Psychic Crime Fighter Saves Lives

Little Rock, AK -- Five days a week, five clients a day, with just a touch Carol Pate taps in."Sometimes I see visions, sometimes it’s just a knowing; it's like I'm in their head," says Pate. All it takes is a picture or a signature.Pate says, "I tune into their energy frequency and everyone is totally unique and once I tuned it in, I turn that back into information about that person." Pate says being a psychic runs in her family. Her father was one and her grandmother a healer. By seven, Pate says she was using her gift to counsel adults. By 12, she was helping law enforcement and it's not always easy. Pate says, "I have been stabbed, shot, hit by a train, head chopped off, mutilated.” She’s even been kidnapped. "Every day that I tapped into him, they were tormenting him, it was horrific," recalls Pate. It was November 14, 1991. Two men abducted Tyson Efird, who was just 17 at the time. Tyson says one lured him from his job at Food Center in Malvern with a story they'd hit his truck. The second man waited outside.Tyson recalls, "I guess, he was standing behind me, he grabbed me around the throat had a knife to my throat and drug me across the parking lot." Two days into his disappearance, desperate for answers, his family turns to Carol Pate.Anita Efird, Tyson’s mother remembers, "She felt of his picture and she said, ‘I can tell you that he is alive.’" Pate adds, "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." Anita says Pate got them within a half mile of where Tyson was held captive in a house on Ridge Road. 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." Pate may not have solved the case, but the Efirds say she gave them important clues."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 about two years now. 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."However, Pate knows there are plenty of skeptics. Tyson admits he's still not sure about psychics, but he and his family are sure about one thing."I believe in Carol Pate, yes I do, psychics in general, no, I believe in Carol Pate," says Tyson.Anita says, "Carol Pate has a talent of being a psychic of trying to help families search for what they're looking for." In the Efirds' case, it was Tyson.As for Pate, her world has changed dramatically over the years.She says, "A lot of people were ashamed to go see a psychic, now it's the in thing."