By Debbie Ellison

When Jill Dahne was six years old, she told her teacher what was written on the blackboard - a common occurrence in elementary school. What wasn't so common was that the teacher had not yet written it. The teacher was so frightened, the school banned Jill for five days. The incident, Jill's first psychic experience, did not, however, frighten Jill.

Jill's mother, Micki Dahne, is also a psychic, so this was nothing out of the norm for Jill. “I've been doing this my whole life,” she says nonchalantly. “This is my life.”

Jill claims to be a “love psychic” who has appeared on Geraldo and other television and radio shows. She says she has predicted over 750 marriages, and, in 1992 predicted on television that President Clinton would be involved in a sex scandal in 1998. She claims a 98% accuracy rate. What about the other 2%? “I'm not God,” she explains. “Only God is 100%. Remember that. I'm allowed to be wrong.”

Her radio show airs in Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach every Sunday from 3-4 p.m. on 1470 am. She says she started doing radio shows with her mom at the age of six. At 13, on the John Eastman radio show in Tampa, Florida, she predicted a Muslim terrorist attack on Washington D.C. a month before it actually happened. “I saw blood; I saw killing; I saw hostages and everything,” she explains. Because of this, she says, she was named the Most Amazing Teenage Psychic in America in “Ripley's Believe It or Not.”

Jill believes she was born with psychic ability. “It's a gift from God. God chooses certain people that He knows they're going to deal with people in a certain way and not hurt people.” She takes that responsibility seriously. “You have to love what you're doing,” she continues. “You don't take advantage of people. When you're dealing with human beings, I look at them like my second family. It's like a diamond in your hands. You don't want to break it. It's like a precious stone. That's what you're dealing with. You're dealing with someone's life. You don't want to hurt them.”
 

According to Jill, she also uses this gift to work with police to solve murder and missing children cases, and to help Kids in Distress, a charity that works with orphans. “I prevent things from happening,” she says. “That's what psychics are great for. That's what I feel I'm good for.” She says if she sees death in someone's future, she will never tell them unless it can be prevented.


Jill admits there are a lot of phony psychics out there. Her advice? “Stay away from the 1-800 numbers.” She says the difference between a phony and a legitimate psychic is that a psychic “should be telling you something a little bit from your past, and then go into your future. You shouldn't be the one asking the questions. They should be telling you. There's good people out there and then there's people that are not good. You just have to be careful. You have to know who you're going to.”

Jill says psychic ability cannot be developed, you are born with it, however, everyone has intuition. The problem, she believes, is that people don't trust it. “What comes to you first, go by your first intuition,” she advises, “because a lot of people second-guess themselves and they don't use their first intuition and they get themselves in trouble. When you know this man's not right for you but you stay involved anyway, then what happens? You get hurt, but you knew you should have gotten out of it before, but your heart's there and you're in love and you don't want to get out. If you're taking a test, and your intuition tells you, 'I should circle A', and throughout the test, you cross the A out and circle C, well, when the test scores come back, what would it be? It would be A.”

She encourages parents to listen to their children. “Inform your children,” she says, “listen to them, write down what they're saying. It may sound absurd to you. If your son sees Grandma Rose in the room and Grandma Rose died ten years ago, how does he know about Grandma Rose when he's three years old? Write it down. Listen to what he's saying. There could be a message here from Grandma Rose. There are signs.”

She believes the dead communicate with the living “through music, dreams, and signs. That's how the people above that watch over you can communicate. And the people that are above are - I call them angels - family members, friends, it could be an animal that you love, they're all watching over you.”