"Sometimes I see visions. Sometimes it's just a knowing. It's like I'm in their head," psychic Carol Pate tells the First Coast News.
According to the article, by seven, Pate was using her gift to counsel adults. By 12, she was helping law enforcement. But it's not always easy.
"I have been stabbed, shot, hit by a train, head chopped off, mutilated" she says. Not literally of course, but as she tapped into others' energies, she's felt their experiences. One case in particular is that of Tyson Efird, who was kidnapped and tortured by two men at the tender age of 17.
"Every day that I tapped into him, they were tormenting him. It was horrific," recalls Pate.
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It was November 14, 1991. One of the men lured Tyson from his job at Food Center in Malvern with a story they'd hit his truck. The second man waited outside. They kidnapped him at knife point from there, dragging him across the parking lot to their truck.
Two days later, desperate for answers about Tyson, his family turned to Carol Pate. Tyson's mother, Anita, recalls Pate holding Tyson's picture and saying "I can tell you that he is alive."
Pate says, "I saw them playing Russian roulette, I did see sexual tortures, some of it. I saw the room he was being held in... felt it, felt his fear."
Anita goes on, "She said that there were two of them - two men - and that she could see a belt buckle. She could see cowboy boots. She said they were real dumb they did not know who they had. Then, she would say is there a ridge. I keep seeing the word ridge."
Ridge Road was the street on which Tyson was held captive. After six days, Tyson says he talked one of the men into letting him go and revealed the story Pate already knew.
"It kind of brings cold chills up your spine if you think about it. How would one person know this, only things I knew. And the other two men that held me - It's just really unbelievable how a person would know that."
"It gave my parents hope. My family, I don't think without Carol they could have really made it through it. She was an inspiration to them, keeping them saying, `he's alive,' and that's what kept them going, I think," says Tyson.
Tyson's case has been featured on several national shows, including TLC'S Psychic Witness and Court TV's Psychic Detectives. Pate has been working with Court TV for two years.
Pate says, "It's not about fame or any of that. It's confirmation. It's confirming that I did good work and that other people know now that the work that I did was important."
And her profession is becoming more mainstream. She told the paper, "A lot of people were ashamed to go see a psychic, [but] now it's the in thing."
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