Further details on the claims below are available on the Noreen Renier profile index page (click here)
Claim #1.
Renier's claimed awareness of being burned alive and stabbed in the head but suffering no physical scars.
(Repeatedly claimed by Renier as "frightening and real" but resembling a daydream.)
2.
An ability to block billiard balls in a game of pool using her claimed psychic powers.
(No proof and an unwillingness by Renier to duplicate this undocumented paranormal claim.)
3.
A claimed paranormal artifact which she claims causes lights to flash on and off using only her mind.
(No proof and an unwillingness by Renier to duplicate this undocumented paranormal claim.)
4.
By watching pendulums swing over maps Noreen Renier states it's a way to locate missing persons
(She has failed to ever accurately locate law enforcement case missing persons using this paranormal method.)
5.
The claim of psychically seeing through human clothing as referenced on the Joan Rivers Show on national TV.
(No proof and an unwillingness by Renier to duplicate this undocumented paranormal claim.)
6.
Her claim of being a host provider and mystic medium for two entities Noreen Renier calls Sing and Robert.
(No proof and an unwillingness by Renier to duplicate this undocumented paranormal claim.)
7.
Noreen Renier describing the air crash death scene of four people "accurately" and exactly as they were found.
A false claim and now with multiple proofs and witnesses that she lied.
8.
Claiming that she was subjected to 5 years of laboratory testing and was told she scored quite high in everything.
A false claim and and now with multiple proofs that she lied including her own testimony. Her most extensive testing conducted with her approval at Southern Oregon College revealed paranormal levels actually below random chance levels. She also made a "psychic reading" from a blood sample and assumed it had been taken from a student and assigned it human properties. Unfortunately she was well off in her interpretations as the blood was actually taken from a lab rat. During testimony she also admitted that her claim of scoring "quite high in everything" was an exaggeration and her "five years" of lab testing was untrue. Universities which she has cited as being extensively tested and providing her with paranormal results have denied ever testing her.
9.
Providing an accurate Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing and also presenting an accurate revised edition the same year.
A false claim. Between her original 2007 bankruptcy filing and a third version she provided more than 6 months later Noreen Renier restated her income levels by more than $100,000 and according to her principal debtor still failed to show significant levels of income after subpoenaed information showed further discrepancies. In March 2011 a U.S. Bankruptcy judge overseeing her bankruptcy lambasted Noreen Renier and noted that she had misled his court and was not a credible witness. And her attempt to overturn that ruling with an appeal before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia was rejected on July 22, 2011. A second appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit was also rejected on April 18, 2012. Thus the statement of not being a credible witness and having misled a federal court continues to stand.
10.
Levitating her own children.
(No proof and an unwillingness by Renier to duplicate this undocumented paranormal claim.)
11.
Being an "adjunct faculty member" with "teaching appointments" at major universities and colleges.
A "deceptive" and exaggerated claim at one university, and a false claim at others. She has never taught an accredited course at any university or college and may not have even completed high school. During testimony she could not recall the name of any high school she attended. Her claims of "teaching appointments" as an "adjunct faculty member" at major colleges and universities posted on her web site have been determined to be either false or completely exaggerated claims based on presenting non-accredited lectures in $5 to $15 rented classrooms during unused periods, or in rooms provided for community (non-accredited) programs such as Cub Scout meetings and non-academic craft classes.
12.
Her claim of providing successful psychic healing which avoided a woman from needing a medical operation.
(No proof and an unwillingness by Renier to duplicate this undocumented paranormal medical claim.)
13.
Claiming she changed physical matter and room temperatures with her mind.
A false claim as an event as she described never took place.
14.
Noreen Renier claimed on national television that a bone she took out from what was described as a police "evidence bag" and then held up for the studio camera had been provided to her from an unresolved and current police case she was working on. The bone she claimed was police evidence that had been given to her so she could help resolve a murder case.
Police do not allow bones, DNA evidence, nor murder evidence to be handled outside their jurisdiction by psychics much less paraded around the country before national studio cameras. The "bone" when observed carefully using sophisticated studio slow-motion high-resolution equipment was later found to more closely resemble a dried turkey bone rather than a human bone. The TV host and actor Gary Collins, a man nominated for an Emmy Award six times and the winner in 1983 for Outstanding Talk Show Host, clearly found Renier's claims exaggerated at best. At the conclusion of the segment which featured Noreen Renier he looked directly into the camera and said "And that's why there are skeptics!"
One reviewer noted that "Gary Collins should have been awarded another Emmy for what must have been a difficult effort to not to have tossed Noreen Renier out of the studio before live cameras. Her apparent act in displaying a bone supposedly connected to a murder clearly did not go as she had planned." Another guest on the same show said afterwards that her perception of what had occurred in the TV studio matched with the actions of "a clever con artist." Renier has to our knowledge never referenced this event which exists on digital videotape and was seen by millions of TV viewers.
15.
In June 2011 Noreen Renier's book MEDIUM: Enquetrice pour le FBI was released (the translated title is MEDIUM: Investigator for the FBI), and the book's cover claims Noreen Renier is a "investigator for the FBI." The book cover also displays the official FBI seal and an FBI investigator's badge.
Noreen Renier has never been an investigator for the FBI. In fact court testimony reveals she was previously reprimanded by an FBI officer for inappropriately connecting herself to official case work with the FBI. Her extremely limited direct involvement was three decades ago. She spoke briefly at a luncheon attended by FBI trainees. Her use of the FBI seal on her book was unauthorized and no FBI agency endorsement of Renier or acceptance of any of her paranormal claims has ever been provided or authorized by the FBI. The shown FBI investigator badge on her book cover is a creative innuendo as it has nothing to do with Ms. Renier. Amazingly she has also claimed to have worked for the FBI directly and have been paid for her paranormal work in hundred dollar bills secretly (in a dark alley wearing a trench coat?) by an FBI officer. In the same courtroom where she claimed to have accepted pay for working for the FBI she also reluctantly under intensive examination admitted to using exaggeration.
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A claim of being directly sanctioned and hired for paranormal investigative work by more than 400 global law enforcement agencies including State Police law enforcement agencies across the United States.
A false claim. No State Police agencies in the U.S. as an example have directly hired and paid for her services as a paranormal investigator. The number of law enforcement agencies who have directly hired her (rather than simply have been in-directly involved when, as an example, a woman hired her to find a reported stolen lost wedding ring, or when someone called her for visions of where a missing friend or family member might have been), is apparently between zero and 7 --- not her claimed "hundreds" --- based on conflicting documentation she provides. And even among these typically rural townships and/or county-level agencies it is unclear whether she "worked with" or "worked for" such small agencies. And her visions have in any case apparently been limited to visions which have been connected in parts of a crime or missing person case after the cases were already solved or the same conditions were found by others, or those findings were reported by others afterwards who thought they matched her often vague and wandering visions. This is called "retrofitting" of psychic claims. At that she is an expert.
17.
Noreen Renier claims she communicates with trees (oak trees in particular) who as informants speak to her. She then translates this two-way communication to English. She claims one tree asked her to put out her cigarette claiming it feared fire. The tree then according to Noreen Renier calmly explained in depth about a fight which had taken place near by.
The scale of this claim (it included other extensions already found as exaggerations) is such that if it were true then the results she should have obtained using trees as eye-witnesses to crimes and locating missing persons would have obtained results on an incredible scale. But her 'tree informant evidence' hasn't been successful in uncovering any apparent new solutions to how crimes took place, or where missing persons are located. One can only therefore assume her communication with trees is either delusional or a charade to get attention.
18.
Claiming in 1989 that " I know I can find the young lady" (Missing Gainesville Florida student Tiffany Sessions.)
After more than than two decades it remains a false claim including her claim of helping to resolve the case by taking "readings" of psychic energy she claims to have found by touching a toothbrush of Tiffany's. She accepted payment from Tiffany's parents and said she would find her "dead or alive" more than 22 years ago.
19.
Claiming that a critic lied before a judge and jury.
A false claim. And one identified portion in a "breach in settlement" of a Florida state legal case that ultimately resulted in Noreen Renier receiving two Washington federal court judgments lodged against her in 2006 and 2007. These came before the 2011 by another federal judge that she was not a credible witness and she had misled his court.
20.
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."
Though Noreen Renier has re-told this claim repeatedly it remains a completely bogus claim. She simply drew random squiggles and circles on paper and only later --- after the man's arrest which was entirely unconnected to Renier --- and after police had determined he drove a cement truck did Renier claim her circles were "round and round" and represented a cement mixer. She never actually mentioned a vehicle, a truck, or a cement mixer. In fact at the time a local sheriff claimed Renier was "sauced" after drinking too much red wine while babbling her visions before officers.
A newspaper article in the Lakeland (Florida) Ledger noted that the life of a psychic "according to her, can be a little unusual. She intimidates some people, such as opponents in billiards, where she uses her powers to block shots."
On May 22, 1990, during a guest visit on the Joan Rivers Show, a young man (Robert Cardone) stood up and, following a mention of body scars, Joan Rivers then asked if Noreen Renier could see through his clothes. Renier grinned and answered, "Yes. . . . I don't do it too often. Are there any body parts you want me to look at?"
Journalist Carol Shevis, on January 26, 1984, wrote in the Stanardsville, Virginia, Greene County Record that "in what might be considered the parlor trick category, [Renier] can make electric lights flash on and off at will and is able to lift or 'levitate' objects off the ground." She quotes Renier as stating, "There is no limit to what the mind can do."
A Tennessee critic told a federal court that Renier maintained she has powers of electrical disturbance, including an ability to disconnect phone connections from hundreds of miles away. While taking a court deposition by telephone in 1992 Renier's end of the conversation suddenly went dead immediately after being asked a key question from an opposing attorney. Not surprisingly she never called back.
"Renier previously told me of her amazing psychic powers of electrical disturbance with telephones, but in cooperation with the phone company I was able to determine that on at least one occasion she simply hung up her phone. The woman may fool some with this pathetic and childish game but not certainly not a telecommunication expert" noted the critic in 2007.
In a court deposition taken in Oregon, TV forensic psychic Noreen Renier stated that by changing her rate of psychic vibration she can heal. She recalled "some healing on a young girl and it was successful" and "however a person hurts, if they have a cold I would try to heal that, I could."
Asked whether she could cure cancer with her "vibration process" she answered, "I feel I can help people, sometimes more successful than other times."
Asked for a specific case of curing someone she stated in testimony, "A girl was going to have an operation and she had a cyst and it disappeared, and she didn't have to have the operation." Additionally she noted, "My father had a knee injury from years and years and he was in a lot of pain and when I became a psychic he visited me and he has never had a problem with his knee again."
In addition the Orlando Sentinel newspaper on May 17, 1992, published an article by Charles Fishman in which Renier stated, "My two daughters were still young, and if they had a party, I'd practice levitating their friends."
With the publication of her book A Mind for Murder in 2005 her claims about this event went further. On page 36 she wrote "I approached their friends and soon had a small group interested in levitation. I explained to them how it worked. One person sat in a chair, and two stood by her knees and two by her shoulders, facing each other. When they were in position, I stood behind the chair. After some deep breathing and practice synchronizing their arm movements, they simultaneously placed fingers under the girl's head, thigh, and arms. Before long, we were levitating each other with our fingers, and soon everyone at the party wanted to be lifted into the air."
Levitation is defined by Webster's Dictionary as "rising or lifting of a person or thing by means held to be supernatural."
Beginning in 1988 and for the next 14 years Noreen Renier moved on average to a new rental residence once a year throughout northern Florida and Virginia. From 2011 to late 2012 she lived in Wilmington, North Carolina before moving back to the Orlando area in January 2013. Yet from 1995-1999 various reports show psychic Noreen Renier listing herself as the President of 'Encounters International, Inc.' located in Maitland, Florida.
That effort which included psychic business forecasting ended on September 25, 1998 when she was granted a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a Gainesville courtroom on February 18, 1999. Less than 9 years later she would file another Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Virginia journalist Woody Greenburg noted Renier's "flair for self-promotion" including her claim that during a public performance in Miami "a chill came over the room" as Renier moved her hand in the air. According to Greenburg, Renier indicated that the more she waved her hand the colder it got --- finally resulting (according to her statements to Greenburg) in the audience asking her to stop! Yet during the same time period there is no evidence that Renier performed in Miami or that such an event ever occurred.
Her other claims above are detailed in depth in segments at Noreen Renier profile index page (click here)