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I got it all. I’m both a medium and a psychic. I assist law enforcement to help…to bring conclusion to criminal cases. The way that I do that is I head-tap the criminal. I get into their head, I hear their thoughts, I look through their eyes.
That is Allison DuBois, speaking on Oprah yesterday. Actually, it was one of several taped segments they interspersed with her live appearance. If you have read her books, Don’t Kiss Them Goodbye and We Are Their Heaven, you are already familiar with her stories about how her great grandfather was the first dead person to visit her and how a little voice
in her head told her to move her bed one night, which she did, and then a truck plowed through the wall while she was sleeping and landed right where her bed had been before she moved it.
She has also mentioned previously that her daughters are psychic, but offered this new tidbit on Oprah:
Our oldest Aurora and our youngest Sophia, they’re mediums, but Fallon [the middle child] can locate objects like nobody I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t bother my girls to have the souls of any of the victims of the cases that I’ve worked around. I’m not saying our house is wall-to-wall victims. Just, there are a few that are regulars, we’ll call them that. They’ll pop in and out and we’re good with that.
I will have more tomorrow but, in the meantime, did you see the show? What are your thoughts? Did you watch the John Edwards segment?
Tags: allison dubois on oprah, medium, medium nbc, psychic and mediums
Anna was all for “helping people” and “being kind” until she was challenged, and then she breaks out the threats.
Even if he did personally attack you it’s not slander if you can’t “Prove” (Beyond all doubt) that you are a psychic, and of course you cannot.
Well, once again, a skeptic tears down a “psychic” with logical arguments, open-minded questions, and simple requests, revealing the nihilistic, amoral bully that lies underneath the surface of just about all “psychics.”
It always gets me riled up when some woo displays just how callous and fork-tongued they are when they start playing various thought-stopping cliches and emotional cards.
I wish woos would stop being such downers. The world would be a much better place if they used their rhetoric with real logic for the good of mankind. What a waste.
HJ
Thanks for replying back!
If we were to take the issue of money out of the equation (i.e. your claims that “opposed…to their grief exploited for profit by frauds who have absolutely no conscience.”) were do your views lie on psychics/mediums?
You say that you are a trusting person, in which case why do you find it so difficult to trust those individuals who claim to be psychics/mediums? Why should anyone have to prove their abilities to another? You may rightly say that such testing will provide proof that psychics (with their supernatural powers) do actual exist – but what if someone is not a test person (this is obvious within many academic testings which i’m sure your aware of as a teacher) – such testing would conclude with their ability demeaned and ridiculed.
In terms of psychics/mediums ability i too am skeptical like yourself. Some situations and findings are pretty difficult to believe, even in this day and age! These supernatural powers claimed by psychics/mediums whilst difficult to believe are not impossible however- and i do believe that certain individuals to ascertain these special gifts (-irrespective of their tested ability!!)
Bringing you back to “people have been ringing those police departments and have been told emphatically that she has not helped them in any way (look above). She is lying to you.” I don’t know how the policing system works in your country but i think if the same situation was faced by the policing body in my neck of the woods the same outcome would be achieved. No police department (in my opinion) in the world are ever going to declare that they have a psychic working for them – particularly with the skepticism faced in relation to these stereotypically defined individuals.
Like i said this is my opinion and i’m more than 100% certain that your views differ, but irrespective of me being a trusting person we cannot dismiss the claims of certain individuals. If you just think in terms of testing medicine drugs for a moment. In the past when certain drugs were initially released they were found to have miracle affects in helping to retain and manage certain illnesses however years later and more laboratory research shows that rather than helping an individual some of these drugs actually have an adverse affect on an individuals health. My point being that if you subjected those individuals claiming to be psychics to the tests you refer to – how do you not know that years of further research will find that the wrong areas where tested for and that MAYBE those individuals tested DID possess the gift! (whilst in the meantime these people have been ridiculed etc.)
Looking forward to your reply!
Ireland xx
>Where do your views lie on psychics/mediums?
I am completely willing to believe, but they have to demonstrate their claimed abilities in a rigorously controlled setting. You know, so you can tell that they are not just 1) making it up or 2) bonkers.
>You say that you are a trusting person, in which case why do you find it so difficult to trust those individuals who claim to be psychics/ mediums?
Because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Anna of the Light here won’t make time to go to meet even the barest minimum challenge, the $1000000 challenge. If you say you are channelling my dead mother or grandmother, you better be able to back it up opbjectively by being consistantly as good with other people you have never met before and know nothing about. Otherwise, you are messing with my memory of someone who is dear to me, which is all I have left. Hands off. At the same time, there is no other field where “you have to believe in it for it to work” is a valid reason for avoiding testing. They never say that about antibiotics or anything else that works in the real world.
>Why should anyone have to prove their abilities to another?
Because if they can’t, then they are by definition not abilities.
>These supernatural powers claimed by psychics/mediums whilst difficult to believe are not impossible however- and i do believe that certain individuals to ascertain these special gifts (-irrespective of their tested ability!!)
Your desire to believe does not make it more likely to be true. Your belief that a certain fish in an aquarium is male does not make it more likely to in fact be male. Your belief that nuclear fission is impossible does not un-nuke Hiroshima. Now you may “percieve” that something is true–taking this homeopathic treatment makes my headache go away–it is far more likely that your headache would clear up on its own (think of all the headaches you haven’t taken anything for…do you still have them?) People misperceive things all the time. Experimental psychology tells us that. Perception of validity is not the same as validity. When you say that no matter how psychics perform on tests, you are saying that no matter how many millions of tests are performed where no ability is shown, you still won’t believe. I don’t know how you can dismiss evidence because you don’t like it. That’s just intellectually dishonest and you are lying to yourself.
>I don’t know how the policing system works in your country but i think if the same situation was faced by the policing body in my neck of the woods the same outcome would be achieved. No police department (in my opinion) in the world are ever going to declare that they have a psychic working for them – particularly with the skepticism faced in relation to these stereotypically defined individuals.
Are you saying that the lack of law enforcement testimony is proof that they are using psychics? I don’t know how things work in Ireland (very pleasantly, I imagine, based on my experiences there) but any psychic who helped the police would have to testify in court. It would be part of the public record. If they had a superweapon to fight crime with, of course they would tell the world: “Trust us! You are safe!” Also, there would be no unsolved crime because every crime would have a witness. This is simply not the case.
>In the past when certain drugs were initially released they were found to have miracle affects in helping to retain and manage certain illnesses however years later and more laboratory research shows that rather than helping an individual some of these drugs actually have an adverse affect on an individuals health.
This happens all the time. People swear by a treatment, but when you look at it in randomized, double-blind studies, you realize that it is harmful, or that earlier testing was not complete, or that the side effects take longer to present or any number of things. Those earlier beliefs are “false positives.” And that’s the importance of science: it allows you to detect those false positives, whether it is the perception that a certain drug works or a medium is chanelling William Butler Yeats (I threw that in for you).
Ridicule does not enter into it. You can walk away from a test saying there is no evidence that a certain psychic’s claims are true. But if they assert that they have 98.8% accuracy–how is that possible to assert when you have never been tested?–and then you find that they are consistently and invariably wrong, well you draw your own conclusions. Or when they are unwilling to put their reputations on the line. True believers will take Randi’s test and they always fail. Professionals do not go near Randi.
HJ
HJ
As i have previously admitted i am skeptical about the whole issue surrounding psychics/mediums and i am all too aware of those who are out to take innocent folk for all they can get- (particularly at festivals, field days which i have witnessed myself on many occasions) however in going back to my previous argument it is wrong to categorize all psychics/mediums in one bracket.
I recently came across a quote in a newspaper which struck me: “……Nothing ……is absolute” This phrase alone stands in stark contrast to many belief systems throughout the world. Using this statement as a basis we could challenge the authenticity of the Christian Bible/Koran etc – where supernatural events take place on a regular basis (e.g. Holy Spirit in form of dove, voice from Heaven spoke etc.) When we are born we are not only born into a family but in many cases a system of religious beliefs. We are brought up to live by the standards set forward by our Religion and are expected to pass these beliefs on to our fellow men and children etc. This system itself has its drawbacks for to challenge the authenticity of a book written almost 2000 years ago by EYE WITNESSES is met with general uproar- what is written is taken as Gods word and is infallible just as the Pope is taken to be. My point being that there are over 1.086 billion Roman Catholics (couldn’t obtain stats for the other denominations within the Christian Church), 2 billion Muslims etc. worldwide who live their daily lives on the basis of mens words (granted it is BELIEVED that these words where the work of God and the Prophets through the men) but still and all billions live their lives on the basis of what MAN said. Therefore applying this system of belief why do we not believe in the supernatural abilities of psychics/mediums when our own daily lives are characterised by even bigger forces of supernatural powers in terms of our religious heritage. If you are to say that no psychics uphold the ability to possess supernatural powers than surely you are challenging the very existance of such with these precious documents i refer to are based on. You wouldn’t put the Bible/Koran to a test – you might critique the content but still in the majority of cases one will come to the conclusion that whilst these scenarios are difficult to believe they must have some truth to them considering the various eye witness accounts involved. Now apply the above text to our discussions on Mediums/Psychics and the argument falls to pieces if you yourself are unwilling to challenge and dismiss the very content of the Bible/Koran etc that many religions are based on. Not unless you are an atheist can you truly declare (IN MY OPINION!!) that supernatural powers do not exist- for to do so and still believe in a Religious system based on the supernatural scenarios is hypocritical!
This discussion on Psychics has also reminded me of a Television documentary once featured in the U.K. in which a 17 year old Russian Girl known as the X-ray Girl was seen been tested using her extraordinary gifts. I have included an address for you to visit for further info if you have not been made aware of the full extend of Natasha Demkina talents at: http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14551_XRay.html This website points out the fact that despite Natasha proving time and time again to be correct in given situations her talents were not recognized by the Commission with the documentary concluded by the statement: “fundamental medicine must go to the dump if Natasha’s phenomenon is officially recognized. ” This is just one example of a society unwilling to recognise the phenomenal powers of others. What for example if those who claimed to have pshyic ability did take the test and like Natasha seemed to have a high % success rate (i’m not talking 100% but high enough to be considered as an “ability” as your previously referred to) only for society to reject these findings and declare that once again “Professionals do not go near Randi” – as you put it. Then what can be deduced from these findings?
Is Mise Le Meas (Goodbye for now)
Eire xx
HJ
I tried posting you a message on this website however for some peculiar reason the message would not publish. So i hope you don’t mind (but i really enjoy hearing your views in this subject- probably because there the complete opposite to mine) that i published my message under your own blog supplied “Happy Jihad…..” under “My first threatened Lawsuit…..” comments.
Ireland xx
Got it! Thanks for visiting!
HJ
Why are people so judgemental of psychics who make a good living? Isn’t that the point of a career? Figure out what it is that you are good at, what you are passionate about, and hopefully make a living doing that. So when a woman like Allison Dubois realizes that she is a talented psychic and makes a living using those talents (all while bringing comfort to others), what is the problem? Granted, there are people out there who claim to be a psychic in order to take advantage of vulnerable people… but surely, that does not mean that true psychics do not exist at all.
Why are people so judgmental of scam artists who make a good living? Isn’t that the point of a career? Hopefully, your passion is more ethical than scamming someone blind.
You are assuming that she is an actual psychic. And who the hell is she to take it upon her self to lie to people about their dead loved ones?
The problem is not with me. I am claiming nothing extraordinary, only that she is just like everyone else. SHE is the one saying that she communicates with the dead, and the burden is on HER to prove it. I have seen completely skeptical people convince people just like you (and just like me) that they are psychic. Then they reveal that they are not psychic, and still, STILL people say, well, I think you are a little psychic and don’t know it. Seriously. Believers have a logic tumor or something.
Why do I have to be the one to prove she is normal? SHE SHOULD HAVE TO PROVE THAT SHE IS PSYCHIC!
HJ
She has not solved “so many cases in AZ and other states”. Stop watching the show for your facts! She is full of it I have known her for a long time and she is a fake!!
I have a question about a meaning of a dream. Any suggestions on where to go find out an answer???
Thanks
You dream, unless the meaning is manifestly evident to you (you recognize everything and you know what it is)–there is no meaning. Even then, there is nothing there that you should use for guidance. It is well established that dreams are not signs from beyond. Do not let anyone take your money for “reading” what is pretty much your brain in idle mode. I suggest that you read a book.
HJ
hi i wonder if allison dubois help me cause someone stole my dog (6-oct-07) They say that the dog is man’s best friend and i wanna get him back with me please help me dubois, I was crying for a week and I am still crying I am depressed well please help me.
thanks and good bye.
Hi,
My name is Jessinta. I was wandering if there is anyway possible to contact Allison Dubois regarding Daniel Morcombe. He was kidnaped in 2003, whilst on the way to do christmas shopping. There is discriptions etc on the link http://www.danielmorcombe.com.au/ I would really love for allison to check into this. It is very important that Daniels parents and brothers get some closure. PLEASE HELP.
Regards,
Jessinta
is there an official website for allison? any news on daniel morcombe would be great, who knows how to get in touch?
Allison DuBois is a fraud. If she were really psychic, she’d get in touch with you. I’m sorry, but she’s a complete scam artist of unreal proportions. I say this without fear of lawsuit because she would have to prove that she was psychic in court.
HJ
I think most of you have Allison Dubois mixed up with John Edwards and Sylvia Brown….John & Sylvia are the one’s who asks questions first and then make everyone beleive they are giving true information after they get the answers from the audience….On top of that..they charge you for a reading…On the other hand if you all had payed attention to any of Allison’s interviews,you would have heard her say and I quote her…”I do not charge for my services,I help try to solve a case if I am asked”….She has a God -given talent,why question anything from God?…It’s understandable to be skeptical but to just plain come out and say she isn’t for real when obviously you haven’t read,heard or listened to anything she has ever said…well…Maybe you should contact her yourself and have her do a reading on you BING!!!! Then maybe your skepticism will change.I beleive in everything Allison is for,I think she is the only “real” medium out there who has a heart as big as Texas and God Bless Her for what she does and I hope she continues to do it.And by the way…Joe retired because he put in his years with the company not because Allison made them rich…research your info before writng lies!!!!!
You think that she doesn’t get residuals from her association with that stupid Medium show? You’ll believe anything.
Do you know who else says they don’t take money for “helping” in police/missing persons cases? Sylvia Browne. Listen, people can lie. Even if she didn’t take money, it doesn’t mean she’s psychic. You claim moronically that she has a gift from God and demand no evidence from her. You demand “experience,” which is precisely what science tells us we can’t rely on. Lots of people get taken by these scam artists. You go out, Terre, and you tell me how many times she has testified as an expert witness in a trial. 0. If she had a heart as big as Texas, she certainly would have taken up James Randy Foundation’s $1000000 challenge for any measurable of paranormal phenomena and then given the money to orphans. But she never did.
If I’m lying, I WANT her to sue me. Then she’s have to demonstrate her abilities to the satisfaction of a court. I’d be happy to have her pay my lawyers’ fees. She is a liar. She is a fraud, and she is taking you for a ride. Happens to otherwise sane people all the time.
HJ
Terre: How does someone get an appointment with Allison? Do you make an appointment and she calls you or is she on call or what? How does that work. You seem to have had a reading. How did it work?
HJ (doing my research)
I sent a quick email to Texas Rangers:
To whom it may concern,
Could you possibly inform me, to the best of your knowledge,
if anyone from the Texas Rangers has worked with Allison Dubois
(of the TV show ‘Medium’ fame) in any capacity.
Thanyou for your time.
C.Watts
And received this response:
“Mr. Watts, I am not sure if any of the Rangers have worked with Ms. Dubois”.
Thank you,
Texas Rangers
What? After all the help she’s provided that’s
how they treat her!
Bahahahah Oops, looks like she’s full of B.S
C. Watts,
You claim that you have contacted the Texas Rangers by email. I do not doubt that in any way and it is great that you went to such an extent to receive this information.
However, the response they gave you said:
“Mr. Watts, I am NOT SURE if any of the Rangers have worked with Ms. DuBois.”
If the email had said, “I am 100% sure that the Texas Rangers have not worked with Ms. DuBois,”….then maybe you would have a good argument.
Sadly, the information you provided is worthless, because whoever the representative of the Texas Rangers was, that you contacted, does not seem to know much about the situation at all.
The “Response” basically tells us that they do not know if anyone in the Texas Rangers has been assisted by Allison DuBois, in the past, in any of their cases.
This Representative is neither acknowledging or not acknowledging the help she has given them on criminal cases, because he/she does not seem to to know the whole story.
Therefore, if you look again at the response you received and then study the comment that you left saying, “After all the help she’s provided, that’s how they treat her!”…..you will find that they are not Treating her badly in any way or even said anything about her, in a dissapproving way.
Let me see, Did they even give you a proper answer to your question? NO. They simply said, “I am not sure.” Could this possibly mean that she HAS worked with them in the past??? Personally I think she has. I am a huge fan of Allison’s and will stand by her. Open your mind to the possibility also.
Therefore, the last thing I simply have to say is…
Bahahahah Oops, looks like YOUR full of B.S!
Sean (“,)
However, the response they gave you said:
“Mr. Watts, I am NOT SURE if any of the Rangers have worked with Ms. DuBois.”
If the email had said, “I am 100% sure that the Texas Rangers have not worked with Ms. DuBois,”….then maybe you would have a good argument.
You do not need to go to the Texas Rangers. That work has been done for you already. Skeptical Inquirer, a magazine that investigates extraordinary claims, has interviewed the Rangers, and this is the reply that they received:
The Medium Web site boasts that “DuBois has consulted on a variety of murders or missing persons cases while working with various law enforcement agencies including the Glendale Arizona Police Department, the Texas Rangers, and a County Attorney’s office in the Homicide Bureau.” In fact, however, both the Glendale police and the Texas Rangers deny DuBois worked with them. Glendale police spokesperson Michael Pena told SI managing editor Benjamin Radford that the detective who investigates missing persons cases “does not recall using DuBois at all in [one specific] case, or in any other cases.” And Texas Rangers spokesperson Tom Vinger stated flatly to Radford, “The Texas Rangers have not worked with Allison DuBois or any other psychics” (Radford 2005, 7).
So, they are already on record as denying that she ever helped them. Has she ever appeared on a witness stand? Has ANY psychic ever stood on a witness stand as an expert? I can’t find a record of any such case anywhere. Has a search warrant ever been signed because a department went to a judge and said, “A psychic said so.” Is a psychic’s word “probable cause”? These are not claims about trustworthiness, Sean. These are claims about certain verifiable facts. You are not interested in following up on these, which is not to your credit. Abandoning reason and saying “well, I like her, so I believe her”–it may feel like justification, but it is arbitrary preference over a glaring lack of evidence to support her claims. I hate to piddle on your parade, but she has already been denounced by the Rangers. This is something, a blunt, hard, unforgiving and damning fact you have to deal with as an adult.
HJ
If I had the “Gift” I would be cashing in big time! What is the big deal? Aren’t psychics allowed to make money? Let’s not be hipocrites, we would all love to find a way to get rich, so why she or anyone who can have the ability to be psychic critisized so much for cashing in? Doing charity work does not pay the bills, get off her back and get a life you envious people!
For the record: Police departments all over the world would be embarrassed to admit they solicited the help of a psychic! They would be ridiculed! Use your brain and figure it out. The CIA has been using psychics since WWII, but they don’t publicize it, it is strictly confidential and most likely they would deny it!
I think the Rangers are full of it, if she is lying in all of her books and using all of these different law enforcement departments for her own benefit, don’t you think she would be in court being sue right and left? The scandall would be all over the news. Diffamation is a serious accusation, law enforcement does not take this lightly and they would regain their integrity of being a psychic free environment if that was the case.
Lucile,
I can’t imagine what the Rangers would have to gain by expending time and money prosecuting/suing her. There are people out there who publically claim that the police are the tools of the Jews, a ridiculous claim, but the police do not feel impelled to even address those claims. Allison is beneath them.
“law enforcement does not take this lightly and they would regain their integrity of being a psychic free environment if that was the case”
They did. They said that they had no record of ever working with her. Integrity restored.
This Allison chick is nothing, beneath nothing, to people who aren’t her followers. Your suspicion that there would be a scandal is overblown. Indeed, if psychics were real, the scandal would be that police WEREN’T using them to solve crimes.
HJ
“If I had the ‘Gift’ I would be cashing in big time!”
You do not need the gift to cash in big time.
“What is the big deal? Aren’t psychics allowed to make money?”
Most people are able to turn a little coin without preying on the bereaved and desparate.
“Let’s not be hipocrites, we would all love to find a way to get rich, so why she or anyone who can have the ability to be psychic critisized so much for cashing in?”
Again, your only evidence for her possessing psychic powers is her claim and your desire for it to be true.
“Doing charity work does not pay the bills, get off her back and get a life you envious people!”
I am glad that I have a conscience; she is a failure as a person and the world is worse for her having been born.
HJ
“I think the Rangers are full of it”
According to Texas Ranger senior management, the Rangers have not used psychics, including Ms. DuBois.
Respectfully,
Lisa Block
Texas Department of Public Safety
Public Information Office
And a letter from Karen,
I want to thank you for your rantings on Allison Dubois because I was just ranting to my sister and my mom about her five minutes ago. Ali, as my sister Domini called her when she was still alive, wrote about my sister in her first book. She didn’t ask for permission and used it as a story that “proves” her validity. It pissed me off then and pisses me off now. My sister’s death from cancer was bad enough, but Ali’s bullshit makes it worse.
…
Anyway, my issue is totally personal, and I guess my point is that she uses the deaths of people who are cared about, and it does hurt the family who are left behind. I don’t like the fact that she uses my sister’s death in her book, and she says at the front of it, “Domini, I love you, and please visit me regularly.” How the hell am I supposed to feel when she acts like she still talks to my sister after she is dead? I’ll never see her again, and that is bad enough. So, anyway, I am glad you call her on her bullshit because I have known Ali almost as long as my sister did, and she was a bitch when they were friends. Incidentally, Ali and her mom came to my sister’s funeral. This is what her mom had to say about the fact that my mom, my other sister, and I were all there. My mom, my other sister, and Domini always had a rocky relationship, but when Domini was dying there was no question we would be there for her. Anyway, Ali’s mom said at the funeral when I was standing by my sister’s casket about to be lowered into the ground, “So it takes something like this to get your family together.” I was mortified–what in the hell had Ali been telling her mother about my family? So, as far as Allison Dubois is concerned, she is a bullshitter 100%. I will never forgive her for using my sister as a prop in her pathetic lie. She was and is one of the biggest bitches I know.
Allison ‘Gomez’ Dubois is nothing but a callous
fraud who profits from people’s grief.
Bing,
That’s a bit harsh, even for you.
“the world is worse for her having been born.”
What has she done wrong? Has she physically or emotionally hurt someone through anything she has said or done. NO! All she has done is said that she has pyschic/clairvoyant abilities and that she is a medium. So far…that has hurt no one.
She has also claimed that she has done psychic readings for people in the past and we all saw on the Oprah Winfrey Show that she performed readings on people, one by one…not as a audience, like some pyschics do. Again…this has hurt no one. If you have watched this show thoroughly, then you would see that she left the people in a better way than when she met them. She has a history of helping people through grief and heart ache.
Yes, I agree that we cannot know for sure that she has these abilities or not, but I don’t see why “the world is worse for her having been born,” as you claim.
She does not prey on people’s insecurities. People who were and are in need of her service, come to her and she helps them to the best of her ability. That does not sound like a bad person to me. It sounds to me like a very considerate person.
Hitler, Saddam Hussain, Osama Bin Laden and even George Bush are people that have made the world a worse place…not Allison DuBois.
I really don’t know what you have against this woman.
“What has she done wrong? Has she physically or emotionally hurt someone through anything she has said or done. NO!”
Yes. Emotionally, yes. Absolutely. She preys on the greiving to turn a buck. When someone dies, invariably, the family is left with nothing but memories, but then some fraud comes along and says vague stuff (cold reading–asking more questions and letting the subject fill in the blank or makiong vague assertions) or very specific stuff (hot reading–she has a specific source), says that they are talking with the dead. That fraud is messing with people’s memories. You said it yourself, the people who come to her want to believe and dare to hope. They are a self-selected group, and she does not have the moral courage (or consiceince) to say, I’m sorry. They are dead. Instead, she messes with their heads. Without conscience, that woman. She is beneath my dirt.
You need to show the barest skepticism if you are going to avoid being taken for a ride. Absolutely everything she has done can be replicated without psychic abilities. I could do it, but I have a moral compass. Her “testing” was with a charlatan with tenure who can’t be fired. No police group will say they worked with her. No psychic has ever been used as an expert witness in a trial, or as a witness to a crime. There is no defense for her behavior. She has no compassion, and she has no conscience. If she did have one, her lies would not be so absolutely convincing to the people who want to believe.
I stand by my assertion.
HJ
Bing,
You say that Allison has no compassion…yet you’re the kind of person that would comfort a relative of a deceased love one by simply saying, I’m sorry, your love one is dead, DEAL WITH IT!!!
Wow, you seem to be a breath of fresh air!!
You know Bing, everybody in the world loses some of their loved ones during their life, and all some people need is a bit of hope. Allison tries to give this hope to anyone who asks for her help.
If somebody’s relative dies and the people left behind are emotionally hurt, genuine mediums try to help them get over this ordeal.
“Yes. Emotionally, yes. Absolutely.”
You said this, but as this website was initially based on her appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, you really should look back and you would see that the people she performed a reading on “Privately” and not “Cold Reading” an audience as many do, were not emotionally hurt as you claim. In fact, they came out very happy from it with the reassurance that their deceased loved ones were safe and cared for, even though they could not see them. It took a lot off their mind and for two family’s in particular, who had lost a daughter to a motorbike accident and another daughter who had died of leukemia.
Before you say that Allison chose these people because she was preying on the innocent and that they were perfect candidates for her so-called “scam,” the people in the audience were asked who wanted a reading performed on them by Allison and they were chosen randomly.
After this, the people were taken to a separate room, individually. Allison did therefore not cold read the audience, because the audience were not present. Therefore, Allison could have in no way known who the show was going to pick and research that person “on camera.” The readings look extremely genuine to me. The reading viewed by the audience was actually an extract of the whole reading because of personal messages coming through from the deceased loved ones, that the families wanted to remain private.
Just have some faith in people Bing.
Bing and HJ:
Goof grief! You really hate this woman! How could you judge her so harshily when you don’t even know her personally? Are you against all psychics or just her? Is Sylvia Browne, John Edwards, Lisa Mateu all frauds?
I had a psychic reading before, the moment she started the session the skeptic in me kicked in and I started mentally denying everything she said, I kept thinking, “yeah, sure, she is reading my mind”. I called my mother to validate some of the information she gave me I could not confirm about our family’s past, to my amazement, there was a family secret about my Grandmother that she revealed to me no one knew but my Mother. Coincidence? She described too many details that fit like a glove and left me in shock.
Nothing will convince a skeptic, it will be easier to pull a mule through the eye of a needle than to convince you, and that’s perfectly fine, we need skeptics to keep balance.
And yes, you do need a “gift” , when I said the gift in this case it was her psychic abilities, but in general it means any ability to make the kind of money she is making with your own skills, such as writing (Stephen King), creating home computers (Bill Gates), her gift might be diferent, but still a gift and she is cashing in while helping people, big deal.
You claim to have a conscience, but aren’t you bashing and DIFAMING a person you don’t even know just by basin your judgement on the fact that you are a skeptic?
And, what is your proof that she is wrong? What exactly do you base those statements on? You can read her mind? Just by looking at her you decided she is a bitch? Because she claims she is a pshychic? Shouldn’t she be found out a fraud by now? Is she so beneath the police department that she can create any allegations in regards to them, make millions and get away with it? The police department is a government institution, they have their own lawyers, they don’t take any allegations trivial, no one is beneath them, those are your suppositions. If you doubt me, let the next paratrooper stop you next time, money is a big thing to these departments, like it is to all of us. The Rangers will win the case and perhaps millions, that’s what they’ll get if they even try straightening the thruth.
Charity work does not pay the bills, I insist, should she should turn into Mother Teresa and just do it for free? Gee, what about her expenses? College money for her children? Her retirement? Are we being realistic here?
Apparently her psychic abilities HURTS THE SKEPTICS THE MOST, they should turn their anger and negativity to someone who really deserves it, since she is so…beneath them. Unless I have a reading by her, I can’t confirm she has the ability and neither can you, but I would give her the benefit of the doubt and yes, I do believe she helps people handle the death of loved ones and she has the right to charge them, therapist do and no one is critizing them.
“You say that Allison has no compassion…yet you’re the kind of person that would comfort a relative of a deceased love one by simply saying, I’m sorry, your loved one is dead, DEAL WITH IT!!!”
Not exactly; I would be there for them and try to help them cope. And even saying bluntly, “Deal with it,” is more compassionate than giving people false new memories of their loved ones. At least then they will know WHO is insensitive. They don’t know that Alison is taking them for a ride. Who the heck is she to decide that she can mess with people’s memories of their parents? Does she ever tell anyone that their parents/puppy/f*ck buddy is burning in hell? Of course not. She tells people like you what you WANT to hear. Which is why you love her. It’s a well known psychological phenomenon called confirmation bias. People routinely ignore evidence that shakes up their worldview. The emotion centers of the brain light up, not the logic centers. Seriously. I am utterly willing to abandon my belief that she is a fraud if she shows me good evidence. Something that can’t be replicated by science. She has not. She can’t even have the Texas Rangers confirm her lies.
“You know Bing, everybody in the world loses some of their loved ones during their life, and all some people need is a bit of hope. Allison tries to give this hope to anyone who asks for her help.”
Hope for what? That they will be on hold with Allison for eternity? Kill me again! You don’t need some transparent liar to give you hope or to deeply appreciate the time you had with your loved ones.
“You said this, but as this website was initially based on her appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, you really should look back and you would see that the people she performed a reading on “Privately” and not “Cold Reading” an audience as many do, were not emotionally hurt as you claim.”
What if they realize the truth? That they were made asses of on live television?
“In fact, they came out very happy from it with the reassurance that their deceased loved ones were safe and cared for, even though they could not see them.”
I’m sorry. There’s something wrong with someone who is happy with a lie. I think it usually means that they are desperate. You realize that you do not need to be a psychic to tell someone that their family members are safe and cared for, right?
“It took a lot off their mind and for two family’s in particular, who had lost a daughter to a motorbike accident and another daughter who had died of leukemia.”
You are describing a hot reading. When a psychic names the cause of death (other than old age, or “I feel chest pressure…”), you are looking at a hot reading. You do NOT know how these people with dead daughters ended up on Oprah’s show. Were they invited by people who worked with or for Allison? (I saw a psychic’s book agent invite people to a taped reading, and wouldn’t you know it, she knew that their daughter had committed suicide. I’m sure they felt a lot better, but it was purest most scam.) Oprah’s staff invites people to be in the audience all of the time. Certainly SOMEONE was asking questions of the audience when they picked 2 people who happened to have dead children. Either as a group or while chatting them up before the show. That was not random. And they told Allison. I’d bet my cat. There are so many completely non-psychic ways to achieve exactly what you saw, that there is no need to look to the supernatural. This time she SHOWED you what you want to see. Logic circuits off, emotional circuits on.
“the people in the audience were asked who wanted a reading performed on them by Allison and they were chosen randomly.”
You don’t know this. You can’t say this. You have no idea, none, of how that really looked at the taping. You are watching a TV show, fer crissakes! They want drama. They want big heart-rending stories. Of course, they were screened. Oprah doesn’t care. She’s an entertainer, and a lot of her fans are suckers.
“After this, the people were taken to a separate room, individually. Allison did therefore not cold read the audience, because the audience were not present.”
You can cold read face-to-face, sure it’s a little more risky. You can edit out all the “misses.” But that’s not even necessary. The fact that she had specific knowledge means that it was a hot reading, pure and simple. The fact that you had dead little girls as the backstory leads me to suspect that they were chosen by Oprah or Allison (or their minions) for dramatic potential. Duh. Big duh.
“The readings look extremely genuine to me. The reading viewed by the audience was actually an extract of the whole reading because of personal messages coming through from the deceased loved ones, that the families wanted to remain private.”
So it was edited? You admit that? So you admit that you did not see the whole thing. See if you can find me a transcript of what happened.
HJ
Here is some insight into how the show unfolded for someone who Allison could not “read.”
http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-03/030207harpo.html#i1
HJ
By the way, I swear that I had never read that before. I read it only after I wrote my post. We didn’t get the whole story. And people were asked to be on the show. If they asked for skeptics, there’s no reason to assume that they didn’t ask for believers.
HJ
“So it was edited? You admit that? So you admit that you did not see the whole thing.”
Readings generally last for about a half an hour to one hour, I’ve heard. If the Oprah Show had shown the whole thing, then there would have been no time for listening to the opinions of people who are skeptics or the people who believed in science rather than spirituality.
There also would not have been time for John Edwards’ interview, if Allison’s whole readings of each family were shown. The crew at the Oprah Winfrey Show have to cram in what they can in 1 hour. So I admit, yes, they had to cut the segment of the readings down, but naturally that had to be done anyway.
In terms of the article you attached to your last comment, I really don’t know why she was not able to read the skeptic. Maybe it’s difficult to read a person who doesn’t believe in this sort of thing. For example, if a person doesn’t believe in the afterlife or in spirits or the possibilty that they still exist after they die, and then go to a medium hoping for messages to come through from deceased love ones, then I don’t think it would work out for them. How can you connect with the spirits if you choose not to believe in them. Even if messages had come through for this woman, she still may not have believed or been able to accept the possibility.
The article also indicated that skeptics were invited to come to the show, but nowhere does it say that the people she read were asked. In terms of the way Oprah kept calling the skeptic by nicknames…this was unacceptable and unprofessional, but it wasn’t Allison who said these things.
I guess we will never know exactly what happened because neither of us were present to witness it. I probably will still believe in mediums, because I always have, and you will still have your beliefs for your own reasons.
I guess it’s what people say, “Everybody to their own beliefs.” Everybody is the same, we’re all looking for answers. The only difference is…our questions are different. Nevertheless, I still respect your opinion on this matter and I hope to talk soon.
Slan Go Foill (Bye for now)
Is mise le meas (Your’s sincerally)
Sean (“,)
“There also would not have been time for John Edwards’ interview, if Allison’s whole readings of each family were shown. The crew at the Oprah Winfrey Show have to cram in what they can in 1 hour. So I admit, yes, they had to cut the segment of the readings down, but naturally that had to be done anyway.”
What do you think they edited out? The places where she happened to be right? Heck no. They took out all of those places where she was wrong…and that’s most of the time that they spent. I’ve seen the editing done…not on this show, but for other ones, and embarassing miss after miss disappears unmentioned. It’s curious, but that’s what the mind does in these situations. The person being scammed does not remember the misses…they ignore them, generally. But when the psychic asks a question (they ask a lot more questions than they pretend to answer), the subject routinely supplies the answer and gives the psychic credit. “They said my mother’s name was Mary,” a person will report, but NO. If you look at the tape what actually happened was they asked “Who’s Mary?” and the person TOLD THE PSYCHIC that Mary was their mother. It’s a simple, simple trick, and because people WANT TO BELIEVE it seems convincing. Absolutely.
“In terms of the article you attached to your last comment, I really don’t know why she was not able to read the skeptic. Maybe it’s difficult to read a person who doesn’t believe in this sort of thing.”
BANG! The WORST logic there is. You are letting your BELIEF guide your interpretation of evidence, not letting EVIDENCE guide your belief. You have created an imaginary story that allows Allison NEVER TO BE TESTED. Her ongoing scam depends on this. Notice how it’s not the psychic who is at fault, it is the bereaved who are at fault. That’s condescending and disgusting.
“For example, if a person doesn’t believe in the afterlife or in spirits or the possibilty that they still exist after they die, and then go to a medium hoping for messages to come through from deceased love ones, then I don’t think it would work out for them. How can you connect with the spirits if you choose not to believe in them.”
In the real world, people don’t say, “You have to believe in penicillin for it work.” A certain frog is female whether I believe it or not. Belief does not dictate reality. You are making rationalizations for her failures not accepting the failures for what they are. So this is where we are:
>There is no evidence she worked for the police, other than her claim. Both departments have denied it repeatedly.
>The video is edited and they did not take out the dramatic stuff.
>There is no evidence of a psychic ever being called to court as an expert witness or as a witness to a crime seen via psychic powers.
>No skeptic can ever challenge her because they “block” her by means of unknown mechanisms.
>She is making wadges of cash off of her books, her show, and guest appearances (advertisements for herself) and has everything to gain by continuing to lie to you.
>I have no stake in your belief, she does.
Sounds like utter hooey to me. Please, answer my challenges with EVIDENCE, not stories and rationalizations that depend on her being truthful. Please keep in mind that I may or may not believe in an afterlife, and that my belief in it has NOTHING to do with whether or not her claims are genuine.
HJ
Bing!
One question, do you love anyone? Be careful with your response. Please put some real thought into your reply.
Whether Bing does or doesn’t love anyone has nothing to do with whether Alison or anyone else can or can’t communicate with the dead. Strawman.
Pat.
What do you think? Tread carefully, presumptuous one. This is not the week for questioning whether or not I am capable of human emotion. I am less forgiving than usual right now. I see where this is going and I’m going to make you look like an ass.
HJ
Bing,
Just a simple yes or no to my question in the previous post will do. You must be psychic, if you think you know where I’m going with this. LOL.
No, it’s just that I have heard the same argument over and over. “Don’t you love anyone?” Of course I do. Would I like to talk to the dead? Sure, why the hell not. Can I? No.
But go ahead, ask away. Just make a point.
HJ
The real fraud is Sylvia Brown.
She is in it for the money only; a gypsy with no psychic abilities, and has Montel Williams snowballed as well. Though I think that he is in on her scheme as well, as she is a frequent guest.
Plus you ever notice how mean and rude Brown is.
JJ,
How do you know that Sylvia is a fraud and Dubois is not?
HJ
I hate this so called gift! I have received,Ill tell you right now – I have been completely crippled from the things that i have truly desired not only do i not get paid for it but i am a prisoner in my own life . I CAN’T WORK I CANT GO OUT IN PUBLIC BECAUSE I DON’T GET TO MAKE THE DECISION IT WON’T GO AWAY THEY SAY ITS A GIFT I SAY ITS MY DISEASE I FIGHT EVERYDAY WITH MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD I CAN’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHY I WOULD BE PUT IN A POSITION LIKE THIS I KNOW THE LORD LOVES ME SO I JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT I WILL ONE DAY UNDERSTAND BECAUSE I TRULY BELIEVE THAT HIS PLAN IS PERFECTION YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY ANYMORE ABUSIVE THINGS BECAUSE KNOW ONE CAN ABUSE ME MORE THEN I ABUSE MYSELF
Just a statement… I am not religious, nor did I believe anyone had or has the ability to communicate with any being or entity other than that of one living. I am a 30yr old male, married with two young kids and have no agenda one way or the other on this topic. My own two cents, however…
My Aunt (registration had her last name, not mine) took me to Allison Dubois Jan 21 convention at the Marriot. My Brother, 4 years my junior was murdered in Mesa just over a year ago. I was asked at random to come on stage with her where she asked my first name, and relation to someone I had just lost. I answered only Justin, and brother. She began to simply make statements one after another without awaiting my confirmation of accuracy. As a skeptic, I see how anyone with losing a loved one would want to make ANYTHING fit to somehow justify their love for that person or whatever. Not only did she pin point the fact he was murdered, she knew details of cause of death, intimate details of words I spoke to my brothers dying ear, details of tattoos in memorium that are not visible unless undressed… in short, about 15 things that beyond any shadow of a doubt proved to me alone that she has a gift. I would never tell someone that these people really exist only because there is no way to prove scientifically so. That is for each person on their own to decide. My beliefs, which aren’t many have been changed. My opinion is that Allison Dubois is NOT a fraud, fake or good story teller. I highly recommend to anyone interested in investigating a medium/psychic for their own agenda to seek out Mrs. Dubois and give her a chance. Incredible.
And the final score between Bing McGhandi versus everybody else on whether Allison DuBois is a fraud or not is….
Bing 5
Everybody else -3
It becomes a minus when you no longer can support your claim with reasoning but instead personalize it and attack the person instead.