Char Margolis

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Char Margolis is an American spiritualist who claims to be able to contact or "channel" the souls of the deceased. Her books include Questions from Earth, Answers from Heaven and Life: A Spiritual Intuitive’s Collection of Inspirational Thoughts. She is a frequent guest on Larry King Live.

In a 1999 interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Margolis claimed that no special talent is required to be psychic. She declines to set up pay telephone lines like other psychics, but sells personal telephone psychic readings on her website, for which there is a waiting list. She says she became aware of her perceived abilities at the age of 8, when a figure appeared in her room one night and sprinkled her with twinkling lights. On the November 1, 2000 edition of Live with Regis, Margolis declared on the show that guest co-host Kelly Ripa was pregnant. Ripa was pregnant but purportedly a spokesperson for ABC stated that only a small circle of people, and not Margolis or the public, knew. This does not rule out that Margolis was part of that circle of people that knew, or was not told by people who knew.

In March of 2006 Char produced a show on Sci Fi Channel called Psychic at Large, a show very similar to John Edward's recently canceled psychic reading TV show, Crossing Over with John Edward. In Psychic at Large, she drives around giving readings to people (whom she claims she has never met before). Margolis is the Executive Producer of the show and controls all editing of the show, including any interviews that may occur off camera. The show was canceled that same year.

In The Netherlands Char has her own TV Show, Char het Medium, on RTL 4. The show was hosted until the 2006/2007 television season by Chazia Mourali. Since the 2007/2008 season it was hosted by Sylvana Simons. In the show, Char does readings in the studio and on locations.

She was debunked as a fraud in March 2008 by the Dutch television show Zembla.[1]. This programme alleges that she uses a guessing technique called cold reading instead of actually communicating with spirits. Moreover, her claim that she located the missing pilot Dean Paul Martin is shown to be false. The search team that located the plane was contacted by the programme and denied ever having heard of Char Margolis or having received her help in locating the pilot.

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