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CSICOP on A&E's The Unexplained

Psychic Detectives

Patrick Fitzgerald

June 29, 1998

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Originally aired in January 1997, A&E's The Unexplained episode on "psychic detectives" was repeated this weekend. CSICOP's Joe Nickell made an appearance, as did Gary Posner of the Tampa Bay Skeptics.

Joe threw down a gauntlet for so-called psychic detectives, challenging them to reveal the location of Jimmy Hoffa, or to find the knife used to kill Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Joe Nickell
(1min,9sec, 390k RealVideo)

In one part of the program, a family whose daughter was missing explained how opportunistic "psychic detectives" not only hampered the investigation by bothering the police with false leads, but also caused anguish by telling family members that their daughter was being tortured in someone's basement.

Related Information

Purchase the Video
Books:
- Psychic Sleuths: Esp and Sensational Cases by Joe Nickell (Editor)
A&E Channel
Gary Posner homepage
- Posner vs. Renier on A&E
Search CSICOP: psychic detective, Joe Nickell, Gary Posner

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