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A: Ghouls. Q: What do you call psychic mediums?

James Van Praagh psychic claims to have communicated with Michael Jackson in a recent interview. Discover the intriguing details!

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[Note: the following quotations are from a news website called Palluxo, and so have not been verified. The misspellings in the quotations make me wonder about just how accurate this all is. Certainly, though, given the characters involved, it's not a stretch at all to think these actions accurately described.] Maybe not all people who claim to speak to the dead are evil con artists trying to milk any kind of celebrity they can from others in order to make a quick buck or a thousand, but some are. You can make up your own mind about James Van Praagh, noted cold reader psychic, who (according to the Palluxo news site) claims to have spoken with Michael Jackson the other day:

"Where are you located now, Michael" asked Van Praagh. "I am surrounded by happiness. I never felt more happier," said Jackson. When asked about his children, Jackson started crying. ...

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