God, a dog and pet psychics
• Psychics & Other Frauds
An Oregon man who believes that God wanted him to discover a stray dog that disappeared a few years after being adopted has spent $15,000 trying to find 'Fremont.' Some of that money went to pet psychics.
Tom Hallman Jr., The Oregonian: Looking for FremontBaker hired all of them, paying between $55 and $100 a session. Each psychic claimed to have spoken with Fremont. One said someone had dragged Fremont into a car after putting something around his neck. Another said Fremont spoke to her, telling her that he saw a fence and the dogs were kept out of doors, sometimes in a kennel with a cover. Fremont told her, the psychic said, that the people holding him called him "Pal" and "Chief." He added that he missed his home.
But the psychics couldn't tell Baker where Fremont was.
Baker then turned to a white witch, a woman brought in to cast spells with candles, herbs and dream cards. She had given Baker two cards to put above his bed so he could tap into the spiritual world, where he'd connect with Fremont. Although Baker had a vision of an orange license plate, he'd never had a solid dream because, he said, his girlfriend kept waking him when she got up to go to the bathroom.