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    <title>Gullibility isn&apos;t in the dictionary</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Anti-theism, skepticism, laughing at quackery &amp; fraud]]></description>
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      <description>Unique methodology of spotting a phoney psychic.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ways of checking claims of psychic powers beyond the reach of James Randi: I once slept with a professional psychic to see if he could tell the difference between a real orgasm and a faked one.Mistress Matisse...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Psychics who pester scientists</title>
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      <description>Psychics warn scientsits of disasters that never happen.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[From an interview with Karen Chan, Cassini Program Secretary at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Another funny moment was before the Earth swingby when a psychic called to talk our Project Manager into changing the spacecraft&#39;s course saying that she had...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-03-22T08:07:41-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Celtic Cricket: pet psychic</title>
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      <description>New age shop owner claims to be able to read animals minds.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As the Celtic Cricket admits, you don&#39;t go about reading a pet in the same way that you do a human. &#8220;I&#39;m not going to ask a pet to shuffle a tarot deck,&#8221; he said, padding around the store in...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pet ESP via photographs</title>
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      <description>Woman claims she can read animals minds by looking at pictures.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Chris Stakes, a self-described animal communicator, said people&#39;s pets shared their most intimate thoughts with her Saturday, including their favorite foods and biggest fears. Stakes was one of nearly a dozen exhibitors that participated in Trinity Charities&#39; Pet Health Day....]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Earthquake doom to hit America</title>
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      <description>Silly psychic SilverJade predicts destructive earthquakes to hit the US.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Bet this just scares the heck out of you: A group of psychics led by colourful &#39;SilverJade&#39;, based in Johannesburg South Africa, have predicted that a series of earthquakes and other natural disasters will strike the western coast of the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-02-13T13:19:14-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Osho Meditation Resort</title>
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      <description>Former cult center becomes resort with tennis courts, lagoon-shaped swimming pool, high-speed cyber cafe and cappuccino bar that serves vodka </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh with his dozens of Rolls Royce cars and the annoyance he once gave the citizens of Oregon? He&#39;s moved on in the cycle of samsara now and his followers have converted his commune into a place...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-10-08T06:56:09-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Psychic dogs predict election outcome</title>
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      <description>Stallone&apos;s ESP powered dogs predict election results.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Did you know that Sylvester Stallone&#39;s mom has dogs with psychic powers? The paranormal pets predict that George Bush will win by 15%. Using super canine mental powers, they &#8220;channel messages from the spirit world and telepathically send them to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-09-28T07:44:58-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Sweatshop psychic</title>
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      <description>National Psychic Network contractor sues company, claims she was mistreated.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[She got 15 to 30 cents out of the two-dollars charged every hour. I guess psychics don&#39;t need to be able to do arithmetic. Nor understand the nature of being an independent contractor (I was one for years and knew...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Psychics claim to solve crimes, evidence says psychics have never helped the police catch a criminal.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[But what about testimonials from experienced homicide detectives who have actually used psychics? Most reported successes appear to be like the one that a New Jersey police captain attributed the late Dorothy Allison. Her predictions &#8220;were difficult to verify when...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Brazilian psychic wants $25 million</title>
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      <description>Jucelino Nobrega da Luz claims he found Saddam for the US military</description>
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      <title>Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism</title>
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      <description>Review of Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism (at Amazon) From a review of Barbara Weisberg&#39;s Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism in The New...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Goodbye Bigfoot, we never knew you</title>
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      <description>Greg Long&apos;s The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story puts the myth in the grave</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I long thought that Bigfoot was mainly the topic of many bad horror movies. It was only a few months ago I came to realize that there are plenty of people spending their free time out searching for Bigfoot or...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>New psychic power: stop planes from flying</title>
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      <description>Federal Transportation administrator cancels airplane flight because of psychic warning</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Someone identifying themselves as a psychic called the Fort Myers, FL Transportation Security Administration office to report that a bomb had been planted on an American Airlines plane. Unsurprisingly no bomb was found. By the time the search was concluded...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-03-28T07:46:25-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Uncanny Granny speaks</title>
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      <description>Psychic frauds, tarot card reading conmen, bogus fortune tellers, fake prophets</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sylvia Bright-Green, who calls herself the Uncanny Granny unwittingly sums up the value of tarot cards, psychics, fortune tellers and other ghostly prognosticators: Bright-Green warned, though, that the spirits are sometimes fickle. "I can say this now," she said....]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-12-29T06:56:47-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>EUR 40,000 psychic fraud</title>
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      <description>Desperate woman swindled by psychic</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A Rotterdamn woman was damned desperate to straighten out her relationships. What follows below was after she&#39;d spent around 15,000 &euro;s consulting with the psychic. The fool in the prior entry was taken for forty-thousand US. Does it mean something?...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-12-05T16:37:54-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>$40,000 negative energy money sponge</title>
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      <description>Psychic fraud fills negative energy sponge with money</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Some people&#39;s gullibility is breathtaking. Stevens, who has offices in Doylestown and Lahaska, told Margaret Cifelli she needed $50,000 to create a &#8220;sponge&#8221; that would absorb the negativity in Cifelli&#39;s life, according to an affidavit filed in court. &#8220;This is...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-12-05T16:22:42-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>God, a dog and pet psychics</title>
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      <description>Foolish man consults pet psychics trying to find dog he thinks God sent him</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[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 &#39;Fremont.&#39; Some of that money went to pet psychics. Baker hired all...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Too many psychics</title>
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      <description>More and more psychic frauds listed in telephone book Yellow Pages</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A recent survey also showed that in the last 10 years the number of [Yellow Pages] entries for psychics and clairvoyants has risen by 227 per cent.Stephanie Busari, Daily Record: Yellow Ages...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Dalton Georgia woman robbed at psychic reading</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey, lady, don&#39;t be a fool.A local &#8220;psychic&#8221; stole $11,000 from a Dalton woman who attended a psychic session, according to a news release from the Dalton Police Department. &#39;Psychic&#39; wanted for theft...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Ponzi pastor&apos;s sentence cut</title>
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      <description>Greater Ministries International Church bilked investors out of more than $500 million</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An appeals court has ruled that thieving old Haywood &#8220;Don&#8221; Hall&#39;s 15 year prison sentence for fraud conviction must be reduced. The prosecutors failed to prove that Hall was in a &#39;position of trust&#39; (makes me feel like I&#39;m watching...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Psychic ship reading</title>
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      <description>Silly psychic investigator reads a 15th century ship</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ A psychic has tried to &#39;read&#39; the wood of the medieval ship raised from a south Wales river bank to try and uncover its past. Despite being pored over by teams of archaeologists and scientists, there is still a...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-10-23T07:28:34-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Government backed witchcraft</title>
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      <description>Norway gives witch money, monetary grant for witchcraft business</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A European twist to the faith-based initiative? OSLO (Reuters) - A witch has won subsidies from the Norwegian state to run a business of potions, fortune-telling and magic. Lena Skarning, 33, won the unprecedented start-up grant of 53,000 crowns ($7,400)...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-10-22T06:39:33-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Is there any scientific basis for mind-reading?</title>
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      <description>Mind readers use verbal cues, cold readings.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Mind-reading is taken seriously by scientists. Not the mystical, extra-sensory perception (ESP) variety, but the study of the non-verbal signals that can say more about us than we consciously reveal. Signs like pupil dilation, emotional arousal and altered heart rate...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-10-15T11:55:14-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Conversations with the dead</title>
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      <description>Psychic fraud is an easy way to make money</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Margaret Dent sees, and occasionally talks to, dead people. That&#39;s what she tells about 60 people who have come to see her at the 300-seat Club Madrid in Sunset Station, many hoping that Dent will talk to their loved...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Raelian press release on Brigitte Mccann&apos;s reports</title>
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      <description>Brigitte Mccann, Sun Media expose of Rael and the Raelian cult.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Brigitte Mccann&#39;s expose seems to have made the prophet unhappy.MONTREAL, Oct. 10 /CNW Telbec/ - In reply to the slandering and untrue allegations of some media and particularly the Journal de Montr&eacute;al, which have been forwarded to our attorneys for...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-10-11T06:17:58-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Money Is Love</title>
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      <description>Rael exploits Raelians for money</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Brigitte McCann, Sun Media MARICOURT, Que. &#8212; Saying he works for free, the man known to his followers as Rael takes advantage of the annual &#8220;awakening&#8221; seminar staged here to empty his disciples&#39; pockets. On Thursday, July 17, we witnessed...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-10-10T07:13:08-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Cursed money cure</title>
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      <description>Psychic offers to clean cursed cash</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Mike Peters, The Greeley Tribune: On June 27, a psychic who called herself Victoria told a 64-year-old Greeley woman that her money was cursed and needed to be cleansed. The victim said she gave Victoria $4,900 in cash and wrote...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Nigerian spam goes for the godly</title>
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      <description>Nigerian religious spam scam</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Lorna Thackeray&#39;s column indicates that the Nigerian scammers have figured out which Americans are the most gullible.She says she&#8217;s 72, a recently converted Christian and filthy rich. Her late husband, Ahmed, and their only son were killed during a Muslim...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-09-28T08:07:56-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Sollog</title>
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      <description>Sollog claims his psychic powers enabled him to predict 9/11.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[BLOOMFIELD, N.J. (Wireless Flash) - Sept. 11 isn&#39;t an easy day for any American but no one feels worse than an internet mystic who calls himself &#8220;Sollog.&#8221;It seems Sollog the seer predicted a deadly disaster would happen in September &#8212;...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-09-11T09:01:02-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description>Professor of the bogus science parapsychology</description>
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      <description>Castenda was a fraud: Sorceror&apos;s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[From the Washington Post Brian Doherty reviews Sorceror&#39;s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace Castaneda assured Wallace that his magic sperm went straight to a woman&#39;s brain, where it effected positive change &#8212; and could not impregnate,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Arnold Schwarzenegger&apos;s campaign endorsed by Jesus Christ says psychic</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[According to a spiritualist in Fargo, North Dakota, Jesus Christ himself is personally endorsing &#8220;Ahnuld&#8221; for governor.The Reverend Speaker Gerald Polley says he recently channeled a message from Jesus suggesting Californians put the Terminator in office.Jesus Endorsing Ahnuld?...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>S.F. defends its bid to regulate the businesses. Some see an attack on religion of the Romany.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A &#8220;CULT-like&#8221; Gold Coast religious ministry has been accused of exploiting children and preying on vulnerable people to fund its operation.Revival Flame Ministries came under fire last week after it staged a tent meeting in Brisbane during which children as...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ms Rose said there had been many complaints about the Lucky Gambling Genie. &#8220;This worthless piece of junk is being flogged by a Milka Petrovna, who calls herself &#39;the wizard of gambling&#39; and appears to be based in France.&#8221; Petrovna...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;I was a sitting duck because my sister had leukemia at the time,&#8221; says Cindy. To remove the alleged curse on her sister she began paying $400, $500, $600 for candles, prayer cards, rosaries, crystals and holy water. &#8220;They say...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Wicker says one local &#8220;may be channeling Jesus at one end of the town while another may be channeling Mary at the other end,&#8221; while spirits of vikings and indians are roaming around in the woods.Lily Dale: The True Story...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Welsh Fasting Girl</title>
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      <title>The blood in the glass</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Signs for psychics, astrologers or tea-leaf readers appear on nearly every street. The problem is, many of the fortune- tellers are out-and-out charlatans, and the city has decided to act. Its fraud squad says fortune-tellers charge $500 (£300) a session,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Nine arrested for &apos;exorcism&apos; fraud</title>
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      <title>Religious affinity fraud</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[So when Elizabeth Morgan came into a large chunk of money from her late husband's life insurance policy and a malpractice settlement from his unexpected death, she felt comfortable putting it in the hands of a Jehovah's Witnesses elder to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Dr. Eric Pearl</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ The healings began the Monday after a psychic had purported to &#8220;reconnect&#8221; the meridian lines that divide Pearl&#8217;s body to grid lines on the planets. These lines, she believed, connect humans to the universe. Pearl said his patients reported...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>More About Doctor Gene Scott</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I wrote my note about the world's greatest televangelist a few years ago. Recently I added a few links to stories about him: The Shock Jock of Televangelism Televangelist's Arrival Divides a Small Town The FBN Files - “I Worked...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-01-22T19:05:15-05:00</dc:date>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pot. Kettle. Black.&#8220;It&#8217;s false. It&#8217;s a hoax,&#8221; says Silver Spring-based psychic Zorel. &#8220;They are just trying to get publicity and make a lot of money.&#8221;He knows this how? The same way he says he foresaw John F. Kennedy&#8217;s assassination and...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The letters, from a clairvoyant calling herself Barbara, have been dropping on doormats across the North East.She warns that unless you cross her palm with silver a devastating event will happen to you.Threatening letters from a Dutch fortune teller...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-01-17T19:17:21-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title> I don&apos;t know my future after this weekend and I don&apos;t want to</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I blew $700 on a famous psychic whose best talent was predicting my gullibility.Janet McDonald tells about her experience with Sylvia Browne: Crystal bawl...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Rest in peace, Jimmy.</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The latest death to be confronted by Van Praagh is that of this show, which Tribune Entertainment has wisely decided not to renew for a second season. From the Chicago Sun-Times...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[“I always knew I was different,” says Portage psychic Gregory Ballog, dressed not in a cape, but in a baseball cap and turtleneck sweater, smelling of cologne. “I can remember being 8 years old and taking the Holy Bible and...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here's a plot idea for Law &amp; Order A psychic has clouded the future of one of the region's most puzzling criminal cases — the 1988 killing of Janine Kirk.A court ruling has confirmed that Erie County President Judge William...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-01-12T05:42:21-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Babies born this year will be great religious leaders</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[He also disclosed that 2003 is an ideal year for those whose notions of true love are distilled from the very essence of romantic novels. Love, not sex, will play the dominant role in matters of the heart. Personal attachments...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-01-10T14:30:09-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Help! The Raelians stole my brain</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[But the equipment was state-of-the-art. It had been purchased by a grieving father named Mark Hunt, whose 10-month-old son had died of heart disease. The Raelians had told him they could clone the dead baby.Mr. Hunt, who is a lawyer,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-01-09T16:54:44-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Talking to the dead at Camp Chesterfield</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[On the first Saturday of each month, hundreds of people flock to the spiritualist camp where psychic fairs are held in its on-grounds cafeteria. On an average, 12-14 mediums will participate, and costs for the 10-minute readings are $10 for...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-01-05T04:35:52-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>It seems unlikely that Ms. Liu saw handcuffs in her future</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Buddha's eye sees many things, according to Ms. Liu, 45, who has been peddling her psychic powers to Chinese immigrants from a storefront in Flushing for several years. She has predicted marriages, career advancements and births, and she has...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-01-04T05:31:50-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>He has sold 50 million copies nationwide</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I posted a short page on the fun I'd had watching the very odd Dr. Gene Scott on television over the years. Every now and then one of his flock writes:I'm sorry to have come...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Those who take money to tell the future are about to get hit with the same sort of stringent regulation as masseurs, taxi drivers and car mechanics. Fortune tellers, psychics, mediums, spiritualists, tarot readers and the like would have to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>$250 for a 1.7 ounce jar</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[(CNN) -- Is it the next generation of skin care science or an expensive con? Everything from ancient herbs to sheep placentas have been used to make skin creams -- now, it's DNA. DNA skin cream: New science or scam?...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Paul Kinsella is looking for terminally ill patients with good memories willing to volunteer to memorize messages to give to ghosts and spirits in the great beyond. Terminally Ill Patients With Good Memories Needed As After-Life Messengers...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Sydney Omarr has made himself the horoscope master to the masses</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It's an early Thursday afternoon and the world's most widely read astrologer is busy divining the future. Lying in bed with his head propped up on pillows, Sydney Omarr, blinded and paralyzed from the neck down by multiple sclerosis, waits...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA["Lisa Miller did a number of readings for an elderly person and promised to rid that person of all the bad demons that had been bothering the person" FALL RIVER -- Police have arrested a 25-year-old fortune-teller and charged her...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-12-13T06:57:45-05:00</dc:date>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[On Nov. 27, two days after it reached a settlement with the company that operated the Psychic Readers Network, the Florida attorney general's office quietly dropped its case against Youree Harris, better known as Miss Cleo. William J. Cone, her...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Polleys call their philosophy &quot;Spiritism&quot;</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In late 1999, a song "Listen to the Angels," purportedly channeled by Lennon, was performed by Linda Polley, a psychic from Fargo, North Dakota, on KROQ radio in Los Angeles. Linda and her husband Gerald, also a psychic, are editors...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-12-09T04:20:11-05:00</dc:date>
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      <dc:date>2002-12-08T08:42:43-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Advised him to dig a hole bury himself for two hours a day</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[SANTA ANA -- Roberto Caceres was desperate. Two years after developing a rash that caused his legs to swell and his skin to peel, he sought treatment from a woman he believed could use traditional remedies to cure what modern...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-12-04T10:11:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Psychic Tax Fraud</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A Thousand Oaks woman who pleaded guilty to a tax fraud charge in a scheme that involved her in-laws and their psychic business is set to be sentenced Monday in federal court in Los Angeles. Nasta Merino, 23, pleaded guilty...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-12-02T08:21:47-05:00</dc:date>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest psychic hotline operation in the United States has agreed to unplug its phones and pay $5 million to settle charges that it misled customers looking for a free glimpse into their future, the Federal Trade...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-11-15T07:16:57-05:00</dc:date>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Eva C, one of the most sensational 'materialising' mediums of the early 20th century, was much photographed in the act of producing spirits in the form of ectoplasmic structures, or 'pseudo-pods'. These long viscous skeins of white stuff, which sometimes...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[You would think Miss Cleo, a 'Jamaican shaman' whose late-night television slots made her the most famous psychic in America, might have seen the trouble coming and taken evasive action. First, there was the Jamaican Minister who laughed at her...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-10-18T06:25:18-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Each Psychic Predicts She&apos;ll Prevail</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ASPEN, Colo. - A woman who makes her living as a psychic here is in a legal battle she said she saw coming. Nancy Marks is suing to stop another woman from using the name "Aspen Psychic." She said she...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-10-15T06:40:36-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>We know the Bible from Genesis to Revelations,&quot; the bishop said, &quot;but we don&apos;t know stock</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA["Remember the Lord your God," Dukes said, quoting Deuteronomy, "for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth." The pitch resonated with William Scott, a retired Secret Service agent and born-again Christian, on that August afternoon in...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-10-14T04:52:44-05:00</dc:date>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Officials from PSI Tech, a Seattle-based company, claimed that more than a dozen of its members had determined the location of Elizabeth's body by using a special psychic process they call "Technical Remote Viewing." Independently, the company claims, 14 visionaries...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have long been aware that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ended his friendship with Harry Houdini on account of Doyle's blind, gullible belief in the very scam Houdini had disproven over and over. But not until I read Final Séance...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Contacting the Dead? It&apos;s Become a Lively Business</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[By ROY RIVENBURG, TIMES STAFF WRITER After 12 years of not hearing from my dad, I was starting to get worried. I mean, just because he's been dead the whole time doesn't mean he can't stay in touch. With so...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Miss Cleo’s lawyer went on the offensive Wednesday after two months of near-silence, asserting his client has a gift of clairvoyance and suggesting she’s the subject of a latter-day witch hunt. It does not take a crystal ball to see...]]></content:encoded>
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