I went to see a medium at a spiritualist church.
I was sceptical but also wanted to believe a little. I was in my early 30s.
We got almost to the end of the service and I was thinking nothing was happening, when she suddenly turned to me and out of the blue said you're dad's here. Had never met her before in my life and she wasn't local.
She gave a lot of details about exactly how my dad died, including things I had never been told but checked with my mum after, including something specific a nurse had said to my mum. As in 'we're going to wheel him past the waiting room (glass doors) and he has wires coming out/going into every place a wire can go, if you don't want to see that, then you may want to look away as we go past'.
There was other generic stuff she could have guessed from my age/parents age/era like the first drink dad bought mum on their 1st date and a significant song that mum, me and my sister would listen to after he passed away. But the really specific stuff about how he died and what that nurse said 20 years previously, I have no idea.
How can you cold read something like that?
The strange thing was that I did feel that she had contacted him and that he had come back from far away - unwillingly. Also that he 'said' not to focus on death but to embrace life.
I did go back for a reading with her the following year but it was clearly just guessing.
Very strange. Mum - the least woo person I know - said she would never discount anything like this out of hand. She had had a similar experience to pp at their wedding reception. There was a 'psychic' there randomly (it was in a pub) and dad's parents hassled her to give a reading. She took one looked at mum's hand and refused point blank. Mum wondered after dad died (at 36, they had been married 9 years) if she saw something unlucky on the horizon. Or maybe she just wasn't in the mood!