Playback: Exposing Psychic Fraudsters

The Modern Mann

Matt Hill

Society & Culture, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Private Investigator Bob Nygaard specialises in bringing psychics to justice. Fortune-tellers, offering palm-reading for as little as ten dollars, are a common sight in New York City. But when they swindle their clients out of six-figure sums, it’s ex-NYPD officer Bob on their case… In this sensational interview with Olly, Bob reveals how the criminals he pursues prey on vulnerable victims, the techniques they use to convince clever professionals to hand-over huge amounts of money, and his fight to convince complacent cops that it’s worth prosecuting and imprisoning these ingenious offenders. CONTENT WARNING: references to suicide. This episode first aired in 2019 under the title, "Credit The Con". Now remastered and with an update from Bob from this month, we paired this episode with our most recent: "When People Disappear". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So retrospectors, what historical events are we ticking off on this week's run of today in history?
0:05.0	On Monday, the anniversary of the day, Ozzy Osbourne and a bat came face to face on stage.
0:10.0	On Tuesday, we go back to the future with a potted history of the DeLorean.
0:14.0	On Wednesday, why is the Pope guarded by those guys in floofy hats?
0:19.0	On Thursday, how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ended up in Cleveland.
0:23.0	And on Friday, was Henry VIII really an asshole, or was it just the result of a jasting
0:27.5	accident?
0:28.3	We discussed this and more on today and history with the retrospectors.
0:31.9	10 minutes each weekday, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.6	Hello, man fans, Olly Man here with our monthly playback edition.
0:39.5	On the last Friday of each month, we resurface an interview from an older edition of our show,
0:44.0	which we think deserves your attention. And we try and pair the topic with our most recent
0:49.3	episode. So in our September edition, when people disappear, we were discussing the police and how they find missing people.
0:57.7	And therefore, there were quite a few editions from our archive, which we could have called upon,
1:02.7	the family liaison officer whom I met in 2020, the courtroom neuroscientist that I interviewed in 2017.
1:10.1	But because our guest in the last episode,
1:12.5	Charlie Hedges, mentioned in passing the detrimental impact on missing persons investigations
1:17.9	that the intervention of psychics can have, people who either genuinely believe they can contact
1:24.1	the spirit world or who are just straight up fraudsters, frankly. It triggered
1:29.5	me to recall this interview from 2019, which we originally released with the title, Credit the
1:35.6	Con. It is my chat with a man called Bob Nygaard. Now, he's a private investigator in New York
1:42.0	City, and he specializes in bringing self-proclaimed
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