To ask has anyone had a psychic tell them something that came true?

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Experiences?

I had a psychic reading a few years. She didn’t know my name as I just turned up. She knew I was a nurse but said I would be leaving the job in the near future and mentioned a recent break up but went onto say I would marry a military officer.

I did indeed leave nursing, I had had a recent break up and I have purchased a flat with DP who is a military officer.

She also mentioned that I would have twins but one of them wouldn’t be seen on the scan until later in the pregnancy. That one hasn’t come true yet!

I can’t remember much else.

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I will accept that ‘psychics’ are not charlatans who prey on the uneducated and the gullible when one accurately predicts next week’s lottery numbers or football scores.

One described my grandparents living room to a tee, including a very specific and unusual detail. I also had one tell me some stuff about work which I thought was nonsense, 3 years later it played out exactly as she said (and I had no influence over any of it as it was at a more senior level than me!!). Of course I have also seen some who give vague answers that could apply to anyone - but those two stand out to me.

One described my grandparents living room to a tee, including a very specific and unusual detail. I also had one tell me some stuff about work which I thought was nonsense, 3 years later it played out exactly as she said (and I had no influence over any of it as it was at a more senior level than me!!). Of course I have also seen some who give vague answers that could apply to anyone - but those two stand out to me.

What crushes any belief for me is that anyone would take money for readings

What about those that take one look at you and say no or shut the door on you

Those saying "well there's tons of info online" - there is now, but what about those of us who had accurate readings pre-Internet let alone pre-SM days?

I had an extremely accurate one almost 30 years ago. It was also recorded and I kept the recording for many years to check it. I've still got a transcript saved.

I was a last minute addition to a group reading and wasn't on any electoral role nor listed in a phone book or anything at the time.

Without fishing she accurately gave my very unusual middle name, dob, mothers and grandmothers maiden names. She also detailed my grandfathers death at a young age.

Her predictions, 9 In total, the usual re marriage/kids (inc my dn's initials in birth order - which I never told anyone, let alone my bro or sis) but with curious info which later made sense, plus ones that weren't related to 'normal' life events, were detailed & precise and all but one have come true - and it's not due to happen yet.

I've had other readings that were obviously cold reading (or plain guesswork and broad parameters) so I'm not blindly accepting.

Then I had another a few years ago, where she accurately gave our family's very odd nickname for a grandparent, and one for a cousin, plus predicted the very exact nature of my car accident and what car I'd be driving (make model and colour - which I didn't at that point own, plus I hated the colour and would normally if I'd had a choice, avoid buying a car that colour).

Reboot - I've had prophetic dreams, 2 resulted in myself and another relative later going to drs to get certain things checked, despite a lack of symptoms at the time of the dreams and ending up getting dx with things where early treatment makes a huge difference. Plus one where I insisted a relative not make a journey and if they had they'd have likely become victims of a transport disaster. That one really shook me up. (And them).

"also that there is some 'scientific' explanation that we are not yet aware of." That's what I believe.

Margaret - one of the predictions from the first accurate reading I had related to number of offspring. It was almost like she made a mistake and corrected herself but there was something odd about how she said it anyway, at first she said I'd have 4, then "told herself off" for being "impatient" and corrected it to one. I've had 2 mc, the 2nd was twins, then dd and due to a rare medical condition NOBODY could possibly have known about until I had dd over 10 years later, I couldn't have any more. She even (indirectly) told me who the - different - fathers would be.

I try not to think about the message that told me my mother needed a blood test, as if I’d acted on it it might have saved her life.

That I'd have issues with my stomach and so far it's not been mine but both parents have been in hospital with intestine/ bowel Blocks and twisted bowels - I was 17 and this was the only thing that I remember

I had a friend years back who went to a spiritualist church. The pastor was talking to my friend and a few others about the service and he spun round very quickly. Two young girls had entered the church. He told them he heard breaking glass and that they had been messing around with an Ouija board. They confirmed they had and came looking for help as they thought they had summoned something sinister! Very creepy!

So many of these "amazing predictions" are true for me too...

I would meet someone with connections to two specific major cities and I’d be in a car crash involving a red car. Both those things have happened. She also told me I’d have two children a boy and a girl,

I would wager I've met someone from those cities at some point. I've been in a crash with a red car. My first two children were a boy, then a girl.

There is no such thing as a psychic. There's a million dollars out there waiting for someone to prove that they have psychic abilities under laboratory conditions. No-one ever has. They're either delusional people who truly believe they have a "gift" or more likely, calculated con artists who prey on the vulnerable. Someone I know lost her mother very young and goes to these people a lot to hear that her mother is "watching over them" and is proud of her grandchildren, it's really sad.

Incidentally, the million dollar “prize” thing ended in 2015. It ran from the early 1960s, but ended when James Randi retired.

I’ve had mixed experience but do accept that some people have an unusual degree of heightened sensitivity and that is labelled as psychic.

Lotto balls aren’t sentient hence there is nothing to sense.

My 2nd child would be very sporty

At the time she wasn’t as only young, she was incredibly sporty

She told me I’d lost an item of jewellery that my mum gave me, sadly I have. It was an unusual item not a ring or bracket and the item was described to me

I went back some years later and she told me my daughter had a heart condition she was born with. My daughter has a congenital heart condition

I have no idea how she did it?

Best case scenario - they’re deluded and genuinely believe they can do it or they’re mentally ill.

In most cases they’re parasites preying on the grieving and the vulnerable.

I visited one when I was 18- now 29. She said many things that did not make sense at the time but several of them came true.
She said that my future husband was having difficulty with his school and would drop out. This made no sense then regarding the boyfriend I was seeing at the time but my DH did drop out of college.
She kept muttering "storm in a tea cup" which was something my nan used to say to me when me and my sisters would squabble. She told me the man me and my sisters all looked at was my grandad who died in the war. My mum told me after that me and my sisters had all sat in the cot talking to the same corner as babies.
She had some a man come through and he was holding a box of malteasers- meant nothing to me at the time but my then bfs grandad would bring him malteasers whenever he visited.

I would love to go again- can anyone recommend one based in Norfolk?

I often know who is on the phone when it rings. I guessed that one friend was pregnant after she had been told it was impossible, and knew the sex of another friend's baby without being told. I am told there is an element of this in my family, coming from a couple of Romany ancestors. But I think most people would have an element of this.

on the other hand, on the night that a friend and I had moved in together after the break up of both our marriages my friend had to go to a psychic evening at work. During the break, the psychic came up to her and said 'There is a lady that you never met, but that you know about, who wants me to tell you that you and your friend are doing the right thing.' I think it was my DM. My friend never met her, but of course knew about her. A lucky guess perhaps, but it still gives me comfort to think DM was looking out for me still. And she was right!

I’ve been twice to different psychics & neither asked my name, so they wouldn’t have been able to look me up. They didn’t know my phone number or address either. Went along with friends.

• mentioned someone working in Africa (my DH).
• said my youngest was a dreamer/mother hen. She was only a baby at the time, but that’s exactly how she’s turned out.
• was able to tell me exactly how my dad died.
• she said I really wanted an expensive ring, not an engagement ring though (true) and that my dad said not to worry because I’d get it one day (doubtful. We were skint). A few years later I was at the jewellers with my DH choosing an expensive ring. A white feather floated slowly down in front of me when I was standing outside the jewellers. If I believed in such nonsense I’d say that was a message from my dad!
• said I’d have another baby, a son. Came true.
• said my sister would have kids, even though she had fertility problems. Came true.
• being a SAHM wouldn’t be enough for me (at the time I was desperate to give up work. I did and miss it terribly!).

It could be that subconsciously I’ve made decisions based on what she’s said, which have led events to ‘come true’.

I had my palm read years ago and she was spot on- re my marriage.
I saw a psychic a couple of months before my husband left me and he regaled me with stories of how I was going to live abroad happily ever after. I think he mixed me and my husband up.....

I went to see a woman who got a couple of things spot on and I don't believe there was anyway of her knowing them.

I booked her through a text on my friends phone. She didnt have my name or anything.
She told me i had 3 brothers and me and the middle one would have a huge argument. I didnt believe it as we always got on so well.This happened the following year.
She said that I had had 2 previous relationships. The 1st i fell out of love and the 2nd was controlling etc and that the (recent dp) who i was with now was the one i was meant to be with. All true and his my dh now.

She said i lived on a 3rd floor flat. The top floor and would be moving within the next year and furthe away.
This happened .

She also said my dad was a hard working man and that he was a bricklayer as she could see brick dust on his hands. That I looked just like him ( dad is still here)

She went on to say both my nan ( who had recently passed) was with me and my grandad ( who died before i was born)
She started saying she couldnt breath and felt like she was drowing. That thats how my grandad had passed.
His lungs kept filling with liquid.
She said he had a very strong irish accent and smelt of alcohol. She even named which town in ireland he was from. All was correct.

She said my nan was apologising for her last few years. Said she wasnt herself and she hopes we understood. She also named the road my nan lived on and the name of a shop where she used to get her curtains and how she used to be a clean freak and even clean her plug sockets with cotton buds once a week. This was all true and my nan had alzheimers before she passed.

the million dollar prize wasn't open to everyone/anyone to try though...you had to have had an existing media profile as a psychic and the backing of a reputable academic to try for the money. most if not all of the psychic's people here have posted about wouldn't have fallen into that group so it was hardly a fair test.

It was open to anyone up until 2907- then they introduced the academic rule as a filter. It was dropped a couple of years later to just having press cuttings, then the whole thing was dropped in 2015ish

2007, obviously. If I could reliably say 2907 I'd claim the cash!

i'm not sure about testing people to prove they are psychic as i'm sure there will still be people saying the psychic tricked the tester/had some prior info about the people there.
i'm also not sure i'd want to be tested by the JREF as they don't allow you to use independent testers, only theirs and this was part of one of the rules..
The JREF may consult with experts, including statisticians, magicians,and others with specialized knowledge relevant to the claim. James Randi may or may not be present at these tests, but he will not interact with the materials used nor interfere with the protocol once a test is underway.
so only Randi won't interact with the materials nor interfere with the protocol, will the others from the JREF?
i guess since they no longer offer the prize money no-one can now be tested.

I went to see an Angel Card reader in the North East with some friends. She was amazing, passed on so many very personal messages from loved ones that she just couldn't have known, to all of us. We all said nothing to give her clues, and had driven from the next city. This was 1997, so pre social media.

She did say to that one of the girls, that she would find peace soon.

She was murdered by her abusive estranged husband four months later.

I also saw one in Edinburgh in 2003. He told me that the person I was with, wasn't the love of my life, but not to worry as I would meet my true love soon. I'd just got married. He also told me that I would have one child, a daughter.

DH and I are still together and have four kids. One is a girl though.