Joe McMoneagle and the Missing Man

“Remote viewing  is not simply using psychic ability to obtain information. It is using scientific protocol to develop and extend that ability, so that ordinary people can learn to do what psychics do.”

This description, from the back of Joe McMoneagle’s book, Remote Viewing Secrets, is the simplest explanation of remote viewing. Joe learned RV in the Army – and was Remote Viewer #001 in the Army and CIA’s Stargate program.

The story that followed is thick with synchronicities. It’s longer than most of our posts, but we think it’s worth the read. It first appeared in Rob’s book, Psychic Power, for which Joe wrote the foreword.
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Tokyo

Several years ago, Joe McMoneagle was asked by a Japanese television station to locate a man who had been missing for 30 years. On May 10, 2003, a camera crew from Tokyo arrived at McMoneagle’s rural home in Virginia. He was handed a sealed envelope containing the name of a missing man. The target was identified with a number on the envelope.

With that, he focused and, backed by years of experience, made a series of drawings and typed out a description of where to look for the man. Keep in mind that Joe doesn’t speak Japanese and didn’t know his way around Tokyo or any other Japanese city.

The first clue he offered was a large Ferris wheel with changing colored lights. He said he felt that it was in Tokyo near water and from the top of the Ferris wheel you could see four ball fields separated by walkways, which formed a cross. One of the walkways ended at a group of sculptures.

 Near the complex of ball fields, he saw a river and across the river a ‘special train track.’ On the other side of the track was a raised highway that would lead to a multi-story hospital, which he sketched in front of the camera crew.

Then the description took a bizarre turn, reminiscent of a psychic treasure hunt. He wrote that once they discovered the hospital, they were to give the name of the missing man to the first nurse they encountered. McMoneagle went on to describe the missing person as a man about seventy-seven years old.When the crew returned to Japan, they started following the clues.

They soon discovered there were 13 Ferris wheels in Tokyo, but only four of them were covered with lights that changed colors. That immediately narrowed the focus to four locations. Surprisingly, you could see ballparks with intersecting walkways from all four. In all, at least sixteen ballparks were visible from the top of the four Ferris wheels.

Next, the crew began looking for sculptures at the end of those walkways, but they couldn’t find any. They were ready to give up when they found a topiary garden—sculptured shrubbery—at the end of a path at the last location. That walkway ended near a river, which McMoneagle had drawn.

Across the river they spotted a train track – of a monorail, which was considered special, as McMoneagle had described.They also found an elevated highway near the track. After following it for twenty-eight miles they came to a hospital. As the crew left their vehicle, they encountered a nurse crossing the parking lot and asked if she knew the man they were seeking.

To their astonishment, she told them matter-of-factly that she knew him because he’d been a patient a few weeks ago. When they asked how they could find out where he lived, she surprised the crew again by directing them to the missing man’s home three blocks away.

An elderly woman answered the door. They asked for the man by name and she said she would go get him. He was indeed the man they were looking for. A short time later, the seventy-eight-year-old man was reunited with his son, who had instigated the search, after a separation of thirty-four years.

By the end of 2004, Joe McMoneagle had made ten trips to Tokyo for the television production company
and found seven missing persons. Rob e-mailed his cousin, Russell Walstedt, a nuclear physicist who lived in Japan, and asked him to watch the program. Since Russell was skeptical about psychic abilities and Rob had known Joe for a few years, he was eager to hear Russell’s assessment.

After watching the psychic detective program, broadcast from Tokyo, Russell wrote back.  “The remote viewing guy is indeed amazing, if actually genuine.” He went on to say that the crew was still looking for two of the three people they asked Joe to locate. However, Russell was baffled by how Joe had located even one of them.
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Joe and his wife, Nancy, have a blog here.