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- MISCELLANEOUS RAVINGS:
-
- In our humble opinion, psychic visions rarely if ever have any validity.
- But - suppose for a moment that just one such vision, of a plane crash for
- instance, came out precisely as predicted. Don't we know for a fact that the
- person making the prediction would be arrested for causing the disaster? He
- would, in effect, have to prove that he did not cause it or have mundane ways
- of knowing about it. A sensible person would just keep quiet in the first
- place.
-
- A case in point is that of Etta Louise Smith, a Los Angeles woman who,
- following a psychic vision, led police to the precise location of a murder
- victim, though she had no connection with the crime. This occurred in 1980,
- and is detailed in an article in the August 1987 issue of FATE. Ms. Smith was
- jailed for four days without charges, and then let go. She then sued the city
- for false arrest, and finally was awarded $26,000 this year.
-
- We await Word from Randi or perhaps Phil Klass, to explain to us that
- (a) the whole thing was just a coincidence or (b) Ms. Smith really was
- connected with the murder after all......