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  Sceptics dream of world without woo-woo
Jan 24, 2012
Brian Cox on TVA Blog I wrote back in July 2011 on Prof Brian Cox has upset some of his supporters once again. Author Michael Prescott has recently posted a link to my piece and all of a sudden I've found myself on the receiving end of comments from people who, for the most part, seem to know as little about the paranormal as the particle physicist himself. My criticism of Cox at the time was that he was totally dismissive of ghosts. For the record, I don't which of the many theories about ghosts or apparitions is closest to the truth, but I do know that enough people have reported their ghostly experiences for most reasonable people to accept that it is a phenomenon worthy of investigation. I wasn't planning to return to the subject so soon, but the pin-up boy of astronomy, who pops up on television almost daily, has done it again - this time... more
  Psychic helps professor find father
Jul 16, 2011
Sorpong PeouFor decades, Prof Sorpong Peou believed his father to be dead – executed by the Khmer Rouge. But a vivid dream and the insistence of a psychic have led the family to an emotional reunion in their home country, Cambodia. Peou, who is Chairman of the Politics Department at Winnipeg University, Manitoba, Canada, told his story to Winnipeg Free Press on Monday, followed by an interview on Thursday with Canada's CTV morning news programme. Sorpong Peou was just 17 and the eldest of seven children in 1975 when he saw his father, Nam, a government official, being thrown into a blue truck with others and driven away.... more
  Brian Cox is a nobber
Jul 9, 2011
Brian CoxParticle physicist Brian Cox has angered many by mocking people who believe in ghosts and the afterlife. He did so on Twitter after learning that the BBC had received complaints that Infinite Monkey Cage, the Radio 4 show he hosts with comedian Robin Ince, was unbalanced in an episode dealing with the paranormal. Prof Cox – a former keyboard player in 1990s pop groups before focusing on cosmology and becoming a star presenter on television (a sort of supernova) – responded to the criticism by Twittering:... more
  Psychic's grave undertaking
Apr 1, 2011
Roy Stemman and Ian LawtonUPDATED, 9 April: No tears were shed when Ian Lawman, a British TV psychic and exorcist, was laid to rest on a windswept hill in the West Midlands today. I was among those who attended his interment, which turned out to be a fun event for all involved, including Ian. In fact, he happily posed for photographs before his burial (right). As you will have guessed by now, Ian - whose TV appearances have included Most Haunted, I'm Famous and Frightened, and Fit and Fearless - was not dead when they buried him. And he doesn't plan to be dead when they dig him up again in seven days' time. So why has the self-styled "bad boy of the psychic world" decided to subject himself to the ordeal of being entombed in a coffin six feet underground, beneath two tonnes of soil? To raise £10,000 for The Blue Lamp Foundation, which was set up by PC David Rathband for injured emergency service workers after he was blinded when gunman Raoul Moat went on a rampage last year. The buried-alive event took place ... more
  Dream leads police to wrong body
Aug 18, 2010
Keisha AbrahamAn Australian woman, Cheryl Carroll-Lagerway, dreamt a girl had been murdered and her body discarded in a bushland park in west Sydney. Sure enough, when she led police to the creek bed she had seen in her dream a body was found ... but it was the wrong body! Instead of six-year-old Kiesha Abrahams (above), who had been missing for two weeks, the police found half a torso of an adult woman, believed to be Kristi McDougall, a 31-year-old mother with a son aged two, who has been missing since 19 June. Cheryl, who is described in some media accounts as an aboriginal elder, said ... more
  Psychic helps find missing kids
Aug 17, 2010
How many children are reported missing in the United States each day? The answer – 2,000 – is astonishing. That means 800,000 kids younger than 18 disappear each year. Most, thank goodness, eventually turn up. But those who are abducted may experience years of abuse, while others, tragically, are murdered. It's a huge problem and among those tackling it, on a voluntary basis, is the national Guardians of the Children (GOC). They have many successes to their credit, but now the Mt St Helen's Chapter has a new secret weapon - psychic Sonja Grace. I have already reported how the Norwegian-born "spiritual intuitive" guided GOC searchers to the body of Austin King, a missing teenager in Lewis County, Washington. I have also quoted the testimony of Michael Thornbrue who told me how Sonja Grace pinpointed on a map the precise position of a 10-year-old boy in woods on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Now I'd like to share with you the remarkable experiences of Jennifer Mau (top), who helped found GOC's Mt St Helen's chapter with her boyfriend, David, and has been working closely with the Portland psychic on several cases, often with astonishing results.... more
 
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