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I Was a Hotline Psychic for Miss Cleo
I Was a Hotline Psychic for Miss Cleo
I expected callers to see through my act, but mostly they dialed in ready to believe. Anyway, it turned out I wasn't such a bad psychic. My two years as a submediocre liberal arts major had made me an expert at fraud.
Our new employer was the Psychic Readers Network, a hotline known for its ads starring Miss Cleo, a motormouthed shaman with a lavishly fake Jamaican accent and a streetwise, no-nonsense approach to soothsaying. She was always barking at advice seekers: “Call me now!”
Instead, they called me. That summer, whenever I could, I stayed up all night smoking out the window and guzzling cheap wine while doling out fortunes over a landline. For some reason, the customers expecting Miss Cleo didn’t seem to mind when they got a clueless, depressive 20-year-old from the suburbs instead.




This is a GREAT read, thanks for sharing it here!
I wasn't totally sure if it fit the bill, but I love stories like this from people who explain how cold readings, etc., work. Another good book on the topic is Psychic Blues by Mark Edward (not that Mark Edward).
I fits the bill. I'm trying to broaden the parameters of this community so that's not just about "MYTH + DEBUNK". It's about seeking the truth, which includes "how it works" articles like this.
This was an interesting read!