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Shaken and Disturbed

"Psychic" Scams Victims Out of Millions - #209

Shaken and Disturbed

John Thrasher and Daryn Carp

Improv, News, Comedy, True Crime, News Commentary

4.6549 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Psychic Rose Marks convinced clients she could cleanse their souls and reunite them with lost loves, but her promises led to a $40 million fraud that stunned the FBI. For decades, her family of “fortune tellers” built an empire of lies stretching from Manhattan to Florida. This episode uncovers how one of the most notorious psychic scams in U.S. history finally came crashing down.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to shaking and dessert.

0:10.0

Diserved.

0:11.2

Shaken and desserts and absurd.

0:14.8

Shaken and disturbed, everybody.

0:16.9

The true crime podcast that has sometimes almost nothing to do with true crime.

0:20.9

And sometimes desserts. And sometimes desserts.

0:22.4

And sometimes desserts and Pittsburgh and Judge Judy and all of the above.

0:27.9

And my shirt.

0:28.4

And my shirt.

0:28.9

And the dessert.

0:30.4

Mayhem in the dessert.

0:32.4

I am Father God, Darren Karp, here with my exclusive sexual partner, Mother God, John Thrasher.

0:39.4

Should we admit that we've let's do know? Do not even go over. Do not even get down that road. Not something. Okay. People, he's not ready to admit it. I'm fully there. And I never will. Theme of my life. Theme of my life. I am there. But this case, I'm really curious about, you know, I love psychics.

0:56.0

You know that I'm really curious about, you know, I love psychics. You know

0:56.5

that I'm into the woo-woo of it all. I'm a skeptic, but I always am willing to sort of kind of,

1:05.6

kind of pay. Hear them out. To hear them out. You're like kind of pay. I'm kind of willing to

1:09.8

pay millions of dollars like we're

1:11.2

about to get into. I had someone else buy me a tarot card reading one time. That was fine. But it is a

1:16.5

little bit of a somewhat Halloween themed episode. That it is. And Darren didn't know what I was

1:24.0

going to do today here on the show, but Darren, I have a surprise for you and the listeners today. At the end of this episode, I'm going to read a tarot card for you. That's right,

1:35.4

ladies and gentlemen, I have them right here. If you're watching on YouTube or on Patreon,

1:39.6

this deck of cards in my hand, Darren, has your fortune in them.

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