psychic detective
by Tara Ciampa / Editor and Joseph Robert Jobe / Asst. Editor

..PSYCHIC DETECTIVE Nancy Myer M.A. was born in Warwick, New York on June 7, 1945. Her Father, Fredric Myer, was in the US Foreign Service. She grew up in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. Her Mother Harriet Myer was a professional artist. Nancy graduated high school from the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon. She obtained her BA in Spanish from the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. She is bilingual. Her MA in Writing Popular Fiction is from Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA. Nancy is a member of the first class that graduated from this wonderful program.

..She began her work as a Psychic Consultant in Newark, Delaware at the request of the then Superintendent of the Delaware State Police, Col. Irvin B. Smith. Her married name at that time was Anderson. Nancy is a survivor of Traumatic Brain Injury. She managed to complete her Masters after her head injury and is currently working on her Doctorate. She teaches Spanish and writing part time at Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, PA.

..Her cases include two of the fastest to be solved by psychics
cooperating with law enforcement. One week and twenty four hours are her current records. She is currently appearing on Court TV's Psychic Detectives, Japan's FBI Psychics and ET's Psychic Investigators.

..Nancy helped start a Writer's Retreat program at Seton Hill University that meets every June. The retreat is always open to all interested writers. Please look on Seton Hill's website. Come join her there for the writing workout and fun. Nancy is a published author. Her first book Silent Witness: The True Story Of A Psychic Detective was published in hardback and paperback. She has anecdotes in Chicken Soup For The Sports Fan's Soul, Magical Souvenirs, More Hot Chocolate For The Mystical Soul and the 10th Anniversary Special Edition of Chicken Soup For The Soul.

..Nancy is close to being finished with Death Doesn't Stop Love. It is a true love story that includes a lot of wonderful contacts with her Father after his death at 54. He returned from the other side to offer solace to her Mother after his  death. She plans to start on a book on her system of meditation next. She's also working on several articles and short stories.

..With participation in over {776 police investigations} over more than 30 years, be it from locally here in western Pennsylvania to across the country, to working across the Atlantic as far away as in the country of Japan, Nancy Meyer is a time proven acurate psychic, reliving the crimes {a technique referred to as "REMOTE VIEWING"} from both the victim's perspective, as well as the assailants. The has helped redirect the flow of an investigation on many occasions to steer police officials toward the correct suspect.

..She can experience the fear, the pain that the victim is enduring before their imminent death, as well as the motive and emotions of the suspected killer. This in depth police investigation work that can, and could, take a toll on anyone's psychi who is not prepared themselves to deal with these matters both personally and professionally. Nancy as learned techniques to control the pain and pressure of police work. Her goal is to get the criminals behind bars, and the numerous, yellowed newspaper clipping accounts of here work she shared with us were quite honestly - amazing. WICKIPEDIA: REMOTE VIEWING

..Nancy was very responsive in our request for {both} an e-mailed and or video interview for us here at Visions to introduce her professional career and psychic abilities to our readership. She welcomed both Tara & I into her home, accompanied by her dog Lady. This interview took place May 2, 2009 at 4:30 pm and was about 90 minutes of her expanding upon the written responses to our questions that we put toward her.


..THE INTERVIEW OF NANCY MYER

..JRJ/ VISIONS: Take us through the procedure of getting involved in a missing person or murder case?

..MYER: The first step is to determine if the person asking for the reading has the proper authorization to ask me to work on the case. That may sound odd, but there are a lot of people who ask about murders who are neither family members, nor law enforcement. I do not intervene in cases without proper authorization. These families have enough tragedy to deal with, they do not need to deal with curiosity seekers or psychics they have not contacted themselves.

..Once it is established that the proper authorization exists I ask the people to send me a photo of the victim, or missing person shortly before their death or disappearance. I also ask for a map with the place of work, their residence, and the last known valid sighting marked on it

..If it is a murder case and the body was located. I need photos of the victim near the time of death, and the maps with the same things marked on them, and the photos of the crime scene. As the crime scene is the only place we know for sure the killer has been the photos of the scene are essential. From those photos I get the images and information about what happened.

..I don't look at the information ahead of time. I check to make sure everything is there, then I store the information until the reading is scheduled. During the scheduled reading I do the reading while I type up what I am saying. Once the reading is done, I edit it as I can't focus on the spelling when I am doing a reading. I usually email the report to the person the reading was done for. That is what it is like.

..JRJ/ VISIONS: Can you give us the name of your contacts within local or state police departments that have called upon you?

..MYER: I have mentioned several of the officers I worked with in my book Silent Witness: The True Story of a Psychic Detective. I do not give their names out publicly. My book is out of print now but used one's do show up on on Ebay. I can make names available to police officers who are considering working with me on a case, but I don't give out those names in public forums.

..TARA/ VISIONS: Does meeting with the families of the victim of the case help you with your psychic abilities and/or the direction of the case?
..MYER: That depends entirely on the family. Some families are so distraught that it puts a tremendous strain on me and gets in the way of my remaining objective enough to do my work. That is one reason why I prefer to work with the police officers.There is also another aspect of the work, I have to describe what happened in detail for the police to be able to do anything about it. This detail helps them to recognize that I am accurate and it often gives them information on evidence and what it means. Putting family members through the ordeal of hearing exactly what happened, in my opinion, is cruel. This is why I prefer to work with the police on these cases. They understand how to deal with the emotions and they can put the details to good use in solving the cases without the families suffering more.

..There situations in which the only solution is to work with the family. This is hard on me as I worry about everything I say and how it will hurt them. That puts more strain on me and it interferes with the distance that I need to deal with the information objectively. However, there are just times when that has to be and I go with the flow to help the families through this most horrible of life's experiences, the loss or murder of a loved one.

..JRJ/VISIONS: Do you need an object from the victim?

..MYER: When I first started working I used {psychometry}, the holding of an object to get psychic information. Now I no longer use that style of working. I learned to move beyond needing an object to get information. Actually I never needed the object, I just thought I did because I was learning how to do my work. WICKIPEDIA: PSYCHOMETRY

..TARA/ VISIONS: Do you see both victim and assailant?

..MYER: When the images start running in my head I am usually standing right beside the victim. I see the assailant and I am able to pick up information about whether or not the assailant knows the victim,and how they connect to the each other. Unfortunately it moves through my mind like a movie that is poorly edited. Pieces of information flow that are not connected in time, and the soundtrack is often inaudible.

..Over time I learned to rerun the images to pick up on things that I missed because it flows through my mind screen at such a rapid pace. I always let the whole image complete and reach an empty spot, then I review it. It works better when I don't interrupt an image. Gradually I am able to move into the assailant's mind and learn a great deal about him. At some point I usually get a clear image of the assailant's face. That view is often clear enough that I can sit down with a sketch artist later and recreate the face. I have done that many times with incredible accuracy.

..I am able to answer the officers questions as I am working. Sometimes I pause as I let an image finish but then I can change the angle of the image to look at whatever they are asking me about. My skills are unusual because of this ability to change the angle of the visualization and the amount of detail that I produce. I have learned that from the officers I've worked with over the years who have also worked with other psychics.

..TARA/ VISIONS: What is the most "disturbing case" that you played a part in solving?
..MYER: The most disturbing cases are always the murder or abductions of children. Those cases give all of us nightmares. The other case that comes to mind when asked this question is the Homestead rapist case. This man brutally raped older women in their seventies and eighties. He terrorized the town for quite a while. My work was accurate and contributed to stopping his spree before anyone was killed.
..JRJ/ VISIONS: What was the quickest case you helped close and why was it so easy for you?
..MYER: There is never anything easy about this work. It is hard mental work like studying hard for final exams. My fastest case is from Hirosaki, Japan. I worked an arson, homicide case there for a TV show I appeared on for several years. Japan's equivalent of psychic detectives. The man set fire to a building, deliberately blocking the exits from the second floor. Among the businesses in the building was a day care center full of children.

..Many people died and there were a lot of injuries. The case was unsolved for some time. When they took me to the site the original building was demolished. I walked the empty lot to do my work. When they aired the show they built a digital mock up of the building so the viewers could see where I walked and could see with their drawings where the fires started. They could hear the translation of my reading describing where the fires started as I stood still on the lot where he set the fires. I described the building and what was in it, where the daycare center was. Their digital drawing showed the viewers how accurate this all was.

..I also described his job and why he torched the building. All my information fit what the suspect confessed to after his arrest. Less than twenty four hours after the show aired with my composite the man was arrested. He confessed to the arson and is now serving out his sentence. The composite was bang on making the man instantly recognizable.

..TARA/ VISIONS: What is the average number of cases that you work on?
..MYER: I have worked on over 775 cases at this point in my career. Most of them are murders, unfortunately. Many start as missing persons but end up as homicides. There is no way to figure out an average as this varies constantly.
..TARA/ VISIONS: Did you ever refuse to work on a case and why?
..MYER: I was asked to work on the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. I felt that the man asking me to work the case was involved with the murder of Jimmy Hoffa and if he realized that I was good at my job I would be eliminated. I turned down the case even though I was offered an enormous sum of money. The money was not worth the risk. There have been a few other times that I turned down cases for similar reasons.
..TARA/ VISIONS: Tell us about when you investigated MOUNDSVILLE STATE PRISION? {WHAT FOLLOWS IS TRANSCRIBED from Nancy Myer describing her experiences at Moundsville Prison in West Virginia on the featured YOUTUBE VIDEO}..

..MYER: Moundsville was fascinating. That was a pretty interesting trip over there. Just walking around this big huge empty building that the director I had been told was heavily haunted. He had been doing research and knows how to do the energy stuff. He didn’t tell me what he had found. There were sections of the prison I felt absolutely nothing. There was a man standing in front of me who had to be 6 foot 5 and very mean, angry man. He was like “You don’t walk on my tier lady.” It wasn’t polite, I felt like he wanted to pick me up and throw me right over the railing, and we are up a couple floors.

..Dave said what’s wrong. I said “...back up fast there is a very nasty man up there.” As I backed up he kept coming after us. When we reached a certain point in the tier he stopped. I guess that was in his view his territory. Then I asked him what he is in there for. He said “Lady... I kill people and I enjoy it.” I thought oh this is not nice. He just kept talking about his territory. I asked him “Have you ever felt white light around you?” The responce from the man was a defient "NO". I asked “have you ever felt a pull to go away from this tier?” He said “Oh ya, I feel that all the time, no one is gonna dislodge me away from my tier.”

..Even though ghosts are supposedly not physical... they can get very physical. You have to be kinda be careful how you deal with them. I didn’t want to say “you know what you are dead and you don’t really own this tier anymore.” I figured that was a bad approach. I wanted to get through to him that he was no longer living so that he was free and he didn’t have to st ay stuck. There was no other ghosts around. He was by himself defending his turf. His energy got me upset. When I get really upset batteries go dead really fast.

..We went into this one section of the prison and I said I see every single square inch of floor and beds covered with very ill men. I mean hundreds of people. The Doctors were wearing longer lab coats. The style of glasses that I saw on people made me think it was a long time ago and everybody that was working with the sick people had masks on. So they had some type of epidemic in that prison. No one mentioned this to me. When they asked me to Moundsville they didn’t tell me why. Later the director did confirm that there was a very severe epidemic. It was a very serious illness that they had no meds for.

All those layers of prisoners and the awful stuff that happened there, including a terrible epidemic, were over a battlefield. A lo ng time ago two Indian tribes fought a terrible battle right where the exercise yard is. I grew up in South America in the land of the Inca Empire and I was totally surprised to see men in battle outfits that matched drawings I saw in museums from the Inca Empire.

..I had no idea the Incas ever came this far North, but what I visualized at that site makes me sure that they did. That battle ended the existence of a tribe that is not recorded in history. It would be interesting if  someday archaeologists could excavate that field of battle and find evidence of the battle. It was a scary place with some nasty prisoner ghosts and a horrendous battle scene. History has always fascinated me so I found it interesting.

..JRJ/ VISIONS: Do you use Remote Viewing?
..MYER: Most of the murders I work today I work from my office in my home. All that work is essentially remote viewing as I rarely travel to the scenes any more. I'd be on the road constantly if I did that and I would never see my family, not to mention that I would be too exhausted to work!
..JRJ/ VISIONS: Are you able to shut off the PSI information you get? If yes, what method.
..MYER: I used to tell people that I could turn it off beacause it made people less afraid of me, but I can only turn it down. It is never fully off because it is a survival skill and one never knows when that will be needed.
..TARA/ VISIONS: What kind of work did you do first: paranormal investigations or psychic detective work?
..MYER: I did private readings for private individuals first. Some of my clients became victims of crime and that is how the police found out about my skills. My real police work started after the Colonel, top commanding officer of the Delaware State Police, Irvin B. Smith met me at a seminar I was giving. He called me every single day for 9 weeks trying to convince me to work on some cases. I finally caved in because he promised to stop bothering me if I could not do the work. Well, I could do it, and he and his friends kept me really busy from then on.
..JRJ/ VISIONS: Can you break down the cases that are paranormal and which are law enforcement related?
..MYER: I am not sure what you are asking me here. All of what I do is classed as paranormal, or not usual for people to be able to do, ergo paranormal. If you mean how many readings versus crime cases, I never kept track of that but I am sure I have done thousands of readings and only 775 homicides.
..TARA/ VISIONS: Is there a particular case that you worked on that brought you personally a strong sense of satisfaction?
..MYER: I helped find an abducted nine month old baby. That was awesome. I sent law enforcement right to the right place at just the right moment to catch the father's sister grocery shopping with the baby unharmed. That felt really good but it is one of a kind.

..I also felt a lot of satisfaction a number of times when I was able to stop serial rapists from hurting someone else. That type of case is difficult to solve and it feels really great when I help the police solve them. It also feels good to crack a homicide and take a murderer off the streets.

..TARA/VISIONS: How many different counties or states have you worked in as a psychic detective? How far are you willing to travel to work on a case?
..MYER: So far my farthest trip is Japan. Usually I travel mentally not physically. It's easier on me. I have worked with officers from most of the US states and many foreign countries.
..TARA/ VISIONS: Was there a turning point that made you realize that being a psychic detective was going to be your forte?

..MYER: Going back to Col. Irvin B. Smith, he was the turning point. When I solved two of the three cases he first sent me out on and then he convinced me what I did was useful, that was the turning point that sent my career in this overall direction.

..JRJ/ VISIONS: Do you ever feel a physical reaction of, lets say pain... for instance from the victim when receiving psychic information?
MYER: I do have physical reactions from many of the murder cases. I learned early on to stand beside the victim mentally, rather than go inside their minds. That reduces the impact of what I feel to a more manageable level and it allows me to maintain a better emotional distance from the victim. The more objective I can be about what I am visualizing the more accurate the information will be
..TARA/ VISIONS: Has there ever been any kind of personal danger either mentally or physically for you doing this type of work?
..MYER: Yes. The constant strain of what you visualize is draining and you must be quite sturdy emotionally in order to withstand the terrible images that go with homicide work. There is also a risk from the perpetrators. You have to be thick skinned as many of the police officers are quite negative, sometimes nasty at first. They are used to dealing with a lot of fake psychics and have a justifiable bad attitude toward those who claim these abilities. I always tell them to just manage to be polite and they will shortly learn that some of us are quite real.
..TARA/ VISIONS: There are different schools of thought of how psychic abilities in people occur. Numerous stories of people out there who received their psychic gifts after a traumatic physical injury or event in their lives. The second school of thought is that certain people are just naturally gifted with this talent. Do you fall under either one of these categories? Could both schools of thought be accurate?
..MYER: There is a third possibility that you do not mention. All the real psychics I have met I've asked about learning disabilities and so far, all of them either had a great deal of trouble with reading, or math in elementary school. Many are dyslexic. My theory is that when the brain does not function in the usual way it turns to the intuitive skills and uses them to survive and this shift in focus increases the psychic skill. Rather like a blind person whose hearing and other senses are heightened to make up for the damaged part of the body.  This theory of mine also relates to those who have had brain injuries.

..I am dyslexic, and I am naturally gifted. This ability runs in my family, although only a few family members have had enough of it to use regularly most of my family is artistic and very intuitive especially with children and animals.

..TARA/VISIONS: Who do you work for mostly: private clients, law enforcement or paranormal investigative teams? (if you could break it down into numbers or percentages over your history)
..MYER: Most of my work is for private clients, probably 75% of my work. The homicide work is about 25% of the work I do but it is the most publicly visible part of what I do. I don't usually work with paranormal investigative teams, that is a rare occasion but I have done it. Most of the ghost work I have done is connected to private clients who have problems or radio and TV stations who have worked with me.
..TARA/VISIONS: When you are hired how is the client billed? Do you give them an estimate of the amount of time you are spending on the case? What expenses do you incur if the case leads you out of the area or out of the state and who covers those costs?
..MYER: I charge by the hour and half hour. I request payment in advance because, unfortunately I have had a number of dishonest clients who had their readings and never paid for them. If the client insists that I travel they must cover all my travel expenses, including food and lodging. I don't drink so they never have a bar bill with me.
.TARA/ VISIONS: Tell us about your books.
..MYER: My first non-fiction book, Silent Witness: The True Story of a Psychic Detective was published in hardback and paperback in the US and in Europe. It is now out of print but used copies sometimes show up on Ebay. I completed my second non-fiction book Death Doesn't Stop Love - the true love story of my parents and the account of my Father's many contacts after his untimely death at 54 to reach back in love to my Mother who was devastated when he died. It is a wonderful love story that lets everyone know the souls that pass do not stop loving those they leave behind. It is currently being considered by a publisher. I hope to sell it and have it published next year

..TARA/VISIONS: I understand you are advancing your studies right now. What are you majoring in?

..MYER: I have a BA with a double major in English and Spanish from the University of Delaware. I have a terminal Masters in writing from Seton Hill University. I am currently a second year doctoral candidate seeking a Doctorate in Educational Leadership with a specialization in Curriculum and Instruction with the University of Phoenix online. The short version of that long title is EDDCI

..TARA/VISIONS: How can you be contacted?

..MYER: The best way to contact me is through my email address: {nmyerdet007@yahoo.com}. I have a voicemail number 724-539-9299, but I don't check that every day as my schedule is horrendous and I man the business myself. I have changed my business to almost completely online for scheduling and answering questions because I work the same daylight hours everyone else does and I can't get people on the phone easily. It is much faster to contact everyone by email and get them scheduled that way as well.

..Nancy Myer  - PO Box 3015 - Greensburg, PA 15601

WEBSITE: http://www.nancymyer-psychicdetective.com/homepage.html
Email: nmyerdet007@yahoo.com
Email is the preferred method of contact.

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