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Psychics and Missing People

KellyJ said:
Do your talents lie on the Web related end of the spectrum, or do you also write?
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Mostly web stuff. I can write, and in fact I've had a few TLA nominations, for whatever that's worth. Never won, mind you...

What did you have in mind?
 
There's a few things I would like to have.

1) A dialog between a missing person family and a psychic that shows the methods the psychic uses to extract information and convince the family that they really do have paranormal abilities.

2) A summary of Sylvia Browne and her grand manipulations, including her apparent refusal to take the Challenge

3) An article about the tricks used by TV psychics: what really goes on behind the scenes

4) I don't know much about Remote Viewing, so I'd like an article about what that is and why it's another false claim

5) A brief history of related paranormal activity in the USA, starting with the Fox sisters

6) A summary of the various methods used by psychics

There may be others I am forgetting right now. I know there are several writers out there. Any and all help is appreciated.

Thank you.

Kelly
 
Kelly, as part of my research, I've visited Florida's Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp which was the southern retreat for the Spiritualists who founded Lily Dale in New York State, where Spiritualism got its start in the U.S. and incubated. I do not have info directly related to psychic detectives, but I can report what I found out about psychics, firsthand. I attended their Sunday morning Lyceum, their church service, and the two hours of Sunday afternoon readings that experienced and student mediums hold for the public. I don't know if that would be specific enough, though.
 
KellyJ said:
There's a few things I would like to have.

1) A dialog between a missing person family and a psychic that shows the methods the psychic uses to extract information and convince the family that they really do have paranormal abilities.

2) A summary of Sylvia Browne and her grand manipulations, including her apparent refusal to take the Challenge

3) An article about the tricks used by TV psychics: what really goes on behind the scenes

4) I don't know much about Remote Viewing, so I'd like an article about what that is and why it's another false claim

5) A brief history of related paranormal activity in the USA, starting with the Fox sisters

6) A summary of the various methods used by psychics

There may be others I am forgetting right now. I know there are several writers out there. Any and all help is appreciated.

Thank you.

Kelly
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Hi Kelly,

There are others here much more knowledgeable about these things than I am; in fact I'm no expert at all. I really only know about these topics from what I read here and a few other places on the web. CFLarsen has some great articles. Also, the Skeptic's Dictionary and Skeptic Wiki have a lot of information.

It might be worth your while contecting the people at twopercentco to see if you can use their series on Allison DuBois.

Perhaps I'm best helping with the web site: coding, testing, hosting, or anything else.
 
Mariah said:
Kelly, as part of my research, I've visited Florida's Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp which was the southern retreat for the Spiritualists who founded Lily Dale in New York State, where Spiritualism got its start in the U.S. and incubated. I do not have info directly related to psychic detectives, but I can report what I found out about psychics, firsthand. I attended their Sunday morning Lyceum, their church service, and the two hours of Sunday afternoon readings that experienced and student mediums hold for the public. I don't know if that would be specific enough, though.
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I've never heard of these places, but I am sure your observances would be helpful. Not all articles will be specifically about missing person's cases, but as long as the reader can draw a rational conclusion from knowledge of the methods used, I'm sure it would be vaulable.

Thank you.
 
logical muse said:
Hi Kelly,

There are others here much more knowledgeable about these things than I am; in fact I'm no expert at all. I really only know about these topics from what I read here and a few other places on the web. CFLarsen has some great articles. Also, the Skeptic's Dictionary and Skeptic Wiki have a lot of information.

It might be worth your while contecting the people at twopercentco to see if you can use their series on Allison DuBois.

Perhaps I'm best helping with the web site: coding, testing, hosting, or anything else.
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Aw, thanks for the reminders on those links. I know those will be helpful when writing the summaries of methods used, etc.

It may be possible that there are future website needs as we see how this venture grows.

I will be sure to let Mr. Randi know (when he is better) what a huge help his members have been.
 
I have posted information about the start of the blog series in the Community forum area.

Thank you, and good night.
 
CFLarsen said:
Unverifiable anecdote.



Please identify this "gifted" person.

Please provide information about this case so we can verify just what this "gifted" person did.
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I didn't want to provide too many details as this person doesn't like to draw too much attention to himself although I did see an article from the newspaper at the time. I would like to add that he never charged for this service and he is the brother of someone very close to me who has since passed on.

Alex Tanous' brother, Wakine, is an attorney. Both Alex and Wakine were friends of the family I was speaking about above.
 
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Hardenbergh said:
I didn't want to provide too many details as this person doesn't like to draw too much attention to himself although I did see an article from the newspaper at the time. I would like to add that he never charged for this service and he is the brother of someone very close to me who has since passed on.

Alex Tanous' brother, Wakine, is an attorney. Both Alex and Wakine were friends of the family I was speaking about above.
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Please name the newspaper the article appeared in, and, if you can, the date the article appeared. (Month and year; I don't expect you to remember the exact date).
 
Gr8wight said:
Please name the newspaper the article appeared in, and, if you can, the date the article appeared. (Month and year; I don't expect you to remember the exact date).
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His brother showed me a copy of the article but this was many years ago. I assume it was a newspaper in northern Maine (either the Bangor Daily News, Katahdin Press, Lincoln News or some such newspaper in or around Millinocket).
 
Hardenbergh said:
His brother showed me a copy of the article but this was many years ago. I assume it was a newspaper in northern Maine (either the Bangor Daily News, Katahdin Press, Lincoln News or some such newspaper in or around Millinocket).
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If our university library does not have this on microfilm, I have friends in Portland who would be able to find it in their library. Please try to narrow down the date--talk to his brother if you need to.
 
Good morning Hardenbergh.

Hardenbergh said:
I didn't want to provide
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I do believe you were asked nicely to start your own thread if you have something to say about this. This thread is about providing grieving parents and family information on how to protect themselves against the second wave of predators, like your friends Alex, and Wakine.
If you wish to provide evidence that psychics have some ability to help, do so in a new thread.
If you would like to talk about all the pain they cause a family and the valuable police time and resources they waste, then all means give us your examples.
Please do not continue to blather on about your deluded friends in this thread.
[FONT=&quot] JPK[/FONT]
 
Good morning KellyJ.

I moved this post from the other thread. I don't know if you saw it or not.
Originally Posted by KellyJ :
Is there anything still on the web about this that shows the error of Carla's ways on this case?

I think this is the one where the dad claimed he couldn't remember where he placed their bodies. The mother spent alot of time going back and forth on I-80 looking for them.

Yes that is the case. I think I read in one of your posts that you are aware of I.I.G.
Here is a link to their investigation into Carla Baron's claims of success.
http://www.iigwest.com/carla_report.html
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular] Sarah and Philip Gehring was thier names. [/FONT]
That case is mentioned there but it hasn't been updated.
JPK
 
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JPK said:
Good morning Hardenbergh.



I do believe you were asked nicely to start your own thread if you have something to say about this. This thread is about providing grieving parents and family information on how to protect themselves against the second wave of predators, like your friends Alex, and Wakine.
If you wish to provide evidence that psychics have some ability to help, do so in a new thread.
If you would like to talk about all the pain they cause a family and the valuable police time and resources they waste, then all means give us your examples.
Please do not continue to blather on about your deluded friends in this thread.
[FONT=&quot] JPK[/FONT]
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I'm aware that there are more charlatans than not but I'm confident that there are many that have helped the police. I'm very sorry that the author of this thread has had this experience. I'll say no more about it.
 
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