As a poster stated above. After all these years and all these shows....If JE had "scouts" in the audience...surely someone who have come forward by now. I heard too many stories of how he was 'spot on" and very specific and a few very vague 'anybody can do it' stories.
If someone is debunking him, I wish they be specific in how he is lying. As I said in my original posts...the Debunkers are always more vague.
Once, Penn from Penn & Teller was "debunking" JE...but he NEVER explained how JE was faking or tried to prove his theory in anyway, other than that Penn said so.
Great post!My mother and I have been to see John Edward and I do believe he is the real thing. I went in suspecting the plant theory. There was a woman who arrived just after my mother and I and stood in line just behind us. She was crying quietly and clutching something in her hands. We said hello to her but didn't have any significant conversation with her. She ended up sitting just down from us. He read her that evening. Her daugher came through. She had been blaming herself for her daughter's death and he said to her "your daughter said you need to stay here. Do you understand?" she said yes. Later, after the show, he was signing copies of his book and she was again, in line near us. As he was handing her the book back he sort of whispered and asked her if she had been contemplating suicide. She sobbed and nodded yes. He told her he believed she was the reason he was there that night and that her daughter said she need to stay here, meaning among the living. He told her a few other things including mentioning her daughter's favorite book. Considering this woman stoood next to us in line and sat next to us we saw that no one came out and talked to her or anything. If she was a plant, her "act" extended into the after show book signing and she deserves an academy award for her performance.
A few years later my cousin came through as he was reading my mother. She was 18 when she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. He was reading someone else when he asked if anyone had a young woman named Barb or Barbra who died in her car but not in a car accident (she was sitting in the car when he shot her). She was a B-B (her initials) and a daughter figure (my mother's God Daughter). My Mom stood up and said "I think that is my niece." He knew her death was unexpected, told us she didn't suffer and said she wanted her Mom to know it was OK to wear the ring and OK to move the furniture. We were not aware of it but after she died my Aunt had taken the ring she was wearing and carried it with her all the time but couldn't bring herself to wear it. Also, my Aunt and Uncle wanted to make a room in their house for their grandkids to sleep in but her room was the only "spare" bedroom and they were hesitant to take her things out of the room feeling like they would be moving her out of their lives. Neither Mom or I were aware of the ring or the room situation so neither of us could have given any clues on that. It wasn't untill after the reading when Mom called my Aunt that we found out what that meant. So yeah, I believe he is real.
Who knows though! I do know my Mom and my Aunt (same Aunt from above, MY Godmother, who passed last year after fighting breast cancer for several years) promised each other that they would make sure to contact each other if they could. Before my Aunt died Mom asked her to "surround her with yellow butterflies" and low and behold we've had yellow butterflies around all year, even when it is chilly. When I was pregnant with my now 1 year old and we went through a scary time thinking something may really be wrong, I came home from a rather discouraging appointment, opened my front door and a big yellow monarch butterfly flew out of my door and landed on my stomach for a moment before flying away. The doors and windows in my house were all shut tight so I have no idea how that butterfly could have gotten in there. My mother had an experience a while ago where she had been thinking of my Aunt and she said she had this experience like my Aunt was talking to her "inside her head" like she could hear her but not a physical sort of hear if that makes sense. My Aunt said "tell Rob (her son) that I am, I was and always." Mom didn't call my cousin thinking he would think she was crazy. When it happened again she decided she may as well call and see if he knew what it meant. He did. He said he had been asking her to let him know if she was OK, if she was there when his son was born and if she was with him and his kids. So the answers...I am, I was and always made perfect sense to him.
Also, my son who is now 7 was born about 2 weeks before my Grandfather passed away. I was very upset that I didn't get to go to see him when we knew his time was coming. I had preeclampsia and was on bed rest so I couldn't travel. I was so upset that I didn't get to say goodbye to him in person. When my son was about 2 he started talking about "his white haired man." He talked about him a lot in sort of an imaginary friend sort of way. He told me once his white haired man must think I was a nice Mommy because he smiled at me a lot and sometimes blew me kisses. The references to the white haired man continued untill he was about 4 and a half. One day when he was around 4 or so we were visiting family and I was showing him pictures of me growing up. He picked up one of my Grandfather and said to my cousin "Aunt Christy, where did you get this picture of my white haired man?" We asked him if the white haired man ever talked to him and he said no, just played with him and would sit by his bed when he was scared at night. I asked him about a year later if he still saw the white haired man and he told me no, he went to go dance with some lady and they never came back. I told my Mom this and she started crying. The night my grandfather died Mom dreamed of him. In her dream they were at a party and were sitting together talking about some of her fondest childhood memories. He told her "I have to go dance with your mother now" and got up. My grandmother had been dead nearly 10 years by that point so him "going to dance with some lady" had significance to my mother.
Thank you for sharing.
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She was right on with many things that ALREADY happened...she named NAMES. 
I made sure EVERYBODY knew about him. Neighbors, friends & relatives use to ask me about him, as if he was real.
I was floored. She said that i was very in tune with him as a child, however he is still with me but do to my getting older I lost "touch" with hearing him. She also told me that he is very kind, and he really is a male relative who had past over before I was born. (I have a rather unique last name)....All she said was my name, and that I will have a great day, and if I believe can I spare some $! I gave her some $ and asked her HOW she knew my name. She said 'Just believe" and walked away! 
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Thanks, I read them. They make sense, but are all from people who never even talked to JE or LW. I'd rather here from people who had first person experience, and who I know (or sorta know). I been in IT for almost 30 years, and I very much deal with logical patterns etc.
Like Feralpegs story!
What is weird about these 2 TV psychics, I never heard people who actually met them say they are PHOOEY!
I am very open to someone who met them and had a BAD reading....These are the stories that are non excistant on the web.
Years ago (early 80's), on a VERY expensive date My then girlfreind brought me to a psychic who worked at a back table in a Greenwich Village Restaurant. Then it was $75 each for a 45 min reading. Whatever i went along with it not believing in any of this. This was only a second date, and this girl didnt know anything about my childhood...(they usually left right after I tell them that
For instance as a kid (under 6 years old)I had a make believe friend. I called this friend a very specific first & last name, the last name was rather odd and funny. As I kid I talked about him ALL the time. It drove my Mom nuts!
So anyway many years later this psychic, out of the blue....says to me...."your friend (firstname lastname) is your Gardian Angel"...i was like
So because of this I DO BELIEVE. No way this complete stranger could now this.
Quite often when things go screwy and I need a hand...I will talk to my make believe friend. So far so good...he always helped out!
Also once on vacation in San Francisco, I was waiting for the Trolly and some woman, who looked homeless to me, and totally unprovocted(sp?)...walked right up and told me my name.
I know this is an old post..but Halloween is coming and wondering if we all still believe in ghosts?
All kidding aside, has anybody seen Lisa Williams Live? She is coming to our town on Oct 21, and me and my husband are going to see her. I am very excited about this. I use to love her show on Lifetime, and wish it continued.
I understand how much people want to believe in stuff like psychic powers and souls and ghosts, but what these people (so called 'psychics') do is borderline deplorable to me. It's OK if said performer admit it is a clever and entertaining trick, like magicians and performers do (and they achieve results just as good or better, achieved through a myriad of techniques such as cold reading, reading of expressions, clothing, gestures, plants, hidden cameras, microphones, informers, ect.) but when they try to pass it off as real, giving false information to people from their dead friends, family members and loved ones and taking advantage of those peoples desperate desire to hear a message, well, that doesn't seem right to me. Am I the only person who thinks these 'psychics' are taking advantage of people? 
