‘Psychics’ are exploiting the disappearance of a four-year-old boy by posting videos on social media claiming to use their ‘gifts’ to help search for the missing child.
August ‘Gus’ Lamont vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of the remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, nearly 200 miles north of Adelaide.
A huge air and land search mission has proven unsuccesful with a single footprint in the desert the only trace found since he disappeared on the evening of September 27.
Gus is understood to have been living at his grandparents’ homestead with his mother Jess and his one-year-old brother Ronnie.
His father Joshua, who moved out of the family home following a clash with his child’s transgender grandparent, was spotted publicly on Thursday for the first time since his son vanished.
Mr Lamont, who lives two hours away from Gus’ grandparents, is said to be furious that his son went missing from Oak Park and has joined the search for him.
But as the search continues, self-professed ‘psychics’ have taken to social media to offer alleged insight into his condition and how he may be found.
Psychic mediums claim to act as an intermediary between the living and spiritual world. They profess to being able to communicate with spirits, including of the dead.
‘Psychics’ are exploiting the disappearance of a four-year-old boy by posting videos on social media claiming to use their ‘gifts’ to help search for the missing child
The clairvoyant suggests she doesn’t see ‘foul play at all, just purely a four-year-old getting lost’
One, posting on the TikTok account spookyt, claimed Gus is ‘very much alive’.
In a two-minute clip, she says she doesn’t feel ‘he has wandered far at all’ because she sees a massive pile of dirt and tin in her head.
In her bizarre ramblings, which have been liked 10,500 times, she said she ‘feels like he’s actually fallen and hit his head’ and that ‘he’s really close to the house somehow’.
The clairvoyant suggests she doesn’t see ‘foul play at all, just purely a four-year-old getting lost’.
‘I’m honestly seeing the police or emergency services finding him and wrapping him up in foil,’ she added. ‘I think he’ll be okay, a little shaken up of course, but I do think that there could be a happy ending with this one.
Gus’ family said on Thursday that they were still clinging onto the hope that he would be found safely.
Meanwhile, it is understood Mr Lamont only found out his child was missing when police woke him up at his Belalie North home, hours after Gus had vanished.
His grandparent Josie, a transgender woman, told the Daily Mail ‘We’re still looking for him’ while declining offers of assistance in the search effort.
‘You can’t help. We are still dealing with this,’ she added.
The little boy was playing in the homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, 300km north of Adelaide
Gus was last seen playing in a mound of dirt at about 5pm on September 27 but had vanished when his grandmother went to call him inside half an hour later.
The boy had been wearing a grey broad-brimmed hat, a distinctive blue long-sleeved shirt with a Minion picture from the movie Despicable Me on the front, with light grey pants and boots.
Despite the vast, flat, featureless landscape surrounding the property, there had been no sight of the boy alive or dead, raising questions about where he could be.
Another woman claiming to be a psychic has racked up more than 30,000 likes on a video on her TikTok account which boasts 200,000 followers.
In the 10 minute video, the woman, Lydia, admitted she was ‘annoyed’ that the readings in a previous clip were ‘vague’ but that she ‘has to help’ find him.
She said ‘while it’s not easy to talk to a four-year-old… you have no idea what it’s like to sit with these abilities and do nothing.’
Lydia, who claims to be able to read minds, reveals a list of ten questions which she allegedly asked the missing boy using her mind.
The video, which pictures Gus throughout, shows her deeply focussing as she tries to communicate with the vanished child.
Another ‘psychic’ has posted a string of videos about missing children, including three on Gus.
She shuffles a deck of cards before alleging there is ‘information which is not adding up’ as she asks whether ‘the energy is coming from inside the home’ in an attempt to narrow down his location.
Jason O’Connell, an emergency services worker of 11 years, who covered more than 1,200km as part of the search team, said: ‘I personally am very doubtful he is on the property’.
Joshua Lamont, the father of Gus, was seen publicly for the first time on Wednesday
Gus’s grandparent, Josie Murray – a transgender woman who locals say transitioned many years ago – told the Daily Mail the family had not lost hope
After days of hunting for the boy, Mr O’Connell and his partner Jen had expected to see birds of prey if there was a lifeless body on the property.
‘No birds of prey means he’s not there,’ he added.
‘It’s just wide, open land. There’s really not much there, and I’m surprised because we just didn’t find anything.
‘He’s not on that property.’
The only trace of Gus found was a single footprint discovered about 500 metres from the homestead – and police have since cast doubt on that.
Local tracker Aaron Stuart said it was unusual to find one footprint as you would usually find ‘tracks’.
‘You’d find the next one, and the one after that,’ the former policeman told the Adelaide Advertiser. ‘You don’t find one track, you find tracks.’
Assistant Police Commissioner Ian Parrott said his team were ‘confident that we have done all we can to locate Gus’.
‘The determination of every individual involved to find Gus has never wavered,’ he said.
‘Like every member of the community who has been following this sad event, they too have been very much affected by what has happened.’
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