Psychic Gary Spivey, Las Vegas Sun, Jan. 12, 2001

Psychic, medium Spivey predictable in every sense Lisa Ferguson Friday, Jan. 12, 2001 | 9:29 a.m. Who: Gary Spivey When: 7:30 p.m. today Where: Sunset Station's Club Madrid Tickets: $27.50. Information: 547-7777. Gary Spivey sees dead people. Talks to them, too. "Fluently," he says. At least that's what the medium, who is also a psychic, claims. He says he's predicted everything from earthquakes to plane crashes to the recent presidential election debacle. "I predicted a presidential tie," he says. Spivey also contends he can heal people of all sorts of ailments, even pulling demons from those who reportedly are possessed. But wait -- there's more: He's clairvoyant, which means he can see things psychically. He can also hear psychically and feel things psychically. Heck, he even smells and tastes psychically. "For what that's worth," he says. "It's not much unless you're ordering in a restaurant. Then I can tell you, 'Oh, the lamb chops are fresh tonight,' or 'Don't order the fish.' " Don't believe him? Granted, some might find it tough to take predictions about their futures, their love lives and their careers, among other topics, from a guy who sports a frightful wiglike mane of fluffy, bright white hair and equally unusual costumes. But that doesn't bother Spivey, who makes regular appearances on morning radio programs in major cities nationwide, including KLUC 98.5-FM in Las Vegas, where he's been featured on the "Morning Zoo" program each Thursday for the past three years. He says he's among "the most accurate" psychics around. Spivey will demonstrate his, um, powers on an audience tonight at Sunset Station, much as he does during the shows -- two to three per day, year-round -- that he performs throughout the country. But Spivey's not stopping there: He says he's working on a TV show (with former "Partridge Family" member Danny Bonaduce) that will showcase Spivey's talents. He hopes it will begin airing next year. Meanwhile Amy Sweet, co-host of KLUC's "Morning Zoo," says, "We get e-mails and phone calls constantly for Gary ... People are constantly complaining that they can't get through (on the phone) because it's so busy." Sweet says Spivey answers a variety of listeners' questions, ranging "from relationships to finding lost items to financial questions, as to their future financially. A lot of people call and ask about people who have passed, if they're doing well. We even had a couple of people call and ask about the sex of their (unborn) babies, or if they'll be able to get pregnant." Recently, Sweet says, the sister of the "Morning Zoo's" call screener called in to ask about the women's late sister. "It was pretty amazing," Sweet recalls, "like the details that he knew. He said, 'I see something with her rings, and somebody has her rings.' "Some psychics you hear of," Sweet says, "they're corny and they pull questions out of people and make them hear what they want to hear. But a lot of times Gary will pull stuff out and get the big 'wow' factor." "I can do everything," the 38-year-old Spivey says in a phone interview from Minneapolis, where he recently performed a show, explaining that other well-known psychics and mediums are more limited in their abilities. Spivey says he can also teach people how to tap into their own psychic abilities. "It's usually like the most enlightening thing you've ever seen." But probably not the creepiest. That honor would have to go to another Spivey maneuver -- channeling spirits into himself. "Many times, I'll dim the lights so that you will actually see the spirit materialize over me," he says, adding that he recently did that for a Minneapolis show-goer. "There was a lady that was incredibly possessed. I channeled the demons from her into me." Maybe that explains the hair? No. "It's sort of like a trademark," he says. Those are really his locks, just painted white. "I wear kind of crazy outfits and just have fun." Spivey's apparently been this way -- well, sans the silly hair -- since childhood. Born in North Carolina and raised in "a country town," he recalls telling his parents things of a psychic nature when he was a toddler. "I remember pointing to a tractor plowing a field one time and telling my dad, 'Stop him, he's gonna turn over,' and the tractor flipped over on the guy" who was driving it, he says. "I would go into trances, like (psychic medium) Edgar Cayce did, as a small child. I would just babble sometimes, seemingly like (in) another language, and they would have to wake me up and I wouldn't remember anything. So I had kind of odd behavior ... I didn't really care what other people thought or I probably would have thought I was a weirdo." He doesn't think that, but others might. To them, Spivey says "just watch" his show. "There's no way I can know that much about so many people. You think, 'How could he cheat?' And then you realize it's totally impossible. "If I had a message to give to anyone," Spivey says, "it would simply be that being psychic is just being spiritual, and it's just knowing how to tap into God. And that's what I teach people ... That's my whole thing." Lisa Ferguson is the Sun's assistant features editor. Reach her at lisa@ lasvegas.sun at 259-4060. archive