From the earliest days man has believed that dreams, supernatural, are in some way real. All of the world psychics demonstrate powers that their followers accept as modern-day miracles. Nova: James Randi: Secrets of the Psychics, PBS 1993
Three out of four Americans say they have had a psychic experience. ibid.
Uri Geller: a young Israeli who claimed to have supernatural powers … In the early 1970s Geller became a superstar … Then of course there was Mr Geller’s appearance on The Tonight Show … Eventually, his star faded. ibid.
During the 1980s I entered a world that I found filled with fantasy and ripe with abuses: the world of faith healing … Peter Popoff Ministries … pulling in nearly $4 million a year … Popoff was being prompted by his wife through a wireless ear-piece; she got her information through prayer-cards … ibid.
Helen Duncan: The psychic or fraudster: the last woman to be jailed under the witchcraft laws … during the Second World War. Portillo’s State Secrets IX, BBC 2015
He calls himself a psychic detective … a new and strikingly unconventional investigative tool … Extra-sensory perception is the power of the mind to reach across time and space in a way that seems impossible. In Search of s1e11 … Psychic Detectives, 1977
26 miles off the southern coast of California lies the island of Santa Catalina. A unique team of psychics and scientists has gathered here. Aided by the world’s most advanced deep ocean technology they will attempt history’s first experiment in undersea psychic archaeology. In Search of s3e17 … Psychic Sea Hunt, 1979
When a major airliner crashes the tragedy is overwhelming, the destruction sudden and complete. In the spring of 1979 a New York woman has a series of dreams of an airliner disaster in the mid-west; two months later a Cincinnati man dreams of a large jet in peril: it crashes and explodes. The dream repeats ten nights in a row and no matter what he does, it will not leave him alone. Were these dreams just nightmares or will they prove to be prophecies? In Search of s4e21 … Air Disaster Prediction, 1980
The story of the bogus and ruthless psychic who cruelly used people’s beliefs in the spiritual world, manipulating the comfort his elderly victims drew from his self-proclaimed psychic powers. Conmen Case Files s2e4: Paul Williams
His career as a psychic funded a glamorous opulent lifestyle. ibid.
‘He preyed on the old and vulnerable.’ ibid. journalist
Able to con the life’s savings out of at least two victims. ibid.
At Wolverhampton Crown Court Paul Williams … ‘received an 18 month custodial sentence.’ ibid.