In most circles, telling people you were psychic would just get you laughed at.
In Wiley McKenna's world, it could get him killed, as most hunters were pretty superstitious of anything, everything, supernatural.
His own father would've taken a dim view of it. He'd held strong views about the supernatural being inextricably entwined with evil.
But Gerald McKenna had died of cancer a few years earlier, having never learned the truth.
Wiley was grateful for that every day of his life. It made it easier to believe that his father's love would've survived the knowledge of his only son's "gift."