Examples Of Psychic Detectives

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The stories seem like something straight out of a five-dollar paperback novel. The astounding tales of a murderer’s name being pulled out of thin air by a psychic before the police even come to the definite conclusion the case was indeed a murder, or the inspired location of a body seem too incredible to be true. Are they?

Unfortunately, veracity can become buried underneath the flash of exaggerated news reports, television shows romanticizing psychic detectives and their otherworldly powers, as well other dubious areas of media. Coincidence turns into divine revelation, and failed fore-tellings are pushed aside. However, once facts are laid bare, these reports generally are not as impressive as they would first appear. It would …show more content…
Detectives investigated and search dogs rooted about for a trace that was not to be found. With time steadily slipping by and few leads found, Police Detective Frank Martin decided to venture a different route to find the young track star.

He consulted Valerie Morrison, a psychic, whose clairvoyant powers were known predominately by her friends and neighbors. Upon arrival at Shilie Turner’s home, Vivian King, the mother of the recently missing girl, led the psychic to Shilie’s bedroom. Martin remained downstairs. In minutes a shriek from the bedroom disrupted the silence of the home. King promptly corralled the detective and psychic from her house. According to Morrison, upon entering the bedroom, she fell into a vision and the spirit of young Shilie spoke, pleading with King to confess what she had done to her daughter. Morrison also claims to have seen “Shilie lying dead near trees and water in Fairmount Park, the victim of a violent fight with her mother. (Difilippo)”

A dog walker in Fairmount Park found Shilie’s body under a bush a few weeks later, and King confessed to the murder of her …show more content…
Each participant in a group of twelve psychics was given several sealed envelopes holding envelopes from two unsolved crimes and two solved crimes. The individuals were instructed to describe the crimes, and afterwards open the envelopes and give additional information. The information given was placed in different categories and then compared with the actual facts. The results were less than spectacular. Out of twenty-one important details concerning the first crime, the psychics knew four on average. When the reports for the second crime were compared, only 1.8 of 33 were correct on average. (Stemman, Roy, Donald West, and Richard
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