Her spirits were right about President Barack Obama winning a second term. About Maine getting less snow than usual last winter. The Red Sox missing the World Series. The world not tanking on Dec. 21.

So the Sun Journal went back for more.

In late 2011, Maine psychic medium Vicki Monroe offered predictions for 2012 that she said came not from her but from spirit guides. Think someone always there, talking in your ear. Or someones.

“They’re here 24/7. It’s not my input; it’s theirs,” she said.

Monroe, a speaker and author, has given readings all over the world. She’s appeared on numerous TV and radio shows and aided police on cold-case investigations.

In 2013, she said spirits see a fiscal cliff averted, more jobs in Maine, good gas prices and something big for Tom Cruise.

“Top Gun II?”

Nope, even bigger.

State, U.S. affairs

• Congress will reach a compromise to avert the much-discussed fiscal cliff.

Republicans will give more ground than Democrats, she said.

• Congress will deal with gun control.

“Automatic weapons and these high-powered rifles, semi-automatics that belong in war zones will be, I think, removed, and only used in situations where they are absolutely necessary,” Monroe said. “There’s no legitimate reason as far as what they say, that these need to be at homes.”

Also expect more screening for mental illness related to gun-buying background checks, she said.

• In Maine, someone will buy and restart the Hostess Brands’ Biddeford plant and the state will see more environment-related employment, she said.

“Manufacturing jobs should pick up as well,” Monroe said. “They think the state will become, in a year or two to come, a leading resource in jobs that really promote trades, and that’s a really good way to go. Trades never go out of business — plumbers, electricians, welders. All those things, they’re big jobs; they’re just not big here. That’s what they’re saying: Those things should start to come about; we’ll be making things here.”

Weather

• At ease with the snow shovels.

“From what I understand, it is still going to be a milder-than-usual winter, although we will get more of a mixed precipitation,” Monroe said. “The plow people will not like me, but that’s the way it is.”

• People may spend less keeping homes warm. She said spirits see home-heating oil and gas getting cheaper as the economy improves.

• Next summer could bring more rain here, more fires out West.

“As far as New England, there could be a few more earthquake-type tremors that we’ve had. Nothing that’s catastrophic,” she said. “Unusually high tides, that will continue. It should be a mild summer.”

Sports, medicine

• Cheering for the home team? Sorry.

No New England Patriots in the Super Bowl and no Boston Red Sox in the World Series, Monroe said.

• Researchers will make advances linking cancer and stress, she said. They’ll also have news on the drug front.

“There are certain medications and things like that that are going to be brought out this year that were trial drugs that are only targeting the cancer (without broader side effects),” Monroe said.

Hollywood

• In a gossip roundup, the spirits don’t see newly engaged Kelly Clarkson living happily ever after. (“That marriage, kaput.”) They see Justin Bieber making movies. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert may be getting pregnant.

“There was another one they were talking about, that Tom Cruise would leave the church, Scientology,” Monroe said, adding that it has something to do with his daughter and recent divorce.

• Expect an upset at the Academy Awards: Bradley Cooper for best actor over Daniel Day Lewis. Sally Field for best actress. “Lincoln” for best picture and Quentin Tarantino for best director. (Even Monroe was surprised to hear about Cooper. “For what?” she asked aloud. No answer.)

• Finally, will fans be happy with the new Star Wars movies? Maybe. It’s murky, she said.

“Disney does have a great reputation. They could do these new movies a great deal of justice,” Monroe said. “These will be better [than the last three] — that part they’ll say.”

Expect 2013 to be a year of transition, she said. “That is always a good thing when we’re moving in a better direction.”

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  1. I’d like for her to tell me the winning Megabux numbers.
    Since she is so “psychic”.
    Or at least tell me her fone number.
    Kinda cute.

    I do like Redheads.

  2. Why’s she look like she’s cold, you’d think if she was psychic she would of known the weather and dressed appropriately.

    1. LOL! Judging from the photo, if she has any psychic abilities at all I’d say that the photographer is about to do something really horrible to her! Run Vicki , RUN!

  3. Take a few observations anyone might make after living for a few decades, check out a few predictions in various newsletters at this time of year, listen to the punditry – put ’em together and voila! You too, can be a psychic medium and amaze the great unwashed!
    Thank you for your insights, Vicki. May you continue to draw upon your spirits, and in you presentations may you attract large paying audiences from among those who may well have drawn upon the power of spirits of a different kind.

  4. So why hasn’t she gone and collected her million dollars if she is truly psychic?

    http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

    The Foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims. It both supports and conducts original research into such claims.

    At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place. All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the “applicant” becomes a “claimant.”

    To date, no one has passed the preliminary tests.

    1. Anyone can make up a test no one can pass, How about you go for two weeks without using all kinds of meaningless “studies” and their links, that only amount to the opinion of the author, Kevy

      1. If you took the time to read what I posted you would have noticed this line.

        All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant

        She is nothing but a fraud and she knows it.

        1. No I did not read all of your posts, I read the one I responded to. No one has proved that it’s impossible either. I can’t say either way, but I do get this image of you dark hair, glasses, long fingers, hunched over your key board ready with a link to some study,

          1. I knew you’d say that, maybe the physcial description is wrong or changed over the years but I’m right about you and your links to studies, because you’ve been doing that for a long time.
            Some friends of mine were desperate for a child, tried for quite sometime with no luck. A bunch of us debated the psychic thing so we went in small groups to, two different pyschics. We decided to outsmart these people and this couple were to ask how many kids they’d have and not if they were. Both psychics said they’d have 3 kids and were pregant at the time. It was true. Now the 3 kids part could have been because of suggestion but how did they know the wife was pregant? She was only a few weeks pregant.

    1. If the article had been published on the front page of the first or second sections, you’d be right. But it’s in the Living section, a part of any newspaper that examines controversial subject matter and is usually partially opinion. I’d agree that the BDN is not the paper that it was in the 1960s or 70s, but in spite of the hard times that newspapers have suffered in the past 10 years, the BDN is still(my opinion) the best paper in Maine. The Sun Journal is much more ‘enquirerish'(read yellow) and touchy-feely and that paper was the origin of the article.

      1. It doesn’t matter where the article appears — it has no business being in a reputable newspaper. But for the record, the story IS on the front page of the paper’s website and, regardless of where the story came from, the Bangor Daily still chose to run it. The Bangor Daily’s news judgment has been steadily declining in the last year. It’s now at the point where just about anything makes it into print, no matter how short the reporting falls. (Anonymous sources for parking tickets? Puppet reporting from the Bangor Police Department on the censoring of Facebook posts, without any corroborating evidence or alternative viewpoints?)
        Journalism throughout the state has been on the decline for some time. But it’s really bad when frauds such as this “psychic” are given serious thrift. And trust me, the reporter of the story believes this stuff — I worked with her at the Maine Campus more than a decade ago.

        1. please stop reading the BDN! it is what it is, and your banal comments aren’t going to change it. sign up for the NYT and you’ll enjoy a much better paper.

  5. You’d think she could have predicted that Maine winters require gloves and a scarf to avoid shivering when outside.

  6. There is no such thing as being psychic. If psychics were real then every politician on the planet would employ them as envoys, ambassadors, advisors, and bodyguards, but they don’t…. Furthermore, they would be able to pass simple clinical tests, which they never can. They are merely snake oil salesmen for people with very weak minds – same as ghost hunters, and also like the BDN.

        1. For a good year or two of his last term, Ronald Reagan was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and was often doing whatever Nancy and his top advisers told him to do.
          .
          Even in public Nancy was pulling the strings. There were several speeches where he got the “deer in the headlight” look and abruptly stopped speaking only to begin repeating the exact words that Nancy fed him in a stage whisper.
          .
          Nancy Reagan (and her astrologer) had a very frightening level of power during that time.

          1. So says the conspiracy-theory documentary you saw on the history channel. Somehow all of the world leaders who respected him more than any president before or since his rule did not seem to take that into account whilst they bent left & right to respect his authority. I would take a vegetative Ronald Reagan with less self-control than Stephan Hawking looooonngggg before I would ever tolerate a fully-functional Barak Obama making decisions in the White House. Based on the kind of respect Obama gets from various world dignitaries these days… so would they.

          2. No, I worked on both of Reagan’s campaigns and spoke to those who had direct contact with him. Reagan was a great president who was misused and taken advantage of after he became ill.

          3. There is a difference between having a couple Reagan yard signs and being part of his campaign. Wake up.

          4. I worked for the guy who got JFK elected.

            Mel was in W. Va. when JFK was campaigning and his campaign was in bad shape and he was far behind in the polls. The advance guy got fired, and Mel convinced them he could do a better job since his family was well known in W.Va. Dem. politics. Mel took over advancing, and the rest was history as he was able to muster crowds of cheering people for the camera’s in state after state.

            Did you advance or ????

          5. This is fairly common. I had a scholarship from a long standing politician who was a fixture in the House. I think he had over 20 consecutive terms; but in his last one his brain tumor rendered him nearly speechless and bound in a wheelchair. His staff and wife kept the re-election machine working; he was re-elected and died a few weeks afterward. The governor appointed his wife to the rest of his term and the staff kept their jobs for another two years.

            FDR & Eleanor’s influence is another.

        2. “The 1st lady doesn’t have a lot of real power.”

          That would depend on the President and how you define “real power”. Eleanor Roosevelt was a very politically powerful First Lady, for example. For another example, Nancy Reagan was Ronnie’s Karl Rove. So, yeah, First Ladies can have a lot of power.

    1. If you want a laugh go read the FAQ’s on her web site. When she was only 3 years old she found out she had this gift but to learn more you have to purchase her book, of course.

    2. Matt you don’t think politicians contact psychics, look at our country falling apart. I think they talk to psychics all the time. by the looks of the way America is headed

  7. No New England Patriots in the Super Bowl and no Boston Red Sox in the World Series, Monroe said.

    People are not going to like her if she is right…..

      1. That is one problem I have with Psychics, they never seem to know the lottery numbers. I am making a prediction, I will not win the Powerball next week….

          1. Well according to her website, she asks for money to be compensated for her services, so I guess scamers call it a service, get paid, then get away with it. So maybe by thinking it is a service rather then a scam, it helps her (and others like this) sleep better at night.

  8. I cannot stop laughing at this from her FAQ’s… Oh man, this is pure comedy gold.

    http://vickimonroe.com/faqs/

    Can mediumship be taught?

    I know there are a lot of so-called psychics that say they are giving classes to teach people to become more psychic, and I for one can tell you, with the utmost certainty, that is not true! Do not waste your money on these scams – and that is all they are.

    Hey Vicki, you are nothing but a scam as well.

    1. Now Kevin..

      You don’t believe in Psychic investigation

      You don’t believe in God

      but you believe Obama psychic dollars will reduce the deficit !

      1. I don’t believe in frauds, that is correct and I don’t believe in god’s of any sort.

        BTW, nice attempt at making this into a political post as so many of you do but you can argue with yourself about that one.

    1. Right where they found him, but Bush disbanded the group charged with finding him and said he was not a priority, so getting him had to wait until Bush left office.

  9. How come I never see a headline that says,”Psychic wins lottery”?

    I recommend the BDN staff read the book,”How to think about weird things” by Theodore Schick.

    (By the way,I love the prediction about the snow,as I head out to shovel a two foot drift from my front door.

  10. I know it is still early winter, but I think she may have misinterpreted the messages she has received from her spirit world, pertaining to the weather anyway. I’ve got around 2 ft. of snow on the ground here on the mid-coast, and the temps are not what I would refer to as being “mild”.

  11. “Finally, will fans be happy with the new Star Wars movies? Maybe. It’s murky, she said.”
    Someone tell this crackpot that no “Star Wars” movie is coming out in 2013, unless Disney decides to hire some teenagers to make an unintentional backyard spoof.

  12. She may not be on the up and up, but an attractive woman from my standpoint. Just thought i’d throw that in, seemed worth the comment :P lol

  13. At the end of 2011 the Republcian primary field had already made it painfully obvious that no Republcian with brains and/or real leadership skill was willing to run because they all already understood that they were not likely to beat Obama.
    .
    With nothing but pathetic second stringers and repeat losers to choose from, it was obvious to any non deluded sentient being that Obama was very likely to win a second term.
    .
    Global warming trends have made it obvious that winters in Maine will continue to have a higher and higher % rain and therefore proportionally less snow. A belief in well established science is all that is required for that prediction – not special psychic powers.
    .
    After the 2011 season predicting that The Red Sox would miss the World Series was not exactly going out on a limb.

    As for Dec. 21, 2012 not being the end of the world … did any sane person believe otherwise?

      1. Al Gore is not a scientist so I do not form opinions based on his input. However, over 90% of legitimate climate scientists agree that global warming is real, very serious and caused by activities of mankind.

  14. Is this a joke? With all that’s going on this is a story? On a Sunday? We have indiscrepincies at sandy hook ( second shooter, etc) obama murdering people with drones, and were supporting al quaeda again!

    Pathetic

    1. “she is cold, and scared and I see…water…” More than 300 of these fake tips called in to law enforcement. Three cheers for Stephen McCausland to say ‘No more tips from narcissistic people who claim psychic powers’: it is nonsense from those who have an acute desire to be ‘known’ as ‘different’ and ‘special’ from everyone else. It is the “me-first” mentality on steroids.

  15. “People may spend less keeping homes warm. She said spirits see home-heating oil and gas getting cheaper as the economy improves.”

    Now that is a real bold prediction as oil prices have NEVER (That is right never) decreased as an economy improves. Oil prices fall when economies falter.

    Oh yeah, and while you are at it, tell us where Ayla Reynolds can be located.

  16. I’ve seen a lot of BS in my life, but this one takes the cake. This is practically her opinion, don’t believe any of this garbage

  17. Let see, if she says enough things in front of different people then yes some of them will come true, especially when there are only two options. She is such a scammer that anyone who knows anything about Star Wars knows that the next movie will not be released until 2015. I see this woman as being from away!!!!

  18. CAN THE USA SURVIVE GIVEN THE FOLLOWING?

    The folks who are getting free stuff, don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

    The folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop, and the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

    Now… The people who are forcing the people to pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

    So… The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff, and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

    We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.

    Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financialsuicidesomewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

    Thomas Jefferson said it best: “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

    The United States officially became a Democracy in 1776, 235 years ago.

    The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff.

    A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!

    I’M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!!

    Obama: Gone!
    Borders: Closed!
    Language: English only
    Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!
    Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!
    NO freebies to: Non-Citizens!

    We the people are coming!

    ———————————–

    “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”. — Margaret Thatcher

    1. The United States is a Republic genius not a Democracy (look up the difference.) The reality is that this country will never speak just English (Ex: a lot of northern Mainer’s speaks French-duh) and by 2045 white people will be the minority in this country- you better get ready for THAT. The Constitution/Bill of Rights are not ‘Culture’ they are a body of fundamental principles/laws and established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. Culture is defined as ‘the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.’ Worried about drugs? Great then after you test people you better have something set up to help them get treatment and off drugs or the problem will never get better or go away. Worried about welfare? I suggest you start with all the multi-billion dollar corporations that pay little to no taxes yet get huge IRS refunds every year….that’s corporate welfare plain and simple. ‘We the people’ are far too busy pointing fingers at one another for our differences and being hateful toward one another and thus will never get their collective sh*t together to do anything. ‘We the people’ aren’t coming or going to do anything except maintain the status quo.

      1. My family was Dutch. Got here WAY before the Brits (look it up) The Spanish and the French also occupied parts of what are now the USA before the English arrived. The English speakers dragged the Chinese and the Africans here in chains, then they made it illegal for them to learn how to read and write English.

        Now you want a purely English Country? Sorry ’bout that pal. Thank your ancestors for the diversity.

        1. Did you even read mt response to DB????My point was to the pinhead who I responded to (DB) who thinks this country should all be white and English…..this country is made of of people from everywhere no one other than the Native Americans are native to this country. The fact is this country white people will be in the minority by 2045 and I look forward to it- I doubt DB will however. Let’s just hope the new majority (i.e. minorities) treat the new minority (i.e. white people) better than they were treated.

  19. Lets see here. BDN won’t write about Jesus, but will write about a person with so called spirit telling the future. Demon’s probably more likely, but how can there be spirits / demons without a living God? Can’t wait for Kevin of Bangor to reply.

    1. They won’t write about the little voice in my head either! You know the one that say “Stay in bed” when the alarm goes off every morning, or when my stomach growls I hear “What should I eat? I am hungry” The funny thing is, that voice is pretty darn accurate…but no interview….no story.

    2. A search of just the BDN website for instances of the word “Jesus” yields 3,770 results and took less than 1 second to perform.
      .
      Oops – You appear to be violating that commandment about lying.
      .
      Type the following (the entire line) into the Google search bar to see for yourself:

      Jesus site:http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com

  20. In August the Machias Valley News Observer carried an article, with the Bill Lipton byline, in which he correctly predicted the Obama win, and correctly gave the vote
    percentages … calling the percentage for Obama almost exactly. Did she
    do that?

    When the last pope died, did she publish the name the current pope would take… and have it in print on the newsstands SIX DAYS BEFORE the papal election? (indicating it might have been written at the time the previous pope died – to be published at that time. Though, in fact, it was written thirty years earlier, in the writer’s book on ancient prophecies likely to come to pass.)

    What in this article Isn’t a logical conclusion based on well known information?

    Maybe she also has a current Book out in which she predicts, or reports the likely prediction of the destruction of Rome within the next few decades… and certainly prior to 2064?

    She is pretty, by not much of a psychic.

  21. Can Vicki tell us where Baby Ayla is? Psychics have the same rate of success of finding missing persons that the average person does winning the Megabucks lottery, yet they prey upon vulnerable parents of missing children, and force law enforcement to waste valuable resources chasing down “sightings”; vague and related to the geographical area. Statement Analysis of psychic “sightings” or “intuitions” show that the language they use does not come from experiential memory; that is: they are deceptive. It is not surprising that BDN would host an article on one.

  22. Might as well listen to her predictions, she came out better than Fox News. Her “spirit guides” are a whole lot better that Fox’s “reporters and pollsters.”

  23. lets see this psychic seems to be really high on predictions as on pot or marjane. Her predictions on things we arleady known before 2012 had happened. Heres my predictions for all of you. I predict that you all read this message

  24. If I were psychic I would just pick out some winning numbers for a few lotteries and quickly retire.
    What a bunch of bull cookies.

  25. You know, there are millions upon millions of people who experience “psychic” phenomenon every day. They know immediately if one of their children is hurt or sick. They know when someone close to them dies before they are told. They sense some impending trouble so do not board the plane, train, bus or car that will crash. This happens all the time and no one picks it apart. No one calls these people charlatans or frauds.

    I have known several people over the years who are for lack of a better term, practicing psychics. Some of them are very good and really do know things that they should not be able to know. They are able to help people make better decisions regarding life choices. They do this by applying the wisdom they have earned in their own life as well as sometimes listening to that “something” not defined. They may or may not charge for what they do. More often that not, if they do charge, it is only for their time and travel. The people who believe they follow a true calling feel they are here to serve, not get rich.

    I have also known many who simply practice a kind of parlor trick and charge an arm and a leg for their “expertise”. A good example is the woman on the new TV show “The Haunting of…”. Yes, they do get some things correct; even a broken clock is right twice a day. What they do is a disservice to those who are looking for help.

    I do not know the young woman featured in this story so I cannot say which kind of practitioner she is. But I can make a pretty good guess. No psychic ability required.

  26. So then she knows who did the stabbing on Elm ST.? And why doesn’t she let us know if the sub in Old Town is really a perv or just someone that practiced some bad judgement and was drug through the mud by this poor excuse of a newspaper, which I hope is sued if the latter is the case.

  27. The sad thing is that people are gullible enough to believe her. Let me give this psychic thing a try: “Taxes will go up on most Americans as Obamacare is found to be more expensive than originally stated, drug crime in Maine will stay level or increase slightly, and liberals will continue to cry over LePage being governor”.

  28. What baffles me is how these people claim to have a gift they must share with the world—–for a fee. Some gift.

  29. I predict she is a fraud. I never understood why if people could see the future they never win the lottery?

  30. What a joke. The spirits told her about gas and oil prices. And the spirits have an opinion on gun control. Suffering succotash, Martha. The beans are burning. She reads the BDN and the Farmer’s Almanac, and follows CNN. She is either a fraud or certifiable. The only spirits she hears are the ones inside a bottle of Allens Coffee Brandy.

  31. My prediction is that BDN will continue to consider reports from psychics to be News, and will not realize that they are lowering themselves by pandering to superstitious nonsense.

  32. I’ll take this seriously as soon as I see the headline
    “Maine psychic Vicki Monroe Wins Lottery for the 4th Week in a Row.”

  33. I can’t believe how OFF track you people get in comments. From she looks scared to grammar and spelling? More people cannot spell nor do they use proper grammar than actually can or do. It’s pathetic but you sort of lost sight of the subject?

  34. What a bunch of poopy. My spirits were also right about Obama. So What. It was a 50/50 deal. Almost any of us could do what she does. All we need is a bunch of fools to follow along. The BDN should be ashamed to print such garbage. Psychic, smychic. Give me a break.

  35. Well she blew the “at ease with the shovels”. Her other two areas mean squat. Shouldn’t she be sensing the cure to cancer or something? But In My Very Humble Opinion, she looks like a Zumba Instructor. As in the Media courting type.

  36. if she is so “psychic” ..then why is she wasting her gift giving us this crap?!?!…..what we REALY want to know is whereabouts of Ayla Reynolds…. ..amazing how she can see lots of rain in our future ….but can’t help authorities with a missing innocent girl….

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