{"id":444,"date":"2007-11-06T22:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T12:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/11\/06\/worst-psychic-ever\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T22:08:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T12:08:17","slug":"worst-psychic-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/11\/06\/worst-psychic-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst. Psychic. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Background Information<\/h4>\n<p>In the early afternoon of the first Tuesday in November, 1975, the Melbourne Cup horse-race was held. No-one knows who won that race, or who was the trainer. And though many years have passed since the incident, mystery still surrounds the race.<\/p>\n<h4>Preliminary Thoughts<\/h4>\n<p> I didn&#8217;t remember the race because I was so young when it happened. I began this <strong>psychic investigation<\/strong> knowing next to nothing about the winner.<\/p>\n<h4>Psychic Connection<\/h4>\n<p>During Happy Hour, I got into my relaxation mode and successfully connected to the Flemington Race Track. It was if I was watching the race on a televised screen, and yet at the same time, I was there. I couldn&#8217;t smell the horses, as I was there in mind, not nose.<\/p>\n<p>I was met by the spirit of an older, gray-haired man. He said was working for Bart Cummins.<\/p>\n<p>I asked him who had won, and he said &#8220;Think Big!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When questioned further he said only, &#8220;Correct weight!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I snapped out of it. It was midnight and the bar was closing. I was very hungry, which often happens at closing time.<\/p>\n<h4>Research<\/h4>\n<p>It turns out the winner of the 1975 Melbourne Cup was indeed a horse called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Think_Big_%28horse%29\" title=\"Wikipedia definition of Think_Big_%28horse%29\" class=\"wikipedia\">Think Big<\/a>, who was trained by Bart Cummings. (Cummings versus Cummins &#8211; I was close!) <\/p>\n<h4>Conclusion<\/h4>\n<p>My psychic connection was almost spot on&#8230; and yet my psychic senses detect that some people are skeptical of my skills&#8230; they are thinking&#8230; wait, the message is coming through: WORST&#8230; PSYCHIC&#8230; EVER!<\/p>\n<p>No, I am not the worst psychic ever! Here&#8217;s my proof: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underworldtales.com\/edmund.htm\">The Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>(I would warn you about the sound that is auto-played when you click on that link, but you will really miss out if you don&#8217;t experience it at full volume.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My psychic connection was almost spot on&#8230; and yet my psychic senses detect that some people are skeptical of my skills&#8230; they are thinking&#8230; wait, the message is coming through: WORST&#8230; PSYCHIC&#8230; EVER!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,41,27],"tags":[162,163,164,161],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cathartic-rant","category-heroic-failures","category-story-telling","category-thoughts-from-the-shower","tag-ghosts","tag-psychic","tag-racing","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}