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In this article it explains the story of Troy Griffin, a man who believes he himself claims to be a psychic detective. He has had several experiences happen to him, for one; for-seeing the future of a car accident before it happened. One case he was able to uncover was of a lady named Lora Hale Costner who had been missing for three weeks in Tennessee in 2016. He reported being able to see pictures, places and things of the location she had vanished. He also mentioned that there was a drug use by the victim. It turned out Lora was was found dead and 19-year-old McKinley Lane Cody was indicted for allegedly robbing Lora Costner of prescription pain medication and then murdering her by hitting her in the back of the head.

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This video connects to Unexplained as it shows Troy Griffin being able to discover details of the death of Lora Hale Costner. Though there is no reasoning for him to be able to wit-hold this information. This could also connect to Mystical Energy as Psychic Detectives believe they are being told by certain "energies" as the dead are trying to communicate the results to them. This could be what Troy Griffin believes he has experienced while helping solve the case.

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Troy Griffin saw a dear friend get into a car accident six years ago.

Trouble is, it hadn't happened - yet.

"I told my friend Diana, 'I'm concerned about you driving home,' " Griffin, 51, tells me. The crash occurred as Griffin foresaw it. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.

But from that moment forward, Griffin could no longer deny something he'd known from the age of 12. He says he's "psychic," "clairvoyant" or a "medium" - horror-meister Stephen King would say he's saddled with "The Shining" - although Griffin prefers the term "intuitive."

He says he can predict things people will say before they say them and events that will happen before they happen.

He also sees dead people. Or so he claims.

Here are two recent cases in which he's used his sixth sense:

Lora Hale Costner, a 42-year-old mother of two, went missing for three weeks in Tennessee earlier this year, and her sister-in-law was frantic. She asked Griffin to take the case after he contacted her through Facebook.

Looking at the area in which Costner disappeared on Google Maps, "I see pictures, places and things. I saw the road [where she vanished]. I felt that there was drug use by the victim."

Griffin went back to Facebook, and zeroed in on three of Costner's friends, two men and a woman he thought were involved. He sent his findings in a report to the sister-in-law, who forwarded it to police.

"A few hours later, they found the body," he said. Finally, 19-year-old McKinley Lane Cody was indicted for allegedly robbing Costner of prescription pain medication and murdering her by hitting her in the back of the head.

Cody was Griffin's main "person of interest."

The body of Ashley Jones, a 24-year-old mom of three, was found last year by a hiker after she went missing for seven weeks in rural Georgia, two months after telling family members "something is going to happen." Police initially suspected a drug overdose, but her mom, who contacted Griffin, didn't believe it. Neither did he.

A man who Griffin suspected was involved in her death was arrested and charged in an unrelated kidnapping. The case of Ashley Jones remains open.

Griffin, a devout Christian who once hosted an entertainment radio talk show in LA, says his extrasensory perception compelled him to sell his company, which converted real-estate and medical records into digital files. He's now a freelance psychic detective who pays the bills by giving paranormal readings, at $90 a pop, to people who crave communing with the spirits of departed loved ones.

You might call him a ghost whisperer. He rejects the titles "sorcerer" and "necromancer."

"Before I help anyone, I pray," he says. "After, I also pray."

Griffin, who lives in Greenfield, Colo., and has a wife and son, uses his paranormal insights to provide clues that help solve "cold cases" that have confounded authorities. But he gets little official credit. Is he qualified to mess with the dead and the gone?

Some victims' family members, friends and lovers think so. Law enforcement officials, in this country and abroad, have quietly turned to psychics when all else fails.

He finds the majority of his cases on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database - NamUs - whose pictures he scours until he gets a "feeling" about one. "They come to me in my dreams," he says. "I see people's faces and I look into their eyes.

"The eyes tell me so much."

Griffin's testimony is not admissible in court, but he says he's worked on about 100 cases in the United States, Germany, Canada and Australia - 99 percent of them unpaid.

"We all need to use our God-given gifts," he says. "Your gift is journalism, that's how you help people."

Flattery will get Griffin far - but I'm not sure it's enough to erase mental images of storefront mediums and carnival fortune-tellers.

Next, he might look for a way into a case that for nearly 20 years has flummoxed local cops and federal authorities - that of the so-called Gilgo Beach Killer, an unknown serial slayer believed to have murdered between 10 and 17 people, some of them sex workers, and dumped their remains around Gilgo Beach on Long Island.

"I want to see if I connect with the families, with the victims," Griffin says.

He may seem like an opportunist or attention whore, but I hope he gets involved.

Police and FBI agents can use all the supernatural intuition they can get.

US voters 'rate' the speakers

Donald Trump wins an upset victory - in the TV ratings.

Hillary Clinton's "historic," but clunky, speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, after she became the first woman ever to accept a major party's presidential nomination, drew 29.8 million TV viewers, according to Nielsen.

But 32.2 million people tuned in to commercial networks to watch The Donald accept the Republican nomination at that party's confab a week earlier, Nielson reported.

I think the voters have spoken with their remote controls.

Men no longer fit to be 'tie'd

I stood on a New York City street corner one recent lunchtime to test a Post story declaring the necktie "dead." Surprise! The dodo bird may soon have company on the extinction list.

Out of some 30 dudes, most wearing dress shirts and business suits, just four sported neckwear. (I think they came from out of town.)

Helping inspire the bare-throated trend is a frequently casual Prince Harry of Britain, the sometimes tie-averse President Obama and hoodie-favoring tech startup company employees.

Still, everyone I saw - male, female and everything else - wore tops, although that's not required by law for people of any gender in New York state.

Good thing for ordinary folks.

Next time, eat him

Larry the lobster, a 15-pound behemoth bound for the dinner table in a Florida restaurant, was saved by crustacean-rescuers who packed him up in Styrofoam and shipped him to the Maine State Aquarium. But by the time the beastie arrived, he was dead. A crying shame.

I'll bet the big guy would have made a delicious meal.

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Meet the psychic who uses gift to solve FBI cold cases

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Troy Griffin saw a dear friend get into a car accident six years ago. Trouble is, it hadn't happened - yet. "I told my friend Diana, 'I'm concerned about you driving home,' " Griffin, 51, tells me. The crash occurred as Griffin foresaw it. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.

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In this photo, there is a lady named Noreen Renier who is an author holding her book and refers to herself as a psychic detective.

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Noreen Reiner has predicted many things that have actually happened. She believes everyone has their own psychic powers as she describes in her book she's published. This connects to Unexplained as there is simply no explanation for the way she has predicted certain things to happen. This also connects to Simplicity as they could also just be coincidences. This also could connect to Proof of Verbosity as she could just be speaking a quantifiable amount of certain things in the same topic, they may just be her own conspiracies.

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In this video, there are two different stories of psychic detectives solving cases. In the first case the psychic detective was able to figure out a mother had killed her own son by suffocating him to death. In the second case another psychic medium was able to figure out the names of who the killers of the victim was who had was murdered and the location of where it happened.

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This video with both cases connects to Unexplained as in the video in the first case the detective was able to figure out exactly how the child had died and who had done it without even knowing who the family or the history of the family was. In the second case, where it also connects to Unexplained, the psychic was able to identify the males who were guilty of killing the victim, when the police where the only ones who knew at thee time they were interrogated for the case. I believe this also connects to Mystical Energy as had said was able to solve the case by hearing from spirit of the deceased.

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In this website, the first case talks about a disappearance of a 27-year old male named Andre Daigle. Once the news was reached to his sister, Elyse McGinley she decides to reach a medium named Rosemerie Kerr to pick up where the police had left off. McGinley had suspicions of foul play, even though the police had not. Kerr placed a finger on a photo of Daigle and immediately was about to tell that he was dead. Kerr also was able to correctly identified where Daigle’s body would be found: a  swamp. The discovery broke the case, in conviction of two men who ended up testifying and being guilty of killing Daigle.

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This website connects to the Unexplained as there are simply no ways of explaining the reasoning of how Rosemerie was able to solve the case by discovering the details on her own without personally knowing the brother and sister. This can also connect to Emotional Connection as McGinley is mourning her brother and will reach for anything for her answers.

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20 Mysteries Actually Solved by Psychics

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It’s only in the past century or so that psychics have been credited with solving seemingly unsolvable crimes like these.

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In this video, it talks about this woman in 1999 was missing for over a decade. After many investigator leads ran cold, it had seemed there had been no hope. Though eventually a psychic medium came to the case being able to state that they believed the woman had been buried in a certain spot. This solved the case as the psychic was able to indicate where the lady had been buried.

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This video connects to the Unexplained as it shows how the psychic was able to detect the a type of location and that the women was dead. There is no science behind the fact, though this ended up being true when the investigators unburied the woman.

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Psychic intuition helps solve murder case

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In this video, it shows the story of Bill Rudy's disappearance in 1994. Rudy had told his fiancé he was needing to take a week to himself to figure out all his tax information and finalize sales before him and his fiancé would move houses. Though, the next day when his fiancé rings him, there is no answer or site of him. His wife suspects foul-play, though the police do not prioritize his case. She does not believe that the police will help her with the case, therefore she finds an alternative to reach out to a medium (Laurie McQuary) to help her out. McQuary was able to solve the case by reading the energy at the Night Club Bill owned and knew he had been killed there by foul-play.

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The video shows an example of Unexplained as there is no science based evidence on how McQary was able to wit-hold the information to solve the case. This also connects to Emotional Connection as Rudy's fiancé was looking for closure, she needed answers being emotionally shocked with the news of her future husband gone missing.

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Psychic Investigators S02E10 Bad Company (Full Episode) Reality, Crime

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This photo shows a psychic detective, Pam Coronado who has been on the show for Doctor Phil, and Oprah Winfrey, she is very well known and has been able to solve cases and mysteries with her psychic abilities.

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This photo connects to Unexplained as Pam Coronado is able to receive answers and information without a backing scientifically based evidence. There is simple no explanation to how she is able to figure out these cases. In some cases, she does relate to Emotional Connection as well when her clients are coming to her because they are mourning a loved one and need reassurance that they will be alright.

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This photo is of Sharon Johns, a psychic detective that has been able to foresee the future ever since she was 6 years old. At 16 years old she believed she had seen an angel before she was going to crash in a car accident. She believes the angel saved her by gently moving the car out  to the side of the road.

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This photo connects to Agenticity because Sharon believes it was angels who had saved her that day from the accident. This photo also connects to Unexplained with the predictions of the future and helping clients find answers with her supposed powers. Though, there is no factual evidence that proves this.

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In this article, A psychic detective named Ms. Mari, also known as Sherlockjackie, has stated that she has helped solve more than 400 murders and missing persons cases around the world. This has been done without even having to leave her office outside of Chigago. She calls her psychic powers “extrasensory intelligence”.

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In this website, In many of Ms. Mari's supposed solved cases she does not go into detail of certain things she's solved. If anything it is vague. Therefore, this connects to Proof of Verbosity as she is speaking about a lot of different things on the same topic but ends up with vague answers. This can also connect to Unexplained as there is no explanation for how she is getting any answers.

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"Oh my God, now we're all going to get a black eye," was Jacki Mari's first thought when she heard that a false tip from a psychic had led law enforcement officers on a fruitless search for a mass grave in East Texas on Tuesday night.

Ms. Mari, also known as Sherlockjackie, has, by her own reckoning, helped solve more than 400 murders and missing persons cases around the world - all without leaving her office outside Chicago. Her own psychic powers - she calls it "extrasensory intelligence" - told her that the informant's tip was spurious, Ms. Mari said, even before the news media frenzy over the search in Texas died down and the spokesman for the sheriff's department confirmed that no bodies had been found in Hardin, northeast of Houston.

"My first feeling was that something did happen," Ms. Mari said, "but I didn't see a bunch of bodies laying around or dismembered." Besides, she added, "I would never call the police department and say, 'Hey, I'm a psychic and I know what's what.' "

The psychic's phone call to the Liberty County Sheriff's Department - which summoned not only sheriff's deputies but also F.B.I. agents, Texas Rangers, cadaver-sniffing dogs and an army of news media personnel - was only the latest milestone in a long and uneasy relationship between law enforcement agencies and people claiming extrasensory powers.

Despite Hollywood's romance with the notion of clairvoyants solving crimes, a passion that spawns television shows like "Medium" and "Psychic Detectives," the use of psychics by police departments is occasional at best. In one survey of the nation's 50 largest police departments, published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer, 65 percent of the departments responded that they had never made use of psychics. And those that had were quick to play down the official nature of the association.

"This was on my own volition and does not reflect policy of the Chicago Police Department," one chief of detectives said, telling the researchers that he had called upon the services of a psychic twice in investigations.

Yet clairvoyants have played a role in some of the country's most notorious murder cases, including the John Wayne Gacy murders in Illinois, which Ms. Mari claimed she helped solve. And when leads are scarce, even the most skeptical detectives may find themselves hoping that a psychic's intuitions might turn out to be useful.

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Liberty County sheriff's deputies and other law officers arriving Tuesday to search for bodies. Credit... Michael Stravato for The New York Times

"I'm a pretty down-to-earth guy," said Chief Jack L. Rinchich, president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and a retired police officer, "but if you've got a potential case and you've exhausted all your tangible leads and someone comes up with a suggestion such as this, it doesn't hurt to check it out."

How accurate the insights offered by psychics really are is a subject of dispute. Chief Rinchich, noting that many police officers are skeptical, said that he could not discount the possibility of "a spiritual element that we can't identify."

But Joe Nickell, a former stage magician and private investigator who has written extensively about extrasensory abilities in order to debunk them, said there was no scientific proof for the validity of psychic powers. Instead, he said, a psychic's supposed success in solving a crime is often a result of people "retrofitting" the psychic's clues to fit the facts afterward.

In one case, Mr. Nickell noted, in 1983, a psychic named Greta Alexander offered the police in Alton. Ill., a series of clues to solving the murder of 28-year-old Mary Cousett, among them that her body would be found near a church. After the skeletal remains were found, Ms. Alexander received credit, even though many of her clues, including the proximity of the church, were incorrect.

A psychic's hunches sometimes set off searches that waste valuable time and resources, as in the Texas case, Mr. Nickell said. In 1968, he said, the police in Nutley, N.J., spent hours digging up a drainage ditch after a psychic, Dorothy Allison, claimed that a missing boy was buried there.

In Texas, the Liberty County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Wednesday that it was still trying to identify the woman who called in the anonymous tip, claiming that she was psychic and that up to 30 bodies, including those of children, were buried on the property in Hardin. When officers investigated, they found blood on a fence and smelled what they thought might be rotting bodies, the statement said. But after a search warrant was obtained, there were far less gruesome explanations for both - the odor was apparently from rotting meat.

Judge Craig McNair of Liberty County said that he was skeptical about psychics, but that the sheriff's department was obliged to investigate the tip and to search further once the blood and the bag were found.

"You have to be careful in this day and age," he said. "Terrible things happen."

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Police Rarely Turn to Psychics, Texas Report Aside (Published 2011)

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"Oh my God, now we're all going to get a black eye," was Jacki Mari's first thought when she heard that a false tip from a psychic had led law enforcement officers on a fruitless search for a mass grave in East Texas on Tuesday night.

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1. I learned that there are actually a lot more cases that are solved by psychic detectives than I thought, how detailed some of the psychics predict answers and how accurate they can be.

2. This topic isn't very relevant to me, though i have always believed in psychics and if there were a case where i personally knew someone who had gone missing or passed away i would reach out to a psychic detective for guidance or messages from them.

3. The research i found most interesting would have to be the post #8 Video, as this is an actual series about psychic detectives on real stories. It just makes it that much realer to me that there is hope for people when they reach out to psychic detectives for help for a loved ones disappearance or death.

4. I am most likely to remember the stories of certain people who were helped and the different ways psychic detectives are able to solve cases.

5. I believe that the most harmful pseudoscience is Ancient Wisdom as there are so many supplements/alternatives that do simply nothing for one's health, or can actually cause more harm than anything. Rather than seeking out to medical professionals for medication that will actually heal the problem. If not treated fast enough, someone can end up dying.

I believe the least harmful pseudoscience is Mystical Energy as it could simply just be believing in positive energy in crystals and i don't think that there is anything wrong with something making your life positive, it can simply make someone more hopeful or optimistic about life.

6. I think the most important thing i would pass on to a family member or friend about this is to really do your research before believing anything especially if someone i know plans on doing something they have no knowledge on and are in emotional shock of something happening.