To wonder if you have been to a clairvoyant?

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I am meeting a friend for lunch in Covent Garden today and she wants to visit a shop where they offer clairvoyant readings for about £70. Apart from the cost, I am a bit sceptical tbh. Has anyone had any experiences of clairvoyants, good or bad?

Yeah, I went to a show once. It was hilarious. Everyone so serious, hanging on her every word and clearly feeding her the information she was apparently plucking out of thin air.

She picked on me and I went with it, widened my eyes and smiled and nodded in the right places and got rewarded with a beautiful message from a plump old lady relative

There's no plump old lady relative. But it was fun watching her think she was so clever.

But I only forked out a fiver and it was worth it for the laugh. Bollocks would I pay £70

Oh, that's a medium. I don't know if clairvoyants speak to the 'dead'. Is it that give me your money show me your hand I see unhappiness in your past, a man has hurt you, a tall man is in your future, I see two children... stuff.

I went to a fortune teller once, but I'm not sure if that was the same thing. She was rubbish, basically. She asked me what I wanted most in the world, I said "a family" and she said something along the lines of, why are you being so silly, why do girls your age insist on throwing their lives away and living life without ambition?

I was 21, training to be a primary school teacher. She then told me DP was going to run off with a blonde girl who was very thin and attractive. I was a bit overweight now I'm a lot overweight and dark.

Three years later, DP is still here, I've got a job starting teaching this September and we are getting married next year. Silly bitchy woman.

Oh! I've just remembered, when I was a student, a woman 'read my palm'. apparently I'd have a few kids but never marry.

so I look like the sort of woman who'd get knocked up by several men but not get hitched?

Well, been married for 14 years. So pfffft to her!

No because they are just confidence tricksters working on generalisations and cues from their audience to appear to know hidden truths.

My mum likes clairvoyants and mediums, nothing wrong with that if it's just a few quid shes spending but we'd be having serious words if I knew she was planning to spend £70 on one.

No, I'm too literal for things like that. If someone said there was a tall man in my future I'd ask who and when.

I've had a couple of pamper nights with friends where tarot readers attend and I just say it is not my thing.

My cousin had a very bad fake Prada bag. She went to a fortune teller and plonked said bag on the table.

Fortune teller: i can tell by the cards you have expensive tastes (!)

I personally think it's all bullshit. But I don't think it's harmless as I have a friend who sadly lost a child in infancy. She relies on clairvoyants for comfort and they, in my opinion, exploit her grief.

I have. I was nearly sucked in until Michael Hutchence came through to speak to me. Before that point I was a but scared at the stuff she seemed to know but listening back to the recording it was quite open to interpretation. I did it for a laugh but it's not 70 quid worth of funny.

I went to see a tea leaf reader - my auntie was really into it at the time, she thought her husband was cheating and of course this was the best way to check!
This lady worked from home and it was £10 and you had to have 3 people - not sure why, but it was just her rule - anyway someone dropped out so I stood in.

First thing she said was "just tell me your first name, dont tell me anything else, when we sit down only tell me anything you do not want to discuss, but after that do not nod or agree, I won't guess at anything just tell you the things as I see them"

She told me I'd live somewhere with a lot of stairs, I'd finish uni but the path was bumpy, I'd already found my soul mate and when she read my tea leaves she showed me a baby - I huffpuffed it all - I was 20, had been seeing my bf 12 months and was doing ok at uni - but, now I look back and she was right.

I lived in a second story flat, I got pregnant about 4 months later
I failed uni and had to go back after having my son, I married my bf - so it turns out she was quite good.

I'd go back in an instant but I'd never pay £70!

I have been to two. I was very sceptical and still am.

The first one was a little old lady called Peggy in a council flat above a parade of shops. I went with a couple of work colleagues. She uncovered a couple of secrets of my colleagues. Apparently one of my colleagues had a baby that she had placed for adoption when she was 16 and the other colleague was having a relationship with a male "friend". She did ask for permission before she divulged these secrets. I was only 21 and didn't have such a colourful past but she did repeat something that I had said at work that day which made us all laugh. She also described a wedding dress that I was going to wear. Most of her observations were based on past events, she said very little about the future.

When I was 25 and going through a very early mid life crisis I visited a very highly recommended practitioner from the London School of Psychic Studies. I didn't answer any leading questions and he didn't get very far. He did the usual about saying that I would have two children etc, he mentioned nothing of the turmoil that I was going through and it was very disappointing. The only thing that he did get right was he described the street that I now live in.

It's not something I would do again.

In my more gullible days, about 24, I went to tarot card reader who told me I would end up living in another country, but not until past 40.

I moved to Australia at 50.

Yes I believe - always have done tho dh thought 'the other side' was complete crap

Sadly last year dh comitted suicide due to severe depression :(

I have seen 3 phychics and all 3 told me that they had a young man beside them - they could see blackness / depression and all 3 told me how he killed his self and other things that no one could know like about the ring I wear and yellow flowers and he is with a man 'like a father but not a father' I think he is with his uncle

I think dh makes his self known as he wanted to prove to me I was right and there is life after death

I was very careful to not lead them
Or give out info and literally answered their questions with yes no and don't know

Some friends scoffed but it helped me to know that dh was now happy and at peace

Blondes, that is really amazing and I am very sorry to hear about your DH. Where are you based? If you are anywhere near London, are you able to send me details of these psychics as a close friend lost her DH recently - heart attack, aged 50, so completely unexpected and devastating. I don't know if she would go to a psychic but if it were a recommended one, it may comfort her a little.

I went to a tarot reader after I got pregnant and didn't know what to do (ex had left with someone else etc etc).She told me lots of stuff I think I fed her but she said I'd have a boy and be happy. That bit was spot on.

Then she told me I'd meet another man in a few weeks and described him down to his facial hair and that I'd meet him through acquaintances. He didn't sound like my type TBH. Two weeks later my boss's friend (who I'd never heard off so no influence there) asked me out. Was as described. That was seven years ago and we are still going.

I also did my own cards and really did get the same cards coming up time and again. If you are that keen Op I'd save £65 and buy your own cards and a good instruction book.

I've been to the same one twice, and she is Scarily spot on. Told me about where my career would go - foresaw a move in both job and location before we'd even been asked. Told me I'd be going on holiday with a baby in June - I was pregnant 2 weeks later, and that was a massive comfort as it was a worrying pregnancy to begin with due to bleeding. I thought I was losing him many times. So many things she told me that have come true.

She also assured me I'd have a daughter - there are only boys on my husbands side - and I'm now pregnant with our little girl. She is fantastic, and I'll be back at some point.

Oh, and £20. Would I fuck pay £70.

I have been to four very good one's who told me things that i didn't know, so wasn't picking up on cues, because there wasn't any.

When i've been, i have treated it as a laugh, as part of a night out and paid £20. I suppose that the increase in price that your friend is paying is beause she is in pernament business premises, it doesn't mean that she will be any good.

Your friend should only go if she is prepared to hand the money over and get nothing for it, just like gambling.

£70 is covent garden prices, ie rip off.

I do believe in all of that though, and think there are some genuine amongst all the fakes.

I had mine done by a family friend of another friend (she didnt know me well at all) when I was 18, and everything that she predicted has happened.

I've been to a spiritual church. No big fees, no performance and no pre booking.

My papa came through with a message for me to tell my dad to slow down. He'd just suffered a minor heart attack and was acting like nothing had happened. The medium, via my grandad according to him, described to a T the 2 classic motorbikes my dad has in his garage for restoration. They're very uncommon. I was sceptical but that made me think.

I went to a psychic in January of this year. He told me I would meet the man of my dreams in April of this year. It is all BS, comforting to some but they are frauds. There are no external powers, in my opinion.

Thank you - been a tough year but getting through it now and also want to say thanks again to mn for the wooly hug i got - a bkanket made by some of you via purplepij&piste and im still touched by the love time and effort that went into it

I'm in Kent - will message you (when on lappy as in bed at moment and iPhone has a low battery) but I was blown away by what I was told and cost me £25 per reading and one came with a tape so can listen to it and now a year on some things have come true

Not me but my sister went to one last year about a month after my Dad died. He told her that he had a message for number 5. ( I have 9 siblings and Dad used to call us by number, I am number 5). The message was that I was to stop worrying, everything would be fine this time and what happened two years ago was still affecting me.

I was 5 months pregnant and worried due to previous mc two years previously, plus had some bleeding as well. I now have a 5 month old baby. Might be a load of tosh but made me feel better at the time, and I paid nothing for it. Sis hadn't said anything about sisters/pregnancy or anything to him because I did ask.

I went to one just before I moved to London to study nursing. I had no idea where my hospital accommodation would be. She told me the next place I lived in had a bad history and someone had died in a fire. Forgot all about it but a year later I asked why our flat was more modern than the others and it turned out there had been a fire and the last occupant had died. May well have been a lucky guess, I will never know.

Yes. I went to both a fortune teller and one of those shows where the medium speaks to the dead. I was researching a play I was writing.

They were fabulous fun, and the medium was highly skilled at pickeing up vibes from the audience. But it was exploitative on those who had recently lost a loved one.