Polterwurst
Paranormal Adept
Hiho. Calling all forum members from New Zealand.
1. Does anybody have any insights if the claims of the TV series "Sensing Murder" (which I ashamedly admit I had never heard about until now, but what can you do, living on the other side of the planet ) that they tested lots of psychics for their programme and that the psychics are never given any information beforehand are valid?
2. Have there been any independent updates to cases like this one, which remained open at the end of the episode, which either confirmed or contradicted the information received by the psychics?
For people like me who didn't know this existed: the programme is basically following the work of psychics who have been asked by the family of a missing person, a person killed under suspicious circumstances or in clear and unsolved murder cases, to try and get information on this person in their own way. The psychics are allegedly "put to the test" in that they are not given any information beforehand and, often independent from each other, seem to come up with astonishing verifiable detail.
If any of this is for real, it would of course be proof positive that "psychic detectives" do tap into anomalous information and could really be helpful to the police.
The programme also says that only about three in a hundred psychics pass their tests which are conducted to select a psychic before the shows are recorded. Which would fit my theory that the psychics we mostly hear from, like Ed Dames, maybe had one or two hits but mostly are just "receiving" their own imagination.
Yeah, sure, it's only entertainment, they are all about mystery and sensationalism, and they cheated on Ghosthunters, why shouldn't the be doing that here (yada yada )... but the show actually seems to be more decent than most I've seen lately.
I know there's people from New Zealand here so I though I might give it a try to dig up more info.
Here's a playlist of further episodes, for those who are interested.
Popular Sensing Murder Videos - YouTube
1. Does anybody have any insights if the claims of the TV series "Sensing Murder" (which I ashamedly admit I had never heard about until now, but what can you do, living on the other side of the planet ) that they tested lots of psychics for their programme and that the psychics are never given any information beforehand are valid?
2. Have there been any independent updates to cases like this one, which remained open at the end of the episode, which either confirmed or contradicted the information received by the psychics?
For people like me who didn't know this existed: the programme is basically following the work of psychics who have been asked by the family of a missing person, a person killed under suspicious circumstances or in clear and unsolved murder cases, to try and get information on this person in their own way. The psychics are allegedly "put to the test" in that they are not given any information beforehand and, often independent from each other, seem to come up with astonishing verifiable detail.
If any of this is for real, it would of course be proof positive that "psychic detectives" do tap into anomalous information and could really be helpful to the police.
The programme also says that only about three in a hundred psychics pass their tests which are conducted to select a psychic before the shows are recorded. Which would fit my theory that the psychics we mostly hear from, like Ed Dames, maybe had one or two hits but mostly are just "receiving" their own imagination.
Yeah, sure, it's only entertainment, they are all about mystery and sensationalism, and they cheated on Ghosthunters, why shouldn't the be doing that here (yada yada )... but the show actually seems to be more decent than most I've seen lately.
I know there's people from New Zealand here so I though I might give it a try to dig up more info.
Here's a playlist of further episodes, for those who are interested.
Popular Sensing Murder Videos - YouTube
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