Shannon Elizabeth Fadal is an American actress and former fashion model. Elizabeth has appeared in comedy films such as American Pie, Scary Movie and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. She has also appeared in horror films such as Jack Frost, Thirteen Ghosts, Cursed, and Night of the Demons. She was described as a sex symbol for her role in the 1999 comedy film American Pie. She also had a cameo in the film Love Actually and in Catch a Christmas Star in which she sings for the first time on camera.
Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums, illusionists (readers), and scam artists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, then emphasizing and reinforcing chance connections and quickly moving on from missed guesses. Psychologists believe that this appears to work because of the Forer effect and due to confirmation biases within people.
Peter Popoff is a German-born televangelist. He was exposed in 1986 for using an earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife, who gave him the names, addresses and ailments of audience members during Popoff-led religious services. Popoff falsely claimed God revealed this information to him so that Popoff could cure them by faith healing.
Sylvia Celeste Browne was an American author who claimed to be a medium with psychic abilities. She appeared regularly on television and radio, including on The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live TV shows and hosted an hour-long Internet radio show on Hay House Radio.
Sarah Joanne Cyzer more commonly known by her radio name Sara Cox, is an English broadcaster and model. She presented The Radio 1 Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 1 between 2000 and 2003. She currently hosts Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 Monday-Friday 17:00-19:00.
KTBU, virtual channel 55, is a Mega TV owned-and-operated television station serving Houston, Texas, United States that is licensed to Conroe. The station is owned by the Spanish Broadcasting System. KTBU's studios are located on Equity Drive on the northwest side of Houston; digital channel 55.5 has a separate studio near the intersection of Bellaire Boulevard and Boone Road. The station's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
Amelia Kinkade is an American actress, animal communicator and self-proclaimed "pet psychic". She was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the niece of Emmy Award-winning actress Rue McClanahan.
The Pet Psychic is an hour-long television program that was broadcast on the Animal Planet network in the United States. The show was created by Yehuda Goldman and co-created by Todd Thompson, and senior broadcast executive Todd Mason, who also served as the shows executive producer. The program premiered on June 3, 2002 and featured Sonya Fitzpatrick as a psychic who claimed she could communicate with various animals including audience members' departed pets. Subject animals included the normal cats and dogs as well as horses, various birds and farm animals.
SIRIUS XM Stars is the result of a merger between XM's Take Five and Sirius' Sirius Stars. It was once the flagship talk station on SIRIUS Satellite Radio, but now has shifted focus as a talk destination for women. Not all content is shared across the two satellite radio services.
Rumpology, Asstrology or bottom reading is a pseudoscience akin to physiognomy, performed by examining crevices, dimples, warts, moles and folds of a person's buttocks in much the same way a chirologist would read the palm of the hand.
Aria Giovanni is an American erotic actress and model who was Penthouse magazine's Pet for the month of September 2000. She has modelled in a range of photographic styles including amateur, artistic nude, pinup, fetish, and glamour, and has also had roles in films and television shows.
The Skeptic is a 2009 American suspense thriller film written and directed by Tennyson Bardwell. Starring Tim Daly, Zoe Saldana, and Tom Arnold, and featuring Robert Prosky and Edward Herrmann, it depicts the story of an attorney who inherits a seemingly haunted house, though he does not believe in the supernatural.
Richard Saunders is an Australian skeptic, podcaster, and professional origamist. He received recognition by the Australian Skeptics with a Life Membership in 2001 for his contributions to the organisation. Saunders was twice president of the Australian Skeptics, and he founded Sydney Skeptics in the Pub. He has presented on skepticism, represented the Australian Skeptics on television and radio shows, and is the co-host of the Skeptic Zone podcast.
Martin Noel Galgani Fitzpatrick is an Irish veterinary surgeon.
Robert Starrett Lancaster is an American computer programmer and skeptic who created the websites Stop Kaz and Stop Sylvia Browne.
Mark Edward is a professional mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. He wrote several books on mentalism, séance theory and production and appeared on television as both primary consultant and on-air performer in such diverse programming as A & E's Biography: "Houdini, the Great Escape," NBC's "The Other Side" and "Psychic Secrets Revealed," The Sci-Fi Channel's "Mysteries, Magic and Miracles," The Discovery Channel's "Forces Beyond," and on two episodes of The Learning Channel's "Exploring the Unknown." His featured segment as a spirit medium on the pilot episode of Showtime's "Penn & Teller's Bullshit!" series entitled "Speaking with the Dead" helped secure an Emmy Award nomination for that episode in 2002. Mark Edward is not related to John Edward.
Barry Karr is the Executive Director of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is consulted by the media for all things paranormal. Karr has been involved in many investigations including faith healing, UFOs, firewalking, ghosts and many others. He is a published author in two anthology publications, and as an editor of two others. Karr is a proponent of scientific skepticism and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
Robin Alexis is a radio and reality television personality, author, Reiki practitioner, and psychic from the state of Washington. Her live call-in show Mystic Radio with Robin Alexis has been broadcast weekly since 2005, and as of 2017 is broadcast from KKNW in the Seattle market. She appeared on the television program The Real L Word as a metaphysical mother, which she describes as "speak[ing] to the souls of babies who haven't been conceived yet, who are in the womb, or are newborns...supporting parent's [sic] relationships with their yet unborn, lost, and aborted children". Alexis gained note from press in the United States and from Merseyside Skeptics Society in the United Kingdom when she announced in 2010 that her metaphysical mothering included counseling a couple on hosting the reincarnation of Michael Jackson. She received a trademark on the term "metaphysical mothering" in 2011.
