How do clairvoyants know things??

And see what the person presenting looked and sounded like. You can tell an awful lot from appearance, clothes, speech etc.

Now that is interesting.

I knew you were going to ask this

And yet they have doorbells.

What a weird comment to make on what was a lovely and fascinating post.

@Blondiebeachbabe Clearly you, your Mum and her sister were really atuned to each other and it was lovely to read how you've kept that bond going. This thread will mostly be posts from those who completely rubbish the whole "psychic" 'thing' and they'll never think otherwise.

I'm not certain much in this world but the one thing I am certain of is that nobody is psychic. People claiming to be are either lying or deluded.

It's all explainable, whether it be down to cold reading, research on the target, confirmation bias etc. Some people are very good at it, but ultimately it's no more real than a magician sawing a person in half.

I went out of curiosity and was given a message from my paternal grandfather to say he was content that his suffering was over and was happy to see me settled and enjoying life. I was single and my grandfathers were both alive & well!

I've been to a few mediums (media?), I just think it's fun.

I'd say about 60% of them are just cold reading and making shit up. One told me my grandad was shining down on me from the afterlife - all my grandads were still alive at that point. That made the rest of the reading rather awkward!

However, others were so specific, with things they had no way of knowing. They couldn't have googled because my friend had booked for her and "a friend" so the psychic didnt even know my name before I walked in. As soon as I arrived she started talking about my (alive) grandma Barbara's health problems, my (dead) great grandma Jenny was there giving me polo mints (which she always used to do when she was alive). The psychic talked about a tragic death years earlier in my family (giving details and the name of someone who witnessed it), told me about an adoption regarding a named person in my family that I didn't even know about, but the details were verified by my (very freaked out) grandma later. It was uncanny. My family wasn't even from the same country as the psychic, there's no way she could have known these things.

So some are real and some are charlatans. You don't know until you go there because they all claim to have a direct line to the spirit world.

The Romany and travellers used to sell lucky Heather. In fact they were there recently in the street opp the old Allders.

It's like Sherlock Holmes, looking for clues. He could work out that Dr Watson had been in Afghanistan, who worked as a clerk, who had a fear of dogs. A fictional character, but it's possible to develop these skills

Some of it is research, cold reading.
Some of them do receive messages I believe but they are few and far between
i went to a pay at door event as I was passing and the guy knows names (not generic Steve’s or Gary etc) , dates etc and was incredibly accurate. Down to what I was studying (again, not mainstream)
There was no local paper, social media etc so I can honestly say the guy had no idea who I was- I literally walked in from the street, paid cash and didn’t even give my own name.

Apparently the burnings happen less so now.

cold reading. The only ones who can do it are I believe mostly Romany and don’t charge. Even Romany and travellers who say they’re mediums are mostly not ime. I worked in Croydon and in beddington lane Mitcham there are Romany and traveller camps, some live in houses. Used to see burned out caravans in Valley Park, Purley Way, was told they’re Romany or traveller.

I’m very cynical and so is dm, but years ago dm went to a social group (primary school mums) and they had a palm reader. Dm had only been once before and didn’t know anyone well as db had just started primary. The palm reader could tell my sister had died, roughly when. My mum hadn’t told anyone in the group about her heartbreak so he really couldn’t have been set up. This was in mid 1980s so no Facebook etc. dm isn’t a full believer and thinks most are playing a game but thinks “there’s something in it”.

Poor Ted. Dead without even having had a chance to exist in the first place.

I am a complete nonbeliever in this kind of thing but had an astonishing incident years ago

Waiting to meet someone in Glastonbury I was wandering around and a clairvoyant/medium/tarot reader type person's rooms. I had time to spare, it was only £15 and I was interested really to see what a load of crap it all was.

The woman asked if there was anything in particular I wanted to know and I said no. She dealt out some tarot cards and pretty much before I'd even sat down told me about an incident that had just happened in my life. She named names, times, amounts of money, details of an incident - all completely accurate. All of which I suppose could have been clever guesses.

Then the most amazing thing she actually said something word for word that someone had said to me. The whole thing - word for word. Then she told me what the outcome would be. That later came true too - all outside of my control so I didn't kind of make it happen.

I was bloody well reeling when I came out of there so much so that the friend I was about to meet met me with, 'Are you ok? You look like you've seen a ghost'.

I till don't believe in it all, but what happened that day was odd.

Cold reading. Researching where possible. They also usually play to a receptive audience,
people who want to believe it’s true and are willing to unconsciously collude in the illusion.

And people citing “yeah but” examples - it’s impossible to explain it on a forum without full, transparent disclosure of all the circumstances and being able to hear the actual conversation that took place.

The way she died was very unusual for lack of a better word the medium described the way she died and the people connected with her death, she wanted me to know she is okay and at peace. It was very odd for me as she wasn’t as close of a friend in my adulthood but in my childhood but I do often think about her.

Coincidence or fiction would be two more credible explanations

If you told someone in a tribe that there were airwaves all around them, they wouldn't believe you. 🙄

So many sceptics on here. I find that quite a self important attitude to life : "If I haven't seen it, then it cannot be true". Just sticking fingers in their ears when other people tell stories that simply cannot be logically explained.

There's nothing wrong with being open minded.

If everything is "explainable", someone explain just one of my examples upthread :

^My Mum went to see a Medium many years ago. She had just lost her sister. She (my aunt) was called Pauline, but close friends called her Polly for short. The Medium was rubbish. When they all got up to leave, a woman who had been sat next to my Mum in the audience said "That guy was rubbish. He didn't give anyone any real detail. I mean, you'd want someone to say something specific, like for example" : "Hey, I have your sister here, her name was Pauline, but everyone called her Polly for short".....^

Quite.
I'm quite good at "reading" people, but that's because people give clues and hints, verbal and non verbal. I'm not clairvoyant, just quite aware in that sense.

This. I am not a clairvoyant but sometimes get a feeling about certain things that turn out to be true or happen later.
My aunt has the clairvoyant ability. She also says its a curse knowing things about people shed rather not know. She doesnt use her ability for financial gain at all.

They mainly throw out a lot of things and something sticks. The punter remembers the thing that resonates and forgets the rest.

Why have none of these people been able to do it in controlled conditions?

I was out walking with my puppy (at least 15 years ago now). A lady stopped me (I had never seen her in my life before). She told me that I had two other dogs following me. She told me thier breeds, sexes, and the fact that one of them only had three toes on one paw. This describes my two long gone dogs perfectly. She told me she occasionally ‘sees’ things but never knows quite when they will happen. I didn’t know her, had never met her before and have never seen her since. She had no reason to make up an impossible story about my two dead dogs. She made my day. To know my darlings are still with me is a massive comfort.