I first became aware of Danie Krugel through a review by Anton Harber of an edition of South African current affairs show Carte Blanche. It was an investigation into the whereabouts of missing victims of a paedophile murderer. Harber said:

“I am not sure what Carte Blanche was doing in this story, but it is not journalism. They base their report on two dubious characters – a clairvoyant and an ex-policeman [Krugel] with a mysterious super-machine – who led them to a patch of ground where they found a few unidentified bone fragments. This stuff belongs in a superhero comic, not in journalism.“

George Claassen nailed it even more firmly.

I nearly blogged it, but I didn’t – surely British journalism, however low, could never sink that far into the primordial swamp of superstition. But the great thing about journalism is, it can always surprise you.

It wasn’t just them, but here is the Observer:

Traces of Madeleine McCann’s body were found on a Portuguese beach weeks after she was reported missing, during tests by a former detective [Danie Krugel] renowned for locating abducted children.

Ben Goldacre pitches in manfully. Remember, for all the things science can’t explain, there’s a perfectly simple supernatural explanation.