Every once in a while, a story about a paranormal event gets reported in the mainstream press. Such is the case with the events surrounding the murder of an 11-year-old boy, Terry Smith.
Pam Ragland, who describes herself as an "intuitive" and who had no connection to the case and didn't know the Smiths or where they lived, said she had a "vision" about the location of the boy's body as she was watching a news report about the case.
Then, as she was driving around with her children, she recognized the Smith house as the one she had seen in her vision. The Smith family reluctantly allowed her to look around the property and she "knew" that the body was buried near a pepper tree. She called the police who indeed found the body as she directed them.
John Powers, a detective with the Riverside (California) County Sheriff's department, who was investigating the case of the missing boy, said he had searched that specific area previously without seeing the grave. He described Ragland's vision and discovery of the body as "extremely bizarre" and that he was "blown away."
It's spontaneous, exact experiences like this that make psychic phenomena very difficult to dismiss. What would a skeptic say about such a case? That Pam Ragland made a lucky guess? That her vision was only coincidentally spot-on? How to explain the vision itself?
The case also speaks to the nature of true psychic events. Nevermind the television and stage show psychics, and the storefront fortune tellers.
The most compelling psychic events occur spontaneously -- as if they must occur, even apart from our wanting them to.
Events like this -- and this is a tragic case -- seem to provide significant evidence that there is an invisible power or force, an underlying connection that links human consciousness that science has not yet come to grips with.
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