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I’ve been asked to post the “top 15” claims made by “psychic detective” Noreen Renier since many JREF forum members aren’t quite up-to-date on her three decades of claims. So among the literally hundreds --- perhaps thousands --- of paranormal and intuitive claims by TV psychic detective Noreen Renier over more than 30 years:
CLAIM #1: She is a host provider for at least two entities within her that allow mystic medium communications. Under oath and in court she called these by the names Sing and Robert.
ONE ANSWER: To keep things short let’s consider “Sing” whom she described as “an Oriental”. Now it could be a coincidence but the old Bonanza western TV series had ended a 14-year run and was being re-played at the time of her testimony. And interestingly actor Victor Sen Yung played the Cartwright’s family cook, Hop Sing. So perhaps in attempting to enunciate while eating a TV dinner entrée she became entangled during the entertainment and simply mistook an enteric blockage and any resulting sound as spiritual communication. Could be!
CLAIM #2: She has an ability to block billiard balls in a game of pool using her psychic powers.
ONE ANSWER: While this claim by Renier was reported by a Virginia newspaper it was offered without actually showcasing the claim. Perhaps this “pool game” actually took place in a swimming pool. She wasn’t specific. Thus when the balls “sank” in the pockets this might have been deemed mystical to anyone with very dark sunglasses and under the impression the game was still being played on a conventional pool table. Hey --- it’s a thought!
CLAIM #3: From a newspaper interview Noreen Renier reportedly claimed to be capable of changing physical matter and room temperatures with her mind.
ONE ANSWER: Hhhhmmmmm. Maybe she just meant she could hold chilled Jell-O against her head until it warms and the reporter --- ya the reporter --- got it wrong.
CLAIM #4: By watching pendulums swing over maps Renier stated she can interpret the location of missing persons according to a published story.
ONE ANSWER: Her pendulums might be camouflaged GPS receivers picking up transmission beacons tagged to missing persons by Grizzly Bears originally trained in Hollywood but now working for the National Park Service. Not even close huh. Well what’s the better explanation?
CLAIM #5: Noreen Renier apparently using paranormal powers believes she can see through human clothing as she seemed to reference on the Joan Rivers TV Show.
LIKELY ANSWER: Now let’s be fair. Renier didn’t say all clothing or all humans. So perhaps there’s an inability to actually demonstrate this because the claim is limited to apparel worn by Homo sapiens of the Paleolithic era. Or it’s possible she’s a distant cousin to Superman.
CLAIM #6: Ms. Renier has stated an awareness of being burned alive and stabbed in the head but suffering no physical scars.
ONE ANSWER: While this has been repeatedly claimed by Renier as "frightening and real" it might just be a daydream. Okay, okay. I my answer here sounds ridiculous and is awfully weak.
CLAIM #7: Describing the air crash death scene of four people accurately and the “crash site was exactly the way I had described.”
Gee on this one there are so many witnesses who say otherwise. Hhhhmmm. Let’s move on.
CLAIM #8: Subjecting herself to five years of laboratory testing and scoring “quite high in everything” during the extensive paranormal testing.
Hhhhmmmm. Renier actually testified under oath that she couldn't remember where this testing occurred, or the names of the research testing personnel. Neither could she later recall the names of any laboratory personnel who conducted her 5 year test program. She couldn’t even recall when any of this testing had ever taken place. And under further court questioning Renier even admitted that any results of tests that found her as “highly psychic” was actually just "one of the exaggerations" her publicist wrote up about her. That bad publicist. And then she said the five years were closer to just a couple days. But all that said --- none of it disputes her claim of scoring “quite high in everything.”
CLAIM #9: Providing an accurate Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in 2007. And providing an accurate revised Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing that same year.
Hhhhmmmm. In 2008 she did need to restate her income levels on a second revised bankruptcy filing significantly upward. By more than $100,000. And of course for the immediate year before her bankruptcy her income amount needed to be revised more than 10 times higher. But what are a couple extra digits here and there?
CLAIM #10: Levitating her own children.
ONE ANSWER: Maybe she was standing in that same swimming pool again.
CLAIM #11: Being an adjunct faculty member with teaching appointments at major universities and colleges.
ONE ANSWER: The Office of Human Resources at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida has confirmed that Renier has never been an "adjunct faculty member" as she lists herself on her web site. And for years she has also claimed to be an "adjunct faculty member" with "teaching appointments" from major colleges and universities including the University of Florida, the University of Delaware, and the University of Virginia.
Yet calls made to these major academic centers reveal she was never an accredited faculty member, faculty associate or even faculty assistant. Among the official adjunct faculty member listings throughout all of the accredited departments across these universities there are no listings for Noreen Renier.
And Noreen Renier herself also has no four year degree --- much less any college teaching degree --- from any accredited college or university.
But! She never said which planet.
CLAIM #12: She has a paranormal ability which can cause lights to flash on and off using only her mind according to a news story.
ONE ANSWER: She could have been watching TV re-runs of Medium and the batteries in her 3D TV glasses were running low. And then got all confused. And because watching Medium drained the batteries it was partly due to a paranormal event. And maybe some of that melted Jello-O dripped down. Ya, that’s the ticket.
CLAIM #13: Claiming in 1989 that “I know I can find the young lady" to a reporter. The young lady is missing Gainesville Florida student Tiffany Sessions. The story is captioned alongside a photo of Renier with “Top crime-solving psychic tells grief-stricken dad . . . I’ll find your missing daughter!”
ONE ANSWER: Sadly Tiffany Sessions remains missing in 2011. However Renier’s posted fees on her present website for missing person work with police are now up from near $75 in 1989 to her now current $1000 for a psychic telephone reading with the police detective assigned to a case which may last 60-90 minutes, with a follow-up phone consultation lasting from 45 minutes to an hour. That’s close to $9 a minute. Perhaps the raising of her rates reflects a huge drop-off in client volume since her success rate with parents who have been reunited with their daughters and sons through Renier’s paranormal ability is . . . non-existent?
CLAIM #14: Claiming that her psychic foresight allowed her to see even prior to his arrest that the rapist who drove a cement truck would be "driving a truck with something on it that goes round and round."
Well unfortunately she actually only scribbled a bunch of circles on scratch paper that she claimed later ---after the arrest of the suspect and a radio announcer found that the suspect drove a cement truck on his job--- were very significant circles as they too were also “round and round” and therefore reflective of a premonition of the cement truck going “round and round.” I discovered that the man ate Oreo cookies too. And his eye pupils were round. Even --- get this --- the door handle on his house was round. And later it was discovered all ten tires on the cement mixer were round. All ten --- not a single square one. Isn’t that amazing!
CLAIM #15: Renier writes in her biography of conversations with a mighty oak tree including at one point when "suddenly I was told by the ancient oak, 'We have one fear and that is fire. Would you mind not smoking while touching me?'"
Renier even writes that "archaeologists had their tape recorders whirring and were taking fast and furious notes" as she described the tree providing historical information about the area. According to Renier the tree even recalled where a river once flowed and where fighting (Cowboys and Indians?) had taken place.
Renier seems to claim that her super intuitive communication with trees helped archaeologists reveal past historical data. Apparently her abilities in this area allow trees to be qualified as credible witnesses. A bit odd this last one. Coming after a federal judge on March 21, 2011 stated in his court order that Renier “misled the court” and was not “a credible witness.” Perhaps instead of testifying herself she should have asked her tree to speak on her behalf. Of course it’s possible the tree became a billiard table and pool cues. Or Kleenex tissues. So it’s hard to say if it would still be willing to testify.
CLAIM #1: She is a host provider for at least two entities within her that allow mystic medium communications. Under oath and in court she called these by the names Sing and Robert.
ONE ANSWER: To keep things short let’s consider “Sing” whom she described as “an Oriental”. Now it could be a coincidence but the old Bonanza western TV series had ended a 14-year run and was being re-played at the time of her testimony. And interestingly actor Victor Sen Yung played the Cartwright’s family cook, Hop Sing. So perhaps in attempting to enunciate while eating a TV dinner entrée she became entangled during the entertainment and simply mistook an enteric blockage and any resulting sound as spiritual communication. Could be!
CLAIM #2: She has an ability to block billiard balls in a game of pool using her psychic powers.
ONE ANSWER: While this claim by Renier was reported by a Virginia newspaper it was offered without actually showcasing the claim. Perhaps this “pool game” actually took place in a swimming pool. She wasn’t specific. Thus when the balls “sank” in the pockets this might have been deemed mystical to anyone with very dark sunglasses and under the impression the game was still being played on a conventional pool table. Hey --- it’s a thought!
CLAIM #3: From a newspaper interview Noreen Renier reportedly claimed to be capable of changing physical matter and room temperatures with her mind.
ONE ANSWER: Hhhhmmmmm. Maybe she just meant she could hold chilled Jell-O against her head until it warms and the reporter --- ya the reporter --- got it wrong.
CLAIM #4: By watching pendulums swing over maps Renier stated she can interpret the location of missing persons according to a published story.
ONE ANSWER: Her pendulums might be camouflaged GPS receivers picking up transmission beacons tagged to missing persons by Grizzly Bears originally trained in Hollywood but now working for the National Park Service. Not even close huh. Well what’s the better explanation?
CLAIM #5: Noreen Renier apparently using paranormal powers believes she can see through human clothing as she seemed to reference on the Joan Rivers TV Show.
LIKELY ANSWER: Now let’s be fair. Renier didn’t say all clothing or all humans. So perhaps there’s an inability to actually demonstrate this because the claim is limited to apparel worn by Homo sapiens of the Paleolithic era. Or it’s possible she’s a distant cousin to Superman.
CLAIM #6: Ms. Renier has stated an awareness of being burned alive and stabbed in the head but suffering no physical scars.
ONE ANSWER: While this has been repeatedly claimed by Renier as "frightening and real" it might just be a daydream. Okay, okay. I my answer here sounds ridiculous and is awfully weak.
CLAIM #7: Describing the air crash death scene of four people accurately and the “crash site was exactly the way I had described.”
Gee on this one there are so many witnesses who say otherwise. Hhhhmmm. Let’s move on.
CLAIM #8: Subjecting herself to five years of laboratory testing and scoring “quite high in everything” during the extensive paranormal testing.
Hhhhmmmm. Renier actually testified under oath that she couldn't remember where this testing occurred, or the names of the research testing personnel. Neither could she later recall the names of any laboratory personnel who conducted her 5 year test program. She couldn’t even recall when any of this testing had ever taken place. And under further court questioning Renier even admitted that any results of tests that found her as “highly psychic” was actually just "one of the exaggerations" her publicist wrote up about her. That bad publicist. And then she said the five years were closer to just a couple days. But all that said --- none of it disputes her claim of scoring “quite high in everything.”
CLAIM #9: Providing an accurate Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in 2007. And providing an accurate revised Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing that same year.
Hhhhmmmm. In 2008 she did need to restate her income levels on a second revised bankruptcy filing significantly upward. By more than $100,000. And of course for the immediate year before her bankruptcy her income amount needed to be revised more than 10 times higher. But what are a couple extra digits here and there?
CLAIM #10: Levitating her own children.
ONE ANSWER: Maybe she was standing in that same swimming pool again.
CLAIM #11: Being an adjunct faculty member with teaching appointments at major universities and colleges.
ONE ANSWER: The Office of Human Resources at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida has confirmed that Renier has never been an "adjunct faculty member" as she lists herself on her web site. And for years she has also claimed to be an "adjunct faculty member" with "teaching appointments" from major colleges and universities including the University of Florida, the University of Delaware, and the University of Virginia.
Yet calls made to these major academic centers reveal she was never an accredited faculty member, faculty associate or even faculty assistant. Among the official adjunct faculty member listings throughout all of the accredited departments across these universities there are no listings for Noreen Renier.
And Noreen Renier herself also has no four year degree --- much less any college teaching degree --- from any accredited college or university.
But! She never said which planet.
CLAIM #12: She has a paranormal ability which can cause lights to flash on and off using only her mind according to a news story.
ONE ANSWER: She could have been watching TV re-runs of Medium and the batteries in her 3D TV glasses were running low. And then got all confused. And because watching Medium drained the batteries it was partly due to a paranormal event. And maybe some of that melted Jello-O dripped down. Ya, that’s the ticket.
CLAIM #13: Claiming in 1989 that “I know I can find the young lady" to a reporter. The young lady is missing Gainesville Florida student Tiffany Sessions. The story is captioned alongside a photo of Renier with “Top crime-solving psychic tells grief-stricken dad . . . I’ll find your missing daughter!”
ONE ANSWER: Sadly Tiffany Sessions remains missing in 2011. However Renier’s posted fees on her present website for missing person work with police are now up from near $75 in 1989 to her now current $1000 for a psychic telephone reading with the police detective assigned to a case which may last 60-90 minutes, with a follow-up phone consultation lasting from 45 minutes to an hour. That’s close to $9 a minute. Perhaps the raising of her rates reflects a huge drop-off in client volume since her success rate with parents who have been reunited with their daughters and sons through Renier’s paranormal ability is . . . non-existent?
CLAIM #14: Claiming that her psychic foresight allowed her to see even prior to his arrest that the rapist who drove a cement truck would be "driving a truck with something on it that goes round and round."
Well unfortunately she actually only scribbled a bunch of circles on scratch paper that she claimed later ---after the arrest of the suspect and a radio announcer found that the suspect drove a cement truck on his job--- were very significant circles as they too were also “round and round” and therefore reflective of a premonition of the cement truck going “round and round.” I discovered that the man ate Oreo cookies too. And his eye pupils were round. Even --- get this --- the door handle on his house was round. And later it was discovered all ten tires on the cement mixer were round. All ten --- not a single square one. Isn’t that amazing!
CLAIM #15: Renier writes in her biography of conversations with a mighty oak tree including at one point when "suddenly I was told by the ancient oak, 'We have one fear and that is fire. Would you mind not smoking while touching me?'"
Renier even writes that "archaeologists had their tape recorders whirring and were taking fast and furious notes" as she described the tree providing historical information about the area. According to Renier the tree even recalled where a river once flowed and where fighting (Cowboys and Indians?) had taken place.
Renier seems to claim that her super intuitive communication with trees helped archaeologists reveal past historical data. Apparently her abilities in this area allow trees to be qualified as credible witnesses. A bit odd this last one. Coming after a federal judge on March 21, 2011 stated in his court order that Renier “misled the court” and was not “a credible witness.” Perhaps instead of testifying herself she should have asked her tree to speak on her behalf. Of course it’s possible the tree became a billiard table and pool cues. Or Kleenex tissues. So it’s hard to say if it would still be willing to testify.
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