Clairvoyant Says Olenchuk Girl in State by Ken Buckley, Bangor Daily News, 19 Aug 1970

Says Olenchuk Girl In State ; Clairvoyant By KEN BUCKLEY OGUNQUIT A well known practitioner of ESP is quietly attempting to locate missing 13 year old Mary Catherine Olenchuk from her home in nearby Buxton. Mrs. Shirley Harrison said Tuesday that she believes the daughter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Peter Olenchuk is still in the state. PoEce fear that she was abducted in a dark maroon car in front of the Lookout Hotel Aug. 9, and Mrs. Harrison said Tuesday that she believes the car is a Chevrolet with a damaged wheel flange. The clairvoyant is attempting to locate two abducted New Jersey children for authorities In that state and has worked on ' more than 50 missing-person and criminal cases. She grades her seven years of practice in the 80 to 85 per cent accuracy range. Other than mentioning the car and the possibility that the freckle-faced redhead was still .in the state, Mrs. Harrison said she was doing what she could to obtain some leads. A police spokesman said later that in their evidence, nothing - has arisen to show that Mary Catherine is anywhere else but in the state. The spokesman said that previously described scratches in the hood of the vehicle could he ridges that represented scratches when viewed at some distance by a witness who believes she saw Mary Catherine get in the car with a stranger. Mrs. Harrison said that she had been requested by a friend of the Olenchuks to see what she could come up with. Im not at liberty to mention at the moment what I have, she said adding that she was trying hard to help. Mrs. Harrison is president of the recently formed Research Ass ociation for Parapsycho-- logical Study at Buxton a non profit 200-member organization, which is assisted by the American Society of Parapsycho- logical Research in New York. Four months prior to the discovery of missing news-carrier Cyrus sEverett of Fort Fairfield in 1965, she told a gathering of 300 in Portland where he could be found. She even named the location, and said the youths body was weighed down. A 700-pound tree stump later was found across his body. Among her other credits- are included her description of the place for the final slaying of the series of macabre deaths involving the Boston Strangler. Clairvoyantly she accurately foresaw the Old Charles Street jail site as the final murder n site. The slaying occurred 200-yards from the jaE. As far as the Olenchuk case is concerned, she has not as yet been able to come up with a -clear picture of the situation. Id give anything if I could tell them where they could find her. Readily admitting that shes not always successful; she said she was determined to keep trying. .The Buxton housewife steers away from commercialization of her baffling gift. But because of her success in locating missing and kidnaped people she has received requests from all over the country for help. In the meantime, local anL state police assisted by all-terrain vehicles manned by Special Forces personnel from Ft. Devens, Mass, were mapping out a search over difficult terrain pear the place where the girl was last seen. A state police spokesman said that two Army utility vehicles had entered the search with personnel and that the search would commence Wednesday morning. A helicopter made one sweep along the coastline Tuesday. Police telephones rang incessantly with reports of maroon cars from all over the state and each one had to be checked out.

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Clairvoyant Says Olenchuk Girl in State by Ken Buckley, Bangor Daily News, 19 Aug 1970

Clairvoyant Says Olenchuk Girl in State by Ken Buckley, Bangor Daily News, 19 Aug 1970

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