Arsonist – The Netherlands

Case History

In late 2007, ‘t Zandt, a small village in the province of Groningen – The Netherlands, was terrorised by an arsonist setting a total of 22 fires in the span of 4 months. The fires were set predominantly to empty houses and sheds, but it seemed the case could not be solved.
35 police detectives were on the case and even the army was called upon. Despite the deployment of patrol vehicles with infrared cameras, the arsonist of ‘t Zandt continued, until one day in December 2007 he got caught, after which the fires stopped.

The Back Story

In October 2007, I started to explore Remote Viewing seriously. I travelled to London for a Remote Viewing meet-up, after which I continued to California to meet an ESP researcher I had been in contact with for several months.
Upon my return to my home country of the Netherlands, I was excited after my very first trip to the USA and the outright stunning results I managed to display during the research in California.
During the month of November that year, the news of an arsonist in the village ‘t Zandt was ramped up, as the situation was getting direr and lives were at risk. Eventually, a reward was offered to the public of 10.000 Euros for information leading to the arrest of the arsonist.


My then-husband, who for 5 years had witnessed my psychic abilities and the amazing results of the informal tests we conducted, encouraged me to try and describe the person they were looking for and step forward with that information to the police. I was hesitant, as I wasn’t too sure if they would accept the information.

First Remote Viewing Session for Practical Application

Without formal training in CRV, I sketched and described the best I could what I perceived to be important in the case. I also asked myself what the person setting the fires looked like and got a clear picture. Although my artistic skills were well developed, it was hard for me to sketch the face I had seen. Police would want more than just a description! An Identikit Sketch or Composite Sketch would help. I searched for an app that could assist me. This wasn’t easy, as most of these programs are for law enforcement use only! I found a basic application called “Flash-Face” and to the best of my ability generated an image of the face and a report.

Reporting to the Groningen Police

With a finished report containing the composite image, sketches and descriptions, we drove over 2.5 hours to ‘t Zandt. We located the temporary police station in the vilage, based in a community hall.
I was extremely nervous and hesitant to go in, and while standing outside I noticed two ordinary men leaving the building. I nudged my husband and said:”We need to speak to them.” But they seemed to be in a hurry to leave and I didn’t approach them.

We stepped inside and reported to the desk. I told the officer behind the counter that I may have some information for them regarding the Arsonist. He asked how I obtained the information, and I replied: By Remote Viewing Sir. He asked: What is that? And I explained it is a controlled form of Extrasensory perception. My husband added: And she’s really good at it! The officer told us that he had to call back the two detectives who had just left. My husband just looked at me stunned! The female officer who was typing on her laptop, was starting to tremble. I was getting increasingly nervous and the officer was about to offer us a coffee, when all the fuses in the building blew.
The two plain-clothes detectives walked in and said that without power, it would be difficult to conduct the interview, so if we would be so kind to follow them to the main police station in Delftzijl. We followed the police car, and went through a rear-entance into the Delftzijl police station.

Inside the station, after walking through a long hallway, we entered a small interview room. I sat on the opposite side of the table, across from the one detective, and my husband sat next to me. First, the formalities were recorded, including introductions etc. I opened my bag and presented the detective with the file, saying everything is in this file. He pushed the file to the side and said: “I want you to TELL me what you know and how you know it.”

I started off by saying: “I know this probably sounds crazy to you, but the information was obtained by Remote Viewing, a technique used by the US-Military to obtain information on people, places and things not accessible to the ordinary 5-senses. The detective told me he had heard of it but had not met anyone who actually did this.

I told him that although it may not be 100% correct, it can give indications of where to look for evidence.
I continued to tell him that the person he was looking for was likely a young male, between 20-35 years old and that his name was similar to Johann Sebastian Bach. Obviously not the famous composer, but something sounding similar, like Johann, John or Johnny and that his last name was something starting with a B or similar to Bach. This young man appears to live in a messy room, upstairs with lots of magazines. There is the sound of a train going by in the distance of the house. The detective said: “In this small village you can hear the train just about anywhere!” I continued that he seemed to be, into the delivery of some fibrish material that is brought to him in a white van. There is a Trident logo on the packaging. The detective said: “The Trident logo is the symbol of this region! You may have seen it on your way to this police station, it’s everywhere on signs along this route.” I wasn’t familiar with the region and I didn’t know that.

Quiet Recognition of the Person of Interest

I told the detective I had made a sketch of the face I perceived with Identikit software, but that the hairstyle wasn’t in the program so that could be different. When the detective finally looked at the printed report. His eyes lit up!

He told me: “Look, I don’t normally believe in psychic stuff. I am a detective and I deal with facts, that is my job! But I have also seen enough to make me aware that there are things we cannot easily explain. Like a colleague of mine who predicted where the body of a missing person would be found and he was right! So there may be something to this and I am not dismissing anything.”

My husband then blurted out: “She might even be able to give you a location on the map where the arsonist will strike next! She has done that before!” I felt embarrassed because I although had success with an experiment like that in the USA, I had only tried it once! Not enough times to demonstrate consistent results with dowsing. I said I wasn’t sure if I could do that in this case too but that I would be willing to try at home. (I later tried to make such a map-dowsing prediction and failed miserably! Likely due to too much pressure.) The detective thanked us for coming down. We wished him the best of luck with the investigation and that we hoped the information was helpful.

Case closed

On Tuesday evening of the 18th of December 2007, 19-year-old Johnny Brondijk was arrested by the Groningen Police. He lived with his parents, in a free-standing house on the Molenweg in ‘t Zandt. He was a newspaper delivery boy at the time, delivering the local newspaper, with the Trident Symbol.

I never bothered looking into claiming any of the reward money. The news reported that they already had Johnny Brondijk under surveillance as the main suspect at the time I reported to the police. The detective’s eyes lit up at the time I showed him the identikit sketch and the report of his name, age and likely vocation, made total sense now! I had just named and sketched their prime suspect, by Remote Viewing alone!

I later asked the Groningen Police department, if I was allowed to publish this case and my experiences as a Remote Viewer. Permission was granted, as long as I kept the name of the detective out of any publication for privacy reasons.
I published my story in the book “Anomalies” in 2014. It was later also published in Eight Martinis Magazine.