Have you ever wondered if your house is haunted? You can hire
self-described psychics who claim they can channel the dead and remove
bad spirits from your home — but their services don't come cheap.
The Rossen Reports team set up appointments with several psychics,
then rented a brand-new home in a New Jersey suburb where no one has
ever lived, and rigged it with a dozen hidden cameras.
A psychic
known as Mama Donna said the house was filled with positive energy.
Asked if she felt anything bad, she said, "No, I don't. I would really
tell you." She charged for a quick visit and went on her way.
But a
duo named Susan and Rev. Joseph said there was negative energy in the
house. "It's negative in the sense that it could cause setbacks, it can
cause financial setbacks," Susan said. To purge it, they burned incense
and chanted all over the house, and claimed to have trapped the negative
energy in a bottle.
Despite their supposed abilities, the
psychics were not aware that Jeff Rossen had been monitoring their
activities from a control room upstairs in the home. When he revealed
himself to them, he asked: "How is it possible that you were able to
find all of this negative energy? This is a brand-new house, no one's
lived in it before."
"It's not a haunted house, but spirits roam in empty places, they roam in hallways," Susan said.
"Isn't this just hocus pocus to take advantage of homeowners?" Rossen asked.
"No,
no, no," Rev. Joseph protested. As the pair spoke to Rossen, one of
their associates tried to block the camera and scooped up the cash the
Rossen team had brought to pay them.
When another team of psychics
arrived, they announced: "There's a presence of two or three entities
here ... They won't let you feel comfortable here, you'll just be stuck.
[You] won't be able to find a job. You'll want to move."
After
the Rossen team agreed to let them help, they spat holy water, puffed
cigar smoke, banged on the walls and rolled a coconut around. "Most
likely there was domestic violence here," a psychic named Medina
declared. "Repeat to yourself, 'the house is clear, the house is pure.'"
Their fee was $1,021.
When Jeff Rossen identified himself, Medina said, "This is hilarious, I can't believe this."
"Well, it's not really that funny," Rossen said. "You're charging people $1,000 to do this. That's not funny."
"Are you saying that I did anything illegal?" Medina asked.
"I'm
asking how you can say there was domestic violence and bad spirits in
this house when no one's ever lived here," Rossen said.
"It could
have been from another time," Medina said. She and her associates also
predicted that Rossen would be "out of this type of job" within three
months, and said his late grandmother wanted to speak to him. They
insisted their readings were accurate and said they stood behind them.
Another
psychic, named Sandra, announced, "There's more than one spirit in this
house." She said the job would require a double session costing a total
of $1,475. After burning sage and ringing bells, she said the bad
spirits were gone.
When Rossen identified himself to her, Sandra didn't want to talk, and drove away.
All
the psychics contacted told the Rossen team their work was sincere and
meant to help homeowners. Many people around the world are believers in
psychic phenomena, often getting their homes blessed when they move in.
In fact, according to a 2013 HuffPost/YouGov survey, 45 percent of Americans believe in ghosts.
But
whether you’re a believer or not, as with any in-home service, you
should always do your homework and be wary of anyone who tries to upsell
you before completing the job.
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