Hoyt Robinette


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Hoyt Robinette Reviews

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  • Jul 30, 2014

Reverend Hoyt Z. Robinette claims to be a physical medium who can do psychic readings and contact the dead and also manifest spirit paintings/drawings on index cards with messages and on silk while blind-folded. He also claims to do trumpet spirit voice manifestations. I attended a group session where he provided a psychic reading after handling a billet blind-folded where I wrote my questions down and people I wanted him to contact who had passed. He also placed blank index cards in a covered basket with magic markers, oil pastels, and other markers. At the end of the group session he pulled painted/drawn on index cards with messages out of the basket for each attendee.

When I saw the painted/drawn on index card with messages it was obvious to me that the index card had a photocopied printed black and white line image on it that was colored over. When I examined mine and others' under a magnifying glass I saw a printer dot matrix design. His psychic reading was very vague and general and could have been taken straight from the billet if he could see under his blindfold. He tapes his eyes under his blindfold but when I tried it at home you could apply the tape and blindfold so that you could still see the card from gaps near the nose. I do believe in psychic abilities since I have them myself but at least the spirit paintings/drawings and written messages seemed like a sham. I'm not sure about the psychic messages.

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  • Nov 28, 2014

Attended a so called spiritualist spirit circle the other night where a so-called "spiritualist" & "Rev" named Hoyt Robinette performs his self-proclaimed spirit connections for all that were present at this individuals personal residence in Davidson, Maryland near Annapolis.

Hoyt and the "host" go on about the ritual of contacting the dead, setting rules that is perceived to help the energy connection with the spirits and so on. There are other reports out there on the internet how the process works which I will include below so I will not go into great detail on that. At a very high level, all that are present (>20) at the host's personal residence (makes one wonder if she/he are in on the scam and gets $$$ as a kick-back) fill out a "billet card" with 3 "people that are dead", then (1) question you want to ask the spirits and then your name. Really, if this so called spiritualist is so connected, why does he need all that detailed information?? I played along to see how far he would go.

Hoyt enters the room announced by the Host as the Reverend Hoyt Robinette, he brings with him an old wooden tray with a round woven basket with a lid. The basket with the billets were brought in earlier by the Host and were placed on the fireplace mantle. Hoyt then goes into great detail after he enters the room about his basket full of pens, felt tips, highlighters, etc coming across as the "rambling foolish professor" type which I see to only disarm those in the room. He talks about how the spirits will "will" the ink into the blank index cards for all of us present to get our very own personal spirit art work! At this time, Hoyt presents a fresh wrapped deck of white blank index cards that he shares with all of us, allowing an audience member to open the fresh pack of white clean index cards to show that they are new and not some magical prop! Hoyt proceeds to place the blank cards and pens in a layered format in a tightly woven basket with its lid so as no light gets in to disturb the "spirits" and places this in front of all where it will remain until Hoyt finished his billet card readings.

Next, Hoyt Robinette picks up a few billets from the basket and explains how he will “channel the energy” through the cards. Now keep in mind this is the first step in his scam. As he is explaining how he will read the billets he is actually unfolding those previously submitted billets and glancing down to read the content I believe. Hoyt then folds them back up, places them back into the basket and then blindfolds himself with medical tape and a blindfold in such a way to make the audience believe he can not see, and then begins his billet card readings one at a time. This is the second step in the scam. His line of sight is still possible down through the bridge of his nose and his eyes. He performs all of this while standing behind a "magician" type angled podium with an old looking wood tray with tall sides that limit sight into the tray to allow the audience see what are the actual contents located there. Another parlor trick prop.

So when Hoyt came to my billet card it was word-for-word what I listed on my billet card! Wow! Imagine that!! At the end of the billet card reading Hoyt opens the spirit card basket "himself", not an audience member, and then proceeds to dump the contents into the “angled” old wooden tray I mentioned earlier with the tall sides, and then calls out names of each of us to give us our very own special card! This is the third step in the scam, the illusion step. Yes!! All of us received our very own spirit card with our own personal art work on it!! Imagine that!! Now I was really surprised that since the card was signed by all of your "loved ones" that surround you, those "loving personal spirits" of mine that signed mine, I never heard of them before --EVER!! And the (2) loving family members that I did list on my billet card that according to Hoyt Robinette were present and YES, did talk to me through Hoyt, well heck, they did NOT sign my lovely spirit card at all!! Did they NOT get a chance to sign because "Mother Teresa" who was one of many that did sign my card wouldn't share her pen?? I heard that "Master Jesus" was there in the room with us as well, he visited a man near me, but why didn't "Master Jesus" sign my card??!! Doesn't he love me too?

Yes, it had all the makings of a magic show, a cheap one at that! Hold that thought though because it was not cheap! Here is the math to consider. At $90 per person, Hoyt made a killing in his week long stay here! I extrapolated that Hoyt potentially scammed over $15,000 during his visit to the Annapolis area last week! Here is the math - over 20 individuals at the spirit card readings at $90/ per person and also $90 / per person per ½ hour for "private" readings. The "opportunity" is here to scam over $15,000 during a 5 day stay and that is very conservative! Now extrapolate that at an Annual return and this “so-called” spirit guidance business has the opportunity to earn over $775,000 per year if worked every day! This begs the question I asked before, is the “Host” that allows their personal residence to be used by Hoyt Robinette part of the scam! There is allot of money to made here people and at over ¾ of Million Dollars, I wouldn’t put it pass anybody!

The sad thing is that allot of the people there actually believed they were talking to their dead pets and loved ones, yes even “Master Jesus” was present, meanwhile Hoyt Robinette and possibly the Host were laughing all the way to the bank!

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  • Mar 1, 2021

Scam

Taking money from desperate people

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