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?

No. My MIL went a few times though, but I always refused to hear anything she was told there.
I don't believe in it, and even if I did I wouldn't want to know anything.

I've a been to two. One at a charity event was weirdly accurate, described problems in my marriage (separated at the time), told me we were not happy in the house we lived in and I'd never felt at home there unlike our previous flat. She told me how much profit we'd make in the house sale and assured me I'd be ok and it would all be behind me by Xmas. I assumed she meant the separation would be final by Xmas. Actually DH and I reconciled bought a new house and moved in by Nov. she also knew my friend would never have children (shed been sterilised fairly young). All v odd.

Another on Blackpool pier told me I'd have three children, two pregnancies. I have one child, had four pregnancies.

God no. It's all bullshit peddled by sometimes very skilled cold readers. You'll always hear the odd startling anecdote but you have to remember confirmation bias etc and the fact that the victims of these people tend to remember the hits rather than the misses. Also, people tend to think they "aren't giving anything away" when they are. Chances are, with most of the impressive ones, they haven't been recorded. When you listen to one that has been, it becomes clearer a) How the "clairvoyant" etc gets his/her info, and b) Just how many questions are asked and how many dead ends (pardon the pun) they have to go down to end up with the correct info.

Derren Brown and his ilk can do EXACTLY what any clairvoyant/medium/psychic etc can do - and often do it far, far better - but at least admits he's cheating.

Frankly if you hand £70 over to these awful people and expect them to be genuine, you've got more money than sense.

They are all charlatans.

But it's your money.

See if I'd read your OP 45 seconds later, Aboutlastnight would have saved me a lot of typing :D

Spend the £70 on a very nice lunch. I predict you will have a better time doing that.

No way!

I do remember that documentary on past life regression and they managed to explain every single thing the hypnotised person said, was basically just a jumble of deep memories. That was amazing

Blondes, I am really sorry to read about your DH.

I used to work in a theatre where we had loads of 'psychics' performing and it used to break my heart to see one of the women in my office whose daughter had died as a teenager go along every time in the desperate hope to hear from her.

Those people make me really fucking angry.

Also, I have seen Derek Acorah in his pants.

ps Chunky don't most students live in accommodation blocks with stairs, struggle with their studies, meet someone they are reasonably likely to end up with and (if female) have a baby at some point?

I believe if these Clairvoyants really have the ability to see a persons past and their future then surely they would give more exact details , they would tell you the correct names of any person they are describing to you who is apparently by their side or whatever , but they don't .
It's all guess work and the clever ones will wheedle information out of you without you knowing !

sally Morgan is an utter fraud too. IMO.

I am sceptical of the over chargers and theatre fillers which is why I prefer the spiritual church setting. There's nothing to prove there.

It costs 50p and is in a draughty town hall.

By law now they have to tell you before a reading that:

What they say should be regarded as being for entertainment purposes only

and that you have free will and control over your life.

...in other words 'what I say will be made up shite'

Yes

Told me I had a son, I said I had no son, then told me they meant daughter, to which I told them I was childless

Then told me my Grandma was dead on the maternal side. I was like 'omfg, she walks well for a dead woman'

Mine was a load of crap.

My friend went in straight after me and was told she would be a grandma in a year. Her dd was 14... And she was!!!!

Think it's all about reading people tbh

My friend dragged me to some woman she sees every year, I don't believe in it for a moment but went to keep friend happy and quiet (tbh her nagging wore me down!).

Anyway, I was determined to give nothing away - although I can see how they make educated guesses about the kind of thing they think you want to hear. Women my age must usually go wanting info or reassurance on family life / children etc. so she quickly turned to that and said I'd have 2 kids (one of each), that it might be a bit difficult but DH was all fine and it would be me who struggled - I'm fine, DH is infertile . Then waffled on about all sorts of pretty generic stuff. Until she made a comment about ice cream - random but very relevant to me at the time.

She then went on to tell me to swing a lump of beef around my head with some spice dabbed on my forehead each month. Umm, yeah, OK...

Anyway, she recorded the session and then gave me the tape - if she was any kind of 'seeer' she'd have known I don't have a tape player!

That was £35 not-well-spent.

OP Tell your friend

You have a deep side not many people know about because your exterior is very positive and chierfull.

Someone you meet in the next year will have a profound influence on your life but you won't realise it at the time.

Someone you lost, but was close to you is here and offering you a flower, she says it's your favorite.

Do you know who it is?

Had a phone reading once from a woman in Manchester, I am on south coast. Was given her number by a person who knew next to nothing about me but was really impressed by this woman.

I was going through a bit of a sea change in my life, and was quite vulnerable to any bloody guidance from anywhere!

I phoned the number, she said she was watching Corrie and could I phone after..(she did not know I was about to phone?...not good sign). Anyway, had a general conversation , me as guarded as I could be without being rude.

She identified that my flat was for sale, some generalised stuff about health, then seemed to come on line as it were. She said there were a number of people in uniform watching over me, all encouraging me (lots of forces people in my family), and then she said very firmly...''Ohdobuckup, I'm getting cats, really strong message about cats..''

Now I am mildly allergic to cats and don't have them in the house, but I was sitting at a table with lots of drawings of cats which I had done as an idea for a children's book I had been thinking about writing and illustrating. I laughed out loud and told her, she said ''oh yes, you have to write childrens books, that's what you are meant to do''

Well, there may have been a load of guesswork in her comments but I have written a children's book and it is doing the rounds of publishers slush piles right now, will let you know how it goes!

I made an appointment to see a clairvoyant, but they had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances.

yes she was crap.didn't know i was married despite the fact i was wearing a wedding ring.

I've been to one before, I was completely sceptical but dp had paid for me (there's no way I'd have wasted the money), and so far a lot of what I was told was true, for instance, I was told I was going to court and it was to do with my son. 3 weeks later my dickhead abusive ex started a custody battle in court. The outcome was correctly predicted too. I was also told a lot of things about a close relative who had passed away, not your usual 'they have a letter A in their name and they miss you', but certain things that couldn't just be guessed iykwim. It was really creepy, I still believe that the majority of psychics are fake but I do now believe that there are some real ones.

Just to add OP, the person who gave me my reading gives free readings at a spiritual church and my reading only cos £25, maybe that's the key to getting a genuine one, maybe those who don't feel the need to charge loads for their readings could be the ones who are telling the truth?

been to a few
Crystal ball reader--absolute crap
Palm reader--fairly accurate right down to my recent house/car purchase, had DD next would be DS/ and occupation
Tarot---bloody hell for the price of a packer of fags there is NOTHING she told me that hasn't come true, some quite random stuff. She even told me about my DF imminent heart operation and (she hesitated here) said he would be okay eventually. After some serious complications and on a ventilator for 6 weeks he pulled through 3 months post op. As we were at his bedside complete with minister having been called for during the night l kept saying to myself it's not his time Maggie (tarot reader) told me so.
Would l go again, seems strange when l say no but l will leave my future in the lap of the Gods

Yes I've been to a great one, cost £30. He was recommended to me after my mum died recently as I couldn't get out of my head that she had died & not got to where she was supposed to be & was wandering around lost & afraid.

He was amazing. I'm on the sceptical side & went in there determined to not give him any clues but he didn't even ask me anything. I sat down, he immediately put his fingers on my hand & after a pause he told me he was speaking with a lady who had passed & who liked the bluebell poem. The only bluebell poem I can think of is one I wrote myself when I was 5 & it was made into a bookmark & laminated, its still in dad's house somewhere. I said she was as pretty as a rose & gentle as a bluebell. After this he then said that the lady was trying to give me proof that she was my mum, & he said she was telling him she was one of 5 children. I said no that's not right, she was one of 4, she had a sister & 2 brothers only. Medium said no, she's def saying she was one of 5, so I had a think & my nana did have a baby girl who died when she was 9 months old, a cot death. I had forgotten about the baby.
He then described the scene at her death, who was there, where we were & said that even though she seemed unconscious she could still hear us & it gave her a lot of comfort.
He also talked about my dead grandma & gave me street names that I didn't know but that turned out to be correct, ie the street where she first met her husband, my aunt verified it later. He got my exH down to an absolute T, with details that only I knew. Bear in mind he didn't ask me anything, I didn't speak at all. He said a few things that I can't relate to, a name of a dog & a family member who should not go into the army for a career.
So yes its possible that it was all a fraud but guesses about bluebell poems & a spot on description of my exH & his addictions seem weird things to guess about if you have nothing. I suppose at the end of it all I no longer worried about my mum & it reassured me which is what I needed. I will go back to him again though as he said some interesting things about a little girl baby when I KNOW I don't want any more :)
On balance he got more things correct than not, & these are things he could not have known.
If you would like his details, he's in Warwick but I think he does phone readings then please PM me & I'll see if I can find them.

I've been to 2. I had my palm read in India when I was 18 and on my gap year. He told me all sorts of stuff that I wrote down and thought it was all rubbish but thought I'd keep a record of how off base he'd been. He said I would be a teacher, my plan at the time was nothing to do with teaching but I did eventually become a teacher. He said I would have 2 and a half children, which I thought was utter rubbish but he explained that the half would be either a miscarriage or a stillbirth, I now have 2 children and have just had a miscarriage. He told me that I would have 1 child early and one child later, there is a 10 year gap between my 2 dds. He also said my children would have different fathers, I was determined at the time not to have any children til I was happily married so was rather annoyed by that, but my girls do indeed have different fathers.

I had my cards read at a party a year later and she was fairly accurate too, but she could have been reading my body language. She started off saying I have issues with my mother, then a couple of cards later she said that I would be waiting 4 months or had waited 4 months and it was to do with my mother, then after another couple of cards she said something about health issues concerning my periods, then the last card she turned over she said 'you have to be pg for this to make any sense at all, all the cards are saying you are about 4 months pregnant' I denied it as I was sure I wasn't, then thought about it and realised that I had in fact not had a period for 4 months (I have pcos so it's quite common for me to go months without) so did a test and yes I was, 4 months. I wasn't showing yet and truly didn't know myself so she did seem quite accurate.

I only paid about £15 for mine, although that was a few years ago now. I certainly wouldn't pay £70. I also agree that they can prey on recently bereaved people, my aunt has spent a lot of money she doesn't have trying to make contact with her dh after he died. I can't stop her (and don't know if I really want to) as she does find comfort in it.