Getting Psyched

Think “psychic,” and you imagine somebody in a polka dot schmatta with a crystal ball, calling up the spirits. That’ll be $29.99 for the first ten minutes, please. Credit cards accepted.

Joyce Keller, where she sells her books, CDs, DVDs and even a board game) believes she has special powers, but she likes to call herself an “intuitive counselor.” She listens to you and, maybe, she’ll help you figure some things out. And she won’t rip you off.

You just have to get a call into her radio program, which her producer-husband calls “the country's longest-running paranormal show.” From her studio in Weehawken, Joyce has been hosting “The Joyce Keller Show” on WGGB radio, 1240 AM, since 1987. It airs Wednesdays, from 11 p.m. to midnight. No charge for advice. You may have trouble getting the signal beyond northern New Jersey, but you can stream it live at www.am1240wgbb.com.
 
Joyce says that as long as she can remember, she has “seen” things other people don’t. “Even before I went to school my mom would tell me about numerology or astrology, so I thought it was normal.”

Her first day of kindergarten, she recalls, she called her teacher over and said, “You have to go home because your mommy is very sick.” The teacher told her to be quiet.

But the next day, she says, the teacher took her aside and told her that her mother actually had gotten sick. The mother got better but the teacher asked, “So, am I going to get married?”

One day recently an “animal communicator” was her on-air guest. Callers wanted to know how to reach their pets — not all of whom were alive. One of her most memorable on-air moments, she says, was when she was on the old Soupy Sales radio show and a man who had leukemia called to say he was starting chemotherapy the next day. Joyce told him he was going to be fine.

“Soupy was so shocked he stopped throwing water balloons. ‘How can you say that,’ Soupy told me,” she says. “The following week the man called back. He got a clean bill of health.”

Some hard-bitten reporters we know can’t help but be skeptical about people who say they can predict the future. “I tell people I can’t prove anything,” Joyce says. “I am here to make people feel better, to let them know they should not be depressed about life, to send a message of hope and courage.”

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