“Why did the psychic cross the road?”/“To get to the other side.”

“Why did the chicken cross the road?”/“To get to the other side” is a classic riddle from the 19th century. A medium version is:
   
Q: Why did the medium cross the road?
A: To speak to the other side!
   
“Q: Why did the medium cross the road? A: To get to the Other Side” was posted on the newsgroup alt.humor on August 17, 1997. “Why did the psychic cross the road?  To get to the other side” was posted on X/Twitter by Brian Neale on August 19, 2011.
   
     
Google Groups: alt.humor
Crossing the road
Peter Metcalfe
8/17/97
Q: Why did the medium cross the road?
A: To get to the Other Side.
 
X/Twitter
jim808
@jim808
Why did the medium cross the road. To get to the other side
5:34 PM · Apr 28, 2009·Twitter Web Client
   
X/Twitter
Taika Smith
@TheSpellMaster
Why did the Medium cross the road?........To get to the “other side” - #Psychicjokes #jokes
9:01 PM · Oct 22, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
X/Twitter
Brian Neale
@pulpF1iction
Why did the psychic cross the road?  To get to the other side.
10:35 AM · Aug 19, 2011

X/Twitter
ENABLER
@_ENABLER_
Q: Why did the Long Island Medium cross the road ?
A: To get to the Other Side.
I crack me up.
5:09 PM · Aug 1, 2013·Facebook
     
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/GhostOfSttarman September 12, 2015
Why did the medium cross the road?
To get to the other side.
   
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/bynkman February 9, 2018
Why did the spirit medium cross the road?
To contact the “other side”.
 
X/Twitter
brandi
@xobrandihague
Waiter: Why did the medium cross the road? She liked talking to people from the other side.
11:47 AM · Nov 9, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
   
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/wallagm December 20, 2018
Why did the Psychic Medium cross the road?
To get to the other side.
 
Reddit—Cleanjokes
Posted by u/Bakedschwarzenbach January 9, 2020
Why did the medium cross the road?
To speak to the other side!
 
X/Twitter
Bob Golen
@BobGolen
Why did the psychic cross the road?
To get to the other side.
8:47 PM · Jun 7, 2026