In 1991, following the disappearance of her 11-year-old daughter Jaycee Lee Dugard, Terry Probyn consulted a psychic.
The psychic, Dayle Schear, is from Reno, Nevada who has worked numerous high profile cases. In an interview with KOLO, she said "I looked her in the eyes and I said please do not give up on this child… eventually she’ll walk through the door, you’re going to see her again.” She went on to say “I described the general area and how she was being held. I said it was sexual… I knew she was being held at force and she could not get to a phone to call.”
Knowing what we know now, it appears that she had every detail correct, but, upon further analysis, her words do not hold up under even the most minimal of scrutiny. The first statement could have been made to maintain the waining hope in Probyn's heart, not a definitive portrayal of what would transpire. Every family of a missing child is told this exact same thing in precisely the same words more often than not. Unfortunately, not all of them are blessed to have their loved one return.
Very little can be drawn from the psychic's second statement. If her session with Probyn was documented in words, video, or audio, we would be able to listen to exactly how she "described the general area and how she was being held." As for her saying "it was sexual," a lot of abductions involving young girls are sexual. It's simply the nature of the motives of most male perpetrators of a crime of this kind. The odds of this being a sexual crime were in the psychic's favor.
Common sense tells us if someone was abducted, they're "being held at force"; therefore, there's no way for them to get to the phone. A captor doesn't want their captive to give away the location where they're being held. No contact with the outside world means they're going to get caught. Fearing forceful reprisal leads to the captive not wanting to rock the boat and try to escape.
I respect psychics. They have a gift which a lot of people believe in and benefit from. However, I don't think now is the time to come forward tooting your horn and telling everyone "I told you so!" To me it seems like it's in poor taste.
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As a professional psychic for 13 years, and simply as a friend to the human race, I never think it's a good thing to say "I told you so."
There is absolutely no scientific evidence that psychics have any "gifts". What a load of bunk. If you can prove you have psychic powers, you can win $1 Million dollars at rand<dot>org. No one's collected yet.
The only person claiming that Schear made this prediction to Jaycee's family is Schear herself. As far as I can tell this has never been verified by an independent source. Until that happens I'm reserving judgement on this one. Self-promoting "psychics" are hardly unbiased sources. Kudos for pointing out the banality of her predictions, however, as profd points out, there is no scientific evidence that psychic phenomena are real to begin with. These people are frauds and scam artists making their living off of other people's misery and desperation.
Well recent news actually has proven the psychic wrong. Jaycee apparently helped to run the printing business that Phillip Garrido held out of his own home. Jaycee was responsible for several of the emails sent between the company and at least one of their clients (I'm sure there were more, but only one man has stepped forward so far saying that he received emails from a girl that he knew worked for the company who called herself "Allissa"). He also recalls speaking to her over the phone on several occasions. That being said, the psychic was wrong about Jaycee not having access to a phone...she in fact did, as well as email. There must have been something else that we don't know of that kept her from making a phone call home...but it wasn't for lack of the means to communicate.
You respect psychics? You think they have a gift? Do you also believe Santa Claus brings the presents at Christmas and a bunny hides eggs in your garden during Easter? As profd said, there is a $1 Million reward for anyone who can prove that hey have psychic powers, but those so-called psychics don't go for that reward, because they simply have no powers. There is no gift. So instead of going for the $1 Million which would be easy to get for anyone with real psychic powers, they go for the even easier money: Money from people with simple minds. People like you.
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How can you respect psychics? They are frauds and charlatans who take money from weak minded people, especially if that weakness derives from personal tragedy.
For anybody who is interested in how much faith we ought to be putting into the claims of Dayle Schear you should take a look at her own website. She has a link there entitled, "Click. Jaycee Lee Dugard". If you hover over this link (in IE) you will see the text, "Click here to read about Dayle's solving of the Jaycee Lee Dugard case in 1991." So now she's gone from making a few vague, unhelpful predictions about the case to solving it! Wow, I bet this will be news to Jaycee's mom! But here's the clincher: if you click on the link, it takes you to a PDF doc containing a screen shot of the original KOLOTV article. That's it. All I can say is that if she's willing to stretch the truth (to put it mildly) like this, I don't put much stock in anything this woman has to say.
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