The abduction of Trenton Duckett had a few people asking on the Trenton Duckett blog why or if the family had sought the assistance of a psychic. Some posters specifically mentioned Sylvia Browne but why?
On January 12 2007, fifteen-year-old Shawn Hornbeck was found alive after having been missing for four years.
Three years before Shawn was found, his parents – Pam and Craig Akers – appeared on the Montel Williams show to ask Sylvia Browne’s help in locating their missing son. She told them Shawn was dead.
In the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) publication “When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide” they offer this advice
Psychics
Keep an open mind — and a closed pocketbook — when considering the use of a psychic. Most parents are desperate to try anything, but they need to understand that there are very few true psychics. Many are fraudulent or, at best, misguided individuals who want to help so much that they have self-induced visions. Hearing their sometimes negative dreams and visions can cause undue stress, a loss of hope, or an unfounded sense of hope. If you are considering turning to a psychic, remember the following tips:
- Ask someone close to the family to record any psychic leads, because the information is usually distressing. Give all such leads to law enforcement.
- If any lead is highly specific, such as a particular address, insist that law enforcement check it out. Follow up with law enforcement to find out the value of the lead.
- Never allow a psychic to go into your child’s room unattended or to take items without making arrangements for their return.
Regardless of whether some psychics have true visions, any purportedly psychic dream may be an actual observation by someone who is afraid to get involved. That is why even psychic leads need to be checked out whenever possible.
Visit the Missing People Podcast site and click on Interviews where you will find various interviews concerning missing children. Among them you will find a link for “StopSylviaBrowne” a site founded by Robert Lancaster.
The investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance six weeks ago from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, a resort on the Algarve coast, is being led by Portugal’s Policia Judiciaria, which has received the tip-off letter with accompanying map sent to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
Visit Project Jason-Voice for the Missing and read what one parent of a missing children has to say in this Psychics and Missing People Series
Update 09-24-07
LEESBURG, Fla. — A tip from a psychic prompted another search for missing toddler Trenton Duckett.
Investigators used a cadaver dog to search the area around Goose Creek Road and County Road 452 in Lake County on Sunday night.
Update 10-02-07 The parents of missing Madeleine McCann are considering the use of a psychic according to the Times Online.
Friends said that the McCann family were now so desperate for information about Madeleine’s whereabouts that they were considering employing a psychic. Mr and Mrs McCann have already consulted a book by Gordon Smith, who claims to be Britain’s “most accurate medium”, and are being urged by other members of the family to seek his views directly.
According to Gordon Smith’s website there is a difference between a Psychic and a Medium. While he may be the self proclaimed Britain’s “most accurate medium”, his site doesn’t discuss his Psychic abilities as they relate to finding missing people. Are the parents possibly under the assumption Madeleine is no longer alive?
How is a medium different from a psychic?
A medium makes contact with the spirit relatives of the person they are reading for. A psychic is someone who can pick up information about the living person’s life. Most mediums are also psychic.
Orlando Sentinel Psychic ‘tips’ fail again — what a shock
Maggie Giono is a clairvoyant who “channels” to look for missing children, sells real estate and is according to the article above, provided one of 76 psychics tips received by Leesburg Police.
“There are no cases in which a psychic unequivocally helped find a missing person,” wrote Dr. Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and a columnist for Scientific American. “The equivocation comes in where a psychic may make dozens of guesses, in which one of them turns out to be right, or where a psychic may say something generic like, ‘I’m getting a body of water.’ What does that mean? The ocean, a lake, pond, swimming pool?
Interesting UK Forum on psychics
What if a psychic isn’t what they profess to be?
ST. CLOUD (FOX 9) — Police have found no connection between a now-deceased Milwaukee man who told his psychiatrist he killed a child, and the abduction of Jacob Wetterling in St. Joseph in 1989.
62-year-old Vernon Seitz gave a deathbed confession to his psychiatrist that he shot a child in 1958 in Racine, Wis., long before Jacob Wetterling was abducted. But by his own admission, Seitz was obsessed with Jacob Wetterling.
However, according to Jacob’s mother, he approached the Wetterling family as a psychic not as a someone solely interested in missing children cases.
“When we met him, he came to us suggesting that he had some psychic interest in helping us find Jacob,” says mother Patty. “And we listened to anyone back then who thought they could help find Jacob.”
The disappearance of Haleigh Cummings has received extensive coverage from Jacksonville, Fl. First Coast News, but this story about a potential “psychic” sighting has many viewers confused.
Woman Dreams About Haleigh Cummings Being in Missouri
JACKSONVILLE, FL — A young woman living on the Southside says she had a vision about the missing little girl while sleeping.
She dreamed about Haleigh Cummings being in Missouri.
Melanie says she dreamed about an open field in a city called “Adison.” She woke up to look at the map. There is no town in Missouri named Adison, but there is one called Madison.
Melanie felt a little weird. The last time she had a vision like this it involved a boat that caught fire. She says soon after that dream, there was a boat fire.
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I’ve developed an ability to ask a question, then with my eyes shut tight, flip through a dictionary and point my finger to the page. I land on relevant words MUCH more frequently than would be expected by chance. This doesn’t prove that the information is true, it only shows that the words landed on are relevant more often than expected. Last night I did three (and only three) questions regarding Madeleine:
Q. “Where is Madeleine McCann?”
A. I landed halfway between these two words:
escrow : something held independently until a condition is met
escudo : unit of Portuguese currency
Q. “But where is she?”
A. pressure cabin : an airtight cabin in an aircraft or spaceship
Q. “Come on, I need a specific location.”
A. I landed on a map of Morocco, specifically, Marrakesh
I went ahead and reported this information, on the off chance that I’m actually psychic.
I called the England phone number listed at http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/
(011) 44 1883 731 336.
There are 1000s of fake psychics but I offer this for free. I believe Madeleine was abducted by a tenage girl (18/19). She lives alone with a boy about 15 (brother?) in a house in a wooded area. There is a large lock-up garage and an old brown car (rounded shape, old Citroen style?). Madeleine has plenty of water to drink and adequate food. But the boy is jealous of her. There’s a cave at the back of the house. I think the girl make work in a child-caring capacity e.g bay sitter/creche so check the staff in the area.
I’ve had a few successes in the past but no clairvoyance can be guaranteed.
I don’t want publicity so there’s no need to contact me. I’m retired, living in England.
I send all my good wishes and I’m optimistic about the outcome.
I think these stories we feel about Madeliane are interesting, Im not psychic or anything like that, but just after Madelaine dis-appeared I woke up with a voice saying to me “the wee girl is in Algeria” its weird to say the least but as Madelaine is in everyones thoughts I suppose these weird dreams occur.
I also had a strong feeling that she was in Morocco , even before I read of that woman’s sighting of her in Marrakech. I’m not psychic either,altho have had ‘visions’ of dead people. The strong feeling I had of her being in Morocco could have also come from just common sense. It would have been so easy to drive from Portugal – Spain and take the ferry to Morrocco and be there by the next morning , before the police even started their investigation. Also I think there is a ferry from Portugal – Morocco not sure, its many years since I lived in Tangier.
Wife came home tonight from her ‘meeting’ convinced that she’d “seen” something.
(She’s a beleiver/see’er/visioner/whatever and I’m a sceptic, but I thought I’d share this – she also says my wee girl has the ‘gift’ too)
Anyway, according to my wife’s vision –
Madeleine is in a cabin type building, 30ft down an embankment from a highway, with woods around the other three sides of the cabin.
There is a stream nearby .
The field over the road has cows in it.
The police have been to this cabin, but she wasn’t there when they checked, she was brought after the police had left.
She also saw a wall, last remaining wall of a ruined house, that either had 50km painted on it, or she was being told that it was 50km away from the place of abduction.
She was abducted and put in the boot of an old style red ford escort that has an old fashioned number plate with only 4 digits/letters.
(yes, I did ask if she managed to read the number plate, obviously not…)
Now the scary bit –
My wife kept saying ‘sixth…sixth’ she thinks that Madeleine is the 6th girl taken by these people – 3 of them, one female, one large man with a big gold sovereign ring.
Whilst my wife was out, my 6 year old daughter was drawing pictures (as wee girls do) – and she didn’t want me to look at one as it was ‘for mummy’.
It was a picture of “5 angels – the little girls who had died”
My wife thinks that as of 10pm tonight, she is still alive and has not been raped, but she “has a very bad feeling about tonight”…….
The other 5 girls are buried very near the same cabin.
I hope and pray that most of this is wrong – as I say, I’m a sceptic, but some of the stuff she occasionally comes away with has been proven to be spot on.
Oh, just reading back – I forgot a bit.
The girl can see the cars passing out the window, but knows thay can’t hear her.
Also – my wife is sure that madeleine has been along that stretch of highway in the car with her mum and dad.
Barry’s wife’s visions are eerily similar to a psychic’s in New Zealand:
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I pray she is found, and that she is alive and not been hurt in any way. He thinks this is the case, and so I hold on to the hope that he is for real.
A Living Prayer for Madeleine
June 20th, 2007
One Love ~ One Heart ~ One Body ~One Mind
Together lives, beats, feels and knows
Madeleine is alive, well and awaiting a homecoming.
It is our pull WORLD THAT WILL CREATE THIS MIRACLE.
Imagine her already home, imagine with all your might.
Because when you do, the magnet of attraction
Is the gravitation principle working in the charming mystery.
We are the change we wish to see in the world.
Fire the Grid with hearts that care
It is NOW we reach CRITICAL MASS friends.
By uniting in this SINGULARITY cause
We are about to see Maddie returned
And innocence for children restored.
Feel the kindred spirit grow and grow
Into the body of the new HUMAN
And feel your overwhelming gratefulness in gratitude
As your mind’s eye envisions a family retored.
Toghether we are the creation of our will.
Do this with joy, peace and trust,
The easiest way to do this is…
Feel your own joy as you feel theirs.
Feel you own tears as you see them embrace their little girl
Feel your delight as you say thank you thank you thank you GOD
Bless Us One & All
~ Mary
I don’t know if this is an actual true premonition but I had this dream about a young girl in a cabin. She was running through the cabin, trying to escape from a large man. She reached a door and tried closing it behind her, but the door wouldn’t lock, the door knob had been broken. The man grabs her and then I wake up. I still remember that before I woke up I saw that there were woods surrounding the cabin. Anyway I went back to sleep and when I did I started dreaming again. This time I was a boy, or atleast I think I was. The same thing happened but this time I escaped into the woods, and that’s when I woke up. I don’t know if what I dreamt is real, but I do know that I have dreamt real things that have actually happened in the past. So please do read this and check it out. THANKS!!
Has anyone contacted the police on these dreams or visions, or, are they just left for people to read and wonder. It seems strange that all mention woods etc!!!
Thank you to all who put energy into finding this lil girl..
Any “psychics” (I say it like that because some people don’t like that term) that can help me find missing sisters? Please contact me at cariny526@aim.com Family needs help with this …thank you!
Psychics, such as myself, do not solve crimes. Instead, we can provide information that Police can use to solve crimes.
Many cops do develop a keen intuition during their time in the year, this intution, sometimes called ‘The Blue Sense’, is often not recognized for being what it is, -a paranormal sensing of information with a lot of unconscious observation of crime scene details, as well as a good understanding of criminal psychology.
There are many talented psychics who use their gifts to help find missing loved ones or to help in crime investigations.
The most dependable ones usualy are those who perform their services for free, or for free with regard to these cases.
Though I am a psychic, I would advise the friends and family of the missing/victims never to pay money for the mere hope of obtaining vital information and new leads.
Instead, a more reliable approach would be to pray God directs you to those who will play a part to produce justice in a case and who can help bring back a missing loved one.
-Jason Gammon
owner/moderator
Spirit_Readings_4_Free
I certainly believe that psychics can help aid in finding children. My mother actually used to do this faithfully once per week with some child find agency. They didn’t give her details on the case, just the basics. I think they actually compared what she said to the other psychics she was working with. I have personally started meditating about a year ago, and I have just recently been given certain names during the meditation. I am still very new at this, and would love to one day help with the aid of finding even just one missing child. Every bit makes a difference. I hesistate to turn in any info that I hear, because I don’t want bring hope if there is none, and send police on a wild goose chase for nothing. I hope to further increase the skills that I think I am slowly developing for the future, and maybe I will have a hit on something. I am a mother of three, and feel for each family that has a missing child, or has lost one as a result. I can’t even imagine the pain they must feel, and hope I never do. In the meantime, I have been faithfully searhing the missing persons website to see if any of the children are missing that I have heard the names of. So far, so good. I just hope that I am not hearing these names of any child that will be missing in the future. All I can do is pray that none of it happens, and hope that all of law enforcement keep doing the great jobs that they are doing, and never give up the search for a missing child. God Bless!