Tuesday, April 11, 2006

From the Strange Stories file

The Scotsman reports an Australian Federal Police officer was using a Scottish pyshic to help investigate a threat on PM John Howard's life.

The Australian Labour Party spokesman for homeland security, Arch Bevis, said he would be greatly concerned if the AFP was using clairvoyants to hunt criminals and terrorists. "I think, perhaps, this fellow has watched a few too many of the US detective shows," he said.

Or "Medium" maybe.

1 comment:

Berend de Boer said...

This happened (happens?) quite a number of times in The Netherlands as well. Clairvoyants calling the police with details. I believe none was ever correct, but that they even follow such leads was incomprehensible to me.

It probably had to do with the decline of Christianity in Holland. The gap is filled by all kinds of pseudo-cults. The number of people who regularly visit a witch-doctor (handwaving, etc.) is staggering.