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Zak Martin - "The real-life Johnny Smith"
Zak Martin has used his unique psychological and psychic profiling skills to help police forces around the world - including Scotland Yard - with unsolved crimes, and he has successfully solved a number of murder and missing persons cases. The movie - and subsequently a major TV series - "The Dead Zone" (adapted from the book by Stephen King), dealt with events Zak had encountered in his own psychic detection work, and he was consulted in the authentication and promotion of the original film, which starred Christopher Walken as "Johnny Smith", a man who finds himself in possession of psychic powers after a near-fatal car crash.
PSYCHIC
LEADS POLICE TO KILLERS
Zak Martin’s first involvement in a
major murder case occurred while he
was still a student at University College, Dublin. He had previously come to public attention when he conducted an experiment into long-distance telepathy. The experiment - which involved playing a game of chess-by-telepathy with an Australian - had been widely reported in the Irish media. So when, a few months later, a
young Irish girl named Elizabeth Plunkett
went missing while on holiday
with friends at the picturesque seaside
resort of Brittas Bay in Co. Wicklow,
Ireland, Zak Martin was called in to help in the search.
Elizabeth Plunkett had left the local inn
shortly before closing time and was never
seen alive again. A nationwide
search had failed to discover any clues as to her whereabouts.
After
visiting the area where the girl was last
seen, Martin told the police his impressions: "I feel
that she is dead, and that she has been
murdered. There are two men involved. The
next impression I have is of a car
driving off, stopping after a short
distance, then moving away again. The
girl has, I feel, been beaten and
strangled.""Now I can see her
body in water, not very deep, wrapped in
what seems to be some kind of sack-cloth
or plastic material, blue or grey in
colour. Beside her is what looks like a
wooden stake."
In fact Elizabeth Plunkett was dead, and
had been murdered in the way Martin
described, by two men in a car. Her body
was later found in the bay, covered in a
pale blue sleeping bag. It had been
weighted down with a broken lawn-mower -
the "stake" that Martin saw.
A few weeks later a second girl was
murdered in a different part of the
country, and the Irish police were
convinced that the same two men were
responsible. They could not be found,
however, despite the fact that their
descriptions had been widely circulated.
Zak Martin was contacted again. Could the
psychic use his psychic powers to find
the wanted men? Martin agreed to try.
Using a dowsing pendulum over a large map
of Ireland, he pinpointed what he
believed to be the murderers’
location - in the town of Galway. The
police were sceptical when they received
this information, as the wanted men had
apparently just been sighted in a
different part of the country. However,
in view of Martin’s undeniable
accuracy in describing details of the
first murder, his impressions were taken
seriously, and within a matter of hours
the two men were arrested in Galway town.
Since then, Zak Martin has used his
unique psychic detection skills to assist
police forces around the world with
unsolved crimes, and his track record is
impressive.
Psychic News
NO ESCAPE FOR THE KINGS OF
CRIME
Today 9,000 crimes will be committed in
Britain. Some criminals will feel
they’re safe from even the most
modern methods of detection - but
they’ve reckoned without the strange
power of psychic sleuths.
Britain has its own squad of psychic
detectives. Desperate families and
friends, sometimes even the police, turn
to them as a last resort to track down a
missing child, search out a lost
relative, or find a killer.
Zak Martin holds court in one of the
private suites of the Sherlock Holmes
Hotel in London’s Baker Street,
across the busy road from the consulting
rooms mentioned in the famous novels.
What more apt address could you imagine
for a psychic detective?
"It’s a marvellous place to
be," he says. "There’s a
great connection. Not so much with
Holmes, but with his creator, Arthur
Conan Doyle, who was heavily into psychic
matters."
Zak sits back in a shadowy corner, slim
and intense. His eyes are huge and dark
and grow almost totally black when he is
concentrating. The voice is a soft Irish
lilt, and his powers of observation and
instinct are reputed to be uncanny.
He plays back a tape-recording he made
when investigating the disappearance of a
young Dublin girl who had vanished after
an argument with her boyfriend in a pub
in Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow. This is what
he said: "I feel that the girl is
dead, and that she has been murdered. I
see her leaning over the bonnet of a car,
talking to a man. Another man is walking
towards the car. The next impression I
have is of the car moving off, stopping
after a few hundred feet, then moving
again. Next I see the car pulling up
close to a lake. The girl has, I feel,
been strangled. I have the impression of
scratches, but very little blood. Now I
can see the body in shallow water,
covered by what seems to be some kind of
sackcloth or plastic material, blue or
grey in colour".
The girl was Elizabeth Plunkett, and she
was 23 years old. She
left the pub shortly before closing time,
and was never seen alive again. After a
nationwide search, several items of her
clothing turned up near the scene. Zak
visited the area and recorded his
impressions on the spot.
"In fact, she was dead. She had been
murdered, in the way I described. The
body was later found in the bay itself,
not in a lake. But it was in shallow
water, in a blue sleeping bag."
Zak talks matter-of-factly today about
the case that made front-page headlines,
even though his own part was never
disclosed at the time. He gave more aid
to the police in "seeing" her
attackers hiding out in Galway.
Eventually two men were arrested in the
area Zak described.
For Zak Martin it was just another case
to add to his extraordinary and growing
file. Today, he is one of Britain’s
leading psychic sleuths when it comes to
finding bodies, dead or alive. Zak
usually gets approached by relatives or
friends of the victim or missing person.
Once he is called in, Zak moves fast.
"Violent events like rape and murder
leave a psychic ‘scent’ that I
can usually follow. That’s why I
need to handle some item that has been
touched or worn by the victim."
How accurate does he rate himself?
"If a murder weapon is left at the
scene , by touching it I can describe the
owner with about 80 per cent
accuracy."
And what is the ultimate satisfaction for
Zak Martin, the man who measures life and
death on another level? "Knowing I
was right," he replies, very
confidently.
News of the World Magazine (Abridged)
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