Spirit meduim finds dead body and creates furore
So what?
We are all used to TV shows where the psychic says "the body is in the lake", and sure enough it is.
But in reality this is a very rare event. Reality is usually not the Xfiles, or CSI. Its often more blander.
Article from here.
In a country where plaster Madonnas weep blood, it is only to be expected that the supernatural should be on everyone's minds. But even miracle-hardened Italians have been taken aback by the affair of the medium and the body in the lake.
The Meduim.
The body of Chiara Beriffi, who disappeared three years ago, was found in her car in Lake Como in precisely the area indicated by a medium, Maria Rosa Busi, who had been approached for help by Beriffi's parents in March.
A police source said it was a "million to one chance" that the vehicle would be found in the area marked by the medium.
Since Sunday, when volunteer divers found the car, the case has been debated on radio, television and in magazines.
Divers initially balked at the venture because the spot identified by Busi was 150m from shore. Detectives were on Wednesday trying to work out how the four-wheel-drive vehicle came to be so far from the lakeside.
On Tuesday, the dead woman's father, Francesco Beriffi, watched as the dark red vehicle was hauled 120m from the bottom of the lake by a ship-borne crane.
"I hesitate to believe in voices from beyond," he said. "But I really cannot be sceptical."
Critics, however, accused Busi of working out the spot from known information. On Tuesday, the medium broke off a heated exchange with an interviewer in a live television show.
Investigations are continuing into whether Beriffi (30), who suffered from depression, took her own life or drove off the road accidentally on the rainy winter night when she vanished. An autopsy on her body was due to be carried out on Wednesday night or Thursday. -- Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005
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posted on 19-9-2005 We are all used to TV shows where the psychic says "the body is in the lake", and sure enough it is.
But in reality this is a very rare event. Reality is usually not the Xfiles, or CSI. Its often more blander.
Article from here.
In a country where plaster Madonnas weep blood, it is only to be expected that the supernatural should be on everyone's minds. But even miracle-hardened Italians have been taken aback by the affair of the medium and the body in the lake.
The Meduim.
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The body of Chiara Beriffi, who disappeared three years ago, was found in her car in Lake Como in precisely the area indicated by a medium, Maria Rosa Busi, who had been approached for help by Beriffi's parents in March.
A police source said it was a "million to one chance" that the vehicle would be found in the area marked by the medium.
Since Sunday, when volunteer divers found the car, the case has been debated on radio, television and in magazines.
Divers initially balked at the venture because the spot identified by Busi was 150m from shore. Detectives were on Wednesday trying to work out how the four-wheel-drive vehicle came to be so far from the lakeside.
On Tuesday, the dead woman's father, Francesco Beriffi, watched as the dark red vehicle was hauled 120m from the bottom of the lake by a ship-borne crane.
"I hesitate to believe in voices from beyond," he said. "But I really cannot be sceptical."
Critics, however, accused Busi of working out the spot from known information. On Tuesday, the medium broke off a heated exchange with an interviewer in a live television show.
Investigations are continuing into whether Beriffi (30), who suffered from depression, took her own life or drove off the road accidentally on the rainy winter night when she vanished. An autopsy on her body was due to be carried out on Wednesday night or Thursday. -- Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005