And to Think that "Wife Swap" was One of Richard's Favorite Shows!

Richard Heene and "Psychic" Sheree Silver in combined photo on the left.

According to all that is being revealed today, when Sheree Silver temporarily "lived" (as in the show, "Wife Swap") with "Balloon Boy," Falcon Heene and his dad Richard in their Fort Collins, Colo., home during the filming of an episode of one of TV's more popular reality shows last November, she observed that Richard "had the mind of a mad scientist."

But Silver, a psychic from Saint Augustine, Fla., says when she predicted in the show's 100th episode that one of Richard's science experiments would "blow up" in his face, she never dreamed he would involve Falcon in an elaborate alleged hoax involving the flight of a helium-filled balloon seen by TV viewers around the globe.

I have no idea where this crazy story will go, but it surely had my attention for most of that wild day and I still believe that my prayers were answered--hoax or no-hoax.

Hopefully, the issue can be put to rest without a felony charge against Richard and without Sheree's prediction being considered anything more than a wild guess--which any of us could have predicted under the circumstances.