A fire broke out at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center Friday afternoon where the 2025 Psychic Connections Expo was being held.
An investigation into what caused the fire is underway but sources tell us it may have been a result of some faulty wiring in the main hall of the forty-year old hotel.
With fourteen confirmed dead and countless others hospitalized it was a weekend that at least one psychic should have seen coming.
The sold out crowd of enthusiastic psychics, Mediums and the people who believe in them, (many of which are in retirement age), immediately rushed in the direction they believed the exit was when the call for evacuation was announced.
The 14 confirmed dead were the result of a communication error between the special guest speaker, Abby Winters, and some of her more devoted followers.
You may remember Mrs. Winters who was the basis for the highly successful CBS series “Speaking with Spirits”.
She is also the author of more than 30 “Paranormal Connection” books and has had three Lifetime Network movies made about her abilities.
Over the years Mrs Winters has come under scrutiny for her involvement in high profile police investigations such as the Blue River murders.
In that particular case(the subject itself is the basis for her 2020 book, River of Wrong) she claims that she knows who the real killer is and the police convicted an innocent man. She stands by this claim despite the man convicted, John Fisher, confessing during his 2022 60 minutes interview.
Sadly, Mrs Winters died while leading her supporters to, what she thought, was safety. Instead all she found was a dead-end due to renovations the hotel had been going through.
The mishap led to all of them dying from smoke asphyxiation.
Many people involved are questioning how this could happen in a hotel filled with supposed psychics, leading non believers to say that it supports their theory that there is no such thing as being able to see the future or having a conversation with a long past family member.
Others though are saying the reason none knew of the fire before it started is only because the real psychics, those that would have seen it beforehand, stayed home due to being too psychic.
More as it develops.
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