Emily: How did it come to you? In what kind of ways?

Nancy: In a variety of ways. I've learned that all the senses are involved. I would see a figure who would tell me things that were true. I would hear words. I would get picturesin my head. Things about other people. I would smell things. I would smell the fire when I was in my twenties at work, 24 hours before somebody started a fire there in exactly the same space.

Emily: Would you say that you are able to contact spirits of the dead or is it more seeing things or hearing things before they happen or a combination?

Nancy: Definitely a combination. You see things in terms that our whole world as we know it and our external environment — we use a bunch of senses to recognize. In a multi-dimensional world, here and there sensory information also comes into play. I talk with those on the other side frequently. I talk with animals, murderers, victims, people. Without speaking. For me it's just normal soul-to-soul communication and with or without form, with or without a body.

Emily: Are there words spoken to you or is it feelings? How is information conveyed?

Nancy: It's conveyed every which way. Sensory information sometimes just knows and sometimes it's all the senses coming into play. I have sat with a woman who lost a husband and her husband was sitting in the corner as far as I was concerned, and he's chatting with me. We're having this long conversation and I'm relaying it to her and I'm giving her details about his favorite song, I'm singing it the way he would sing it, I'm laughing with him about a hat he's put on. She has a photo at home right next to her bed with the hat. He's going on and on, just having a good old time. Sometimes it's that clear and that easy and other times it's like pulling teeth, depending upon the clarity on the other side, the clarity on the emotions involved. A lot of things can obscure or keep it clear. I can receive information in a variety of ways. It's also the other energy form that is also sharing with me. I worked on a double murder. I went to the crime scene and didn't know it was a double murder. I leaned down and I'm talking to the energy that remained of what I considered a younger person. He's very slow. I said, is it possible this is an adult male who's somewhat retarded? Yes, he was. So, how was I getting it? Mixed bag. I heard a speech pattern of someone who was slightly retarded. The tone of the voice was an adult. I could see an adult figure that appeared to be an adult male and I had a feeling about who he was, a sweetness and it just all came together in one moment.

Emily: How many police investigations have you been on and have they been successful?

Nancy: I've been inviting in to work with the police since 1980. For about nine years I worked closely with one chief detective and we worked on every unsolved case. At the time he would also have me involved in state police work, in other localities. I was also an internal investigator. I wouldn't say I put anybody away abut I've helped easily put away about two dozen murderers — a bunch of rapists. One had raped 18 women and we caught him in 24 hours. That was amazing for me. Isn't that cool? ... It turned out to be a very unique case. That rape case was atypical. I was asked to go down to a place in Jersey and I went with the police posing as a police secretary at the time to several places where the rape victims lived. I posed as a secretary while the captain interviewed the victims again and I kept hoping to see something. This took all day. At the end day at the last place we interviewed, I had a brief image of a person wearing black head to toe... when we got back to the police station, I said, "You have one piece that is very important here that will nail the rapist." The last few people landed in hospitals, almost murdered. So they knew the next one would probably be murdered and I believed he was local. I said, "If you put out a notice to all the police officers, his right hand is broken" and I demonstrated with my own and told them his height and his weight and the color of his skin. Twenty-four hours later they picked him up. He matched my description and his hand was broken in the exact way I said and he fully confessed. They even matched fiber. They had nobody to match anybody with until that happened.

Emily: That had to make you feel good.

Nancy: For whatever things I've done that I'm not proud of myself, this makes up for it. We all make mistakes that we all regret but all these things, they do the job for me. They help me sleep at night peacefully knowing that I can't change the world but I can add into a positive note.

Emily: Why do you think you have these abilities?

Nancy: If I was God I might have an answer for you. But I'm not. I don't know what creates these gifts... I don't really know. I only know that we all have gifts, like your art is a gift. We all have different gifts that we either apply to make them gifts or we don't apply them well and they twist and turn on us. I've chosen to use mine in a positive direction.