| His hand rubbed his shirt when he told another caller that his son liked silk or satin
- Graham was right - and his right arm poked straight into the air when he told a woman
that her son's girlfriend wasn't good for him. Graham offers clairvoyant information to
callers worried about their love lives, finances or health. The advice seekers couldn't
watch that expressive right hand because they were listening to West Chester's WCHE-AM,
where the 43-year-old psychic conducts his 55-minute "Psychic Hotline" at 2:05
p.m. every Thursday.
Although the show has a legal disclaimer and is intended solely for entertainment,
Graham gives advice that has often eerily hit the mark.
"I've had too many callers calling back saying there wasn't a snowball's chance in
hell that a certain thing Graham predicted could happen - and then it did," said the
show's host, Mark Alexander.
The psychic circles will broaden on March 1 when Alexander, Graham and astrologer AdZe
MiXe begin a cable-television show on Channel 22 in Wilmington.
Alexander said he started out as a skeptic but was soon converted. Although Graham
makes no claim of infallibility - and some of his guesses about callers on a recent show
were wrong - "he has just been right about too many things," Alexander said.
One caller said he was having a bad year financially and wondered whether Graham could
give him advice.
"Write a new resume," Graham advised. "Your resume isn't going to get
you the job you want. . . . Don't make a career move before the 23d. Don't sign the
papers, make a commitment or actually start a job."
Another caller told Graham it was her birthday, and she wanted to know what the next
year would be like for her.
"You're going to have a year like you're not going to forget," Graham said.
"You're going to travel to England within the next 14 months. Don't go to
Stonehenge."
Graham doesn't look otherworldly. He has blue eyes, rosy cheeks, a whitish fringe of
hair and a beard to match. For 18 years, he was a welder until the voices that appeared in
his head too often foretold the future.
He said he began to realize his psychic abilities 23 years ago when he moved out of his
mother's house and stopped watching television. Suddenly, he said, he began to pick up
what people were thinking or where his friends were.
"Usually, I see things inside my head," he said.
There was a long transition period, from 1969 to 1974, before Graham decided that he
would quit welding and become a professional psychic.
In 1979, he started performing astrology and palmistry, and reading tarot cards at
several Delaware County restaurants. Now he works private parties with a minimum of five
people, charging $30 each; does phone readings for $65, or sees private customers in his
Parkside, Delaware County, office for about $60 an hour.
He requires a minimum of three months between visits but prefers six.
"I'm not there to run their lives and make their decisions," Graham said. ''I
don't want to encourage dependencies."
Graham doesn't represent himself as a doctor, lawyer or counselor and says that often
he doesn't sell solutions as much as he sells information.
And he doesn't take himself too seriously. One time, he recalled, he asked a girl who
in her family wore a gas mask. She replied that her little brother ran around the house
wearing one.
"This is useless information," Graham said, "other than to certify that
I can do something."
Graham concedes that pulling names out of the air has been one of his more impressive
stunts. He has named people's boyfriends, children, friends. Sometimes he has done when a
client has visited him in person. With the same consistency, he has done it for radio
callers.
He told one startled woman, who wanted a peek into her future romantic life, that one
of her two boyfriends was named "Wayne" or "Wade." When she replied
that her friend's name was, indeed, Wayne, Graham told her, "Wayne is like fine wine,
and you have to wait for him to mature. By the time he's 50, it's possible he'll be a
wealthy man. Pulling that man in is like crabbing with a hand line - you must do it
slowly."
Radio host Alexander is still incredulous when Graham's predictions turn out to be
right.
"He told me I'd very soon have trouble starting a car," Alexander said. ''Not
only did I have trouble starting one car, but starting two, all within the span of a week.
He told a woman to watch her left rear tire. She came out Monday morning and her left rear
tire was flat.
"Robert can make a believer in just about anyone. The biggest skeptic in the world
is going to have to admit somewhere along the line that Robert's got something." |
