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'Psychic Hillbilly' offers
illuminating ladies luncheon -
and I ain't taking that back

This is the opinion of Susan Reinhardt,
who can be reached at 232-5845 or
sreinhardt@CITIZEN-TIMES.com.

Contact Susan Reinhardt at 828-232-
5844 or via e-mail at
sreinhardt@CITIZEN-TIMES.com.

I'll admit fear and apprehension as I
walked into a world I'd never before
explored.

About 20 polished and professional
women, most who'd never met,
gathered in the hostess' beautiful
living room with their plates ... and
curiosity.

Many of us were in some kind of pain
- inner our outer - and enough
emotional turmoil to take this chance -
this opportunity to attend a "Ladies
Psychic Luncheon."

The closest I'd come before was a
tarot card reading at the mall for three
minutes and the quarter I put into the
Sophia Prediction machine, where a
mannequin in tons of make-up and
scarves shot out a card saying, "You
will seek the path of light."

Wow. What an eye opener.

Those in charge of the Psychic
Luncheon invited Angela Moore of
Marion, who has been billed on radio
as the Psychic Hillbilly and is now a
regular on WNCW at 7:45 a.m.
Thursdays, presenting "Metaphysical
Matters." She'll be a featured
presenter at Barnes & Noble the first
Thursday of every month at 7 p.m.,
where she'll do her thing and discuss
topics related to her line of psychic
duty.

She has a reputation for nailing
national tragedies such as Sept. 11,
telling a friend three days before the
act she saw planes "going down
everywhere." A year or so before
9/11, she told another group she saw
a great explosion in the Northeast that
would reverberate throughout the
world. Both predictions, she said, are
on tape.

Last Saturday, as we ate and waited,
she came bustling into the home out
of breath and full of apologies.

"I'm late, I'm so sorry. I blame it on my
husband," she said, smiling, taking a
seat in the center of the circle. She
wore an orange top and blue jeans,
looking more like a kind-hearted
mother than what I'd imagined from
TV and the movies.

We went around the room introducing
ourselves and giving her our
birthdays. She'd pause, breathe
deeply, and tell a person point blank
what she thought or had received
about her troubles or personality.

"You're out there. Out of reach and
closed off," she said to one of us. "I
see the beach. You need to travel.
That's an assignment. Go to the
beach, and I ain't taking that back."

She has a distinctive southern accent,
which charms and disarms. She starts
sentences with "I'm not making this
up" and finishes with "That's non-
negotiable, and I ain't taking that
back."

I called her after the session with a
few questions, mainly if religion and
her abilities to predict clash.

"I'm an ordained minister," she said. "I
consider what I do a calling, a gift from
God. I don't charge, but take
donations."

She said everyone from Baptists to
Jews, from Buddhists to criminal
investigators and even preachers
have come to her for advice on a
range of topics. She didn't realize she
was psychic until she was 34 and
began commenting on her boss's
private life, matters she couldn't
possibly have known.

"You know what you are?" the boss
asked. "You're a psychic."

It was then Angela knew all those
strange things from her childhood, the
dreams and visions, the things she'd
hear and later come true, meant she
wasn't crazy. There was a label -
psychic - and most people can tap
into it, she said, especially artistic and
creative types.

For more information, copies of her
book, and her schedule of
appearances, go to www.angela-
moore.com.


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Psychic takes fans on
futuristic ride
By Ragan Robinson, staff writer
McDowell News 6/12/03

Not many people waiting in the
darkened banquet room knew
quite what to expect.  
“If she pops out of a puff of smoke
here in a minute, I’m leaving,”
jokes one woman, spying the
white candles on the table and
sniffing at the incense in the air.
She was one of some 40 people
who came out for what was being
billed as Psychic Night
Wednesday at Ivan's Restaurant
and Bar.  Local intuitive Angela
Fae Moore was to share her gift
of insight with audience
participants.
Some had visited with Angela
before, looking for advice,
guidance and – most enticingly –
a glimpse at their futures.  I had
only read about her.  But I had
some unfair notions about what
might be in store, figuring she’d
glide through the door in some
kind of flowing robe, crystals in
her hair and new age philosophy
on her tongue.  
Maybe somewhere else, but
Angela is Marion’s psychic.  
Dressed in a simple blouse and
pants, she comes into the room
like a lot of southern women you
know – quick, determined and
smiling as she begins what will be
more than an hour of rapid-fire
intuition.  
“Fasten your seatbelts,” she
declares.  “It could be a bumpy
ride.”  
Her powerful cadence keeps eyes
focused on her as she points out
people along her path.
“You are changing,” she says to
the first woman inside the door.  
“In five years, you won’t know
yourself.”  “I know you don’t
believe me now, but, you’ve got
romance coming,” she tells
another.
Then, to a man at a back table,
“you’re going to make a
difference in a lot of people’s lives
and half the time, you won’t even
know it.”  
To a man sitting nearby, shifting in
his seat, she says, “You live
calmly on the outside but intensely
on the inside.”
She stopped briefly to add a small
disclaimer.  “Sometimes I’ll tell
you something and it won’t
happen because you’ve got free
will,” she says.
“Always listen to your heart, listen
to yourself …” She cuts that
sentence short and points at a
lady in front of her.  “  You’re kind.  
Little children are going to love
you.”
Then it’s back to the explanation.  
She thinks everyone has psychic
abilities but believes it is just a
matter of getting to the right side
of your brain.
She stops again.  “A dog is going
to love you at some point,” she
zeros in on a woman in the middle
of the crowd.
Often, she’ll punctuate her
thoughts with, “I can’t take that
back: and “Don’t forget I told you.”  
Her advice ranges from the
general – “you’ve got a sense of
power within you” – to the specific
– “pay attention to  T names” and
“you are being scrutinized by a
man without too much hair.”
Angela’s bracelets jingle as she
bounces across the room, so
energetic I forgot for a moment to
keep taking notes.  Hers is not an
overly serious presentation.  In the
audience, jaws drop, then stretch
into laughter.  “Oh my gosh, I am
so psychic,” she say at some
point.  
Angela is getting tired and opens
the floor to questions.  “I’m going
to quit soon,” she says, and hands
fly up across the room.  People
ask about work, about money,
about romance, even about the
war.
Some whisper that they’d like to
see her alone sometime.
Afterward, Angela sits in the
corner.  A long line forms – more
questions, no doubt.
“Don’t forget I told you,” she still
saying as the room clears.
Counter
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World through the
eyes of McDowell's
'hillbilly psychic' may
seem unnatural

By MIKE CONLEY
nconley@mcdowellnews.com
Monday, August 7, 2006

Angela Fae Moore, Marion’s
"hillbilly psychic," asks you to
see the world through her eyes.
In fact, it’s the title of her new
book.
"This is a calling," she said one
afternoon at her home, where
she does her psychic readings.
"This is something I feel
compelled to do. I feel it’s a
natural thing to do."
Moore, 48, has known all of
her life that she could see things
differently than others. As a
child, she often heard "the walls
talking." That meant she could
hear the laughter of unseen
children and the voices of
grownups long gone. She also
experienced strange visions.
But it wasn’t until 1992 that
Moore started to focus more
on her psychic abilities. A
businesswoman whom she
respected finally explained to
her that she was indeed
psychic. At that time, she was
in her mid-30s, an age when
people start re-evaluating their
lives.
"I think it kind of increased at
that age," she said.
Indeed, her life took a new
direction at that point.
Since then, she’s become a
respected and well-known
spiritual psychic in western
North Carolina. Moore is a
frequent guest on area radio
talk shows and has been
featured in several regional
newspapers, including The
McDowell News, The News
Herald and The Asheville
Citizen-Times. Her show
"Metaphysical Matters" is
featured on public radio station
WNCW in Spindale. She also
hosts a popular call-in radio
show, called "Hillbilly Psychic,"
on Asheville’s WWNC. She
will offer pet readings for the
Buncombe County Humane
Society’s Doggie Carnival in
October.
Through the years, Moore has
participated in investigations of
haunted places. Law
enforcement officers have
visited her seeking help with
finding missing individuals. And
people call on her at her home
asking for guidance with life’s
problems. She can interpret the
hidden meanings behind
dreams.
Moore once took part in a
paranormal conference at
Asheville’s Grove Park Inn,
hosted by author and ghost-
hunter Joshua P. Warren. The
famous inn is believed to be
haunted by the ghost of a
young woman, who
supposedly died there under
mysterious circumstances back
in the 1920s. The entity is
called the "Pink Lady." While
checking out the haunted
rooms, Moore wrote that she
felt the Pink Lady’s presence
and then sensed that another
female spirit was touching her
face. A photo taken by a friend
at that moment shows a
mysterious orb next to Moore’
s face.
Recently, she has used her
psychic abilities to help heal
others.
"Often, I have been asked to
lay hands on someone in order
to assist a body in need of
healing," she writes in her new
book. "I feel that we can be
used as conduits in this way
and can infuse one with healing
energy. By visualizing a person
in need of healing as
surrounded by light and
imagining that they absorb the
light, we may assist them in
healing as well."
Moore said she sometimes
notices that her hands become
hot during a healing session
and, at the same time, she has
an impression of their illness or
wound in the person’s energy
field, which is called an aura.
When she sends them her
energy, often the people say
they had found relief.
"I’m no substitute for a doctor
or anything else," she said.
"Some people aren’t going to
be healed. I’m not doing
anything. I’m just a conduit to
let people heal themselves."
Now, Moore has put these
experiences and others down
in a new book "Through
Angela’s Eyes." Her stories are
sometimes poignant,
occasionally eerie and often
humorous. She is refreshingly
unpretentious in her approach
to the mysterious world of the
paranormal.
On the first Thursday of each
month, Moore will be at
Barnes and Noble bookstore
in Asheville giving a
presentation on paranormal
topics. She is also scheduled to
do a book signing at Malaprop’
s bookstore in Asheville on
Sept. 2.
Folks can get copies of
"Through Angela’s Eyes" online
through her Web site www.
angela-moore.com. It is
available locally at Earth Heart
on U.S. 221 North in
Woodlawn. It can also be
found at Malaprop’s and Blue
Moon in Spruce Pine