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?

I have been to two (yes I am gullible). The first one was many years ago, she was just fishing for info and made very vague comments. What annoyed me was that there was a very distressed lady in the waiting room, who obviously hung on her every word. I wrote a cheque, pretended I had forgotten my card and cancelled it the next day (obviously not clairvoyent enough to see that!).

The second one was some years later, a tarot card reader a colleague raved about. She for some reason was convinced I was a teacher and had two children, I only had one (a baby) which I brought with me. She probably had done research in advance but got the wrong person.

Both total frauds and crap. My best friend has been to a medium in Essex who doesn't charge (just a donation) and is completely convinced by her and it is spooky, so perhaps some people do have the gift.

I didn't spend the £70 in the end - decided to spend it on a good lunch instead!

But I am a lot less sceptical, having read some of the experiences described on this thread.

When I was 20 I visited a clairvoyant in Whitby with my then fiance. She wanted to see me alone and scribbled on a paper:
Married thrice
Widowed twice
Third time pays for all!!
I have now been happily married to dh 3 for 24 years.
Both my previous husbands are now dead although technically I was only widowed from dh2.
I never imagined such happiness as I found with dh3 so I am a believer.

blonde I suppose that could be true, although she told me she knew I'd rent privately - I doo agree, if a clairvoyant says to a young woman "you'll meet a nice guy, have kids, go through difficulties" that could apply to probably 90% of people, but it was just the way she said it.

I'm not saying that I believe that every single person who does this kind of thing is genuine, because they just aren't, I just know that at the time I sort of poo-pooed it all, but actually a lot has come true, plus some of the smaller stuff too. I don't know, I'm still sceptical, I've seen Derren Brown and I know the likelihood but maybe there are a very small number of these people - I don't know

Yes I did. She was called Patria Peplow and I saw her in a house in Chiswick. I was about 23 and feeling very single and lonely: This is what she said. You will soon be earning a lot of money but love will take a little time to come. You will end up marrying a tall blonde man but I can't work out if he will be a politician or a lawyer but he will be very successful. I can see five children and one will die and I can only see two there for certain. You will marry again late in life after a happy first marriage.

This is what happened: About a year later I was promoted to the eurobond sales desk and at 26 I was earning £100k. Met DH at 30 who is tall and blonde and at that time he was a ppc (parliamentary political candidate) although decided to focus on law pretty soon after his first "no hoper" seat because concluded it was a mugs game and he couldn't face 30 years of glad handing I would have liked it though. We have two dc, DS2 died shortly after birth at 27 weeks and I miscarried two babies very late.

DH and I are going strong after 21 years - and I do really worry about something happening to him to make me available to marry again in my dotage. She also said some things about my mother that absolutely nobody else could have known.

I was a sceptic. It cost £25.00 which was a lot then. I don't know if it was by chance but she certainly read my future.

I always thought they were a load of shite. . . Until.

A few years ago I was out with some friends from abroad bumped in to an old work friend, she didn't know anything about my abroad friends.

Stay with me here, she was out with friends that I had never met we all ended up going foe a drink. Conversation came around to mediums etc (pub we were in was converted spiritualist church) and it came up that work friends friend call her X was said to have 'the gift'.

We were all a bit, yeah right, whatever, so she offered to do a reading, so we all ended up in mac Donald's, (it was that type of night).

The first thing we asked was how much she charged, her answer was nothing, it was a gift you shouldn't charge for a gift if we liked what we heard make a donation to charity.

Anyway did me first and looking back she was pretty accurate, but as mine was very beige it could have been applied to most women my age and she could have picked up stuff from work friend.

She then did abroad friend pretty much told her what she'd told me you're in long term relationship you're worried about money, blah blah. Then she said tell you're sister to stop worrying about children, she'll have a houseful in the next 6 years. she'll have boy boy girl girl girl boy boy.
Abroad friend, got really upset, unknown to me AFriends sister had been ill as a child and told that she'd never have children due to the treatment. She'd recently been for investigations and still told that there was only a5% chance of conceiving even with help.

Night ended on a bit of a low, but six months later AFriends sis announced she was pregnant, with twins, seemed a bit of a coincidence, but ho hum. Twins were 1 when she gave birth to her third child and was pregnant with second set of twins when 3rd child was 18 months.

They decided to start using contraception then her gyny consultant is still a bit WTF, how did that happen.

I think 5 children under 5 counts as a houseful? And she's pregnant again.and the first set of twins are boys then a girl then twin girls, waiting to see if this is twins again. . .

Still could really be a coincidence but it does make me wonder. .

Yeah a few.

My mum got one, me and mum went seeing her. Booked under false names etc so they couldn't research us.

As soon as we walked in she said there was a young man stood behind me with a smile on his face, holding red roses with a white bow on.
We'd put red roses (with a white bow) on my dads grave a couple of days beforehand. He was 23 when he died so the 'young man' part made sense too.

The stuff she told us was all spot on. I don't understand how it works and I'm not a fool, but I don't understand how she knew it. I've been to some before who dig for information and ask questions to get answers but this woman didn't ask me a single question, she just told me. Amazing.

Fuck off with the zombie thread revival to promote your exploitative shite.