Do we live in a world where psychics can solve crimes, investigate Australia’s greatest mysteries and diagnose illness by mere touch?
Well Channel Seven clearly thinks we do. Enter its latest offering The One a show where seven of Australia’s most switched on mystics will use their paranormal skills to compete to be named Australia’s greatest psychic.
But the challenges they will face won’t be easy.
One of the tests involves a young boy ‘lost’ in the bush. The competitors will have to use their abilities to home-in of his location.
Another will involve the psychics trying to find a single piece of contraband in one of 70 shipping containers.
A third will see them taken to a gaol in Melbourne to find the bones of Ned Kelly.
As you’d expect the competitors are a mixed bunch.
There’s a 44-year-old pagan Witch, Rayleen who regularly uses her gifts to help police, and Jason a 37-year-old maths genius with an IQ of 160 who abandoned his medical degree to study philosophy after a near-death experience.
But the contestants aren’t going to get an easy ride. One of the two judges who will decide who goes each week will be Richard Saunders a lifelong paranormal myth-buster and former President of ‘Australian Skeptics’.
Joining Saunders as a judge is Witch Stacey DeMarco. While the judges will decide who goes week to week – the public will decide by phone voting who is ‘The One’ of the last two contestants.
During the show the psychics will display a range of skills from Clairvoyance to Psychometry or object reading, from Remote Viewing to Mediumship (speaking to the dead). Telepathy and Fortune Telling will also feature.
The One premieres tonight at 7.30pm on Seven.
