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The Psychic Case Files: Solving the Psychic Mysteries Behind Unsolved Cases
Police, victims of crime, and family members regularly ask Tony Stockwell to use his psychic powers to help investigate cases that have not yielded to conventional methods. In this fascinating collection, Tony opens his case files and discusses some of his most amazing assignments, including tracking down the body of a young sailor lost at sea, uncovering the hidden secrets of a haunted abbey, and revealing the truth behind a pair of apparent suicides. This is a treasure trove for crime buffs and psychic enthusiasts alike.
250 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
About the author
Tony Stockwell
10 books12 followersTony Stockwell is an international Psychic Medium, Author, Teacher and Speaker with a career spanning over 30 years. As well as authoring several books he has also written columns for magazines and newspapers and can currently be found with regular columns in CHAT magazine SOUL AND SPIRIT.
Tony continues to demonstrate mediumship in tours and in many Spiritualist Churches where he began to demonstrate many years ago, and where still loves to work. He has been lecturing & teaching globally from 1990 to present, teaching in places such as The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain, The Arthur Findlay College, The Omega Institute in New York, the College of Psychic Studies in London, and in Spiritual Symposiums.
Tony has had four of his own solo television series: ‘The Psychic Detective’, ‘Street Psychic’ and ‘Psychic School’ for Living TV, and ' Psychic Academy’ . Other TV credits include: The Legend Detectives (Discovery Channel Worldwide), The 6ixth Sense, The Mystery of Body 115, The 3 Mediums and Psychic Private Eyes.
Tony continues to demonstrate mediumship in tours and in many Spiritualist Churches where he began to demonstrate many years ago, and where still loves to work. He has been lecturing & teaching globally from 1990 to present, teaching in places such as The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain, The Arthur Findlay College, The Omega Institute in New York, the College of Psychic Studies in London, and in Spiritual Symposiums.
Tony has had four of his own solo television series: ‘The Psychic Detective’, ‘Street Psychic’ and ‘Psychic School’ for Living TV, and ' Psychic Academy’ . Other TV credits include: The Legend Detectives (Discovery Channel Worldwide), The 6ixth Sense, The Mystery of Body 115, The 3 Mediums and Psychic Private Eyes.
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October 30, 2017
Another book by Tony Stockwell on his work as a psychic.
Not as good as the other two I have read. This one just seemed sort of flat.
Worth a read on a rainy afternoon.
Not as good as the other two I have read. This one just seemed sort of flat.
Worth a read on a rainy afternoon.
September 1, 2026
The Psychic Case Files interested me for a completely different reason than most books about psychic ability: Tony Stockwell isn't primarily teaching psychic development here, he's showing what happens when psychic perception is directed toward an unknown real-world target. That immediately got my attention. The book follows Stockwell's involvement with unsolved murders, disappearances, and other mysteries, describing the impressions he received and how they related to known facts or subsequent investigation. I found myself reading less like I was reading a medium's memoir and more like I was examining a series of informal psychic experiments.
That is where the book becomes fascinating. Psychic investigation requires a different kind of perception than giving a spiritual reading to someone sitting directly in front of you. A location, photograph, object, or limited piece of information becomes the target, and the psychic attempts to describe people, events, environments, motives, or circumstances that aren't ordinarily available to them. From a psychic-development perspective, this is exactly the kind of work I find interesting because specificity matters. “I sense sadness” is difficult to evaluate. A description of a location, physical characteristic, relationship, object, or event gives us something much more concrete to compare against reality.
Stockwell is also refreshingly candid about how psychic information arrives in fragments. An impression doesn't necessarily appear as a complete narrative explaining what happened. Images, feelings, physical sensations, words, personalities, and seemingly disconnected details have to be received and then interpreted. That distinction between perception and interpretation is crucial. A psychic impression might be accurate while the explanation attached to it is wrong, which is one of the most important things to understand when developing these abilities. The mind wants to turn fragments into a story long before it has enough information to know what the story actually is.
The cases themselves range from compelling to frustrating. There are moments where Stockwell reports details that appear impressively specific, and others where the connection between an impression and the known facts feels much looser. I would have loved considerably more documentation showing exactly what information Stockwell was given beforehand, precisely when each impression was recorded, which statements were confirmed, which remained unknown, and which turned out to be incorrect. Psychic investigation practically begs for that kind of methodology because the difference between an extraordinary hit and an apparently extraordinary hit can depend entirely upon how the information was collected.
That kept this from being quite as convincing as it could have been for me. I don't need every psychic book to become a laboratory report, but when the subject is ostensibly using psychic information to investigate actual crimes, the evidential standard matters. Misses are particularly valuable and I wish they were discussed more openly. Knowing what Stockwell got wrong would help me understand what he got right, and it could tell us something fascinating about where psychic perception becomes distorted by interpretation, expectation, or incomplete information.
Still, I found The Psychic Case Files difficult to put down. It takes psychic ability outside the comfortable environment of a reading and asks whether it can retrieve useful information about events the psychic should have no ordinary way of knowing. That is exactly the territory where my interests in psychic development and parapsychology overlap. I finished wanting stricter controls, better documentation, and much more attention to misses alongside hits, but I also finished wanting to try some of these methods myself with blind targets and verifiable feedback. For me, provoking that kind of curiosity is one of the best things a book about psychic ability can do.
That is where the book becomes fascinating. Psychic investigation requires a different kind of perception than giving a spiritual reading to someone sitting directly in front of you. A location, photograph, object, or limited piece of information becomes the target, and the psychic attempts to describe people, events, environments, motives, or circumstances that aren't ordinarily available to them. From a psychic-development perspective, this is exactly the kind of work I find interesting because specificity matters. “I sense sadness” is difficult to evaluate. A description of a location, physical characteristic, relationship, object, or event gives us something much more concrete to compare against reality.
Stockwell is also refreshingly candid about how psychic information arrives in fragments. An impression doesn't necessarily appear as a complete narrative explaining what happened. Images, feelings, physical sensations, words, personalities, and seemingly disconnected details have to be received and then interpreted. That distinction between perception and interpretation is crucial. A psychic impression might be accurate while the explanation attached to it is wrong, which is one of the most important things to understand when developing these abilities. The mind wants to turn fragments into a story long before it has enough information to know what the story actually is.
The cases themselves range from compelling to frustrating. There are moments where Stockwell reports details that appear impressively specific, and others where the connection between an impression and the known facts feels much looser. I would have loved considerably more documentation showing exactly what information Stockwell was given beforehand, precisely when each impression was recorded, which statements were confirmed, which remained unknown, and which turned out to be incorrect. Psychic investigation practically begs for that kind of methodology because the difference between an extraordinary hit and an apparently extraordinary hit can depend entirely upon how the information was collected.
That kept this from being quite as convincing as it could have been for me. I don't need every psychic book to become a laboratory report, but when the subject is ostensibly using psychic information to investigate actual crimes, the evidential standard matters. Misses are particularly valuable and I wish they were discussed more openly. Knowing what Stockwell got wrong would help me understand what he got right, and it could tell us something fascinating about where psychic perception becomes distorted by interpretation, expectation, or incomplete information.
Still, I found The Psychic Case Files difficult to put down. It takes psychic ability outside the comfortable environment of a reading and asks whether it can retrieve useful information about events the psychic should have no ordinary way of knowing. That is exactly the territory where my interests in psychic development and parapsychology overlap. I finished wanting stricter controls, better documentation, and much more attention to misses alongside hits, but I also finished wanting to try some of these methods myself with blind targets and verifiable feedback. For me, provoking that kind of curiosity is one of the best things a book about psychic ability can do.
September 12, 2021
I am fascinated by the spiritual realm and by those who claim to be able to communicate with it - I am neither a firm believer nor disbeliever, so I guess I read books like this in the hope that one will finally help me decide one way or the other. This book was undoubtedly intriguing, but I wanted more. It wasn’t always focussed on ‘the gift’ itself, but was distracted by historical details, personal facts, interactions with others in the non-spiritual plain, and on the psychology of grief/depression/loss etc. I understand the need for those discussions, but I picked up this book more as an evidentiary tool than a teaching/learning aid, so any disappointment on my part is probably my own fault for having inaccurate expectations of this book before jumping into it.
March 7, 2019
Couldn't put down
Great flow from the first paragraph. Definitely read more of his books. Recommend to all interested in psychic crime cases
Great flow from the first paragraph. Definitely read more of his books. Recommend to all interested in psychic crime cases
March 6, 2020
Love this book! Tony shares stories of psychic cases he has worked on, how he collected his insight and so forth.
March 30, 2020
This book gave me comfort knowing loved ones are with us.Also happy that some spirits who had a traumatic passing can be at pease
July 1, 2015
In Psychic Case Files, the reader is taken on a journey through some of the author's personal files. He begins with explanations (always a good choice), discussing what he, as a psychic medium does and how he does it. The next two parts deal with the cases he has investigated (the first with people, and the second with three "unexplained" mysteries - Jack the Ripper, a church in France with connections to Mary Magdalene and a village reputed to still be home to witches). The book ends with a short discussion on the stages of grief and when it's appropriate to contact a psychic.
The language of Psychic Case Files is down to earth - both in lack of technical terms and the grammar. I found some of his concepts of death and after-death interesting, though I read more with an open-mindset than firm belief (I'm not sure what I believe in...). I'm not familiar with Mr. Stockwell's work other than this book, so it was a good introduction to what he does.
The language of Psychic Case Files is down to earth - both in lack of technical terms and the grammar. I found some of his concepts of death and after-death interesting, though I read more with an open-mindset than firm belief (I'm not sure what I believe in...). I'm not familiar with Mr. Stockwell's work other than this book, so it was a good introduction to what he does.
April 12, 2011
I always like these type of books. I like to think that there is another world than just this one, and the loved ones we have lost are just waiting for us there. Sorry can't accept that you just die! and thats it.
June 15, 2014
Really enjoyed this book. In fact, starting reading it Saturday morning and finished it Sunday afternoon. Definitely would recommend this book to anyone that has or is interested in the psychic world.
January 27, 2015
Really enjoyed this, couldn't put it down
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