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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

243: The Psychic Crime Connection

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, True Crime, History, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The long history between psychics and the law has yielded some positive outcomes over the years.

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0:00.0

A dark future. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

0:19.8

In April of 2006, 17-year-old Richard Kelly, a troubled teen and a young gang member from

0:25.2

Limerick Ireland went missing. Panicked, Richard's mother sought the assistance of Dennis Mackenzie,

0:31.1

a clairvoyant who does pro bono psychic reads for missing persons. When Mackenzie meditated on

0:36.1

the case, he saw a vision. Richard's body, with a concrete slab beside it, next to a bridge.

0:42.0

The words, rigid and bodic, kept appearing for Mackenzie, though he didn't know what they meant.

0:48.0

That is, until a fisherman on Lake Bridget, near bodic, county clair, discovered something horrifying.

0:54.3

Tangled underneath his net, was a limb. A limb attached to what he thought was a body.

0:59.3

Sure enough, divers recovered the remains of Richard Kelly the following day.

1:03.7

Concrete slabs and rope were found to fix to Kelly's body. Five men were arrested.

1:08.2

The murder and act of retaliation after Kelly had stolen a car belonging to an opposing

1:12.8

local gang. Dennis Mackenzie's haunting premonitions had seemingly come true, just in time to

1:18.7

solve Kelly's homicide. Though incredibly controversial, the use of psychics, mediums and clairvoyance

1:24.6

to help solve criminal investigations is not entirely uncommon. It's prevalent even.

1:30.0

I used to work on a show a couple years ago with a CSI writer who had once been a sheriff in

1:34.3

LA County. She herself admitted, someone who is a skeptic, that they used psychics when they were

1:39.5

in a bind. Of course, the government has tested psychic capabilities for years as well.

1:44.4

We did an episode on the Stargate project while back. And while skeptics again, abound,

1:49.6

psychics and those they've helped will swear upon certain unseen powers and abilities,

1:54.0

helping bring heinous crimes to justice. Complicated, fascinating, and hard to explain,

2:00.2

let's at least dig in a bit and try. Today, we're talking about some cases solved, at least in

2:05.8

major part, with the help of psychics. In 1961, a famous Dutch psychic or psychometrist, as he

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