The High Weirdness Project is compiling a catalog of so-called "psychic" predictions for the year 2008, based on media reports and Web-based announcements. The purpose of this project is to find out how many of these predictions really do come true – and how many of them turn out to be nothing but hot air.
We are looking for official documented "predictions" from psychics, clairvoyants, mediums (media?), soothsayers, spiritual advisers, fortune tellers, and anyone in the business of predicting the future based on their own supposed psychic and supernatural abilities. Officially declared and published predictions include announcements on Web sites and blogs, press releases, newspaper and TV articles, tabloid publications (in the United States, Great Britain, and other countries), and other readily accessible media. Subscription-based and pay-only sites will not be included: predictions must be made available to the general public for free. (We also refuse to pay money to subscribe to a site or service in order to receive psychic predictions.)
Links and references to published psychic predictions will be included in our Bulldada Newsblog, which is updated daily. All readers of, and participants in, the High Weirdness Project are encouraged to use our Submit A News Link and Submit a Web Site forms to inform us of any media reports of psychic predictions for 2007, to be added to this ongoing project.
We do not offer a prize of any sort for any psychic predictions that may come true in 2008. Our goal is simply to catalog and record psychic predictions for the year 2008, in an attempt to see if any of these predictions turn out to be accurate. This is being done as a public service – and also, to provide readers of this site with some entertaining fodder for conversation, mockery, and laughs.
All of the links here are being archived with .PDF screenshots, to show exactly what each Web page originally looked like on the day we looked at it. These .PDFs are not being made available online at this time, so that we can avoid any claims of copyright violation.
- See also: Psychic Predictions for 2007. Beginning on January 1, 2008, we will be re-listing the predictions made for the year 2007, to see how many were correct. The predictions from 2007 will be listed, and discussed, at our LiveJournal Community: The High Weirdness Project. Until then, we can still wait for the predicted plague of poisioned potatoes to strike the United States…
Press release: Yearly Psychic Predictions Tested By Online Wiki Community
November 25, 2007:
- Brazilian psychic predicts earthquake in Indonesia on December 23, 2007: [1] (Okay, this is actually a 2007 prediction, but still…)
December 15
- Here's a message board that encourages people to post their own psychic predictions: [2]
- A psychic actually sent me a link to her site as part of our "Psychic Predictions" project! [3] "I have two pages on my website you would be interested in for your predictions project. Psychic Predictions for 2006 and Psychic Predictions for 2007; they both have predictions for 2007 and 2008. In January, I'll put up the January 2008 newsletter with the new predictions."
December 17
- God calls up the Coast to Coast radio show: [4] (Well, okay, he used a proxy speaker…)
December 18
- Barbara Garcia predicts a Democratic Presidential victory and a lot of natural disasters: [5]
December 19
- Astrologer Michelle Avanti predicts "some natural disaster" in the first quarter of 2008: [6]
December 21
- Psychic Insights predicts bird flu will spread more easily to humans: [7]
December 28
- The Psychic Detective claims to have predicted the assassination of Benazir Bhutto: [8]
- Psychic Nikki, Psychic to the Stars, says Miami will be wiped out in a hurricane and terrorists will attack the 2008 Beijing Olympics: [9]
December 29
- A UK psychic Web site has a discussion forum for 2008 predictions [10]
December 30
- Psychic foretells what 2008 holds for Southeast Texas: [11]
December 31
- Astrologer in Australia predicts everything will be happy and good in 2008: [12]
- Clairvoyant psychic Su Walker says gas prices will rise, home forclosures will increase, and a major tornado in Kansas: [13]
January 1, 2008
- Toronto Star astrologer uses a lot of gobbledygook to say 2008 will be a year of miracles: [14] and [15]
- And our friend Sylvia Browne makes her amazingly accurate predictions for 2008: [16]
- John Walkenbach (who?) says Dick Cheney will retire due to health reasons, a major quake in California, and "a serious explosion at a nuclear power plant in Europe:" [17]
- The New York Post's resident psychic, "Wendy," makes some celebrity predictions: [18]
January 2
- Art Bell has compiled his annual list of prophecies for the coming year: [19] and [20]
- Peter Serraino, "The Street Psychic," predicts a tsunami striking the United States in April of 2008: [21]
- Nevada psychic Dayle Schear says Barack Obama will be President, and a major earthquake will strike California: [22]
January 3
- Two Florida psychics team up to offer their predictions: [23]
January 4
- Our friend Pat Robertson predicts China will become the largest Christian nation on the face of the earth: [24]
- UK psychic "Levi" warns of an impending assassination attempt on a high ranking US government official: [25]
January 5
- Elissa Heyman, who was kind enough to actually send her Web link here to the High Weirdness Project, makes her predictions for 2008: [26]
- "Spiritman" Joseph Tittel says he's psychic, yet this is his first time making a list of yearly psychic predictions – and he starts out by predicting the "Largest Earthquake in history:" [27]
- This blog found a bunch of predictions we've missed (so far): [28]
- Brandi Jasmine makes her own psychic "forecast" for 2008: [29] (But she warns us that her forecasts don't have pinpoint accuracy…she doesn't "predict," she only "forecasts:" [30])
- UFO cult predicts the world will end on July 5th, 2008: [31]
January 6
- Pernel Dove makes some really tame, wimpy predictions including "A tornado will hit a downtown area" and "a terrorist/hostage situation on board an aircraft:" [32]
- Part 2 of UK psychic "Levi's" amazing predictions for 2008: [33]
January 8
- A pair of psychic twins (no, not "the" Psychic Twins) make their forecast for 2008: [34]
- California psychics make some boring celebrity predictions: [35]
January 9
- Psychic Jane Doherty is so worried about the upcoming year, she won't have her predictions ready until at least February: [36]
- And Pernel Dove is already saying some of her lame-o predictions have come true: [37] ("Several violent storms will hit the US over the winter" – wow, I never would have predicted that!)
- Could it be that some psychics may not be correct with their celebrity predictions? [38]
- And another look at our friend Sylvia Browne: [39]
January 10
- Da Juana Byrd, professional psychic/medium, makes some vague predictions and admits her psychic hearing is kind of fuzzy (and she speaks with the ghost of Saint Anna Nicole Smith, too): [40]
January 11
- New South Wales "Psychic of the Year," Simon Turnbull, looks into his crystal ball for 2008: [41]
- Astrologer Michelle Avanti updates her predictions for 2008 (see the entry for December 19, 2007): [42]
January 16
- Elizabeth Baron's 2008 annual psychic predictions, on video rather than in writing: [43]
- "Psychic Hope"'s predictions for Australia in 2008: [44]
January 20
- This guy won the Australian Psychic Association's coveted "Psychic of the Year" award for making a bunch of celebrity predictions: [45]
February 12
- Elizabeth Joyce predicts "the largest earthquake ever recorded," killer tornadoes, hurricanes…and the Giants winning the Super Bowl: [46]