A self-proclaimed ghost hunter has been slammed as “morally bankrupt” by grieving families.
Victorian woman Dolly Adamson, who creates content for her channel Kyneton Paranormal, has built an online following for supposedly communicating with spirits of murder victims, missing children and those involved in high-profile crimes using a “Spirit Box”.
In a now-deleted video, she claimed that she had channeled cop killer Dezi Freeman, who told her he had been “taken by the cold”.
Freeman was in fact still alive when she filmed the video, and was later shot dead by police.
A relative of Joanne Ratcliffe, 11, and Kirste Gordon, 4 – the two children who went missing from Adelaide Oval in 1973 – slammed her for claiming to interview the girls’ killer in another video, despite it being a cold case.
“Our family certainly didn’t reach out to you asking for your nose to be put where we don’t want it put,” the woman, who did not want to be identified, told A Current Affair.
“Words fail me to adequately describe how morally bankrupt the way that she (Adamson) goes about this is.”
Richard Saunders, chief investigator at the Australian Skeptics called Adamson a fraud.
“I’ve seen a lot in my 25 years but this takes the cake,” he said.
“There’s an old saying in the sceptical business: the ghosts don’t talk but money does.”
While Adamson reportedly initially agreed to an interview with A Current Affair, she eventually backed out when approached outside a pub where she was holding a mystery event.
Adamson later uploaded a video calling her critics “deadbeats” who were “jealous” of her dress sense.
