her she won't cut it was something that got her to lose motivation at some point. And as for the last part, people die all the time. She didn't even tell her it would be anything weird like a double funeral.
#10
I had a reading in December’24. They told me they didn’t see my current work in my future at all. I thought that was strange since it was such a huge part of my life (I’m a federal worker) & hoped to continue for several more years. Then the next month January ‘25 all of the stuff with Trump started trying to cut all the federal workers jobs. I’m now seeing why they said I might go in a different direction….
#11
For fun I had an acquaintance do a Tarot card reading. One of the cards she interpreted as "someone is going to enter your life soon, and that you'll be better off cutting them out" - or something to that affect.
I recently started online dating, and she knew that, so I brushed it off like "yeah, duh, there's plenty of toxic people online"
My ex texted me later that same night. She hadn't reached out in any form for over 7 months. We broke up because she cheated on me. I kept my reply short lol.
Mabelbabel 3 months ago
Anyone under 30 not wearing a wedding ring, its a safe bet to say "someone is going to enter your life shortly." They will be more likely to be actively dating, or actively socialising, or at college with other people around. "Someone will enter your life" is vague and meaningless, and just cold reading of the person's face. If they'd looked happy about it, the "psychic" would have followed up with "this is someone you've been waiting for" and if they looked shocked, they'd be told "your relationship might go through difficulties." Its all guesswork based on body language, non-verbal cues, and reading facial expressions.
#12
I have gone to a psychic twice, same one. It was like seeing a therapist for super cheap. $45 for 45 minutes of the best cold reader i have ever experienced basically just giving me an outside perspective on what has been going on in my life. She didn't ask any questions, didn't pretend to speak to the dead and only brought up one name once. It happened to be true, which I felt was coincidental.
She didn't act like she was telling the future, she didn't make any wild predictions.
I would go back if she were still around.
#13
My partner went to one when he was a teenager, they said when he was 32, very good things will happen for him. Ended up being the same year we bought our house and had our kid. Was a good year indeed.
#14
That we would move because of a job opportunity my husband would be getting soon.
He indeed got a job opportunity requiring a move and we moved.
#15
“An ex is going to make a comeback”
I had no exes that would dare.. or so I thought. My ex who I broke up with 12 years earlier did in fact try. Never in a million years did it cross my mind he, of all people, would ever dare.
#16
Didn't visit per se, but I worked as the person who takes the money for a medium at a psychic fair. It was interesting, and I purposefully kept things close to my chest. She knew my mom had passed away, and hinted quite heavily that my then-girlfriend was not trustworthy. That girlfriend would go on to cheat on me.
So *shrugs*.
Mabelbabel 3 months ago
Alternatively, after being told their girlfriend was not trustworthy, the person started behaving differently, backing away, wasn't as close or connected as before, was no longer invested in the relationship and the girlfriend was unhappy about it and found someone else.
#17
Not exactly went to a psychic, but in 2021, a coworker was just k**ling time with me between meetings, and she took a tarot deck out of her backpack and asked if I wanted a reading.
I am a pretty skeptical person, but I accepted the offer just for the fun of it and asked if I could shuffle and cut it with her guidance. She agreed and did my reading.
I don't know how, and the majority of me still think it was a huge coincidence, but she predicted three major happenings in my life: My divorce, an issue I had with my ex that followed the divorce and a promotion at my job.
In the reading, it started really vague, but she would say: "That could be a divorce, or a big argument that will separate you two for a while.", "This could mean a financial win, like switching jobs or a promotion."
Still bugs my mind a little bit.
Aileen Grist 3 months ago
I used to read tarot. It's strange. Sometimes you read the cards as laid - most cards read differently for different people reading them - but sometimes it's just clear what to say. I used to enjoy those ones more. I hated reading for people I knew well - that knowledge gets in the way.
#18
The psychic my girlfriend dragged me to, said (read with a thick Slavic accent) ... **"You vill travel over water".**
Yep, we crossed about 17 streams and creeks on our drive home.
#19
Years ago went to a psycho on the boardwalk in Jersey. She told me friend you will have a lot of children , she did. When it came to me she gave me a basic and didn’t say a word about kids. She was correct I am as barren as the Sahara.
#20
My parents went to go see a g***y fortune teller when we lived in Greece, and the lady told my parents that my dad would be a widower. My mom laughed, and thought it was silly, but she was m******d 6 years later (in Canada).
I'm a complete skeptic, but my dad is absolutely terrified of the idea now. Crazy coincidence.
#21
When I was in the Army, I had a friend do a tarot reading for me once because I was bored and figured it would be funny. He told me I would marry my then-BF (I did), but that we wouldn't be together long (we weren't), and that I would have a daughter in a year or two with aforementioned BF (and I did). At the time I didn't believe any of that, but was a little freaked out when he told me I would meet a very emotional women within a week, and 3 days later a girl was transferred to my company who literally BAWLED all day long and wouldn't stop for anything.
#22
Not me, but a friend of my mother's did once. The psychic (?) told her that she would have lots of children, and my mom's friend -- who had had infertility problems for years -- cussed her out and left. A year later they try invitro and not only did one egg stick, but three. Triplets.
I don't believe, personally, but it's certainly a good story.
Misha Writer 3 months ago
A psychic told my mom she would live to be 100. She died last year at 76.
#23
I don't believe in this stuff and think it's complete b******t.
However, I was in China recently and went to see a fortune teller.
The wise man simply asked me my birth date and proceeded to browse through the thousand lines and columns of a weird book.
I immediately thought "Dude, with the money you make, buy yourself a computer, make a big a*s spreadsheet, ????, profit".
Anyway, after looking at the walls covered with pictures of cat for 15 minutes, he finally started to tell me about... my past.
He told me 5 or 6 stuff which all happened to be true.
Those included:
- the year I lost my virginity (the cute Chinese girl translating for me couldn't help but laugh (yes, it was on date))
- years at which 2 big events occurred in my life (they matched the dates I moved across the Atlantic. Once as a kid, once as a teenager.)
- the number of sisters and brothers I have (he said "2", I said "NOPE", I only have a sister, "YOU LOSE". He insisted that I had one more, or that maybe he died at a very young age and I was never told about. Then I remembered my dad just had a kid with his new wife, so in fact, even though it's only half a brother, it counts. Shame on me.)
Well, my mind was pretty much blown at this point, so before he started telling me about my future, I told my date not to translate and simply write it on paper (so I can read it in 10 or more years).
Sadly I overheard two things:
- I'll die in my 80's (TOO OLD)
- I'll have two kids (NOOOOOOPE. I'm extremely serious about never giving life. It's too big a deal. "*POP* here you are!". I hate this.)
EDIT: He also told me I'll have problems with my stomach in the future and gave me some advice.
#24
The radio station would occasionally have a psychic on air. Those days the phone line is always jam packed, hard to get through.
I decided to give it a try, not sure why. But I got through. I wasn't prepared and had no question ready so I panic asked "how many kids would I have"
They said 2
I have twins now.
And fertility treatments have all failed for another (so far).
#25
A psychic told me my first child would be a girl, and later I would have a boy. Both came true.
Aileen Grist 3 months ago (edited)
Since I was in secondary school I've used a needle and thread to predict babies. You hold the thread, needle pointing downwards over someone's hand and ask it to show a boy - it either goes straight or round in a circle, then girl and it does the other one. Hold it over the hand again and it will move on its own, stop, and if more to come move again. Lost babies are a strange movement. It never moved over my hand - then I found that I couldn't have children. I've told people who have already had children - when I didn't know them - how many and gender. I even told one woman that she had been expecting twins but one died - I was right. I told my stepdaughter after her first child that she would have another girl - and after a longish pause by the needle that there was a boy waiting too, but she might decide not to have him. She had her 2nd daughter and 10 years later at 45 got pregnant again when she thought she was too old - it was a boy.
#26
Took my new boyfriend to a psychic. She read us separately (him first). She told me I'd marry him. We got married 5 years later.
#27
I had a tarot reader correctly read that I had just gone through a break up, that I was planning on moving to a new city soon. Then she gave me some kind advice about transition periods in life.
Once, I had a psychic tell me to be careful on staircases. I didn’t think much of it. A month later, I fell going down some stairs and broke my arm.
Rika 3 months ago
Meh. I once got in an argument with some dude at a bar. When he walked away, I shouted at him to be careful while going down the stairs. He did trip and fall. It's just a basic psychology trick, which psychics love to use: telling someone to watch out while going down the stairs or even walking is likely to make them focus so much on not falling that their brain messes up and they forget how to walk aka they trip over their own feet.
#28
It didn't happen to me but my mom. During her honeymoon, a palm reader told her that she will have 3 kids. My mom got me first, then my brother and she didn't want to have more. I always remember her reply as a kid to others that asked that she is satisfied with 2 children. Later my third brother came by a mistake.
It might still be a coincidence!
Bi.Felicia 3 months ago
Later my third brother came by surprise. I don't like when people refer to babies as mistakes.
#29
My Mum went to one and all she had to do was tell the psychic lady our birthdays. Anyway she gave my Mum a list of stuff for me that would be good for my throat.I do have a lot of throat problems which my Mum didn't mention and the stuff the lady recommended was actually really helpful. So that was weird.
#30
I asked a tarot card reader if I should make a move I was thinking about. She came back with, I should have already left. A week later I was assaulted and got two broken ribs. I made the move the next day. I was going to go anyway but all of this played a part.
What do you think ?
PenguinEmp 3 months ago
Broke a*s clock is right twice a day. FYI everyone in this article is dumb. Give me your money.
Jacquie Carr 2 months ago
Bless; the arrogance of someone who can't grasp that we know around 5% of what's happening in our universe, lol. It's not your fault, many people aren't capable of realising they know next to nothing about anything, just like the rest of us
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Rika 3 months ago
I used to watch the astrology channel all night with people calling those "psychics", it was fascinating to see how easy it is to gather a lot of information about someone without them noticing. From there, it's also easy to predict things. My favorite part was when people called again all excited because, "You told me I was gonna meet a new man, it came true, I just got a new male colleague!" It's like, the most boring prediction: unless you're a hermit, you're likely to come in contact with new people pretty often.
Dave Van Beurden 3 months ago
Great. Now write an article on the 35313674 other times they were wrong
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
That's exactly the number I was thinking of!! (PS - no it wasn't. But no-one knows...)
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PenguinEmp 2 months ago
Yes but they're going to make it pay. Now they are using longer articles and saying want to read more? Become premium
Load More Replies... Mabelbabel 3 months ago (edited)
Absolute cràp and nonsense. Its all guesswork, profiling of age and gender, reading body language, facial expressions and non-verbal cues. I went with my sister once, and deliberately kept still and spoke very little and very calmly. She was making vague guesses like "there's a man in your life" and "you're worried about your health" that would apply to anyone and everyone. Then she told me my future was opaque and the veil was closed. Its all rubbish and just grifting.
Jason Melvil 3 months ago
There are other techniques, like having previous information on the user, using both extremes of something so you are guarenteed to hit (you are outspoken but likes to keep to yourself at times), blasting with a general thing so the mark will make a connection (December is meaningful to you) etc.
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Toika Gao 3 months ago (edited)
What about "What is something they told you that didn't come to be true?" There would be millions of entries 🤣
Auntriarch 3 months ago
I was told that I cry myself to sleep every night (😂) and I have three children (not even one). I laughed in the woman's face and told her she was confusing me with my neighbours.
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Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
This article should be called "gullible people who don't understand confirmation bias"
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
My Romanian grandmother learned to read the cards from the Rom when she was young. She used playing cards, not special tarot cards. She promised to teach me when I turned 7. Shortly before I turned 7, she saw my grandfather's death in the cards. He died shortly after. She never touched the cards after that, and she lived for over 20 years after that. Whether she saw something or not, she believed she did. I have no idea what I believe anymore.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
30 cases where the psychic was right. How about an article about 10,000 times they were wrong?
FranSinclair 3 months ago
A few years ago i had a young lady working for me. She'd requested her shift off because she, her mother and her sister were going to see a psychic for moms birthday. She calls work later that evening (knowing we expected to be busy) and told me "hey, if you need me to come in, i can. The lady for our reading had to cancel for unforseen circumstances." I just laughed and laughed. Told her "guess you saved some money, you can come in if ya want to make some." Unforseen circumstances 🤣
azubi 3 months ago
I wouldn't have anything against fortune telling if it worked, and initially I was like , my god, have it statistically checked again, doubting and testing is always good. But if we include all these predictions, which a dog could have guessed, as ‘true’, these statistics wouldn't be meaningful either.
Tiffany Sauter 3 months ago
I missed out on contributing to this set. I was gifted a reading with a medium. I didn't know what to expect but she told me all kinds of things about my love life and career and family. I don't remember any of that but the thing that stood out to me was she told me to stop taking Vitamin C. It was really weird and I didn't ask anything about my health. I took Vit. C and a bunch of things to help me not get sick because I worked with kids and was in schools. I decided to try it and the problem I was having with my gums and had gone to 3 dentists and specialists about and they had no answers for me- it went away. Random but I would have never connected the two things and neither did any of the professionals that I had sought help from so I thought that was cool.
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
I've got another one! Not a fortune teller per se, but some 20ish years ago on s popular local (my home country) web site that operates even today, there was one of those "who were you in the past life?" pages that you imput your DOB and gender and it'll spit out a story of your past life and how it affects your current life. Well, technically I understood how that worked, randomly generated (my mom and grandma got the same story), but it was eerily correct for every person we had input. To keep it as short as possible, mom was a pirate that drowned and is afraid of water bodies in this life (true). Sister was a Chinese philosopher that got eaten by a tiger and is afraid of animals in this life (true). Dad was a Scottish loanshark thst was gunned down by someone who owed him, and in this life he'll have no luck with holding onto money (true). Of my whole family, I was the only one that died of natural causes, and was a Mexican botanist/zoologist /1
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago (edited)
/2 that in this life leans towards the natural (I'm a graduated biochemist, but not currently working in my field of work). But the most interesting one was my aunt - she was an African princess, that a rich European traveller fell in love with and pursued her until she married him, and he took her to see the world and they lived happily ever after. My uncle is a rich European man and he did meet my aunt, marry her and they've travelled the world together for his work. The kicker? I told him this story, and then he revealed how he actually met my aunt - in Africa, on a different continent than either one of them lived - she was visiting her aunt/uncle (my grandparents) when he was stationed there, and my now uncle was there for work (construction, they were contractors). He found her when she went back home with just the phone number she gave him (thx yellow pages) and found her house where he showed up with flowers asking her mom for her daughter's hand. They've been together now for 50ish years. The page has since been taken down, but I do wish I could give it another go for the new people in my life, just out of curiosity
Load More Replies... OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
My dad had an interesting encounter with a fortune teller when he was in his 20s. Can't remember the entire story, but they were on a train and she was bothering his friend group for readings. She told my dad his past and future in details, most things he denied happened but in the following w/m/years he learned that indeed what she said was true (i.e., he denied drowning as a kid but his dad confesed that indeed when he was a baby his floatie thing overturned and he almost drowned), the things for his close future were true (he hates the colour green, she told him he'll be driving a green car and have 3 minor accidents in it - he gets a green car and proceeds to have 3 minor accidents in it in a span of a few years) and for the future, she told him he'll marry a woman whose name starts with V and he'll have 2 daughters. My mom's name starts with S, so naturally while telling us this story he says "and that's one thing she got wrong!"./1
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
/2 my mom goes silent for a moment and says "well I was supposed to be named Violet". All in all, that lady gave him some 20 specific stories from his past/close and far future that were all true/turned true
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Howl's sleeping castle 3 months ago (edited)
I usually don't believe in all this. I read horoscopes just for fun. But one particular thing did come true. When I was in my early 20s, some guru told my sister that I will get married to a guy whose both parents will be alive and who has a sister. I had a boyfriend who I was really serious about. He didn't match the description so i ignored it because we both were very sure about getting married in two years. However things didn't turn out the way we wanted and we separated. I eventually got married when I was 38. Later my sister reminded me of the Guru's prediction. It turned out to be correct indeed. Maybe it's a huge coincidence.
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
Exactly how many families have a boy and a girl, with both parents alive? Millions, if not billions! One "psychic" told me I'd be going to America. That was 35 years ago and I still haven't been. I had 3 major life events a couple of months after the reading, and she didn't tell me about any of those.
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BookishPanda 3 months ago
A psychic told me that I would work in communications. I am an introvert, so that seemed far-fetched. I was the head of thesis publications at a graduate research institute at a university. Five years later, I was transferred to the rectorate to work in international communications and basically became the face of the university lol
Emma Miller 3 months ago
An old neighbour of mine went to a fortune teller at a fair with her friend. My neighbour had her fortune told and when her friend went in, the teller told her she could not read her as she wants seeing anything. That friend was killed in a car crash on her way home from the fair.
PenguinEmp 3 months ago
Broke a*s clock is right twice a day. FYI everyone in this article is dumb. Give me your money.
Jacquie Carr 2 months ago
Bless; the arrogance of someone who can't grasp that we know around 5% of what's happening in our universe, lol. It's not your fault, many people aren't capable of realising they know next to nothing about anything, just like the rest of us
Load More Replies... Rika 3 months ago
I used to watch the astrology channel all night with people calling those "psychics", it was fascinating to see how easy it is to gather a lot of information about someone without them noticing. From there, it's also easy to predict things. My favorite part was when people called again all excited because, "You told me I was gonna meet a new man, it came true, I just got a new male colleague!" It's like, the most boring prediction: unless you're a hermit, you're likely to come in contact with new people pretty often.
Dave Van Beurden 3 months ago
Great. Now write an article on the 35313674 other times they were wrong
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
That's exactly the number I was thinking of!! (PS - no it wasn't. But no-one knows...)
Load More Replies... PenguinEmp 2 months ago
Yes but they're going to make it pay. Now they are using longer articles and saying want to read more? Become premium
Load More Replies... Mabelbabel 3 months ago (edited)
Absolute cràp and nonsense. Its all guesswork, profiling of age and gender, reading body language, facial expressions and non-verbal cues. I went with my sister once, and deliberately kept still and spoke very little and very calmly. She was making vague guesses like "there's a man in your life" and "you're worried about your health" that would apply to anyone and everyone. Then she told me my future was opaque and the veil was closed. Its all rubbish and just grifting.
Jason Melvil 3 months ago
There are other techniques, like having previous information on the user, using both extremes of something so you are guarenteed to hit (you are outspoken but likes to keep to yourself at times), blasting with a general thing so the mark will make a connection (December is meaningful to you) etc.
Load More Replies... Toika Gao 3 months ago (edited)
What about "What is something they told you that didn't come to be true?" There would be millions of entries 🤣
Auntriarch 3 months ago
I was told that I cry myself to sleep every night (😂) and I have three children (not even one). I laughed in the woman's face and told her she was confusing me with my neighbours.
Load More Replies... Plentyofoomph 3 months ago
This article should be called "gullible people who don't understand confirmation bias"
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
My Romanian grandmother learned to read the cards from the Rom when she was young. She used playing cards, not special tarot cards. She promised to teach me when I turned 7. Shortly before I turned 7, she saw my grandfather's death in the cards. He died shortly after. She never touched the cards after that, and she lived for over 20 years after that. Whether she saw something or not, she believed she did. I have no idea what I believe anymore.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
30 cases where the psychic was right. How about an article about 10,000 times they were wrong?
FranSinclair 3 months ago
A few years ago i had a young lady working for me. She'd requested her shift off because she, her mother and her sister were going to see a psychic for moms birthday. She calls work later that evening (knowing we expected to be busy) and told me "hey, if you need me to come in, i can. The lady for our reading had to cancel for unforseen circumstances." I just laughed and laughed. Told her "guess you saved some money, you can come in if ya want to make some." Unforseen circumstances 🤣
azubi 3 months ago
I wouldn't have anything against fortune telling if it worked, and initially I was like , my god, have it statistically checked again, doubting and testing is always good. But if we include all these predictions, which a dog could have guessed, as ‘true’, these statistics wouldn't be meaningful either.
Tiffany Sauter 3 months ago
I missed out on contributing to this set. I was gifted a reading with a medium. I didn't know what to expect but she told me all kinds of things about my love life and career and family. I don't remember any of that but the thing that stood out to me was she told me to stop taking Vitamin C. It was really weird and I didn't ask anything about my health. I took Vit. C and a bunch of things to help me not get sick because I worked with kids and was in schools. I decided to try it and the problem I was having with my gums and had gone to 3 dentists and specialists about and they had no answers for me- it went away. Random but I would have never connected the two things and neither did any of the professionals that I had sought help from so I thought that was cool.
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
I've got another one! Not a fortune teller per se, but some 20ish years ago on s popular local (my home country) web site that operates even today, there was one of those "who were you in the past life?" pages that you imput your DOB and gender and it'll spit out a story of your past life and how it affects your current life. Well, technically I understood how that worked, randomly generated (my mom and grandma got the same story), but it was eerily correct for every person we had input. To keep it as short as possible, mom was a pirate that drowned and is afraid of water bodies in this life (true). Sister was a Chinese philosopher that got eaten by a tiger and is afraid of animals in this life (true). Dad was a Scottish loanshark thst was gunned down by someone who owed him, and in this life he'll have no luck with holding onto money (true). Of my whole family, I was the only one that died of natural causes, and was a Mexican botanist/zoologist /1
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago (edited)
/2 that in this life leans towards the natural (I'm a graduated biochemist, but not currently working in my field of work). But the most interesting one was my aunt - she was an African princess, that a rich European traveller fell in love with and pursued her until she married him, and he took her to see the world and they lived happily ever after. My uncle is a rich European man and he did meet my aunt, marry her and they've travelled the world together for his work. The kicker? I told him this story, and then he revealed how he actually met my aunt - in Africa, on a different continent than either one of them lived - she was visiting her aunt/uncle (my grandparents) when he was stationed there, and my now uncle was there for work (construction, they were contractors). He found her when she went back home with just the phone number she gave him (thx yellow pages) and found her house where he showed up with flowers asking her mom for her daughter's hand. They've been together now for 50ish years. The page has since been taken down, but I do wish I could give it another go for the new people in my life, just out of curiosity
Load More Replies... OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
My dad had an interesting encounter with a fortune teller when he was in his 20s. Can't remember the entire story, but they were on a train and she was bothering his friend group for readings. She told my dad his past and future in details, most things he denied happened but in the following w/m/years he learned that indeed what she said was true (i.e., he denied drowning as a kid but his dad confesed that indeed when he was a baby his floatie thing overturned and he almost drowned), the things for his close future were true (he hates the colour green, she told him he'll be driving a green car and have 3 minor accidents in it - he gets a green car and proceeds to have 3 minor accidents in it in a span of a few years) and for the future, she told him he'll marry a woman whose name starts with V and he'll have 2 daughters. My mom's name starts with S, so naturally while telling us this story he says "and that's one thing she got wrong!"./1
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
/2 my mom goes silent for a moment and says "well I was supposed to be named Violet". All in all, that lady gave him some 20 specific stories from his past/close and far future that were all true/turned true
Load More Replies... Howl's sleeping castle 3 months ago (edited)
I usually don't believe in all this. I read horoscopes just for fun. But one particular thing did come true. When I was in my early 20s, some guru told my sister that I will get married to a guy whose both parents will be alive and who has a sister. I had a boyfriend who I was really serious about. He didn't match the description so i ignored it because we both were very sure about getting married in two years. However things didn't turn out the way we wanted and we separated. I eventually got married when I was 38. Later my sister reminded me of the Guru's prediction. It turned out to be correct indeed. Maybe it's a huge coincidence.
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
Exactly how many families have a boy and a girl, with both parents alive? Millions, if not billions! One "psychic" told me I'd be going to America. That was 35 years ago and I still haven't been. I had 3 major life events a couple of months after the reading, and she didn't tell me about any of those.
Load More Replies... BookishPanda 3 months ago
A psychic told me that I would work in communications. I am an introvert, so that seemed far-fetched. I was the head of thesis publications at a graduate research institute at a university. Five years later, I was transferred to the rectorate to work in international communications and basically became the face of the university lol
Emma Miller 3 months ago
An old neighbour of mine went to a fortune teller at a fair with her friend. My neighbour had her fortune told and when her friend went in, the teller told her she could not read her as she wants seeing anything. That friend was killed in a car crash on her way home from the fair.
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