By: Laura Meyers

Don’t fall for the trickery within the crystal ball. Here are some examples of fraudulent psychics that got busted for telling faulty fortunes.

1. Haunted Chocolate Factory Set Up

A British television show tested the abilities of three psychics, inviting them to an abandoned chocolate factory to try to summon the spirit of its long-deceased owner.

In preparation for the show, the producers had planted fake information about George Bull on the chocolate factory’s website and hung a fake photograph of him in the foyer. Even though they were told nothing about the story beforehand, the mediums still managed to channel a guy named George who got trampled by horses- in other words, they revealed that they possessed the amazing power to do a basic Google search.

Cracked.com reports:

The host, who could not resist making the psychics look stupider than they already did, suggests to one of the mediums that it might help if she went into a trance. She replies that she could “probably go into a semi-trance, but not a full trance.” Presumably a full trance could kill her with the sheer volume of bullshit. Turning off the lights, she closes her eyes and summons the ghost of, we reiterate, a man who never existed, and slurs “the horses, they ran me over.”

Of the three psychics participating, only one of them had not clearly researched George Bull beforehand and relied on trying to draw information from the environment to construct his story. After seeing the portrait of George in the foyer, he suddenly channeled the name “George Bull.” When it was pointed out that the portrait had a name plaque, he said he couldn’t see it without his glasses.

Ultimately, the host pointed out to all three psychics that the whole thing was made up and pressed them for an explanation. The trance lady bafflingly claimed she’d known it was bullshit all along, while the second theorized that he’d been drawing his information from the host’s mind. The third, the guy who forgot his glasses, decided to argue with the guy who made up the story about the truthfulness of the story. Because when you’ve dug yourself into a hole that deep, the only option is to keep digging in the hope that you can escape to China.

2. Fresh Prince of Bel Air Fail

A British psychic named Wayne would host his own infomercials where people would call in looking for psychic advice, which he would respond to with vague, ambiguous answers.

In 2012, a man with an Irish accent called him with a tale about his childhood that was verbatim the back story of Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

The caller, identifying himself as “Will,” told Wayne the tale about growing up in West Philadelphia and hanging around the playground with his friends, like DJ Jazzy Jeff. But then, one day, “a couple of guys, they were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight, my Mom got scared …”

Eventually, he got to his real question, which was if he would ever meet up with his old crew from Philadelphia again. Missing the ruse entirely, Wayne shuffles his tarot cards and advises “Will” that he should try getting in touch with them through social media.

Thanks Wayne. That’s why we pay the big bucks.

It wasn’t until “Will” pulled out all the stops and finally said “I’m Will Smith” did the psychic understand the ruse. Good read on that one, Wayne.

3. Helicopter Hunt

Another reality show in Australia, formatted like America’s “American Idol,” prompted 10 psychics to find a waiting helicopter in a forest.

They were given a map and a personal item from the pilot of the helicopter to help them “sense” their way to the site.

Only four out of ten of the superhumans found the helicopter, which was uniquely positioned straight across the property of where they started in the only spot on the map without trees. Brilliant, you guys. Brilliant.

With two of the psychics, the helicopter was at one point visible, but they missed it because their “angels” were “pulling” them to the right. Angels are funny like that sometimes.

4. Talk show failure, uncut

Typically when filming a psychic who you want to make look good, you’ll edit out the stuff they get wrong so that it looks like they’re only getting “hits.” If you forget to do that, you’ll end up with something that looks like this.

Did the mother have arthritis? No. Back problem? No. Trouble with legs? Nope.

Failure? For sure.

5. Busted on Montel Show

Yeah, it’s probably about that time for you to leave, lady. That’s just wrong.