Ann Kinnear Sensing
Ann Kinnear is a spirit senser whose skills have been reported on and documented in the national media and who offers those skills to clients. Formerly able to perceive spirits only as manifestations in color, sounds, and scents, more recently Miss Kinnear's skills have expanded to actual communication with the dead.
See below for media coverage of Miss Kinnear's engagements.
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Media Coverage
The Philadelphia Register
Firth Investments Scion Implicated in Death of Wife and Attack on Psychic
by Lincoln Abbott
Biden First, son of Firth Investments founder Morgan Firth and Main Line socialite Scottie Firth, was found dead in a remote cabin in the Adirondacks on Friday by Tupper Lake police. ...
Bangor Dispatch
Police: Recovered Body That of Missing Artist
The body recovered on Mizzen Island on Monday is that of artist Allison Niedermeier, Mount Desert Island police announced today.
According to police spokesperson Todd Pruitt, Niedermeier’s husband, Karl Bork, reported her missing last week and provided authorities with an alleged suicide note he claimed to have found in Niedermeier’s bedroom. Bork told the Dispatch that the note described Niedermeier’s plan to take her own life by taking an overdose of sleeping pills and jumping into Blue Hill Bay from their dinghy. The dinghy washed up in West Tremont the day after Niedermeier disappeared. However, without a body, authorities continued to investigate, and were preparing to return to the island to perform a more thorough search.
Yesterday, Bork spokesperson Ann Kinnear confirmed that Bork contacted authorities and told them that he had buried his wife’s body on the island after she took her own life, and had then set the dinghy adrift to support the story of an unassisted suicide. Authorities recovered the body and took it to Bangor for autopsy.
Bork was accompanied to the police station by Kinnear and Garrick Masser. Masser runs a consulting business based in Somesville, through which, according to his website, he offers “services related to communications with the dead.” Bork and Niedermeier hired Masser three years ago after the death of their daughter, as described in an interview with the couple published in the Dispatch’s “Local Life!” section.
In a statement made outside the police station, Masser said, “Neither Miss Kinnear nor I are here in any official capacity related to our consulting services, but rather as supporters of Mr. Bork. We could, of course, offer valuable insights into the situation. However, through the short-sightedness of the legal system, these would not be admissible—”
At this point Kinnear interrupted him and they re-entered the police station.
Bangor Dispatch
Police: No Charges to be Filed in Niedermeier Death
Autopsy results on the body of local artist Allison Niedermeier confirm that she died of an overdose of sleeping pills. Police also announced that forensic handwriting expert John Gable confirmed that the note found in Niedermeier’s bedroom was in fact written by Niedermeier, and that there is no indication that it was written under duress.
Police said that they will not be pressing charges against Niedermeier’s husband, Karl Bork, despite the fact that he did not have a death certificate for his wife, or a permit to bury her.
Bork spokesperson Ann Kinnear confirmed to the Dispatch that Bork has pancreatic cancer, with a life expectancy of less than a year. Kinnear, whose website claims that she is “able to perceive manifestations of spirits,” said that Bork had hired her to convey the message to his wife that “he would be with her soon.”
With interest in Niedermeier and her work increasing in the wake of her death, Kinnear reported that Bork has agreed that Niedermeier’s suicide note will be made available to the Department of Art at the University of Maine – Orono upon his death.
Ann Kinnear / Garrick Masser Interview
Corey Duff: Good evening, this is Corey Duff, producer of the documentary The Sense of Death, which explored the world of people who claim to be able to interact or communicate with the dead. How do they weave this extraordinary skill into their daily lives? Is it a blessing or a curse? And are they haunted by the spirits they interact with?
Today I have with me two of the subjects of that documentary--Garrick Masser, whose consulting business is likely familiar to anyone who follows this topic, and Ann Kinnear, a relative newcomer to the business side of spirit sensing. Good evening, Garrick and Ann.
Ann Kinnear: Hi, Corey.
Corey: So, Ann, let's start with you. Have you always had the ability to sense spirits?
Ann: Yes, all my life. When I was little, I had an "imaginary friend" who was actually a spirit--to me, she looked just like the John Neill illustrations of Dorothy in my mother's Wizard of Oz books, but I'm not sure how much of that was the actual manifestation of the spirit and how much was my imagination.
Corey: Do they still appear to you that way--like people who are familiar to you, even if they aren't real people?
Ann: Now they don't appear to me as people at all. Sometimes spirits appear as a light, sometimes as a scent. It's like going into a house and knowing right away that someone is baking bread or has burned something on the stove, or going into a house where no one has cooked for years but knowing that the family that used to live there used a lot of garlic. It's the same with people, they leave an essence when they die and it's good or bad, it's recent or old.
Corey: And do you communicate with these spirits?
Ann: No, I've never communicated with them, only sensed their presence.
Corey: Garrick, you have communicated with them, correct?
Garrick: Of course.
Corey: And how does that impact your daily life?
Garrick: It provides me with a livelihood.
Corey: How about in your interactions with people outside your business.
Garrick: I have little interest in interactions with people outside my business.
Corey: How about you, Ann? Do your friends and acquaintances consider you special because of your skill?
Ann: Well, I wouldn't say "special" ...
Corey: What would you say?
Ann: Maybe "crazy." Maybe even "a liar."
Corey: Really?
Ann: Uh, maybe Garrick has a perspective on that.
Corey: Garrick?
Garrick: I have never had someone call me crazy, and if they think I'm a liar, they are sorely mistaken. Sometimes to their own detriment.
Corey: Do the spirits you communicate with pose a danger?
Garrick: Only if they posed a danger in life. As Ms. Kinnear suggests with her quaint food analogy, spirits are merely distillations of their former selves. They are oftentimes merely tedious.
Corey: In what way?
Garrick: They may drone on about some mundane aspect of their lives that is of no interest to anyone else. Spirits can be quite obsessive. It would be an interesting study to examine the effect of death on an individual's psychological make-up.
Corey: Ann, you have a consulting business based on your skills. What does that involve?
Ann: A lot of my engagements are for people who want to know if their house--or a house they are thinking of buying--is haunted.
Corey: Are they hoping it's haunted, or not haunted?
Ann: It depends on the person.
Corey: And, Garrick, you have a similar kind of consulting business, correct?
Garrick: I would hardly call it similar.
Corey: Tell us about it.
Garrick: The consulting engagements I undertake are too varied to summarize in a few sentences. Because I do have the ability to communicate with spirits, they often involve people who wish to convey a message to a deceased person, or who wish to receive a message from them. Disappointingly often, the interactions concern money.
Corey: Do you get a piece of the action?
Garrick: I beg your pardon?
Corey: Never mind. Have the two of you ever considered combining your businesses--Masser and Kinnear - Spirit Sensers, Incorporated?
Ann: Well, I don't know ...
Garrick: Don't be an imbecile.
Corey: Uh ... I'll just edit that part out ...
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