byTara
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 ForThe
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 INTERVIEWOF 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 stay 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 long 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: paranormalinvestigations 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 areparanormaland
which arelaw
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.
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