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Robert Cracknell - Psychic Detective

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This person was a guest on coast to coast over the weekend. here is the show's link:

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He has a great speaking voice and is a great storyteller if anyone cares to listen. I haven't found much about this person on the internet other than his own website and psychic websites. There doesn't apprear to be a good non-biased neutral source dealing with his claims. If anyone is aware of something please let me know because google wasn't very helpful to me. He has a new book out detailing his life as a psychic detective and made a great guest for coast to coast.

The show was hosted by Ian Punnett who is in my opinion the most fair minded host of the show by far. He doesn't approach skeptic levels of douchebaggery because I he has a job to do but I find he usually asks the obvious questions and doesn't let people off the hook as easily as other hosts of that show. So he never calls the guy a liar, he just lets him talk, but he got a lot of information out of Cracknell.

Cracknell made numerous specific claims about helping the police, making precise predictions about where to find people, who the suspect was, etc. Basically it was to the point where I was convinced that he had to be lying about his past or grossly misrepresenting what happened. Either that or he has actual psychic abilities. He had lots of claims about working with the police and police reports that supported his stories and so on. It was the type of thing that seemingly could be debunked by a good researcher if these facts weren't true. I was wondering what people knew about this character.
 
This guy reminds me of psychic detective Dorothy Allison. She had a few New Jersey detectives as fans.

I read her book years ago. Of course, it is only one side of the story, though you'd think if the detectives disagreed, they would not have allowed themselves to be photographed with her for the back cover of her book.

This Cracknell seems to have something similar going on. I couldn't get onto his web site, though. Something about too much traffic.
 
Nova Land said:
One of my favorite people started a thread about Robert Cracknell over at the Skeptics Society forum about 5 1/2 years ago, also asking for information about him. You can read that thread here: Robert Cracknell publishes new book.

Alas, there's not much information about Cracknell in that thread. But it does indicate that Cracknell has been around for quite a while.
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I found that through my google searches but you're right, it doesn't have a lot of information. It's surprising given the amount of verifiable statements this guy makes that nobody has had reason to disprove some of his claims. Maybe he just isn't that famous.
 
Looking through the forum for any other threads here dealing with Robert Cracknell, I see that he is discussed in one (and, apparently, only one) other thread -- and that was 8 years ago.

It's a long thread, dealing with psychic detectives in general, and Cracknell isn't mentioned until quite a ways in. But if you look at page 17 of the thread Police and Psychics, you'll find a series of posts dealing with Cracknell.

In that series of posts, Cracknell's claims of having made accurate psychic predictions regarding the Yorkshire Ripper case and regarding the murder of Janie Shepherd are examined. The claims do not appear to stand up well to scrutiny.
 
Then there's this, from the Product Description of one of his books on amazon:

Robert cracknell is such a teacher. One of the most famous psychics in Britain, called "Britain's Number-One Psychic Detective," he was tested at Oxford University and scored an astonishing 80% success rate in precognition.
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I wonder if this claim comes straight from the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Reali...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305682832&sr=8-3

I'm curious if he actually has any research to cite, but not curious enough to spend $2.99 plus S&H on the book.
 
ExMinister said:
Then there's this, from the Product Description of one of his books on amazon:



I wonder if this claim comes straight from the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Reali...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305682832&sr=8-3

I'm curious if he actually has any research to cite, but not curious enough to spend $2.99 plus S&H on the book.
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The Society for Psychical Research's review for Cracknell's latest book "The Lonely Sense" (which I will say is entertaining reading for me personally) doesn't mention the incident, although the book itself does. In fact, I can find no corroboration for the incident on the SPR's website.
 
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