about scott

Scott’s professional career didn’t begin in the spiritual field. It began as a messenger at Parliament House in Adelaide, South Australia, and then as a DJ and journalist at Radio 5RM in South Australia’s Riverland. After almost four years at 5RM, Scott moved back to Adelaide in the early 1980’s at radio 5KA where he worked as a DJ, Newsreader and Music Director. 

While Scott’s life looked fairly normal on the outside he was also experiencing an unusual mix of spiritual and psychic encounters. Perfect strangers would speak to Scott and reveal intimate details of their life and seek his encouragement or input. Even famous people would open up to Scott in private after interviews at 5KA and seek his advice which helped Scott realize that he had a "gift".

 Based on these and earlier experiences Scott quit radio, started doing readings fulltime, and began writing his first book, Caught Between Two Worlds  (1995).

 Following its best selling success, Scott followed up with another bestseller, Psychic  (1997).

Scott was now gaining media attention, and began to appear regularly on numerous national radio programmes, and TV shows like The Midday Show, Good Morning Australia  and A Current Affair.

In 1994 Scott came up with a concept for a psychic radio show. Adelaide talkback station 5AA snapped Psychic Saturday Night  up with Scott as host. The three-hour talkback format took 5AA’s 9PM to midnight timeslot straight to Number 1 and the show ran for two years. Out of thirty clear and concise predictions made by Scott on Psychic Saturday Night all but one came true! Those that did come true included the deaths of John F Kennedy Jr. and Princess Diana, the attack on New York on September 11, Tasmania’s Port Arthur massacre and the Bali bombing.

On Channel 9's A Current Affair  shortly after the September 11 attacks, verified and documented tapes of Scott's Psychic Saturday Night  predictions were featured. Then presenter Mike Munro introduced the story on Scott and said:

"Every time there's a disaster in the world there's always someone who puts up their hand to say they predicted it. Well, here's a man who can actually prove that he did!" 

 Scott found that being accurate at predicting the future came at a personal price. He talked with Princess Diana on nine occasions and after personally warning her and publicly broadcasting his fears for her safety in Paris, Scott found that he couldn’t change the outcome of this tragic event.

Scott hit a personal low, but after much soul searching Scott was able to move past the grief he felt over Diana’s untimely death and pushed forward with not only his seminars and work.

A year after Diana’s death Scott told a journalist:

 "One of the greatest things I’ve been able to achieve is proving that the future can be accurately predicted! What I’ve learnt though is that there’s little I can personally do to stop really bad events from happening. So continuing to make predictions is a rather pointless exercise and it’s something I no longer have an interest in doing. I’ll move on to new challenges. I’m not sure what those challenges will be but in my first book I said: ‘what you’re seeking is seeking you’, so I know the next level of my learning will present itself soon enough!"

 Scott's next book Truth and Lies of the New Age  (2000) became his third best seller.

Australia's biggest selling weekly magazine Woman's Day  was taking notice of Scott's talents, having featured a number of stories on him. Woman's Day  knew that his life and experience as a psychic would appeal to its readers. So Scott began a weekly column called "Stargazing"  where he gives spiritual insight into the behaviour and relationships of the world's most famous celebrities.

In early 2004 Scott’s next ‘challenge’ presented itself when he was asked to lend his psychic talent to solving real life murder cases on TV’s Sensing Murder. The show tells the stories of unsolved murders and all the facts known about them so far, while input from psychics adds a further dimension to the stories. As Scott hadn’t worked specifically in this crime-solving area before he thought long and hard about whether he felt he could actually come up with any relevant information. Accepting the challenge though he began filming Sensing Murder  and what Scott achieved on the show in coming up with new clues to the cases left audiences around Australia absolutely ‘gob-smacked’! Radio talkback shows overflowed with callers wanting to talk about Scott’s amazing revelations.

"It even surprised me," Scott said to one reporter. "I just gave working on each case my best shot and the results have been rather spectacular!"

With all this in mind it's no wonder that Scott is regarded as Australia’s leading authority on the paranormal and known as ‘The World’s Most Accurate Psychic'. Once the Australian version of Sensing Murder came to a close, Scott flew to New Zealand and filmed his first case for their version of the show.

The popular series screened to big ratings, especially in New Zealand where producer David Baldock said that whether you're a believer or not, there were discoveries made by the psychics that had no rational explanation. He cited the example of Scott who had never been to New Zealand before. "Scott led the crew on a merry dance to a car yard in an area previously unconnected to the case he was working on,’ Baldock said. ‘Scott told us that the deceased used to work there, but before it was a car yard. It turned out the victim had worked in a food processing factory that used to be there, a fact that was only revealed after we searched through the factory's employment records," Baldock added.  

Scott filmed 11 episodes of Sensing Murder between 2004 - 2006.

 Scott’s fourth book Caught Between Two Worlds – The Special Edition  was released in 2004.

Scott rewrote and re-edited the first three books because it’d been almost ten years since the original Caught Between Two Worlds  first came out and Scott felt some parts had dated. Once the rewriting and re-editing was done, Scott picked up where he left off at the end of Truth & Lies of the New Age  and brought the story of himself and his beloved friends Yuri and Paul full circle. So a great portion of the Special Edition  was totally new material, making it really four books in one, and another best seller.

In October 2005 Scott returned to his first publishing company, Pan Macmillan, and began writing his fifth book, ‘Psychic Detective’ which was released in September, 2006.

        ‘Psychic Detective’ is a compelling insight into how a man often referred to as "the world's most accurate psychic" interprets spiritual clues about real-life crime and translates messages between the living and afterlife. The book chronicles Scott's fascinating journey through the netherworld of cold cases and the clues he receives from the other side. Covering some of Australia and New Zealand's most notorious cases, Scott investigates the spiritual messages he receives and offers fresh insights into the often mysterious circumstances of the crime in question.

Cases include the Claremont serial killings, Karmein Chan and Mr Cruel, the Beaumont children's disappearance in the '60's, Queensland's Daniel Morcombe, and two of New Zealand's most baffling cases - Kirsa Jensen and Luana Williams. Extraordinary and moving, ‘Psychic Detective’ opens the file on psychic phenomena and crime.

 In between touring, interviews and readings, Scott continues the Martial Arts training he began as a teenager. He’s a 4^th Dan black belt and senior instructor.

 In 2006 - 2007 Scott appeared regularly on

9AM with David and Kim  on Channel 10.

Scott is now heard on NOVA .