The Phone Book Psychic

[CptColumbo]

I read the application a couple of times, and from what I understand she proposes to look people up in the phone book with the help of a dowsing device.

Hell, I can do that! And my dowsing device is my finger. It's like saying "I can tell you about any subject in the world, as long as I have an encyclopedia."

Hey...That's got me thinking. I know a notary....I'll be right back!

[nathan]

'A to Z' are a set of urban street maps, not phone books. There's an AtoZ for most major cities in the UK. They have a street index, so you can determine how to get to a random street in an unfamiliar city, given the street name.

I'm guessing any cases she fails to find people will be 'due to national secutrity reasons' :)

[Orangutan]

One confusing part of the claim is that there isn't an A-Z for "England" but the big cities each have thier own A-Z.

They are produced by this company:

http://www.a-zmaps.co.uk/

O.

[DevilsAdvocate]

Sounds like normal skip tracing from a collection agency. She may be good at skip tracing, but that isn't paranormal.

[DevilsAdvocate]

Well, protocol seems easy. You find some one that lives in A-Z (whatever that means).

You put her in a room by herself and nothing but a chair. You say, "John Smith" (or whomever).

She tells you:

1- The name or address of the block of flats, if there is one
2- the flat or house number/letter, if there is one
3- the road name
4- the town or city

I'd be impressed if you took a psychic into a room, gave her my name, and she told you what city I lived in. And she says she can give the road house number, and apartment number.

The only way that it would be possible is if you memorizred the entire phone book. That would be a neat trick.

Anyway, it's silly. Protocol is easy. Applicant goes into a room with nothing but a chair, table, maps, and some crystals. Testers go out in the area range and find someone that wouldn't mind being found. Tester relays name back to other tester. Tester gives only name to applicant. If applicant gets all four correct, then applicant passes preliminary. Simple.

[CptColumbo]

But what if she's one of those freaks who memorized the phone book?

[nathan]

Originally posted by CptColumbo
But what if she's one of those freaks who memorized the phone book?

Her challenge appears to claim she can find 'lost' people, they wouldn't be in the phone book would they? One thing that's unclear from her claim is, if she was searching for me, but at the time I was visiting my friend's house, would she pinpoint me to my regular domicile, or where I was located at the time of the test?

[DevilsAdvocate]

Originally posted by CptColumbo
But what if she's one of those freaks who memorized the phone book? Like I said, neat trick. I think that should pass a preliminary. The final would have to be someone out of the phone book. I'd like to see her try to pass the prelim.

[Stitch]

Originally posted by Orangutan
One confusing part of the claim is that there isn't an A-Z for "England" but the big cities each have thier own A-Z.

They are produced by this company:

http://www.a-zmaps.co.uk/

O.

Actually they do do a full UK atlas, just not in anything like the detail of the city / town maps.

[Odin]

The normal city maps don't go into that much detail regarding actual houses, just street names and a coloured area signifying buildings. There are special city and town maps for important cities that might have that detail.