Japanese TV Audiences Scammed by Brazilian “Psychic” Jucelino Nobrega da Luz
Last night, NTV aired a two hour special in which Brazilian “psychic” Jucelino Nobrega da Luz was worshiped as a man who can see the future without fail. Audiences were told that Jucelino accurately predicted just about every major disaster of the last 15 years well before they occurred [9/11, challenger explosion, Tokyo Subway gas attacks, London terror bombings, etc], and copies of “notarized” warning letters with the predictions on them were produced. Host Mina Monta and the panel of Japanese celebrity guests offered no criticism of Jucelino’s claims: they spent the whole show acting amazed by his powers.
I watched about 75% of the show, but there was nothing about how Jucelino’s notary marks have been known to show signs of fraud, nor did they mention the many times he has made public predictions and been wrong. They also didn’t mention his ridiculous lawsuit demanding $25 million in reward money from the US government because he claimed to have predicted the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein.
I understand that sometimes networks like to make entertaining shows about psychics, and it’s not good entertainment to expose them as the frauds they are. However, I was pretty damn disgusted when they revealed Jucelino’s claim of predicting Lindsay Hawker’s murder and proceeded to spend a good 20 minutes on this clown’s bullshit theories about the case.
Here’s a video clip re-enacting the dream Jucelino had about the Hawker murder [NTV received no response from the Japanese embassy in Brazil regarding Jucelino's claim to have sent them a warning letter about the murder a few months before it happened]:
Jucelino offered some predictions about Tatsuya Ichihashi, who remains at large:
- He is still alive.
- He is working at a factory somewhere.
- He is living in an apartment building, possibly one with a green roof.
- He plans to flee Japan at the end of December 2007.
After sending that information to the police, an NTV took Jucelino on a trip to find Ichihashi:
They go to numerous factories and apartment buildings, and Jucelino kept saying that things looked similar to his dreams. Eventually they narrowed Ichihashi’s probably location down to a complex of green-roofed apartment buildings, informing the police their findings. If Jucelino’s predictions are true, the cops will have to act before the end of the month, or Ichihashi will have already fled the country.
[PS: Wondering if this guy is for real? He's claimed that an earthquake will hit Indonesia on December 23rd, so keep an eye out for news about it. I'm guessing this will fall under his "margin of error."]
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I was watching the other side (as it were) at the time, but during the adverts wifey did split-screen, and I got very, very angry at it all.
It’s also amazing how he could predict the murder with 100% accuracy, but then only narrow down his location to something with a green roof.
I also wondered why the “prediction” was written in English by a Brazilian for delivery to the Japanese embassy in Brazil…
I wonder if NTV could be charged with wasting police time or something if the cops mobilise forces on this? Or are they too busy looking out for UFOs?
PS: last sentence of first paragraph should be “*no* criticism”
“It’s also amazing how he could predict the murder with 100% accuracy, but then only narrow down his location to something with a green roof.”
Well, ya know how those psychic dreams are. Sometimes the dreams contain all the exact dates, place names, and the names of the people involved, and sometimes they are just vague crap about green-roofed buildings with windows. It’s super secret psychic stuff, man!
If Ichihashi is eventually captured, I’m sure this guy will produce a “copy” of a warning letter with all the details about it that he supposedly sent someone. Maybe he’ll even try to claim the reward money like in the Saddam case.
[Thanks for pointing out the typo.]
THRE IS SOMETHING THAT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW AND
HUMAN BEING IS NOT PREPARED TO ACCEPT THAT SITUATION BUT
I KNOW HE IS A GOOD PERSON AND HAS PREDICTED MANY THINGS
BUT WE MUST REMEMBER THAT PREDICTION,PROPHECY IS NOT APREDESTINATION….
MESSIAS
We need skeptics. They are the voice of unbelief and they need to cry out what they are not. You know, I still haven’t seen for myself if this planet we live on is spherical or not. Maybe it is flat? I guess everyone is lying about everything and we can’t take what anyone says for gospel. Jucelino is deceiving me and so is everyone else. Maybe this is really just the Matrix?
I’m only 90% sure. What shall I do? Shall I just give up answering this test question and fail my exam because I was only 90% sure on any, nay all the questions? You know my batting avg. is only .400 maybe I should give up baseball and become a skeptic of the absurd idea of hitting 1.00? Maybe I should just admit myself into the nearest psych. hospital and give up trying to believe in anything? Or maybe I should just say, “Wait and See”????…..!!!!!
Washed-up and debunked “psychics” are still welcome in Japan, where even major network celebrities will support and promote them as the real thing.
On the integrity scale, those tv “talents” rank somewhere just below “crack-whore”. They make a living prostituting their MINDS.
And these are the same folks that can be seen on other programs giving advice to callers on family matters, etc.
It’s infuriating.
YOUR THOUGHTNESS IS SHOWING US WHO YOU ARE PURITALIST AND
DO NOT ACCEPT NOONE EVEN YOU. THAT IS WHAT WE CALL OF SELFISH
PEOPLE THAT DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT THIS WORLD AND
CAN SEE ONLY HIS FOOT ,AND YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT MR. JUCELINO IS GIVING SOME ADVICE TO JAPANESE PEOPLE WHO WILL
BE THE NATION MORE DAMAGED ON CLIMATE PROBLEMS.Pay more attentoion BEFORE YOU SAY SUCH A THING…
PURITALIST and PROUD OF IT – whatever the fuck a “puritalist” is. So long as it someone totally unlike you or the other scam artists, con-men, quacks, frauds, liars, and delusional nutcases.
Oh, I think you missed some CAPS LOCK by mistake. It looks sloppy.
Dear Overthinker,
Don’t be that mad at this guy. He is doing good deeds to Japanese people. He has no interest in making money since Jucelino’s main objective is to give “SOME ADVICE TO JAPANESE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE THE NATION MORE DAMAGED ON CLIMATE PROBLEMS”. Some “reputable” Japanese business people could be using his name and his popularity and making tons of money, though. They might be using him to steal money from innocent rich Japanese with private sessions, taking him everywhere, making him work like a horse … right now. By the way, did you know he is Japan since October?
People might be taking advantage of his popularity there. I just happen to see this site: http://blog.jucelinoww.com/. Are they launching a sort of “fortune teller” business for cell phone company with his face on? Fortune teller business might generate tons of money and Jucelino might help the JAPANESE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE THE NATION MORE DAMAGED ON CLIMATE PROBLEMS because his Japanese business partner might keep the money to help Japan. So, leave this man alone! Don’t bother him! He is doing good deed to Japanese people and will keep doing so over and over because he wants to help people. Don’t say bad things about Jucelino at least for now because you don’t have permission to spoil or damage the success of this fortune teller business. And don’t tell anybody that if you are interested in reading his books in Japan, you can get it for a very reasonable price: one cent each! What ever his “Real Secret” or “Real Intention” is sooner or later the truth will unfold with or without a divine intervention. If it is not in this life, will be in the next. His offsprings will carry his “mission” or the consequences on, what ever it might be. The law of cause and effect will apply to anyone good or bad and harvest will normally be what you and your family have kept planting through the entire life.
This guy was amazing! I mean, not only could he see in his dream that the Mayor of Nagasaki would be assasinated by the Yakuza guy, he could also understand Japanese in his dream, making it possible for him to recognise the cry of “oh my god, they killed the Mayor of Nagasaki! You bastards!”
It must be a special ability, because once he wakes up he suddenly can’t understand Japanese anymore, and needs to rely on simultaneous translation.
Pffffft, uuuuh, no, I mean, oh yeah! And his prediction of a major even in 2008 was staggering: “Heavy snow will hit Tokyo in January, and will cause traffic problems.”
Oh my goodness, how does he see these things?!
But most amazing of all – his ability to for-see the 2010 (by which time he’ll be in jail I guess) world cup final winners will be… Brazil…
How much did they have to pay all those geinoujin to keep a straight face and buy this crap!? That’s the biggest mysetery.
Here in Brazil is comproved that this guy is a great false prophet
From his website, I found the document in Portuguese (please have a look):
http://www.jucelinodaluz.com.br/cartas_prev2007.htm
Then my questions are:
Did someone here, hear about;
- Terrorist attack on Rome, Italy, in September 2007 ?
or
- Big earthquake in Turkey on 2 October 2007 ?
But, honestly, I believe him when predicting the winner of Fifa World Cup 2010 in South Africa…..Yes, absolutely agree, Brazil will be the winner…and Ricardo Kaka’ will be the MVP
These people go beyond just casual tricks: they are actually evil. They waste police time and effort on nonsense, and give false hope to victims. For more on this sort of thing, check out the weekly columns by James Randi at http://www.randi.org. He has a standing offer of a million dollars to anyone who can prove, under controlled settings, paranormal powers. Oddly enough, no one has won the money yet – and many of the more prominent nutjobs – I mean psychics – claim that they don’t need the money or they’re not in this for profit (yeah, right). Those are the ones that know they’re frauds. The others make excuses when they fail.
“claim that they don’t need the money or they’re not in this for profit”
Which is why Jucelino Nobrega da Luz is demanding $25 mil from the US government. It’s $25 million dollars of principle, not cash!
Damn straight.
DEAR FRIEND,
MR. JUCELINO IS NOT DEMANDING $ 25 MILLION OF AMERICAN
GOVERNORS HE IS JUST ASKING FOR THE RECOGNIMENT OF HIS
DOCUMENTS AND HE WON IN BRAZIL SUPREME COURT BUT HE HASN´T
ASKED FOR MONEY.
DI YOU UNDERSTAND HOW IS WRONG YOUR THOUGHTNESS ABOUT HIM.
YOURS TRULY
MESSIAS
Jucelino is not very famous outside Brazil (and now here in the Land-of-Scams Japan) because he is a one-trick-pony….He’s just tampering with notary marks and postmarks.
Backdating the postmarks on letters and invoices is a fairly common tax trick of small businessmen. It is not a very impressive scam since investigators generally can spot such frauds if they go to the effort to examine them in detail.
you so not know jucelino’ workship indeed just say
some iddle talk to everyone . you must lear more about professor jucelino’ s life….
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ジュセリーノ・ダ・ルース
Nice list of his predictions with maru/batsu marks to show you what a buffoon he is.
The footnotes for just about every maru he got show last night’s TV program as the source. They were all in form of “prediction” letters that were produced by him after the events occurred, heh.
Here’s a link to a blog that criticizes Jucelino and also has a list of criticisms and debunkings of his predictions on NTV’s special.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/akgoodco1224/
Some of these predictions that were correct are amazing in their generality – earthquake in Japan this year, earthquake in Taiwan, big typhoon during typhoon season.
Did he write that English letter to the embassy with an ancient typewriter or something? Who uses a font like that these days?
Wait!!…….
“He’s claimed that an earthquake will hit Indonesia on December 23rd, so keep an eye out for news about it.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7157134.stm
Only one day off. December 22nd, Indonesia gets hit by a 6.4 magnitude quake. Spooky.
Wrong day, and wrong island. Not exactly spooky if you ask me.
Then again earthquake is like everyday stuff here in Indonesia.
In my opinion, it’s not really surprising. ^^
If he, however, predicts that “rain will fall in Sahara in x day and x month” then that’s unbelievable.
since today is cmas day, i invited some of my friends to come for dinner and yeah, he’s one of the topic of our conversation today. so, did i miss anything from the news abt the earthquake?
It’s only few hours before December 23rd is over.
well at least now, we cld say a thank you prayer for the horrible prediction from being really happened…imagine the casualties…
don’t you hate people who make a living from scamming?
it’s sad that she even got killed.. senseless murderers
Here in Brazil he is known as a big liar, really. :T
IT IS YOUR OPINION BECAUSE IT IS PITY YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND
PORTUGUESE TO READ THE DECISION OF JUDGE COURT ABOUT HIMSELF.
IT IS IN HIS WEBSITE.
Oh no, not you again.
I just went to see the Jucelino article in wikipedia but they’ve apparently removed the content
This is for those that haven’t watched the show
http://www.veoh.com/channels/jucelinodaluz