84-415: Tyler Henry Koelewyn (born January 13, 1996) is an American reality show personality who appears in the reality show series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry and Life After Death with Tyler Henry as a clairvoyant medium since 2016. He has published two books. Critics state that Henry's readings are performed using deceptive cold reading and hot reading techniques, and not "psychic" powers. Henry
168-476: A victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has brought her both praise and criticism. Nancy Grace was born in Macon, Georgia , the youngest of three children, to factory worker Elizabeth Grace and Mac Grace, a freight agent for Southern Railway . Her older siblings are brother Mac Jr. and sister Ginny. The Graces are longtime members of Macon's Liberty United Methodist Church, where Elizabeth plays
252-534: A "tremendous" risk of harm. Henry reportedly welcomes skepticism about his work: "I am content with people asking questions", he stated in 2016. Clairvoyant Clairvoyance ( / k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ . ə n s / ; from French clair 'clear' and voyance 'vision') is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception , or "sixth sense". Any person who
336-473: A clairvoyant himself, claimed that it is easy for a clairvoyant to confuse their own emotional and spiritual being with the objective spiritual world. The earliest record of somnambulist clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puységur , a follower of Franz Mesmer , who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race. During treatment, Race reportedly went into a trance and underwent
420-539: A distinctive interviewing style mixing vocal questions with multimedia stats displays. The Foundation of American Women in Radio & Television has presented Nancy Grace with two Gracie Awards for her Court TV show. While still hosting Nancy Grace , she also hosted Swift Justice with Nancy Grace which premiered September 13, 2010, and ran until May 2011. Grace left the show due to productions moving from Atlanta to Los Angeles. In September 2011, Judge Jackie Glass, who
504-436: A drop of van Dam's blood and her hand print. That evidence could be innocently explained if, at some previous time while it was parked unlocked in the streets outside her home, van Dam had entered that vehicle, perhaps to explore it out of curiosity. There was no testimony she had done so, but Grace said she "can imagine a little girl wandering into a RV and playing in it, much as if they saw a swimming pool, they might jump in, or
588-550: A guest, at which time they accused her of capitalizing on others' tragedies for her personal gain. They also addressed her handling of The Ultimate Warrior 's death, and the Duke lacrosse case . Norton said during the interview that he has disliked her for some time, and noted she had previously blocked him on Twitter . Grace, in defending herself, stated that she was a crime victim herself, and that they didn't ask her one decent question. The next day on The View , Grace addressed
672-527: A higher power rather than to the person performing it. A number of Christian saints were said to be able to see or know things that were far removed from their immediate sensory perception as a kind of gift from God, including Charbel Makhlouf , Padre Pio and Anne Catherine Emmerich in Catholicism and Gabriel Urgebadze , Paisios Eznepidis and John Maximovitch in Orthodoxy . Jesus Christ in
756-682: A legal commentary show alongside Johnnie Cochran . When Cochran left the show, Grace was moved to a solo trial coverage show on Court TV, hosting Trial Heat from 1996 to 2004 then Closing Arguments from 2004 to 2007, replacing Lisa Bloom and James Curtis, both of whom were hosting Trial Heat at that point. In February 2005, she began hosting a regular primetime legal analysis show called Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News (now HLN ) in addition to her Court TV show. On May 9, 2007, Grace announced that she would be leaving Court TV to focus more on her CNN Headline News Program and charity work. She did her last show on Court TV on June 19, 2007. Grace has
840-424: A mix of cold reading techniques and prior knowledge of his subjects, or hot reading , to make his claims. Specific examples where it is alleged that he used these techniques include sessions with Ronda Rousey , Carole Radziwill , Matt Lauer , and Nancy Grace . Critics have argued that Henry's actions are exploitative, and he has been dismissed as one of many mediums who lack training in counseling, resulting in
924-527: A national obsession". The Nancy Grace audience more than doubled in the weeks after the start of the Casey Anthony trial. David Carr wrote that Grace took her show to the trial scene in Orlando, Florida in order to "hurl invective from a close, intimate distance." Grace expressed rage at Anthony's acquittal right after announcement of the verdict, saying: "Tot Mom's lies seem to have worked." In
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#17327719783251008-581: A personality change, becoming fluent and articulate, and giving diagnosis and prescription for his own disease as well as those of others. Clairvoyance was a reported ability of some mediums during the spiritualist period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and psychics of many descriptions have claimed clairvoyant ability up to the present day. Early researchers of clairvoyance included William Gregory , Gustav Pagenstecher, and Rudolf Tischner . Clairvoyance experiments were reported in 1884 by Charles Richet . Playing cards were enclosed in envelopes and
1092-414: A playground, they might play on it". Grace took a vehemently pro-prosecution position throughout the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case , in which Crystal Mangum , a stripper and North Carolina Central University student, falsely accused three members of Duke University 's men's lacrosse team of raping her at a party. Prior to Duke suspending its men's lacrosse team's season, she sarcastically noted on
1176-449: A playing card ESP experiment. Cox concluded: "There is no evidence of extrasensory perception either in the 'average man' or of the group investigated or in any particular individual of that group. The discrepancy between these results and those obtained by Rhine is due either to uncontrollable factors in experimental procedure or to the difference in the subjects." Four other psychological departments failed to replicate Rhine's results. It
1260-426: A press conference after the verdicts were read, Cheney Mason , one of Anthony's defense attorneys, blamed the media for a "media assassination" which led to public hatred toward Anthony. He also said, I can tell you that my colleagues from coast to coast and border to border have condemned this whole process of lawyers getting on television and talking about cases that they don't know a damn thing about, and don't have
1344-445: A regular basis, who are going to see [Anthony] out there somewhere and are going to give her a very, very hard time wherever she goes. Mainstream media have suggested that Grace made "wildly speculative" allegations on her program that the investigation into Whitney Houston 's death should include the possibility that someone may have been responsible for drowning Houston. Some reporters have pointed out that Grace should have waited for
1428-536: A series of 35 studies, they could not do so, so they investigated the original experiments' procedure. Marks and Kammann discovered that the notes given to the judges in Targ and Puthoff's experiments contained clues as to which order they were carried out, such as referring to yesterday's two targets, or the date of the session at the top of the page. They concluded that these clues explained the experiment's high hit rates. Marks achieved 100% accuracy without visiting any of
1512-579: A spokeswoman for CNN said. From 2008 to 2011, the Caylee Anthony disappearance and the prosecution, trial, and acquittal of her mother Casey Anthony on charges of murder of the child were a regular feature of the Nancy Grace show. She would reveal every new detail of the story. Her program was cited as having "almost single-handedly inflated the Anthony case from a routine local murder into
1596-609: A subject under hypnosis attempted to identify them. The subject was reported to have been successful in a series of 133 trials but the results dropped to chance level when performed before a group of scientists in Cambridge. J. M. Peirce and E. C. Pickering reported a similar experiment in which they tested 36 subjects over 23,384 trials. They did not find above chance scores. Ivor Lloyd Tuckett (1911) and Joseph McCabe (1920) analyzed early cases of clairvoyance and concluded they were best explained by coincidence or fraud. In 1919,
1680-536: A substitute reporter, Jane Velez-Mitchell , announced the removal of all charges. In September 2006, 22-year-old Melinda Duckett committed suicide following an interview conducted by Grace concerning the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son, Trenton. Grace interviewed Duckett less than two weeks after the child went missing, questioning her for her alleged lack of openness regarding her son's disappearance, asking Duckett "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?" Duckett appeared confused and
1764-459: A televised appearance with media expert Dan Abrams , Grace stated about Anthony's being freed from jail, No one wishes for vigilante justice; nobody advocates that. People who are opposed to the jury verdict, that think it was wrong, are really seeking justice, and I do not believe those people are interested in harming Tot Mom Casey Anthony. Abrams commented, There are too many people out there who love Nancy Grace, who watch Nancy Grace on
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#17327719783251848-413: A valid and reliable test of clairvoyance has resulted in thousands of experiments. One controlled procedure has invited 'senders' to telepathically transmit one of four visual images to 'receivers' deprived of sensation in a nearby chamber (Bem & Honorton, 1994). The result? A reported 32 percent accurate response rate, surpassing the chance rate of 25 percent. But follow-up studies have (depending on who
1932-442: A victim of crime that such people look for somebody else to blame. While describing it as an "extremely sad development", Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said that her program would continue to follow the case as they had a "responsibility to bring attention to this case in the hopes of helping find Trenton Duckett." Grace commented that "I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett. The truth
2016-608: Is a native of Hanford, California , a small rural city near Fresno . He graduated from Hanford's Sierra Pacific High School and didn't complete college. Henry is gay. According to Henry, he noticed that he had clairvoyant abilities when he was ten years old. In November 2015, Henry appeared on Keeping Up with the Kardashians where he gave a reading to one of the Kardashian sisters. In January 2016, Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry premiered on E! . In March 2016, it
2100-471: Is claimed to have such ability is said to be a clairvoyant ( / k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ . ə n t / ) ( ' one who sees clearly ' ). Claims for the existence of paranormal and psychic abilities such as clairvoyance have not been supported by scientific evidence. Parapsychology explores this possibility, but the existence of the paranormal is not accepted by the scientific community . The scientific community widely considers parapsychology, including
2184-635: Is generally regarded by the scientific community as a pseudoscience . In 1988, the US National Research Council concluded "The committee finds no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years, for the existence of parapsychological phenomena." Skeptics say that if clairvoyance were a reality, it would have become abundantly clear. They also contend that those who believe in paranormal phenomena do so for merely psychological reasons. According to David G. Myers ( Psychology, 8th ed.): The search for
2268-515: Is known for presiding over the O. J. Simpson robbery case , took over Grace's place. The show continued for one more season and ceased production in 2012. Grace had been covering the Casey Anthony story for years. After the controversial verdict finding Casey Anthony not guilty, her Nancy Grace show on HLN had its highest ratings ever in the 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. hour slots on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. On October 13, 2016, at
2352-467: Is not always nice or polite or easy to go down. Sometimes it's harsh, and it hurts." On November 21, 2006, The Smoking Gun exposed pending litigation on behalf of the estate of Melinda Duckett, asserting a wrongful death claim against CNN and Grace. The attorney for the estate alleges that, even if Duckett did kill her own son, Grace's aggressive questioning traumatized Duckett so much that she committed suicide. She also argues that CNN's decision to air
2436-652: The American Bar Association Journal . She worked as a clerk for a federal court judge and practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with the Federal Trade Commission . She taught litigation at the Georgia State University College of Law and business law at GSU's School of Business. She is part of Mercer University's board of trustees and adopted a section of the street surrounding
2520-503: The Stanford Research Institute from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. In 1972, Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ initiated a series of human subject studies to determine whether participants (the viewers or percipients ) could reliably identify and accurately describe salient features of remote locations ( targets ). In the early studies, a human sender was typically present at the remote location as part of
2604-476: The kidnap and murder of Danielle van Dam , Grace made it clear on Larry King Live that she thought he was guilty, but she got some facts wrong. For example, she said he had steam-cleaned his RV, but no evidence was introduced that he had. Dr. Henry Lee pointed out that if he had done so, they wouldn't have found the fingerprints and the bloodstain on the carpet. David Westerfield was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Danielle van Dam. Grace also dismissed
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2688-455: The Anthony trial only offered one side, everybody believed them, and now you've got a big chunk of the population that thinks the legal system let them down. Every time that happens, you lose part of the national community. On the day Anthony was sentenced on misdemeanor counts of lying to investigators, a supporter held a sign reading: "Nancy Grace, stop trying to ruin innocent lives. The jury has spoken. P.S. Our legal system still works!" In
2772-513: The CNN transcript, Duckett replied, "(INAUDIBLE) with all media. It's not just there, just all media. Period." Grace then moved on to a psychologist who asserted that Duckett was "skirting around the issue." The next day, before the airing of the show, Duckett shot herself, a death that relatives claim was influenced by media scrutiny, particularly from Grace. Speaking to The Orlando Sentinel , Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said, "Nancy Grace and
2856-565: The Gospels is also recorded as able to know things far removed from his immediate human perception. Some Christians today also share the same claim. In Jainism , clairvoyance is regarded as one of the five kinds of knowledge. The beings of hell and heaven ( devas ) are said to possess clairvoyance by birth. According to Jain text Sarvārthasiddhi , "this kind of knowledge has been called avadhi as it ascertains matter in downward range or knows objects within limits". Rudolf Steiner , famous as
2940-553: The Kardashians, Corey Feldman , Carmen Electra , Matt Lauer , Chad Michael Murray , Rick Fox , Megan Fox , Chrissy Metz , Kristin Cavallari , Bobby Brown , Roselyn Sanchez , The Try Guys , and Tom Arnold . On December 13, 2016, actor Alan Thicke died due to aortic dissection at the age of 69. Several months before his death, Thicke was the subject of a reading done for the Hollywood Medium TV show. Among
3024-436: The air, "I'm so glad they didn't miss a lacrosse game over a little thing like gang rape!" and "Why would you go to a cop in an alleged gang rape case, say, and lie and give misleading information?" After the disbarment of District Attorney Mike Nifong , Attorney General Roy Cooper pronounced all three players innocent of the rape charges made by Mangum and Nifong. On the following broadcast of her show, Grace did not appear and
3108-484: The book Objection!: How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System. Grace was also the arbiter of Swift Justice with Nancy Grace in the syndicated courtroom reality show 's first season. Grace was formerly a prosecutor in the Atlanta - Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney 's office. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as
3192-511: The claim that this was a successful psychic prediction , arguing that "Henry was again playing the odds" given that heart disease is the "number one cause of death for American males". Scientific skeptics argue that mediumship is a con and that Henry is not an exception. Skeptical activists and others concerned with Henry's rise in popularity have actively attempted to counter the public perception that what Henry claims to do reflects reality. In particular, they have argued that Henry relies on
3276-467: The coroner's report before making this allegation. On November 22, 2011, Toni Annette Medrano accidentally killed her 3-week-old son, Adrian Alexander Medrano, while she was sleeping on the couch with him. According to the criminal complaint, Medrano told police she had consumed almost an entire fifth of vodka the night before her son died and fell asleep with him on a couch. The following morning, she woke up and found her infant son unresponsive and cold to
3360-427: The defense's proposal that hair and fibers found on Westerfield's black jacket had been transferred from van Dam to Westerfield when the two were dancing at a bar on Friday night. Grace contended that the jacket was leather and a transfer would not have been possible. She also made some statements pointing to Westerfield's possible innocence. The strongest evidence against Westerfield was found in his RV, particularly
3444-444: The end of her contract, Grace hosted her last show. On July 13, 2019, an Oxygen TV channel true crime series began, hosted by Grace and titled Injustice with Nancy Grace with criminal cases being the subject of episodes that seek to bring to light unjust accusations, bungled investigations, arcane evidence, new motives, and shocking sentences. In a 2011 New York Times article, David Carr wrote, "Since her show began in 2005,
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3528-542: The episode was deaths in the professional wrestling industry caused by steroids. Grace claimed that "rumors of steroid and drug use are swirling" in the case of Ultimate Warrior's death, although an autopsy had concluded that Warrior had died of natural causes with neither drugs nor alcohol in his system at his time of death. During the segment, Grace made several mentions to a list of wrestlers who had died young , linking their deaths to drug abuse. The list included wrestlers whose deaths were unrelated to drug abuse. After
3612-411: The experience to back up their words or the law to do it. Grace took it personally and responded, "What does he care about what pundits are saying?". She also stated that she had as much legal experience as Mason and criticized the defense attorneys for taking on the media before mentioning Caylee Anthony's name in their news conference and stated that "[T]here is no way that this is a verdict that speaks
3696-497: The experiment protocol. A three-step process was used. First, target conditions to be experienced by the senders were randomly selected. Second, in the viewing step, participants were asked to verbally express or sketch their impressions of the remote scene. Third, in these descriptions were matched by separate judges, as closely as possible, with the intended targets. The term remote viewing was coined to describe this overall process. The first paper by Puthoff and Targ on remote viewing
3780-489: The experiments conducted by Puthoff and Targ, only the repeated failure of the investigators to remove sensory cues." In 1982, Robert G. Jahn , then Dean of the School of Engineering at Princeton University, wrote a comprehensive review of psychic phenomena from an engineering perspective. His paper included numerous references to remote viewing studies at the time. Statistical flaws in his work have been proposed by others in
3864-585: The experiments were carried out in the Psychological Laboratory at the University College London . A total of over 12,000 guesses were recorded but Garrett failed to produce above chance level. Soal wrote: "In the case of Mrs. Eileen Garrett we fail to find the slightest confirmation of Dr. J. B. Rhine's remarkable claims relating to her alleged powers of extra-sensory perception. Not only did she fail when I took charge of
3948-451: The experiments, but she failed equally when four other carefully trained experimenters took my place." Remote viewing , also known as remote sensing, remote perception, telesthesia and travelling clairvoyance, is the alleged paranormal ability to perceive a remote or hidden target without support of the senses. A well-known recent study of remote viewing is the US government-funded project at
4032-404: The facts... I'm not trying to get Amanda Knox's first interview because… my show does not pay for interviews... Second, I don't think she's going to tell the truth anyway, so what's the point?" Following WWE Hall of Famer The Ultimate Warrior 's death on April 8, 2014, Nancy Grace invited retired wrestler Diamond Dallas Page on her show to discuss Warrior. Unbeknownst to Page, the subject of
4116-472: The father of her son said he felt the segment Grace did was cruel and added "The things people said were horrible. It shows that cyberbullying happens to adults, too." Following Melinda Duckett's suicide, this was the second suicide to which Grace has been linked. On January 4, 2012, a lawsuit against CNN brought by Medrano's family was settled, "I can tell you the case was settled in principle two weeks ago", said personal injury attorney Michael Padden. A lawsuit
4200-401: The interview after Duckett's suicide traumatized her family. Trenton has never been found. On November 8, 2010, Grace reached a settlement with the estate of Melinda Duckett to create a $ 200,000 trust fund dedicated to locating Trenton. This settlement was reached a month before a jury trial was scheduled to start. According to the agreement, if the young boy is found alive before he turns 13,
4284-531: The interview, calling Norton and Roberts " Beavis and Butt-Head ". Grace said she had to hold back tears during the interview and stated, "I don't really know what it was, but it was hell for me." During the 2002 Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case, when suspect Richard Ricci was arrested by police on the basis that he had a criminal record and had worked on the Smarts' home, Grace immediately and repeatedly proclaimed on Court TV and CNN's Larry King Live that Ricci
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#17327719783254368-481: The law school. Grace worked for nearly a decade in the Atlanta - Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney 's office as Special Prosecutor. Her work focused on felony cases involving serial murder, serial rape, serial child molestation, and serial arson. She left the prosecutors' office after the District Attorney she had been working under decided not to run for reelection. While a prosecutor, Grace
4452-677: The magician P. T. Selbit staged a séance at his flat in Bloomsbury . The spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle attended and declared the clairvoyance manifestations genuine. A significant development in clairvoyance research came when J. B. Rhine , a parapsychologist at Duke University , introduced a standard methodology, with a standard statistical approach to analyzing data, as part of his research into extrasensory perception . A number of psychological departments attempted and failed to repeat Rhine's experiments. At Princeton University , W. S. Cox (1936) produced 25,064 trials with 132 subjects in
4536-507: The many topics discussed by Henry, the concern of possible heart and blood pressure problems was addressed, with Henry suggesting that Thicke had a heart and blood pressure problem like "multiple men" in Thicke's family. After Thicke died, this part of his reading was referenced by Henry's fans as evidence that Henry had actually predicted Thicke's death. Various news outlets reported on this. Scientific skepticism activist Susan Gerbic challenged
4620-486: The new season of Hollywood Medium , in which he claimed to contact Michael Jackson . Hollywood Medium ended after four seasons in 2019. His series, Life After Death with Tyler Henry , premiered on March 11, 2022, on Netflix , and was completed after one season of nine episodes. Henry has given readings to many celebrities, such as Nancy Grace , Alan Thicke , retired NBA player John Salley and actors Monica Potter , Soleil Moon Frye , Amber Rose , Jaleel White ,
4704-420: The only topic discussed. WWE subsequently asked past and present WWE talent to not appear on Grace's HLN show. Nancy Grace responded to criticism by telling Radar Online that she would welcome any WWE personalities to come onto her show to "correct all of my misconceptions". During one of her newscasts, Grace interviewed Charles Bothuell IV, informing him, to his surprise, that his son, Charles Bothuell V ,
4788-428: The organ and Mac Sr. was once a Sunday School teacher. Grace graduated from Macon's Windsor Academy in 1977. She attended Valdosta State University , and later received a B.A. from Mercer University . As a student, Grace was a fan of Shakespearean literature, and intended to become an English professor after graduating from college. But after the murder of her fiancé Keith Griffin in a workplace shooting when she
4872-415: The others, they just bashed her to the end. She was not one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this." CNN has also been criticized for allowing the show to air in the wake of Duckett's suicide. Police investigating the case had not named Melinda Duckett as a suspect in the case at the time, but after her suicide the police did say that, as nearly all parents are in missing-child cases, she
4956-510: The paranormal is stronger than all the evidence that it does not exist." Susan Blackmore , "Blackmore's first law", 2004. Clairvoyance is considered a hallucination by mainstream psychiatry . Nancy Grace Nancy Ann Grace (born October 23, 1959) is an American legal commentator and television journalist. She hosted Nancy Grace , a nightly celebrity news and current affairs show on HLN , from 2005 to 2016, and Court TV 's Closing Arguments from 1996 to 2007. She also co-wrote
5040-416: The parapsychological community and the general scientific community. According to scientific research, clairvoyance is generally explained as the result of confirmation bias , expectancy bias , fraud, hallucination , self- delusion , sensory leakage , subjective validation , wishful thinking or failures to appreciate the base rate of chance occurrences and not as a paranormal power. Parapsychology
5124-433: The police with me on a guilt trip ." In July 2006, Grace interviewed Smart, who was promoting a legislative bill. Grace repeatedly asked her for information regarding her abduction. Smart told her she didn't feel comfortable discussing it, despite Grace's persistence in the matter. Finally, Grace stopped when Smart said she "didn't appreciate [Grace] bringing all this up." During the trial of David Westerfield in 2002 for
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#17327719783255208-571: The presumption of innocence has found a willful enemy in the former prosecutor turned broadcast judge-and-jury ". He criticized her handling of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart , the Duke lacrosse case , the Melinda Duckett interview and suicide, and the Caylee Anthony case. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told Carr that Grace, as an attorney and reporter, "has managed to demean both professions with her hype, rabid persona, and sensational analysis. Some part of
5292-594: The public takes her seriously, and her show erodes the respect for basic rights." In January 2014, she again ignited controversy for her wildly negative depiction of recreational marijuana users. Grace made statements such as users were "fat and lazy" and that anyone who disagreed with her was "lethargic, sitting on the sofa, eating chips" to CNN's news correspondent Brooke Baldwin during a segment covering legalization in Colorado on January 6, 2014. On October 11, 2016, The Jim Norton and Sam Roberts Show had Grace as
5376-524: The range of normal perception. Throughout history, there have been numerous places and times in which people have claimed themselves, or others, to be clairvoyant. In several religions, stories of certain individuals being able to see things far removed from their immediate sensory perception are commonplace, especially within pagan religions where oracles were used. Prophecy often involved some degree of clairvoyance, especially when future events were predicted. This ability has sometimes been attributed to
5460-503: The remaining proceeds in the trust will be administered by a trustee – Trenton's great-aunt Kathleen Calvert – until he turns 18 and the funds are transferred for his use. If Trenton is not found by his 13th birthday, or if he is found but is not alive, the funds will be transferred immediately to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children . "We are pleased the lawsuit has been dismissed. The statement speaks for itself,"
5544-479: The scientific seal of approval would be worth far more to anyone whose claims could be authenticated. To refute those who say there is no ESP, one need only produce a single person who can demonstrate a single, reproducible ESP phenomenon. So far, no such person has emerged. Randi's offer has been publicized for three decades and dozens of people have been tested, sometimes under the scrutiny of an independent panel of judges. Still, nothing. "People's desire to believe in
5628-487: The segment aired, a petition on Change.org requesting that CNN remove Nancy Grace from television received over 10,000 signatures within twenty four hours. #CancelNancyGrace became a trending topic on Twitter following the episode's airing. Page released a statement after the episode aired, stating that he was under the assumption that he would be sharing stories in Warrior's memory and did not know that steroids would be
5712-401: The sites but by using cues. James Randi has written that controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating several sources of cuing and extraneous evidence present in the original tests, produced negative results. Students were also able to solve Puthoff and Targ's locations from the clues inadvertently included in the transcripts. In 1980, Charles Tart claimed that a rejudging of
5796-448: The study of clairvoyance, a pseudoscience . Pertaining to the ability of clear-sightedness, clairvoyance refers to the paranormal ability to see persons and events that are distant in time or space. It can be divided into roughly three classes: precognition , the ability to perceive or predict future events, retrocognition , the ability to see past events, and remote viewing , the perception of contemporary events happening outside
5880-439: The touch. While Grace was covering the case, she infamously dubbed Medrano "Vodka Mom". During one of her shows, Grace brought a bottle of vodka onto her set and poured shots to demonstrate how much Medrano had drunk the night of her son's death. In June 2012, Medrano was charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter. "The baby is dead because of vodka mommy", Grace said during her June 11 show on HLN. "I don't care if she
5964-550: The transcripts from one of Targ and Puthoff's experiments revealed an above-chance result. Targ and Puthoff again refused to provide copies of the transcripts, and they were not made available for study until July 1985, when it was discovered they still contained sensory cues . Marks and Christopher Scott (1986) wrote: "considering the importance for the remote viewing hypothesis of adequate cue removal, Tart's failure to perform this basic task seems beyond comprehension. As previously concluded, remote viewing has not been demonstrated in
6048-570: The truth." Michelle Zierler, director of the Project in Law and Journalism at New York Law School , said Grace "is always certain that the defendant is guilty and needs instant punishment" and this had affected her analysis of the case. Howard Finkelstein , the Broward County , Florida public defender said, Nancy Grace should offend every journalist out there. These lawyers on TV during
6132-590: Was 19, Grace decided to enroll in law school and went on to become a felony prosecutor and a supporter of victims' rights . Grace received her Juris Doctor from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer, where she was a member of the law review . She went on to earn a Master of Laws in constitutional and criminal law from New York University . She was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Jacksonville State University in 2023. She has written articles and opinion pieces for legal periodicals, including
6216-401: Was a suspect from the beginning. In an interview on Good Morning America , Nancy Grace said in reaction to events that "If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide. To suggest that a 15- or 20-minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing." She then said that, while she sympathized with the family, she knew from her own experience as
6300-589: Was announced that E! had ordered a second season of the show. Henry published a memoir titled Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side the same year. In 2022, he published a second book, Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now . A 2018 People article detailed Henry's claims about his abilities, the development of his "powers", and his reading with La Toya Jackson set to air in
6384-467: Was driving a car, holding a pistol or holding a fifth of vodka. [It] doesn't matter to me. The baby is dead at the hands of the mommy." During the show, Grace said the charges filed against Medrano weren't harsh enough. "I don't see how this whole thing was an accident and I want murder charges", Grace said. On July 2, Medrano doused herself in flammable liquid and set herself on fire. She died of her injuries on July 7. After her death, Medrano's husband and
6468-449: Was guilty, although there was little evidence to support this claim. She also suggested publicly that Ricci's girlfriend was involved in the cover-up of his alleged crime. Grace continued to accuse Ricci, who had died while in custody. It was later revealed that Smart was kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, two individuals with whom Ricci had no connection. When Court TV confronted Grace seven months later to ask whether she
6552-419: Was incorrect in her assertion that Ricci was guilty, and whether or not she felt bad about it in any way, she stated that Ricci was "a known ex-con, a known felon, and brought suspicion on himself, so who could blame anyone for claiming he was the perpetrator?" When Larry King asked her about the matter, she equated criticism of herself with criticism of the police in the case. She said, "I'm not letting you take
6636-484: Was never formally served but "we resolved the case just by negotiation", he said. Grace commented on the Amanda Knox case: "I was very disturbed, because I think it is a huge miscarriage of justice. I believe that while Amanda Knox did not wield the knife herself, I think that she was there, with her boyfriend, and that he did the deed, and that she egged him on. That's what I think happened... I just happen to know
6720-616: Was published in Nature in March 1974; in it, the team reported some degree of remote viewing success. After the publication of these findings, other attempts to replicate the experiments were carried out with remotely linked groups using computer conferencing. The psychologists David Marks and Richard Kammann attempted to replicate Targ and Puthoff's remote viewing experiments at the Stanford Research Institute. In
6804-588: Was reprimanded by the Supreme Court of Georgia for withholding evidence and for making improper statements in a 1997 arson and murder case. The court overturned the conviction in that case and found that Grace's behavior "demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness and was inexcusable." After leaving the Fulton County prosecutors' office, Grace was approached by and accepted an offer from Court TV founder Steven Brill to do
6888-612: Was revealed that Rhine's experiments contained methodological flaws and procedural errors. Eileen Garrett was tested by Rhine at Duke University in 1933 with Zener cards . Certain symbols were placed on the cards and sealed in an envelope, and she was asked to guess their contents. She performed poorly and later criticized the tests by claiming the cards lacked a psychic energy called "energy stimulus" and that she could not perform clairvoyance on command. The parapsychologist Samuel Soal and his colleagues tested Garrett in May 1937. Most of
6972-514: Was summarizing the results) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results (Bem & others, 2001; Milton & Wiseman, 2002; Storm, 2000, 2003). One skeptic, magician James Randi , had a longstanding offer of U.S. $ 1 million —"to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions" (Randi, 1999). French, Australian, and Indian groups have parallel offers of up to 200,000 euros to anyone with demonstrable paranormal abilities (CFI, 2003). Large as these sums are,
7056-419: Was unable to answer whether or not she had taken a polygraph test . When Grace asked her why she could not account for specific details, Duckett began to reply, "Because I was told not to", to which Grace responded, "Ms. Duckett, you are not telling us for a reason. What is the reason? You refuse to give even the simplest facts of where you were with your son before he went missing. It is day twelve." According to
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