Went to see a medium

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I went to see a medium yesterday for the first time. It was pure indulgence to see if there was anything in it. The medium did not hit on anything that resonated with me and I felt it was pure speculation. I'm curious now though... Has anyone here had a really accurate psychic or medium reading that simply couldn't have been made up? My friend swears that she has had genuine readings and regularly visits to stay in contact with her mother's spirit.

I have one that I've been with since 2013,
She told me I would have a curly haired girl on 2014,she was born in 2021.

Many many things were spot on and I see her half yearly.

"I don't believe in psychics or mediums at all but it is true that the police use them."

They don't. They have to investigate what they say just in case they actually know something and are pretending that they know it "psychically".

I mean with respect this isn't exactly particularly precise, is it.

Oh not the old "The police use them" nonsense.
No. No they don't. If approached by one they'd listen to their information, same as with any other potential witness. They do not have them in their employ.

I mean, Jeez... can you imagine? Your loved one goes missing or something and the police are trying to reassure you with the fact that Madame Helga is on the case.

My daughter has ringlets, we don't have that in our family, so it was rather unbelievable until it happened.

She also told me what my passed away father thought about his funeral. She was so precise on the details it was uncanny.

My dad said he was very proud of me standing and giving a speech. And that I was v brave doing everything I did.
And that it was funny in parts. He said he was upset that I didn't tell him about my ex ( whom I had separated from but concealed from him as he was terminally ill).

WTF was wrong with my comment? Why censor it? On a woo thread? Whoever complained about it has to be joking, surely. Or a complete fuckwit.

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The energy from a person disperses on death into the environment and via decomposition, via heat loss and organisms consuming the body, or, if we’re cremated, into heat/light energy.

This.

I'm sceptical - I think there are a lot of people in the world who would do anything for money and preying on the vulnerable is one of them.

However - I do believe in 'something' and whilst I think many are fake, you do get the odd genuine person with some form of gift. Whether that is being able to speak to the dead or tap into energy, I have no idea, but I find it quite arrogant and ignorant to believe we know it all and have all the answers.

I see it like this- we have been on this spinning rock for a tiny speck of time in comparison to how long it's been here - yet people can so easily go "no, not true!". Science proves new things and discovers new things weekly - it's best to be open minded because who the fuck genuinely knows?

I once had an experience when I was tipsy where I went back to a friend of a friends house after a night out all together - I'd never met her before although I knew of her as she was my best friends friend.

I can't explain it, but I started getting weird, random thoughts pop into my head about the house she was in and about her in general. I ended up telling her a few things and asked about certain 'goings on' in the house, and apparently I was right on the money.

I'm not a medium and have never had it since, nor would I want to truth be told - it freaked me out and I felt like I was messing with something I shouldn't. I'm not saying that's what mediums do by any stretch, but for me personally, it scared me.

So essentially, I'm a sceptical believer - I think the vast majority are con artists which is why the genuine ones are slated and not believed.

I went to one and i was very sceptical.
She insisted someone i am close to was pregnant ( i am 45 so all my mates are similar ages and most have older kids) when i saod no i dont think thats right sje was insistant.
When i got home i messaged the girls group chat and we were all laughimg until low and behold my friend in new zeland who was 44 said erm thats me i am pregnant.
The pshycic also told me i had to watch out for tummy issues. I had non at the time, but now one year later i am bioked in for pretty big abdomial surgery and have been diognosed with two abdominal issues!
Around 6 months after i saw her, i met a frencj guy in a pub who said he was a pshycic and he stopped me to say i needed to keep an eye on my tummy as he was worried about it. I found that quite unnerving to be honest.

I am still sceptical about it all but it does seem hard to beleive they both 'knew' about my health issues without knowing anything about me

I went to see one at mil's house and it was all about my brother. Things he'd experienced after losing his best friend in an RTA (certain lights going off and something else happened but I can't remember. His staffy dog and friend "came to me") and how he would leave his partner (who was a bloody nightmare for the 15 year he was with her) but it wasn't something I could see happening anytime soon. Well he did leave her - he died a few month after the reading 😔

The medium knew absolutely nothing about me or my brother as no names were given and she wasn't from our area.

The amount of stuff I could find online if I just had a name….

Honestly, @flufalump — neither of those instances involve anything remotely ‘psychic’. A ‘psychic’ tells a woman of childbearing age, but who could also be a young granny, that someone she’s close to is pregnant. That could encompass anyone in your family, friendship groups, your children, their children, a colleague, a neighbour etc. Even a pet!

’Tummy issues’ is also an easy catchall and could incorporate anything from overeating to indigestion to constipation to a twisted bowel to an ulcer to food intolerances to stomach cancer, or indeed pretty much anything happening below your chest! Similarly, mediums trot out the line about seeing an older man pointing to his chest, because the chance of someone being in the audience who lost a parent or grandparent to heart or lung trouble is huge.

But she came to your MILs house, so would have known her name, address, and been able to look into her background and friends.

Why would her pitch to you be all about your brother and not you? Why would it not be a friend or family member of yours that "contacted" you? Well, presumably because none of them have been in an accident that was big local news and easy to find out about.

When you think about it, discovering a tragic accident must be a gleeful, air punching moment for these people, such is the ugly, distasteful and exploitative nature of their "work".

There are plenty of examples of information shared that is too specific to be an educated guess, and where the medium would have no access to social media etc. Why would a psychic risk mentioning twins, for example? Or a harmonica?

Well why wouldn't they. They've already got the money that point, what are you going to do, ask for it back?

The gullibility astounds me.

When you see a magician make things disappear or cut people in half who then walk off unscathed, or pull something that had gone into a box out of someone's ear etc. do you believe that they're using actual, real magic because you can't explain how they did it? Of course not. They're going tricks.

Same as mediums.

That’s not true. I know a woman who’s a magician’s assistant. She can separate herself at the waist. She quite often runs errands for me, her legs going up the shops while I sit and have a cup of tea with her top half.

So it’s not all illusion.

Dammit.
That must mean that psychics, mediums and clairvoyants are real too then!

Makes you understand how some people fall for absurd Internet scams, doesn't it.

No. No they don't.

I was friends with a girl at school who had a rather unusual name. I had not, however, seen her since my school days. A medium I seen said this girls name and that she wanted to tell me to “enjoy every moment with your boys”.

It wasn’t something that really stuck out to me until I learned that this girl had died the year before my reading and that she also had two sons.

The medium also started talking to me about my brother. I have two sisters whom I grew up with and an older half brother who I have never met and know nothing about.

I didn’t reach out to the medium - I seen her at a friend’s “psychic party”. I am not vulnerable or looking for reassurance. The medium doesn’t know me. I didn’t tell the medium I had two sons. I didn’t tell the medium I was friends with the girl with the unusual name. I didn’t tell the medium I have a brother - I sometimes forget I even have a brother. I have no social media presence.

I don’t think that what she said to me is vague enough for it to apply to anyone. I have no explanation for it.

Edit: The friend who hosted the party where I saw the psychic did not know the girl I went to school with in any way. She is older and from a completely different friendship group.

Well, I like to keep an open mind.

The fifth time I went to see a psychic it was in a booth on the end of a pier. She said I’d travel over water that very day! It was uncanny. Science can’t explain everything.

That’s why I don’t mess with ouija boards. They can summon up bad spirits. I was once contacted by the shade of Fanny Cradock. She spelt out ‘piping bag’ and ‘turkey drumstick’. Never again.