OUR FRIENDS AT the Skeptical Inquirer, who spend their time debunking stories about UFOs, psychics, abominable snowmen, Democratic voters and other creatures of the imagination, recently sent us a list of supermarket tabloid prediction for 1994 which failed to come true.
Among the events predicted by the world-renown psychics at the National Enquirer:
• Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere were to become "the proud parents of triplets."
• Scientists were expected to perfect a small, four-cylinder car that would run on tap water.
• Jay Leno was destined to quit the Tonight Show.
• Frank Sinatra would be appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy.
• Whoopi Goldberg would give up acting and join a convent.
• Pope John Paul II would decree that married couples could only have sex on the first Friday of each month.
• Office workers would flee from the Sears Tower in Chicago after it began to lean like the Tower of Pisa.
The Enquirer wasn't the only one to miss a few--The Weekly World News foresaw Charles Manson getting a sex change operation before his release from prison, and the Globe predicted that Madonna would marry a Middle Eastern sheik and become a totally traditional wife, complete with long robes and veil.
What do these psychics forecast for 1995? O.J. Simpson will be acquitted, singer Whitney Houston will marry imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, a plant grown in northern Florida will cure AIDS and volcanic eruptions in August will create a new land mass joining Cuba with America.
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