# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-hurkos
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:15:44.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-hurkos"
name: "Peter Hurkos"
slug: "peter-hurkos"
description: "Pieter van der Hurk known as Peter Hurkos, was a Dutchman who claimed he manifested extrasensory perception (ESP) after recovering from a head injury and coma caused by a fall from a ladder when aged 30. He went to the United States in 1956 for psychic experiments, later becoming a professional psychic who sought clues in the Manson Family murders and the Boston Strangler case. With the help of businessman Henry Belk and parapsychologist Andrija Puharich, Hurkos became a popular entertainer known for performing psychic feats before live and television audiences."
tagline: "Dutch ESP medium (1911–1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Peter_Hurkos.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1911-05-21"
deathDate: "1988-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.394065333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403381/"
    handle:    "nm0403381"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hurkos"
    title: "Peter Hurkos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hurkos"
    title: "Peter Hurkos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hurkos"
    title: "Peter Hurkos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hurkos"
    title: "Peter Hurkos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hurkos"
    title: "Peter Hurkos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "פטר הורקוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1920016"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/137945"
    title: "Peter Hurkos"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump