CAYLEE ANTHONY and the PSYCHICS

by Leigh Lundin

Orlando, Florida. Dr. Jan Garavaglia, known to television crime viewers as Dr. G, announced Friday that the remains of a small corpse are those of Caylee Anthony. As many of you know, the find had been repeatedly reported by an OUC meter reader as early as August. A deputy had attempted to check it out, but had been scared away by a "large snake", presumably a legless reptile and not a lawyer. (I know many of you are shaking your heads, but this is Florida where fact is stranger than fiction.) The Sheriff’s office made no further attempt until the meter reader’s complaints became pesky enough.

Channel 6 television station became what our friend Steve calls the Caylee News Network. (We interrupt this broadcast to bring you the Sheriff’s report that nothing has been discovered today. Now, back to our regularly Caylee broadcasting.)

One man actually purchased a used news truck so he could fit in with the press and ‘legitimately’ collect information for his web site. During the dog days of August, the man himself became a story.

Protesters continue to stand around outside the grandparents’ house hoping to get on camera. Everyone is holding press conferences including the meter reader’s attorney. The prosecutor announced he’s considering seeking the death penalty for the young, immature mother. Hey, when it comes to executions, we’re still number 2!!!

It was reported yesterday that a primary reason given by the Sheriff’s department for not following up the meter reader’s tip was that psychics had directed them away from that area. Remind me what century we’re living in? (I know, I know, but this is Florida.)

That’s a group that’s had their headline ready for months:

Caylee Anthony
Joshua Bryant
Lillian Martin

Little Caylee Anthony

• has
• has not

been found

• buried
• floating
• burned
• hidden

in

• water
• sand
• mud
• chest
• a dumpster
• trash bag

in

• an attic
• a field
• a forest
• a swamp
• a back yard

in

• Orange County
• Osceola County
• Palm Beach County
• Brevard County
• Broward County
• Dade County
• South America

as predicted by psychics.

Both the Sheriff’s office and defense attorney Jose Baez say an overwhelming majority of tips came from psychics, some as far away as Poland. Channel 9 news reported that in the first 900 pages of reports, representing up to 2500 tips, only TWO did not come from psychics.

Channel 6 breathlessly reported that psychics were "assisting the FBI" and followed "sensivitists" "blind driving" around Orlando as they tuned into cosmic vibrations. Former prosecutor Holly Hughes, after decrying lay people who confuse the issue, actually bragged on the Nancy Grace program, "We now have a psychic team doing their own investigation." Psychics predicted the child had been placed in a dumpster. Psychics predicted the girl, disguised as a boy, had been ‘spirited’ away. Psychic Gale St. John insisted Caylee was at the Orlando Airport. Meanwhile, Leonard the Psychic Padilla searched entirely unrelated places.

Those of you who read me know that I view psychics with a direly cynical eye. You’ll still find psychic web sites begging for donations so they can visit Florida this winter to "help" with the search for Caylee. (Oddly, they weren’t so keen to visit during the intense heat of July and August.) With the hundreds of psychics and many thousands of psychic tips, at least one should have ‘proved’ correct, claiming victory for clairvoyants everywhere. Surely one psychic should have gotten it right, but no, they directed searchers away from where the child actually lay.

But wait… I’m getting a vision… Yes, I predict psychicis will still claim victory.

Cassadaga, Florida. In 2001, Lillian Martin and her grandson, Joshua Bryant, disappeared from Deltona. Psychics predicted the grandmother had kidnapped the boy. Psychics predicted the parents were responsible for their deaths. Psychics predicted they were seized at a truck stop. Psychics failed to predict they were likely killed by confessed killer Douglas McClymont and that the body of Joshua would be found three years later in their own back yard in Cassadaga, Florida, the clairvoyant village called "America’s Spiritualist Camp".

Half my readers believe psychic phenomena will be proven some day. It’s always possible, but until that happens, shouldn’t clairvoyants stay sidelined so police can do the work they need to do?