On Tues night I watched a follow up to the show. The producers had been approached by a man who was a member of the skeptics society and was a expert in body language and worked for the police sitting in on interviews and detecting when people are lying (as a human lie detector). He was invited to join the crew during a session with a psychic.
The case they'd selected was a bit different. The police report stated that the lady in question had died after falling downstairs and being exfiated on her own blood. The lady's son (an extreme radical) had protested for many years that his mother had been murdered and the police were with holding. again the pschic was given no information, only a photo placed face down.
The skeptic was interviewed at the start of the show and said he had watched the series and could duplicate whatever the so called psychic did using cold calling. He sat in the room with the psychic, a camera man and sound man. Within five minutes he was completely baffled. After going on location he was a confused emotional wreck. He said the experience had turned all his beliefs inside out and he had no choice to believe that the psychic had in fact communicating with dead lady.
During the second half of the show they did a follow up on the previous cases they'd investigated. In some incidents local police who'd watched the show made contact with producers and were interviewed thanking the psychics for information that lead to arrests. In all the cases they stated that the psychics gave information that was only known to the police directly involved with the case. Interestingly some police (mainly in the larger cities) refused to comment or become involved.
Lallymac
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