I was brainwashed by a gypsy psychic!
Not me, personally: victims on GypsyPsychicScams.com.
Okay, paying $10 or $20 to see a psychic with your friends is one thing—you're paying for entertainment and a little self-verification. But giving someone $40,000 to remove your "negative energy" is another. Obviously these people are being brainwashed but I cannot help thinking, what a bunch of idiots!
Check out this tale:
...she had to go on a trip to Florida to meditate and pray for me there (she said Florida was close to where the "negativity" hung out, so she could release it better if she was closer to it). Over the course of a year and a half, she went on about 3 trips to Florida to "help me heal". One time it cost me $3,000.00, one time $6,000.00, and one time $11,000.00. She said it cost so much because she had to purchase very expensive things to meditate on for me, and also because there was this "healer" named "Sam" that was "her friend" who could assist her in helping me heal and get rid of any remaining negativity that I "had". His cost was $6,000.00 because, according to her, he had had skin cancer on his nose before, and it was dangerous for him to go in the sun in Florida. By the way, I never got a chance to meet "Sam" and I don't even know if he exists.
This is the part where I had to laugh:
At the one and a half month point, I was told to make a certain alter with certain symbolic objects on it. I made the alter in my closet because I didn't want my parents to see it and question me. Plus, as you know, all my work with her had to be a secret. Anyway, this alter in my closet led me to burn the big white candle in my closet too, like an idiot--This was stupidity on MY part of course. Anyway, it was night, and thankfully I wasn't sleeping, but I left the candle burning unattended in the closet in my room while I talked on the phone in the living room. To make a long story short, my whole closet went on fire, and my whole room was destroyed.
Oh, and then the psychic convinced the victim to give her the $11,000 insurance settlement she received for burning down her closet.
Read more and cringe.
EDIT 08.18.08: Do you really really hate gypsy psychic scams? Now you can buy the shirt!