My fiancee is a steadfast believer in psychics. I made it a point long ago to let her know that I think they are all fake and that it wasn't my thing.
Anytime she's watching Long Island Medium or something like that, I just find something else to do. No point in starting an argument. So she's watching Investigation Discovery last night, and they have a story on about a 9 year old girl who was selling girl scout cookies and went missing in 1979 or so.
No suspects for awhile, and no body is found. Eventually a psychic comes forward and says that the girl was strangled and her body was in a small pond near where she went missing.
They drain the pond and no body is found. I say nothing, but I know my fiancee was hoping to give me a big "in your face", and I can sense her disappointment. So a few months later the little girl's body is found in a garage. Somehow, the cops had missed it the first time they searched it. It turns out, however, that the girl was indeed strangled. My fiancee turns to me and says "pretty crazy that the psychic knew she was strangled."
Now, like I said, I know better than to argue these points, but it was late, I was tired, and I slipped. I couldn't help myself. So I responded "you watch these shows all the time. The kinnapped kids are always strangled or suffocated!" Further, I mentioned that making a guess about being in the water was probably high percentage too, even though they were incorrect about that one. Luckily, it didn't end in too much of an argument. She simply called me closed-minded, said I had no idea if most kids were strangled or suffocated, and left it at that.
Now, she was right about one thing. I have no idea about the strangling and suffocation. I'm purely basing it on every story I seem to hear about these sorts of cases. It's a quick, clean way to kill a kid. No blood or anything. My fiancee is always watching that channel too, so I've heard many of these stories.
Anyhow, what say you JREF? Am I onto something here? If you were pretending to be a psychic, wouldn't guessing "strangulation (or suffocation)" and "body in the water" be your best guess percentage wise?
Anytime she's watching Long Island Medium or something like that, I just find something else to do. No point in starting an argument. So she's watching Investigation Discovery last night, and they have a story on about a 9 year old girl who was selling girl scout cookies and went missing in 1979 or so.
No suspects for awhile, and no body is found. Eventually a psychic comes forward and says that the girl was strangled and her body was in a small pond near where she went missing.
They drain the pond and no body is found. I say nothing, but I know my fiancee was hoping to give me a big "in your face", and I can sense her disappointment. So a few months later the little girl's body is found in a garage. Somehow, the cops had missed it the first time they searched it. It turns out, however, that the girl was indeed strangled. My fiancee turns to me and says "pretty crazy that the psychic knew she was strangled."
Now, like I said, I know better than to argue these points, but it was late, I was tired, and I slipped. I couldn't help myself. So I responded "you watch these shows all the time. The kinnapped kids are always strangled or suffocated!" Further, I mentioned that making a guess about being in the water was probably high percentage too, even though they were incorrect about that one. Luckily, it didn't end in too much of an argument. She simply called me closed-minded, said I had no idea if most kids were strangled or suffocated, and left it at that.
Now, she was right about one thing. I have no idea about the strangling and suffocation. I'm purely basing it on every story I seem to hear about these sorts of cases. It's a quick, clean way to kill a kid. No blood or anything. My fiancee is always watching that channel too, so I've heard many of these stories.
Anyhow, what say you JREF? Am I onto something here? If you were pretending to be a psychic, wouldn't guessing "strangulation (or suffocation)" and "body in the water" be your best guess percentage wise?
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