psychic hotline
Mystic telephone service
A psychic hotline is a telephone service where callers pay to receive readings, predictions, or spiritual advice from people claiming supernatural abilities.
These services proliferated in the 1990s through late-night television ads: Call our psychic hotline now for your free reading.
The term often carries connotations of dubious legitimacy and predatory marketing toward vulnerable people.
- tarotDivination card set
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- mediumMiddle size or state
- spirit guidesNonphysical protective entities
- crystal ballFortune-teller's viewing sphere
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- Occult PracticesOuija board, seance, tarot, tarot cards, crystal ball
- religious fraudfake guru, false prophet, false messiah, charlatan, prosperity gospel
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Certified mental health provider
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Structured process for investigation
empirical research · data analysis · forensic investigation · laboratory testing · logical deduction
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Crisis response number
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