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Any mediums on here?

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AngryBird6122 · 10/02/2024 22:49

I need to contact someone. Is it real?

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quisensoucie · 11/02/2024 06:47

When people die they are, how should I put this...
DEAD. Dead. Aa a dodo. Aa a doornail
Deceased
No more
So no-one can 'contact' them because it is impossible

stopmefeelingsick · 11/02/2024 06:36

Yes, I know an excellent one. He's based in south London but also does online or telephone. I was blown away by what he told me. Everything was spot on. PM me for details if you like.

MissRheingold · 11/02/2024 02:26
%3D
MissRheingold · 11/02/2024 02:23

The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. A version of the challenge was first issued in 1964. Over a thousand people applied to take it, but none were successful. The challenge was terminated in 2015.

No one, not a single person could prove they were genuine.

KreedKafer · 11/02/2024 00:53

ChocolateComfort · 10/02/2024 23:59

People on here are poorly informed or have simply met the wrong people. The woman I met in my 30s didn't do any form of 'cold reading' or me, nor any form of 'reading' at all. Oh and she didn't charge me anything. No advantage taken, only a few gifts happily shared.

LOL.

It’s bollocks.

KreedKafer · 11/02/2024 00:52

AngryBird6122 · 10/02/2024 23:18

Not looking for online. Someone in real life. But dh doesn’t believe at all
abd thinks im
nuts.

Your DH is correct.

Babla · 11/02/2024 00:50

AngryBird6122 · 10/02/2024 22:52

Please, no jokes. I am desperate.

You may be desperate but it cannot be done

AppleDumplings · 11/02/2024 00:49

@Testina this made me giggle but it was genuinely such VERY specific stuff. And so much of it! I have tried for years to figure it out but still don't have the foggiest how she did it. There was literally no way the random things she was talking about could have been known. And I'm a completely non woo person. Would love to know how she knew.

Testina · 11/02/2024 00:39

@AppleDumplings Came home and had a giggle with DH who went white as a sheet when I showed him what I'd written down. Everything she said meant something to him that no one else knew about during his childhood.

I always notice on threads about mediums that people say things like this.
But nobody ever says, “so I wrote that she could see a house with the number 22, and a blue door - and an apple tree back left of the garden. Flopsy bunny and Rex the cocker spaniel were buried there, and they want you to know that they don’t mind that you left their bones behind in 1978, when your dad Anatoly’s treadmill import business went into receivership and the house was repossessed by Barclays.”

AppleDumplings · 11/02/2024 00:33

I would imagine most are charlatans but I had a very odd encounter with a women in Hereford. Looked absolutely 'normal' IYKWIM! At the time I had no social media account, had moved to the area a couple of weeks before and I was bored and curious about work promotion. She proceeded to talk a load of old nonsense which I wrote down, and nothing about my work. Came home and had a giggle with DH who went white as a sheet when I showed him what I'd written down. Everything she said meant something to him that no one else knew about during his childhood. Also about my brother who had died before I was born and my grandmother whom I never met. My mum told me when I called her and laughed at the memories. She was just so blasé about the whole thing. I do believe she was the real deal. I just don't think there are many. I think like others have said, try other ways first. You are likely to be preyed upon.

LizFromMotherland · 11/02/2024 00:27

ChocolateComfort · 11/02/2024 00:19

@LizFromMotherland I hope one day you meet a true psychic and you'll look back at your own opinions from years gone by and realise how little you knew... I've been there.

Oh dear God.

Do yourself a favour and go back there.

Southdweller · 11/02/2024 00:25

ChocolateComfort · 10/02/2024 23:59

People on here are poorly informed or have simply met the wrong people. The woman I met in my 30s didn't do any form of 'cold reading' or me, nor any form of 'reading' at all. Oh and she didn't charge me anything. No advantage taken, only a few gifts happily shared.

Here are my few gifts happily shared too..... Call me the medium if you like too 😂

Investigating The Claims Of Psychics | DOUBLE EPISODE | Derren Brown

Experience the mind-bending talents of Derren Brown in this double episode, where he masterfully combines psychology and magic.Welcome to the official Derren...

https://youtu.be/zlAJU0ZAl8E?si=u01tKDSL6n3DeTWU

TheShellBeach · 11/02/2024 00:21

ChocolateComfort · 11/02/2024 00:19

@LizFromMotherland I hope one day you meet a true psychic and you'll look back at your own opinions from years gone by and realise how little you knew... I've been there.

But there aren't any true psychics. There are just a bunch of people who are very good at cold reading.

ChocolateComfort · 11/02/2024 00:19

@LizFromMotherland I hope one day you meet a true psychic and you'll look back at your own opinions from years gone by and realise how little you knew... I've been there.

TheShellBeach · 11/02/2024 00:19

Treehugger22 · 11/02/2024 00:13

I think some are real but very Very few

They're all charlatans.

Treehugger22 · 11/02/2024 00:14

Liztarotwithvisions on etsy I love her readings and so far been good she sends you a video as well

Treehugger22 · 11/02/2024 00:13

I think some are real but very Very few

LizFromMotherland · 11/02/2024 00:12

ChocolateComfort · 10/02/2024 23:59

People on here are poorly informed or have simply met the wrong people. The woman I met in my 30s didn't do any form of 'cold reading' or me, nor any form of 'reading' at all. Oh and she didn't charge me anything. No advantage taken, only a few gifts happily shared.

The whole point of expert cold readers (and that's what she is as no-one has psychic abilities), is that they make you think they're psychic.

And if you already believe in psychics, she was half-way there before she even opened her mouth.

There's a clip somewhere on the internet of Derren Brown cold reading a couple, and even when he explicitly told them afterwards exactly how he did it, they still wouldn't believe he's not psychic 🤦‍♀️

ChocolateComfort · 10/02/2024 23:59

People on here are poorly informed or have simply met the wrong people. The woman I met in my 30s didn't do any form of 'cold reading' or me, nor any form of 'reading' at all. Oh and she didn't charge me anything. No advantage taken, only a few gifts happily shared.

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/02/2024 23:59

When you say you "need to contact someone", OP, do you mean a medium, or someone on the other side?

Magnastorm · 10/02/2024 23:51

Daisybuttercup12345 · 10/02/2024 23:35

Mumsnet isn't the best place to look for this type of thing.
They are all experts and their own opinions are FACT. They know everything. Or think they do.

Yep.

I know for an absolute fact that mediums are frauds who are happy exploiting often extremely vunerable people .

AngryBird6122 · 10/02/2024 23:50

@Charlotteap I’ll look into that

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SmileyClare · 10/02/2024 23:46

There’s that very short guy in the press who calls himself a medium. He was jailed but has managed to escape.

Police are saying there’s a small medium at large.

Charlotteap · 10/02/2024 23:45

Look into cold readings. I once saw Derren Brown and he performed several ‘readings’ on people exactly like a medium would. Just to prove how not real it was

TheShellBeach · 10/02/2024 23:44

They're skilled.

At cold reading.