Just in case you ever wanted to know what’s looming ahead in your future I have just the solution for you. A trip to Cassadega, Florida. just east of Orlando. Cassadega is a four-block town with no barber shops, no grocery stores, no Wal-Marts; just fotune tellers. Half the residents of the commumity where Mayberry meets the Twilight Zone are pshycics. I guess the other half are their spouses. Credit cards are welcome.

The town is situated on the largest geomagnetic vortex in the southeast and that ambient energy is said to attract ghosts. I wouldn’t know about that but the only hotel in town, a mission style stucture, claims to be haunted. I’m told an Irish tenor stayed there (and went to his reward) and the smell of his cigar and gin remain. Despite the best efforts of housekeeping, the odors remain. (It’s room 22). Built in the late 1800s, it burned to the ground but was rebuilt in the ’20s.

Cassadeaga was settled as a retreat for spiritualitists who wanted to understand the teachings of pshycic abilities. Perhaps to extract the green stuff from tourist’s wallets. Their predictions,according to a CBS, TV report, were not exactly on target.

One suggested a female would enter the white house in 2008. Another predicted Republicans would hold on to that prestigious building. I don’t need a gypsy woman to tell me I’m going to die of a terrible lung disorder because I’ve smoked for sixty years. My doctor told me that and he’s not even pshyscic.

St. Petersburg ghostbusters went to Cassadega to see what was what and one had a paranormal experience, she said. A hand touched her shoulder, then embraced her. The crew used used instruments and determined that one shoulder was 10 degrees colder than the other. She said she saw her father.

I don’t suffer from plasmaphobia (the fear of ghosts) but on the other hand, when I go to Cassadega, I just drive on through. I mean there’s only one stop sign.

Oh, there was this really short forture teller who broke out of jail. He was a small medium at large.