Lenny Harris Case Lives on in Online Psychics Forum

Many friends and neighbors continue to search for clues about missing community activist Lenny Harris and now there’s a new team at his disposal — psychics.

An Alexandria resident and neighbor of Harris, who lives in Del Ray, is a member of online resource Psychics Unite To Help Find Missing Children. She asked the site’s founder, Diana Haymond, to add Harris to the website.

“People should be out searching for Lenny everyday or when they have free time,” said Harris’s neighbor, who declined to be identified. Harris has been missing since Sept. 21. Police have since found his car in Prince George's County. Additionally, police have a photo of a man using Harris's credit cards after he disappeared.

The site is a forum for psychics to focus and share information on missing children through photos, comments or other means.

“It started out as a forum for children but we will help anyone who asks for our help,” Haymond said, adding that anyone can register on the site to help look for a child or correspond with other people working on a case.

She initially started writing a blog in 2009 using her skills as a psychic to help find children, but when the blog “became overwhelmed” she opened it up into a forum. It now has more than 300 members.

“I had always been drawn to working on missing kids but it doesn’t take long to see that psychics don’t have a good reputation with law enforcement,” said Haymond, who lives in West Virginia. “When ever a kid goes missing, psychics come out of the woodwork and sometimes they interfere in an investigation.”

She wanted to develop a place where people could come if interested, but that would not interfere. Haymond says she has worked with parents and law enforcers on cases, but that law enforcers generally don’t like to publicize that they are working with a psychic.

Harris’s neighbor told Patch: “I felt because this was in my neighborhood that I could help out as much as I could. ... Within a day of his name being on the forum we noticed his cousin was joining in as well, I believe the gift of caring is enough to bring people together so I wanted to do what I could even if it was just spreading the word.”

A forum commenter named “whodat” who is identified as Harris’s cousin said online: “I am his cousin…and I appreciate all the efforts. We miss him dearly and don’t understand why anyone would want to bring him any harm.”

A forum member said: “He looks like such a kind man. His compassion feels like it just jumps off the page at you.” Another wrote: "I felt like he was taking on someone else's emotional pain, or worried about someone. Felt like he has made a mistake that he is being really hard on himself for..."

On Oct. 5, “brittwv” wrote: “I usually feel very sad..but in this case I feel like he is in danger if he is not found soon – but he is still with us.”

On Oct. 18, Haymond wrote an entry on Harris’s page after she had meditated while viewing his picture. “Anyway it was J and maybe Ja like Jared or Jack. Warehouse and the name Marvin…There is more than one person involved.” She also cites rivers and tracks and a warehouse, among many other images.