I predict that somebody reading this comment will have a male relative that is a father, uncle, cousin, or friend

"Is the male figure a father, cousin, uncle or friend?" So pretty much every male figure that everyone has.

So your son died....did he by any chance call you.... mom Her: YES YES YES?!!!!!😭😭😭😭

“I’m getting a John..... Jacob...... Jingleheimer.... Schmidt”

I predict psychically that someone will comment in this section. Edit: Works like magic!

The worst was Sylvia Brown. Woman asked if her husband strayed and she said yes without hesitation. She is not missed.

In my early college years I was in a class where a student conversing with the professor expressed his amazement with the apparent abilities of a popular television psychic at the time. The professor briefly dismissed the simple techniques that psychics use and then, as a demonstration, performed the most amazing cold reading I had ever seen. When he was through he explained step-by-step how it was done. I've been very skeptical of "psychics" ever since.

Wow! I thought Holy Koolaid would release another psychic video sometime within the next 6-8 months, and he did! I must be a... future-seeing-person... thing.

Woah. You're dismissing this stuff, but *I* have a name with a J or a G in it. These psychics were all connecting with me!

id be like 'how come my grandpa's talking to you? he didnt speak english'

I'm getting an A. A? or maybe a B? C? D? E? maybe an H or an I? a J? or maybe a something with a J sound? K - L - M - N - O -P audience member "I had a grandfather named Patrick" Right Patrick! Wow that's really amazing! What are the chances I'd just get "Patrick" like that?

Why can't they just ask the spirit for the full name?? 😂

I sense a James, Jimmy, or Jane reading this comment.

If the dead person is standing right there talking to you, why you gotta guess?? I feel sad for gullible people who believe this crap. SMH.

I think here's a sentence that summarizes psychics unexpectedly well: The house always wins.

The point that a "psychic" has to ask any question at all is conclusive evidence that they are a fraud. If they are genuinely psychic they should simply know.

Seeing all of these guys using the exact same debunked technique and still convincing people is disgusting..

This video made me sad, all these bereaved people being tricked into thinking that their loved ones are trying to communicate

The whole James thing is so true. My mother used to see psychics all the time when I was younger and she'd always come back saying she'd been speaking to her uncle Jim, who she didn't really know. I always thought it was strange that her recently deceased parents hadn't come through, but obviously this was because the 'psychics' were just throwing out 'James, Jim, or Jimmy' and hoping for a hit!

Dead person " tell her I said I love her very much and I am watching over her " Also dead person " Tell her I am in a better place now and things are much better up here medium - " She just asked what your name is " Dead Person "I am not allowed to tell you that just tell her it starts with B that's it " medium "uhm okay ..." *call ends*

Char Margolis ALWAYS starts her readings with “I’m getting a J or a M name”. ALWAYS. Go watch all her readings. I’m not wrong.

I've recently lost loved ones and a few of my family members have been having psychic readings. Its insanely frustrating to watch them get fooled

Im feeling a “z” name coming through from the other side? Maybe a Zedekia? or Zenobia? I’d love to hear a psychic say that haha

2:56 Holy fuck. She jumps onto the dead brother thing so eagerly. How did no one see through that? “Yeah, Bob, that’s it! That’ll be two hundred dollars.”

A very concise, intuitive explanation of cold reading that focuses on the relevant details. Seriously one of the best I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them. Great job!

“J or G like Marjorie”???? What The heck?!

I’ve watched her many times and she says the same exact sentences over and over again for many people. Often “can you believe the suit/dress they have me in?” Is a popular one

I predict that if you draw a triangle on a flat surface and measure its interior angles, you would get the sum of 180 degrees.

I'm getting ads for Live Psychics on this video

Hello from Ireland, I'm delighted to find your channel, I'm a psychotherapist & I've been screaming scams like this for years but Ireland is a mystical culture & not so easy to open people's perspectives. Honestly, I believe these people are disgusting & should be held accountable!!

Omg the J-G thing blew me away. I have always been really skeptical of these people but dang they don't even deviate from the script at all

Every time I see John Edwards I think of south park Giant Douche of the universe award. lol

'I'm in contact with a spirit here... What is your name spirit?' _My name begins with J_ 'And do you have a message for someone in the audience?' _Yes. For someone within my family, or who was know to me when I was alive, who's name begins with M_ 'And what is that message?' _I don't much like the new wallpaper in her living room, hallway, bathroom, and/or kitchen_

When your relatives are Chinese. Keep trying you got this 😂

The best cold reader I have seen is Derren Brown, the scourge of the mediums and charletons. He once approached a man sitting outside a cafe and correctly predicted that the man had nearly drowned as a child. Given the conversation, it is difficult to see how he managed this.

“ alright someone in your family had a birthday this year”.. audience: wow this guy is some kind of sorcerer!

Also, each John Edward show is actually three hours long, then they edit it down to 30 minutes, taking out almost all the misses. Then, each audience member has to sign a thick, intimidating non-disclosure agreement. Wonder why...

You’re absolutely right. It’s a shame what these people are doing. I’m glad you’re exposing these frauds for what they are. You’re doing important work!

Funny how spirits can't remember their names or even the initials of their names.

One of my workmates visited a psychic and came back very excited by what she had been told. When I pointed out that everything the psychic had said to her could equally apply to me, she got quite cross - but I was right!

Honestly, cold reading is a form of active listening. Trying to observe a person's behavior, speech, feeling and thoughts, you try to guess what you can deduce from this. Then you tell your claims to the person, and he can verify it, yes or no. Active listening is a form of empathy and is used in professional psychology. Cold reading, in principle, is pretty similar, yet whenever you look up for "cold reading", you get the same content as James Randi's Flim-Flam book. While when you look up for active listening, you get professional psychology insights.

Bravo. Exposing these frauds and charlatans is very important. This video should be mandatory viewing.

Got an advert for a "Free Angel Reading" whilst watching this - it seems they can't even predict that I'm not likely to be interested in that even when I'm actively watching a video *debunking* "psychics"

This video is the bomb bro, no long intro cut and straight to the point straight up the way KZfaq needs to be thumbs up big time

I worked as a tarot reader once. I had too much integrity to continue, though, because even though I told people this is just a trick they BELIEVED me so hard! One lady came back, bringing her daughter with her so I could "tell the truth of the spirits" to the girl. I flat-out said "this is just cards here, I'm not listening to spirits or anything", but their desire to believe in the beyond was unshakeable. I was never trained in cold-reading techniques, but it really isn't hard to just spitball some generalities suggested by the pictures on the cards and the client's own signals (age, clothing, any info they give you) to say things that sound appropriate. Then the client fills in so many details themselves! They want to believe the message is for them specifically, and they easily forget anything I said that didn't fit and hone right in on anything they can crowbar into their own worldview. I only hope I didn't do any harm in my short "psychic" career. I tried to give good basic advice. But holy hell, people! Learn some scepticism! Edit: I want to say I did this tarot thing many different times for different groups, individuals, at my church, for friends in private, online, etc. EVERY SINGLE TIME I had people looking at me with these desperately needy eyes seeking "wisdom from God" or whatever, and way over-believing in anything I said. I had to stop doing tarot at all because people would practically argue with me that of COURSE I had spiritual guidance because no way would I just be lying to them, because "no way I could know all that stuff". I couldn't make them understand I wasn't lying, I was just saying intuitive stuff, and they gave undue credence to it just because I had a deck of mysterious cards also. It's a shame, because I do think tarot has some value. But not "predicting the future" value. Just the value that comes from learning to ask the right type of questions in your own life. If it leads you to consider angles in a new way, that's fine. If you think printed cards have some psychic control over your destiny, you're way too gullible and naive.

Something I'm surprised most psychics haven't thought to claim is that spirits can't communicate through language. They could claim that language gets muddled and the spirits can only communicate through images from memory or emotional experiences. (Maybe they could infer that language is taught and simply separates living entities, wherein non-living entities share their minds and therefore have no use of language and they tend to forget it.) People already know jack and shit about what "happens" to the human spirit after it dies. If these people were more creative, they could utilize that lack of knowledge. It would give them a lot more opportunities for vague predictions based on imagery without having to guess names specifically. They could describe feelings and vague experiences rather than specifics, which a lot more people are likely to pick up on and make the connection for them. I remember watching one psychic in particular describe the experiences of a child drowning, acting out the experience to the audience and describing her feelings on it as if she were the child, so clearly some of these people don't have the moral qualms to stop them from getting into the actually traumatic and offensive stuff. I don't see why taking that extra step isn't something I've seen them try to do. Though, I guess nowadays so many of them are already so far into their con, it would look strange if they changed up the rules now.

It’s hilarious that the ads I keep getting before your videos are for a psychic app. LOL.

"so I'm seeing that was a bad death, a death that caused sadness, is that making sense to you?"

I’m a physic. My all time best question always works... “I am sensing parents who are bigger than a bread box” Works like a charm. My other ones in include: “Is it an Animal, mineral, other... etc?” “Do they have four legs” I’m great at it. Really I just have the 20 questions electronic game under my robe, but no one notices.

Silly koolaid man! The spirit world "piggybacks" over damaged phone lines, while simultaneously using a brick to smash out a oddly convoluted version of Morse code. That's why everything is so broken during these readings!

Can't believe some people still fall for these tricks. The fact they assume people are talking to the dead rather than a MUCH simpler and logical explanation always fascinates me.

“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.” Niccolo Machiavelli.

That was excellent. I knew how it was done but I never knew they so blatantly played the odds like that.

I wish I was that determined and blind to failure and so full of excuses and confident. Lol. 😂😂😂

Great series. He really covered all the bases

i find it hilarious that an ad from youtube that played during your video was for California Psychics lmao

So it's like Battleship. You guess where a ship is and then hit it.

I can tell you, anytime a 'psychic' says I see an 'M', 'J', 'G'. .(any letter will do) run.

Ad before this video : The reason I love being a psychic is that i get to help people ...

I really like your merch. I wish that I can afford to get the mug :) great video!

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I am sure that if there were spirits, they would not be so vague in communicating with the living.

LOL - just wrote in the hot reading video that I've come to watch again and had an ad for a psychic before the video started. Then I came to watch this one (and will watch part 2 too). Guess what banner ad I had immediately the video started...

I once saw a psychic on a talk show who went fishing something like this: "You have an older person in your family.......and they had some kind of health problems..." Wow! Like, what are the chances of having old people in your family, or of old people having health issues? But people fall for it.....

My step sister was taken in by one of these psychics. So I got my sister to bring me along as a friend who would also like to contact someone. While there, I basically just agree with the psychic on all of their guesses. So to the J or G question, I answered yes. On the name guess of James or John, I said yes to John. And so it went. I let the psychic build this completely fictional dead family member. Afterwards my step sister could see how it was all just guesses based on people's responses. After I lost my faith, but before becoming an atheist, I tried a lot of things, including being a high ranking member of a cult. While that wasn't a high point for me morally, it did give me some skills in manipulating people. And for a short time on a one to one setting I can control my non verbal communications. Using this, I was able to guide the psychic away from anything remotely correct and allow them to be convinced of the most insane elements.

Even without knowing the specific techniques they are using, shouldn't people get suspicious that the so called psychics get so many guesses wrong? I know of confirmation bias, but this should be too obvious. If spirits were real and that bad at remembering their loved ones names, I wouldn't want to connect with them. xD

you are so good. such an informative video. thanks

Hey HK, nice vid young fella! We all do this. Each and every one of us!!! It helps us connect and accomplish.

Hey Thomas, you might want to do a video about hypnotism. Hypnotism seems to me to stem from the same tree as believing in psychics. It's possible that hypnotism doesn't exist at all in the way that it is popularly portrayed. Hypnotism may very well be nothing more than people willingness to follow the influence of another person acting authoritatively.

I don't know if it's because I've always been a data geek (and now do it professionally) or if this is a common thing for a lot of people, but I can't remember a time when cold reading didn't seem like totally transparent BS. I think the first time I heard someone say "I'm getting a J name" I was pretty much done with the whole mirage. Find me someone with an 'X' name with a six-fingered kid that died from a freak shaving accident and you might get my attention.

Awesome video keep up the good work

A psychic commercial before a video discussing how fraudulent it is - priceless 🤣

you know what's funny? The Add that run before your video was a German app to "spread the word of Jesus Christ and god" Kind of ironic :D

Theres a video ad for Psychic readings below the video lol, haha.

What an awesome eye opening video. Thank you so much for sharing this with us 👍

You're so smart doing all your research

Even the Bible warns us of psychics, mediums, so called seers as charlatans. Interesting....

John Edwards.. biggest douch in the universe lol Loving this series, been showing it to anyone who thinks that these con artists are doing anything but stealing their money

Thanks for the knowledge😉

Great video!

So many J or G names. Wow. I knew they did that. But your clips really bring this home.

It's easy to roll a six when you get to throw 100 dice and you only need one six to be right.

Quality content keep it coming

Thanks for the effort put into this video and for sharing it.

Funny shotgunning is a same method they ues in a church

If they were psychic then they wouldn't have to guess.

you're doing Gods work son.

New to your channel. Very entertaining. Subscribed

Would it possible to do a video or something on the Hispanic (maybe it's not only Hispanics but I've seen it alot with catholicism) witchcraft stuff, I don't know what it's called but they do stuff like hand readings & voodoo spiritual egg cleansing stuff. I've looked for info about how they do their tricks but I haven't really found anything. I have family members who believe in that stuff and I've been trying to find info on it to try and show them that it's all fraud but I haven't been very successful. Does anyone know?

Ok I'm seeing that you have a father and you eat food am I correct And some thing tells me that you constantly have to breath oxygen

My new favorite channel

Id LOOOOOOOOVE having one of these scam artists be in front of an audience, and havinf them dtart guessing names (james, jim, sara, etc) but heres the twist: everyone in that room is of foreign origin. The spirit surely would tell her to guess Miguel, Yu, Anatoly, Agnieszka, Lothar, Ankhbayar, Katu, Arami, Yara, Kunaq, Anqasmayu? That'd be amazing to see.

I hate the fact that these psychic con artists only attack the weakest and most vulnerable among us. I can't quite understand why anyone at this point believes psychics are anything more than liars and frauds but I guess when you're mourning you kinda hope that they are telling the truth.

i predicted there would be at least one dislike for this video :)

They believe when they want to believe. Just like faith! We just don't want to give up our loved ones. I thought it was hilarious when john edwards thought he was connecting with a woman's beloved husband (even included a dog she loved) until she 'admitted' he'd abused her and the dog! She looked disgusted! Lol Great work HK! Love and Peace

Awesome dude!!!

People believe this BS for the same reason they believe religious BS... it is because they really Want to believe there is this mystic crap.

Cold reading is quite a skill tbh and if they would use it for entertainment purpose people would be amazed by them. But in the end they choose to use this skill to scam people, they cannot be forgiven

Loved the video. As an old salesman I get how easily a well practised schpiel can work!. By the way, did you pick the hairline on you avatar deliberately? I'm sure there are Christians out there going 'ooh, see that,"we know who he's from' LOL

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.