Psychics, Crooks and Unexplained Phenomena

Is there a real Psychic out there? Could you trust the messages you are getting from the people who hold out to be in touch with other realities?Wolfgang Schmidt is a journalist and wanted an answer to those questions. He travelled the world to find the human being with the extra-sensory capacity.Was he successful?In his book Psychics, Crooks and unexplained phenomena Schmidt documents his encounters with mediums, mystics and scam artists. Coming from a background of no-nonsense, hard-nosed investigative journalism, the author looks at claimed phenomena with a jaundiced eyeand still is impressed with some of the incidents experienced in his travels.Schmidts writing is colourful and because the stage is the whole world, his stories grab you and make it fascinating readingeven if you are not interested in psychic phenomena. A book reviewer commented, ...it reminds me of the X-files.