Eddie Burks is a retired civil engineer and psychic, he was featured in the fourth episode of the first series of the television documentary series Ghosthunters

Ghosthunters

Ghosthunters was a British paranormal documentary television series that originally aired from 1996 to 1997 on the Discovery Channel. The four-season program was produced by Inca Productions of Covent Garden, London , hosted by Ian Cashmore, and narrated by William Woollard...

 in the episode entitled "The Men Who Talk to Ghosts."

Burks alleged extraordinary psychic powers made news headlines in 1993 when it was revealed that the Queen's bank Coutts

Coutts

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 contacted him to deal with a ghost at its prestigious Strand

Strand, London

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 headquarters in Central London

Central London

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, his intervention laid to rest the troubled soul of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

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, who was beheaded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1572.

Soon afterwards Burks teamed up with freelance writer Gillian Cribbs to visit haunted places throughout England and act as a psychic therapist to troubled spirits. Burks contacted spirits in places as diverse as palaces, manor houses, pubs and council flats, while Cribbs conducted interviews with witnesses and checked historical details, Gillian Cribbs later went on to write the book "Ghosthunter: Investigating the World of Ghosts and Spirits" in collaboration with Burks.