Chinese Woman Accuses Husband of Cheating After Fortune-Teller Takes Her Money

A $70 online psychic reading nearly destroyed a marriage in China when a wife believed a stranger's predictions over her husband's protests.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news. A
man in Wuhoo, China, walked into a police station this
month with a problem that would have baffled marriage counselors
since time began. His wife had paid five hundred yen
or about seventy bucks to an online fortune teller, and
the mystic informed her that her husband was cheating. A wife,
apparently operating under the ancient consumer principle of I paid

(00:35):
for it, so it must be true, immediately confronted her
spouse with accusations of hotel visits and liaisons with sex workers.
The husband, who had been laboring under the quaint notion
that his actual behavior mattered more than a stranger's paid predictions,
tried explaining that he'd been faithful. This went about as
well as explaining summer vacation to a fish. The fortune

(00:56):
teller had requested payment upfront, which should have been the
first clue. Legitimate spiritual guidance requiring your credit card number
before the spirits will talk raises questions. The ghosts of
the future apparently do not accept IOU's or personal checks.
The wife's logic followed a peculiar path. She had already
paid the fortune teller, Therefore, the fortune teller's assessment must

(01:17):
be accurate. That obviously represents a complete misunderstanding of how
truth works. Officer exaujing Yu from the Guandua Police station
explained that the woman trusted them easily because others had
claimed they were highly accurate. For this woman, Online reviews
for fortune tellers carried the same weight as restaurant ratings,
except instead of getting a bad meal, she got a

(01:38):
destroyed marriage. The husband discovered his wife had been calling
the fortune teller NonStop since early that morning, presumably for
updates on his fictional affair. Imagine those follow up calls. Yes,
he's still cheating. That'll be another five hundred yen. The
digital oracle had found a reliable revenue stream, and the
wife had found somebody who would confirm her suspicions for

(01:59):
the low low price of her marriage's stability. Psychic cutlines
destroying relationships at competitive rates since one nine hundred numbers
were invented. The husband finally marched into the police station,
declaring that life had become unbearable or wife had become unbearable.
Does that rhyme in Chinese anyway? Understandably, the man had
reached his limit with being accused of crimes he didn't

(02:21):
commit based on the testimony of someone who charges by
the prediction. The police, who presumably handle actual crimes most days,
found themselves mediating a dispute between a man, his wife,
and an online fortune teller who probably operates from a
basement somewhere with a dial up Internet connection and a
crystal ball from a garage sale. After police criticized the
wife for her behavior, she finally relented a diplomatic way

(02:44):
of saying she stopped believing the person she paid over
the person she married. The couple went back to their
peaceful life, hopefully, though one does suspect the husband probably
checks their bank statements more carefully now. The fortune teller, meanwhile,
presumably moved on to other clients willing to pay for
predictions that conveniently confirm their worst fears. The wife's payment
bought her exactly what she paid for, a stranger's opinion

(03:07):
that happened to match her suspicions. If you'd like to
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