Jane H Kyle
April 22, 2017

Has the FBI used psychics? Well, did you know that, from 1978 to 1995, the United States Army secretly enlisted the help of psychics, called “remote viewers,” in both domestic and foreign intelligence operations? This covert military program was code named the “Stargate Project.” While the Stargate Project no longer exists, there are plenty of modern-day examples of the US Government, namely the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reaching out to psychics, remote viewers, and even mediums for “intel” about the more mysterious and nagging unsolved crimes on the books. And it’s not just the FBI; police around the globe have sought the help of psychics (or been helped without asking) in some of their most challenging cases.

Surprisingly, psychics have actually been responsible for locating the dead bodies of missing people and bringing long-needed closure to some of the more tragic and violent crimes on record.

Some psychics have been so successful at helping police crack cases over the years that they’ve made entire careers out of it. Anyone who thinks psychics aren’t real may find themselves questioning everything they believe after learning about these real crime cases where the FBI and psychics worked together.

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Debbie Malone Channeled A Victim’s Ghost

When Australian spirit medium Debbie Malone cracked open a 5-year-old missing persons case, she ended up completely solving it. Maria Scott disappeared in February 2003, and, due to her lifestyle as a prostitute, her case was believed to be a suicide and dropped by police without much investigation. However, in 2008, after being brought into the case by local police, Malone suggested that Scott had died from stab wounds on an Australian farm, and that information led police directly to Scott’s body, where the murder weapon – a knife – was also found. Ever since, the medium has helped many people with missing loved ones find closure, but she does not consider herself to be a traditional psychic. Instead, she believes she can communicate with the dead, making her a medium between two worlds.

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Dutch Parapsychologist Gerard Croiset Found A Brooklyn Kidnapper

In 1961, Brooklyn detectives asked famous Dutch parapsychologist and clairvoyant, Gerard Croiset, to help find a missing girl, Edith Kiecorius. While Croiset was happy to help, he asked to stay back home in the Netherlands, needing only a photo and some clothes of Edith’s, along with a map, to help. Astonishingly, Croiset was able to envision the specific location of Edith’s dead body, which he described as “a grey building with five floors.” This, along with other details, led police to a boarding house at 307 West Twentieth Street, where Edith’s body was found in a second-floor room. Although Edith’s life could not be saved, her murderer was brought to justice.

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Joseph McMoneagle ‘Remotely Viewed’ The Iranian Hostage Crisis

In the late 1970s, retired army officer Joseph McMoneagle worked in secret for the US Government as a member of the Stargate Project. As part of the Project, he and others were trained in the art of “remote viewing,” a process in which a person travels through space and time… in their mind! However science fiction-like this seems, McMoneagle really did remotely view (in other words, spy on) a Chinese nuclear facility, the Iranian hostage crisis, and Lybian politician Muammar Qadhafi, providing the US Government with vital information after each of his ‘trips.’ After serving, McMoneagle went on to make many public appearances about how remote viewing can aid police investigators.

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Philippe Durante Used A Lock Of A Victim’s Hair To Solve The Case

After an Australian woman named Paula Brown went missing in 1996, her grief-stricken fiancé hired psychic Philippe Durant to help find her. By chance, a passing truck driver discovered the woman’s dead body soon after. But, when this happened, it ended up proving Durant’s predictions regarding where the body would be located correct. Durant only needed a lock of the victim’s hair, a plumb line, and a grid map to locate the body.

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Pascarella Downey’s Spooky Predictions About A Murder Case Came True 30 Years Later

One of the spookier cases of a psychic detective out there is that of Pascarella Downey, who was asked to help investigate the brutal murder of a woman named Penny Serra in Connecticut in 1971.

Downey claimed the murderer smelled of oil, wore a mechanic’s clothes, and had a name badge that began with the letter E. She also told police that the murderer would not be found right away, but “blood can tell.” Sure enough, a man named Edward Grant was convicted of the murder nearly 30 years later, and he was a car mechanic at the time of the crime.

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Noreen Renier Brought A Small-Town Rapist To Justice

Noreen Renier is one of the more well-known “psychic detectives” in the country, having worked on several hundred unsolved crime cases to date. She’s even given lectures to the FBI. Early in her career, Renier helped the Staunton, VA police force identify a mystery rapist who would wear a mask during his attacks. She recalls that, during a lecture she was giving at a local community college, the sister of one of the rapist’s victims exhorted her to help them find the serial assailant. Renier was able to figure out that the rapist had “a scar on his right knee” and wore “a green uniform with his name on it.” The rapist was eventually apprehended. One detective later said of Renier: “I’m glad I used a psychic because it opens up a whole new avenue of investigation; we had nothing to lose by using her and everything to gain.”

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Etta Louise Smith Was Arrested Because Her Vision Was So Accurate

Whether Etta Louise Smith is a real psychic or not is a matter of debate, but she certainly solved the murder of California nurse Melanie Uribe before the police did. Smith shared with police a vision she had of the murder victim’s body being in Lopez Canyon in Los Angeles County, but they swept her claims aside. However, Smith was so confident in her vision that she went ahead of investigators and physically located the body before they could. Some people suspected that her identity as a psychic was just a cover for her true source of information, so much so that she was arrested. The arrest would eventually be deemed wrongful, but the fact that Smith only had one, single psychic vision leaves many still suspicious about her true ability.

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Renowned Psychic Annette Martin Found A Missing Paratrooper

A California police sergeant had no leads in the case of a missing retired paratrooper named Dennis Prado. That was until the late famous psychic Annette Martin told him that Prado had died of natural causes and circled a spot on a map where she said they would find his body – but only with the help of dogs. All those details ended up coming true. Among Martin’s many claims to fame is that she “was the first psychic to be able to testify as a witness in a murder case.”

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Nancy Myer Proved The Police’s Hunches Wrong

Nancy Myer is a police psychic who has allegedly solved 80% of the 300 cases she’s been given. Her first major break in a criminal case came in 1977 when she helped police locate a rapist who had been terrorizing Wilmington, DE. Although they were skeptical, police took her to the homes of the victims, and, at these homes, Myer had vivid visions of the crimes that showed her the face of the perpetrator. Eventually, these visions led her to a house that the rapist visited on a daily basis. After questioning the building’s owner, police apprehended the assailant, solidifying Myer’s status as a psychic detective.

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Angela Thompson Smith Located A Victim Through Remote Viewing

Angela Thompson Smith is skilled at the specific psychic art of “remote viewing,” in which an individual travels through time and space in their mind. It is easy to see how a skill like this could come in handy for a police detective. Smith has trained hundreds of aspiring remote viewers over the years.

In 2006, Las Vegas photographer Robert Knight consulted Smith when he was unable to get in touch with a close friend. Smith and her group of remote viewers reported to Knight that his friend had died, and his body was likely located in a body of water off the California coast. It turns out the corpse of Knight’s friend had indeed been found in that location, and, while Knight was not able to save him, he was able to identify the body at the county morgue. Eventually, after the discovery and identification of the body, police tracked down and convicted the murderer.

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Phil Jordan Created A Mental Map To Find A Missing Six-Year-Old Boy

New York-based psychic detective and Pastor, Phil Jordan, has helped solve many cases over the past few decades. His journey as a police detective began in 1974 when Jordan learned of a six-year old boy who had gone missing during a violent thunderstorm in the woods of upstate New York. Jordan was able to draw a map that located the boy as alive and sitting under a tree in the forest. The map proved to be instrumental in locating the boy. With his special abilities, Jordan was able to achieve what over 200 searchers were not able to do.

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Carole Pate Brought A Cold Missing Persons Case New Life

Carol Pate began working with police to solve missing person cases at the early age of 12. In 2016, Pate enlivened a 29-year-old closed missing persons case. In 1987, 55-year-old Arkansas resident Patsy Clark disappeared, and her case was eventually closed after no leads turned up. However, Pate led family members to a “cow pasture in a wooded area” that she had visions about. It turns out that Clark frequented the area and very well could have been there the day of her disappearance. The case is currently being investigated.

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Troy Griffin, The ‘Intuitive Detective,’ Brought A Family Closure

Troy Griffin discovered his special gift of “intuition,” as he prefers to call it, at the age of 12 when he accurately predicted the car crash of a friend. Luckily, his friend was not injured, but the event impacted Griffin so deeply that he went on to pursue a career as a “psychic detective.”

His career technically began when a fellow medium introduced him to an unsolved murder case in the Bronx, New York, which Griffin had impossible knowledge about. More notably, the television show Nightline spotlighted a client of Griffin’s, who described how, in 2014, the psychic detective told her that her missing brother was “very close to home and surrounded by water.”

Her brother’s dead body was indeed found in a nearby creek shortly thereafter. Griffin went on to create North American Psychic Investigations, a volunteer organization made up of psychic detectives.

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