How one psychic conned the Texas police, the FBI, the media and the world
And you guys thought bloggers were bad? Yesterday, the major news networks worked themselves into a frenzy after a Texas sheriff reported that 30 “dismembered bodies of children” had been unearthed in a mass grave in Texas.
Not wanting to miss out on the possible scoop of the century, the major news organizations ordered all of their reporters to drop what they were doing and get into the air, by plane or helicopter, to descend upon the sleepy Texas town of Hardin.
In the end, it all turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by a nutcase “psychic,” who called in the original tip about a mass grave.
This story should never have grown to the proportions that it did. But thanks to social media — and spurred on by bloodthirsty news organizations — the hoax grew legs and led all news broadcasts last night.
The word “psychic” should have raised a flurry of red flags, if not with the gullible media, then at least with the FBI who should have known better.
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Well one of your readers said this in the orignal post… O well f*uck it
#nowplaying Kandi “Leave You”
This heifer needs to be prosecuted. We’ve all heard the story of the boy who cried wolf. What’s messed up is if something like this happens again the police may really take their time to act on it because of what this bird did.
Crying wolf like that puts our kids and our communities in jeopardy because the next time someone calls in a grave of 30 bodies no one will believe it.
Throw the book at that heifer!
This is completely the fault of law-enforcement down in Texas…why on earth would they release this information to media outlets PRIOR to doing a full investigation of the property? That makes NO sense and it’s downright disappointing that these incompetent fools are on the streets supposedly enforcing the law…smh…
^^^^What she said.
Everybody wants to be first to break the story and give updates. It’s about ratings and not about reporting facts. Do your homework people.
Feline Feminine says:
This is completely the fault of law-enforcement down in Texas…why on earth would they release this information to media outlets PRIOR to doing a full investigation of the property? That makes NO sense and it’s downright disappointing that these incompetent fools are on the streets supposedly enforcing the law…smh…
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I’m still stunned that they actually took the word of a psychic.
I dont think anything should happen to her. I mean the FBI going off what a chick thinks might be some where then talking bout oops my fault I was wrong. I mean didnt we learn from Pastor Doan Trung Tin you cant just follow everything folks tell you.
This ain’t news… Miss Cleo, LaToya Jackson, & Mother Love had colored and red necks running up they phone bill for years… they the reason ppl don’t have landlines anymore… everybody born before 1980 prob found out they had an old bellsouth bill in they name… damn .99 per minute…
Feline Feminine says:
This is completely the fault of law-enforcement down in Texas…why on earth would they release this information to media outlets PRIOR to doing a full investigation of the property? That makes NO sense and it’s downright disappointing that these incompetent fools are on the streets supposedly enforcing the law…smh…
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ALBoy says:
I mean didnt we learn from Pastor Doan Trung Tin you cant just follow everything folks tell you.
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Who dis Pastor? Is he under Eddie Long? (Under his church umbrella, not actually under Eddie)
someone in the press probably got tipped off to this happening. If it was put out there by the police before an investigation was done I agree that is poor PR on their behalf. On the other hand psychics have been beneficial in breaking cases/finding children.
@ Dawn thats the dude that told us the world was ending last month had all these folks doing the same thing jumping to conclusions spending all their money. Now a month Later Cant nobody find him he missing like the sole on the inside of all precious shoes
FeFe
the guy that had just moved from the house said they could have found blood there because his daughter’s bf slit his wrists a couple weeks ago so if they found blood that could have made them suspicious but they shouldnt have alerted the media until they knew for sure
I don’t really fault law enforcement on the fact that they actually acted on the tip. In a case like this you’d rather go out looking and find nothing rather than NOT go out looking and their actually are bodies of children out there.
What I DO fault them on is releasing the info to the public before the actual investigation produced anything.
Nothing will happen to the psychic though. All she did was give a tip. How they reacted to that tip and mis-handled the information is their fault, not hers. IMO
why would somebody make up some chit like that
some people aint got chit to do! 
MORNING SR FAM
Now a month Later Cant nobody find him he missing like the sole on the inside of all precious shoes
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….and uh yeah, I’ve been wondering where Harold Camping has been ‘camping’ out and if anyone had the chance to talk with him…smh…
@ Al
First off, good morning honey bunny!
Second, police act on tips all the time. Some tips are truthful and some tips are b.s. Detectives couldn’t do their jobs without recieving tips, having hunches about certain things and then investigating it. In all honesty police have been known to use psychics to find missing children, murderers etc. so I’m not really tripping on them following the lead from this “psychic”. Suppose you had a child missing and a psychic helped you find your baby. You’d be grateful as he!! then and be glad they trusted him/her.
What I do have a problem with though is the da** media getting a hold to it and going H.A.M reporting that they had actually found bodies when they hadn’t. Also if you remember correctly the police followed a hunch because they said she knew ins and outs of the house and the area AND that when they went to the house they found blood.
I think they did their jobs and shouldn’t be faulted for that. However, we need to take a choke hold to that da** false prophet.
LAKER!
I had this special friend call me yesterday and talk to me in Spanish and I damn near lost it! LOL
@Luscious and Mama
Oh, I absolutely agree that they should have acted on the tip and investigated the situation…they have a civic duty to do so…but releasing this information to the media prior to gathering substantive evidence was just downright irresponsible…
Are they that incompetent they would take the word of a Psychic? Why not go the the ground of the ‘alleged’ burrial site and dug up the ground, see whats there before you called the press? They were all hungry to be on the five o clock news.
@lolita got u all soak dint he??
i had an ex that was puerto rican that fukn accent and that dam tongue laaaawd!! 
and wen they got that deep sexy voice and tell u “ay mami que rica estas dame un provadita” <dam mami ur delicious give me a taste of that!! 
@ Everyone
I keep reading that the police shouldn’t have alerted the media but how do we know they did??? Y’all know the da** media tends to find shyt out some kind of way. It doesn’t neccessarily have to be from the actual source but friends close to the source, the barista in Starbuck’s that overheard some shyt, the trash man…anybody.
ALBoy says:
@ Dawn thats the dude that told us the world was ending last month had all these folks doing the same thing jumping to conclusions spending all their money. Now a month Later Cant nobody find him he missing like the sole on the inside of all precious shoes
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tisk, tisk, that man or fossils name was Harold Camping, I did a wonderful piece on him for the Scientific bologny class…
I do believe he is using all the rapture love offereings to bail out Eddie Long, get a date w/ Lisa Rae, and donate his dust seeds to Evelyn on Basketball wives.
I wanna put my real gravi up… soooo bad.
@ Feline Feminine…
i totally agree with you on that..
Overall I am Happy that it wasnt true.that would have been to tragic for us as a country to fathom,comprehend,understand or digest.
Laker you have no idea!
I just might end my drought before the yr is up!
@ Jazzy: You’re right. My brother is a news reporter and they have these radios/scanners and everytime he hear’s something over the radio he is at the location (sometimes) qicker than the police.
@ Jazzy whats up beautiful?
Are you the Police? I understand your point on this though I hate how the media runs with things with no really evidence. I will admit I didnt read the story and I dont know anything about it But I do watch a lot of Law and Order and the cops usually leak stuff to the media
I live here and Houston and the house they went to always has truck drivers that stay there overnight…
http://www.click2houston.com/news/28161379/detail.html
A neighbor said truck drivers who traveled across the country often stayed in the house on the property with the owner’s 16-year-old daughter and her 19-year-old fiance. Their names were not immediately released.The neighbor said the 16-year-old moved out of the home on Sunday and that the neighbor never saw anything suspicious.
@LOLITA LET THAT DAM PAPI TASTE UR AGUA MAMA
END THAT DAM DROUGHT!! IMAGINE HIM TALKING TO U DIRTY IN SPANISH AND BEATING IT FROM THE BACK AT THE SAME TIME…… 
@ Dawn you right thhat dude said oct 21 is end time
@ YaYa
Thanks babe for helping me with my point. I didn’t even think about the fact that media outlets are typically tuned in to the same frequency as the police but you proved my point exactly. Let us not point fingers at law enforcement but at that heifer.
Just like your azz gets to be prosecuted for yelling bomb on a plane, a movie theater or calling in a fake azz bomb threat, this heifer needs to be found and prosecuted for reporting this malarky.
@ Al
@ Jazzy whats up beautiful?
Are you the Police? I understand your point on this though I hate how the media runs with things with no really evidence. I will admit I didnt read the story and I dont know anything about it But I do watch a lot of Law and Order and the cops usually leak stuff to the media
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Bwahahahaha!
All of my “friends” (male) swear up and down I work for the FBI because I do background checks and run credit reports on ninjas in a minute. However, that’s another story for another time. 
Jazzy how do you get their socials to run credit reports????
@ Luscious Suga Walls
Hahahahaha! OMG I actually just did that recently on a dude. He filled out an application that had his social on it. I saw it and told him I was going to run a credit report on him. He thought I was lying and I ran that shyt.
In all honesty though you don’t need all of that. I hate to tell people how they can break the law via the internet but if you know a lot about a person you can always go to annual credit report dot com and get a free one on them. I did have his social though and his consent. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. LOL
But I’m a bold bish and will tell a ninja I’m about to do a background report on them. Most dudes are so cocky they’ll just give you the info. not thinking you’ll really use it but a bish like me will gladly pay $50 to save my life. You never know what kind of psychopath you’re dealing with
Shut up Al
@ Jazzy
that just proves dudes will do anything for… friendship I know too many hackers and Identity theives to be passing out info like that 
you wont be claiming me on your taxes
Yall should check out my Link
Good morning my SR family!!!
Beautiful pic Lucsious… Is that you my girl?!
Al you should check out my link
SunRise yes it’s me in the flesh
@ Lucious Its Hump Day Music
Yes it is
I think I’ll go back to viewing ur link
I changed it to Next
I’m glad it wasn’t true.
Everything IS bigger in Texas! Especially the dumbazzes!