Psychic Detectives
Part 2: How Do They Do It?
By Daniel Muniz

When a psychic detective is investigating tough cases like unsolved murders, missing children, and other such crimes, they use their extraordinary powers and their supernatural insight to see horrific events that have already happened in the past. So what is it that these psychics exactly do that allows them to gain information from objects or the personal effects of someone involved in a crime scene?

Here is the simple unvarnished answer.

Psychics do jack [EXPLETIVE DELETED]!

Their methodology is ludicrous at best. For example, they toss out vague descriptions about where a corpse can be found, like in the woods which can easily be almost anywhere in the nation. And if the crime occurred in Arizona or Nevada, then a clairvoyant is now going to see sand dunes in their visions. Overall, it doesn’t take much to cover 95 percent of the land mass of the country. And next, toss in a nearby river, stream, or creek bed and since 70 percent of the planet’s surface is covered by water, all of their bases are now covered.

Now here is the next startling revelation that many psychics often have. They have a vision that a body is buried in a shallow grave. Now how many thugs or wild-eyed hoodlums are going to take the time and effort to dig a hole six feet deep by themselves, particularly if they want to get the hell out of that area as soon as possible?

Here is another common scenario. Suppose that there has been a kidnapping or a missing child. Within 48 hours, a clairvoyant taps into an astral plane and it is revealed that the missing person is still alive.

Now I wish I had those kinds of odds in Vegas. If I did, I would be walking around with a big honking pile of cash in my back pocket. While the mass media eats this stuff up, I am not impressed by a clairvoyant having a fifty percent chance of correctly guessing whether or not someone is dead or alive.

Now suppose six months has elapsed and a psychic is able to exercise his or her supernatural powers to discover that the missing person is indeed dead. Again, I wish I had those kinds of odds when I play the Texas Lottery because I would be walking around with a big smile on my face.

The bottom line is that there is nothing amazing when a clairvoyant makes nebulous generalities about a crime or guesses at an outcome in which the answer is either yes or no. If someone really does have extraordinary supernatural powers, then he or she ought to be able to pinpoint the exact location of where a missing person is instead of spouting off vague descriptions that mean absolutely nothing.

After all, psychics have fantastic powers such as psychometry which is the ability to clairvoyantly gain information from objects or the personal effects of someone, post-cognition which is the ability to clairvoyantly see events in the past, and telepathy which is the ability to clairvoyantly talk to the living and the dead. If so, then they should be able to provide more precise and useful information instead of their gibberish.

However, psychic detectives do claim that their information is indeed accurate.

Well no, it’s not!

Clairvoyants frequently engage in something called retrofitting. With a shotgun effect, they toss out a lot of generalities about a crime. And after the case is closed, they then pick and chose the appropriate vague descriptions and fashion out an amazing story of how “spot on” they were from the very beginning.

But this sort of thing happens all the time. For example, there are people who claim that Nostradamus predicted the attacks of 9-11 and the collapse of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. They point to a nebulous verse of his writings as definitive proof. But if that was really the case, then why weren’t these same individuals proclaiming this stuff “before” it happened. The harsh reality is that they can’t! They will only do it “after” the fact; never before.

Psychic detectives perform the same smoke and mirrors trick with retrofitting; they neatly retrofit their vague predictions after the facts become known. This allows them to parade on television and radio shows explaining how they solved criminal cases when they actually didn’t do anything. But still worse, most of them claim an involvement with law enforcement that never existed. Unfortunately, the mass media never verifies these claims.

Also, one of the reasons why the media loves psychic detectives is because they have good television personalities. After all, these clairvoyants examine evidence, mull over alternatives, apply deductive and inductive reasoning, make careful observations, and discuss their hunches about possible scenarios. But wait a minute, isn’t that the same thing that cops do? Well, yes it is. The cops won’t talk to the media but a psychic will.

The big picture is that law enforcement doesn’t take psychic detectives seriously even though clairvoyants will say otherwise when they are television. Overall, they have no credibility.

Perhaps I am a little harsh on them. If a psychic can tell me the right six numbers to the Texas Lottery, then I might soften my stance. And maybe if they would stop charging people $4.99 a minute on their psychic hotlines or forgo their outrageous consulting fees, then I would probably think differently of them. After all, they already know what the future is so why can’t they call up a stockbroker and invest in the right stocks to make a fortune. Or better yet, why not go into a casino and bankrupt a few black jack tables since they already know what each card is before it is revealed.

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