Gullible Woman Duped out of $62,000 by Psychics Who "Cleanse Cash" of Evil Spirits

type='html'>Chicago police are looking for a mother-daughter psychic team accused of duping a woman out of $62,000 under the pretense that they would cleanse her cash of evil spirits.

When she saw the "for rent" sign in the Far Northwest Side home, a Park Ridge woman realized the mother-daughter team of self-described psychic healers had not taken her money to cleanse it of evil spirits — they stole it.

Laura Santini, 61, and her daughter, Rosann, 35, were indicted this week in Cook County on felony theft charges for allegedly scamming the woman of $62,000. The two haven't been seen in more than a year, authorities said. Read more

Spirits Purported to Linger in Early 1700s Home

type='html'>Spirits are purported to linger in an early-1700s Merrimac, Massachusetts, home, according to its owners.

Halloween at Michael Wendt's Merrimac house has always been a quiet holiday. Even when he was a child, the neighborhood kids were afraid to trick-or-treat at his River Road home because of rumors of ghosts lurking in the shadows.

The lore surrounding the ghosts centers on the alleged murders hundreds of years ago of a mother and her two children in one of the home's back rooms, Wendt said.

A yearlong renovation underway at the more than 300-year-old house may or may not scare the ghosts away.

"The belief is that those spirits haunt the house," Wendt, 51, said. Read more