Approved For Re^se 2001/03/26
: CIA-RDP96-007S7R000200080019-4
lljf'TiwNP 4-
fit
Two psychics
. _ A 1 - .
M r\nir\4 r\r
Sunken
of Ocean
working independently of each other —
exacu7p»nlSl the site ofan unknown 189^ shipwreck oft
tithe coast of California and accurately described artifacts di-
fthelr amazingly accurate psychic predictions.—
••
.
%
“I must say we did Bad the
| »y CHARLES PARMITER j
;.S °prtS afd *tauS
1 server who was aboard the gobies Group. *n intern
J-
pi-ea where the psychics said
4. they would be found,” de-
T dared Or. Anne B, liable, an
independent
scientific
ob-
server who was aboard the
$3-million Taurus 1 research
submarine when
the Arti-
facts were discovered.
The
experiment,
part
of a
Mobius Group, *n International
organization of •scientists and
Ipsychics
beaded by
Stephan
ISchwartz. Expert* from the fa-
mous Institute for Marine and
Coastal Studies of the Univer-
sity of Southern California co-
operated in the test.
.
Swann
and Hammfd
were
. ^rew were chains, a wheel with
each
given
a -chart
covering
and a
strange
rec-
% -rnn unnMi
vniloo M
PBPlllC
LUnL
Ca-nnn aovh Ha.
SUCCESSFUL SEERS Inao Swann ond Hello Hammid ot
Cotolina Islond during the experiment.
SUBMARINE usediT th^hipw^ck search. The psychic*
tod the vessel to sunken artifacts.
-
,
.
•
:
1500 equare miles
of
Pacific
Ocean off the California coast.
They were asked to use
their,
powers to pinpoint the undersea
location
of *n
undiscovered
shipwreck, -and
predict what
would be found there.
"What was astounding was
that they
both
Independently
selected the same site, — a few
hundred
yards
apart,
said
Eugene Veek, associate direc-
tor for facilities at the Marine
InsUtute,
and
fanner
«om-
mander of a U.8. Maty •b-
^Among the sketches Hammid
•pukcb
-
strange
...
tangular block. Swann gave de-
scriptions
of
a
pipe,
cables,
chain and various debris.
Then divers aboard the Tau-
rus 1 set out to the area —near
California's Catalina Island.
Actually, the submarine had
been in the area for five months
working with sonar, but had
found
nothing
to
Indicate a
shipwreck, according
to Allan
Witcombe, the chief pilot.
But with the psychics maps
— and them aboard — it was a
different story.
-
. i
At 170 feet below the surface,
!J Swann began directing the Tau-
Inis
I. "He led us right to the
'
(Wreck and toe artifact*,” said
Witcombe.
„
.
- 1
"It was amazing. He directed
i to one object after another.
"The predictions were aston-
‘ irtgly accurate. There were
ickles and pulleys and shifts,
.ere were tots of cables and
tain and R wa* remarkably
jsy
to
identify
the
artifacts
•om toe drawings.
'It was incredible that we sc-
.i uc w,
tually found the ship’s wheel in
270 feet of water just the way
Hella drew it.”
Yet another astonishing find
was a huge rectangular stone
block — which
looked remark-
ably
like
what
Hammid
had
drawn.
"It
just
wasn’t the kind
of thing anyone
would expect to
identify
with
a
wreck,”
claim-
SHir* pilot ed Witcombe.
A! WitwmS*
Dr.
Kahle,
a
"It wm,
renowned
geo-
emozlno-
physicist
who'
worked on NASA satellite pro-
grams,
agreed.
"We
really
found a tot of unexpected things
that were similar to what were
[described by the psychics.”
Even a top government ma-
irine expert admitted that
the
amazing accuracy of toe two
psychics is astonishing. ” don t
think anyone was trying to fool
the scientists,” .said Thomas S.
Cooke
of
toe U.S. Bureau
ot
Land Management.
Dr. Don Walsh, director of the
Institute for Marine and Coasial
Studies,
evaluated
Project
Deep
Quest,
looking
for
any
possible fraud.
“I’m not necessarily a sup-
porter, but I couldn’t find any-
thing to cast doubt on the psy-
chics' claims,” he said.
Could
toe
find
have
been
•baited” — toe artifacts placed
ere recently?
Tt would be extremely
dif-
Jcult to
fake
this,” Mid
Dr.
fWalsh.
.
..
“To put things down on the
an floor that have allegedly
-en there that long and make
lem look that way would tax
best Hollywood special ef-
' Approved For Release 2001/03/26
: CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080019-4