Psychic Twins: They’re Just Bad People

by Sara on 10/12/09 filed under paranormal

In my previous article on Linda and Terry Jamison (the “psychic” twins who claim to have predicted the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11) I feel that, while researching whether or not their claim was true, I  failed to confront a few other important issues. Let’s revisit this for a moment:

Issue #1: If the twins knew about 9/11, why didn’t they stop it?

Upon learning that someone is actually claiming to have predicted the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one of the first questions that might spring to mind is why they didn’t manage to stop, or at least lessen, the tragedy. On the Dr. Keith Ablow Show, the twins claim that people “ignored” their prediction, although they aren’t terribly specific about what they actually did to warn anyone. Sure, they briefly mention something about attacks  on the World Trade Center (minus the date or time) on the radio, and they claim, after the fact, that the information on 9/11 was posted on their website. Is that all?  Did they attempt to call the police, the airlines, the people who worked in the twin towers, etc?  On their official website the twins take credit for predicting 9/11, but don’t appear to mention any of the measures they took to actually prevent it from happening.

What would you do if you had prior knowledge of a major tragedy? If I, for one, TRULY BELIEVED that I had known the details of the 9/11 terror attacks before they occurred, I would have made every attempt to alert the authorities. Failing that, I think I would have stood outside the towers on the morning of 9/11, begging people not to go inside.  And if, in the end, I was unable to prevent the tragedy, I would probably spend the rest of my life horribly shaken by that fact.

Issue 2: If they couldn’t stop it, why aren’t they more upset?

Watch the video again. Are the twins really acting like two sincere, compassionate people who’d had special access to information that could have saved thousands?  Granted, at the time they did the Dr. Keith Ablow Show, they’d had about six years to get over 9/11. Still, there are many, many people in this country (maybe a few reading this article) who are still greatly moved by the horrible events of that day. Can you imagine how much worse it would feel if you’d known about the attacks ahead of time and failed to stop them? Would you really behave the way the twins behaved on the Dr. Ablow show in 2007?

Issue 3: How will their claims impact the many, many people who lost loved ones on 9/11?

Now, imagine how you would feel if you lost a spouse, parent, or child in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and you turn on the TV one day to see a pair of psychics light-heartedly claiming that they predicted the tragic events. If you were vulnerable enough to believe their claims, would it not be terribly upsetting to learn that someone COULD have prevented 9/11, and didn’t? If you didn’t believe their claims, wouldn’t it infuriate you to learn that  these women are using the events of 9/11 to sell their psychic business?

Either way, haven’t the people who lost loved ones on 9/11 already suffered enough?

Conclusion: However you slice it, these are bad people.

Either Linda and Terry Jamison are psychic, or they aren’t. Either they predicted the terrorist attacks, or they didn’t. If they did predict the attacks, their current attitudes on the subject are unbelievably callous. If they aren’t, in fact, psychic at all, they are exploiting our greatest national tragedy for their own gain, and potentially upsetting thousands of grieving people in the process.

Is there a word for a person lower than scum?