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created: 2026-05-15
updated: 2026-05-17
title: Peter Hurkos
aliases:
- Peter Hurkos
- Peter Hurkos
- Pieter van der Hurk
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
summary: "Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for his purported abilities, particularly psychometry—the act of divining information from an object through touch."
- PSI
- Parapsychology
- 1950s
- 1960s
summary: "Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for psychometry - divining information from objects by touch - and was studied by Andrija Puharich at the Round Table Foundation in 1956 before achieving notoriety as a police psychic consultant in the United States."
born: 1911-05-21
died: 1988-06-01
location: "Dordrecht, Netherlands"
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# Peter Hurkos
Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for his purported abilities, particularly psychometry—the act of divining information from an object through touch. A former house painter and [[World War II]] concentration camp survivor, Hurkos claimed his psychic powers manifested after he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall in 1941[^1].
Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for his purported abilities, particularly psychometry - the claimed ability to divine information from an object through touch. A former house painter, Hurkos claimed his psychic powers manifested after he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall in 1941[^1].
In the fall of 1956, Hurkos was brought to the [[Round Table Foundation]] in Maine by [[Henry Belk]], a department store tycoon and one of [[Andrija Puharich]]'s investors. Hurkos's arrival boosted morale at the foundation, and he formed a close bond with [[Harry Stump]], another psychic working there[^1].