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

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Experiences?

There's a Christopher Brookmyre book "Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks" which is quite eye opening on some of the tactics used by psychics. It's a novel but has quite a lot of fact based factual stuff.

I went to see one a few months ago.

She told me I was pregnant, which I was. Only a few weeks so no bump. Hadn’t even told friends or family.
She said DP was coming into money or would receive some sort of rise. He received a pay rise a month after.
She correctly said DP was a chef and he dreams of running his own pub, which he does. She said this was in his future.
She also said the baby I’m carrying is a girl but the scans show boy!

I work in a field which, for the want of not being too outing about what I do, involves 'reading' people's probable behaviours with a lot of care and accuracy. I'm good at it, too.

Put it this way: if I knew your name, surname and date of birth (your mother's maiden name would help, but it's not vital), the amount of information I could glean about you in about 30 minutes would probably allow me to hack all of your SM accounts (no matter your 'privacy settings', ha ha), your bank account and probably your NHS records, too.

And that's just cold, hard data - no psychology required, just statistical analysis.

Never underestimate the glamour of a seasoned carnival barker.

I had a palm reading once. I'm very cynical, but it was surprisingly accurate.

I was told that I would enter a relationship that would cause problems with my parents (2 years later, I was in an abusive relationship with a man my mum and dad absolutely detested), but that I'd already met the man I'd marry (I got together with my dh after knowing him for 13 years and had only recently met him when I had the reading). I can't really remember the rest of it though but those two things were accurate.

"Never underestimate the glamour of a seasoned carnival barker."

This.
One of my sil's pupils-he would have been 14- said "You're pregnant miss" She was, but said "No I'm not" "Oh, go on miss, you are. My mum's had 5- I know what a pregnant woman looks like!" He wasn't psychic. He was just extrapolating from his experience.

I was told I wouldn't have a child until we had ivf, she didn't know we were trying for a baby.

one child and 3 rounds of ivf later.....

I was told by two separate "mediums" that I'd only have boys, one said 3 the other 4.

I have DD (eldest), and DS. There will be no others.

As far as I'm concerned, you get given predictions that are vague enough to have some chance of coming true, and the better ones are skilled at cold reading so can get information that way to refine their "predictions".

ThistleAmore

I have a very distinctive name, easily googleable. So I keep my SM locked tight, and much of it is under anonymous names.

I don't use the standard security questions (so never ever mother's maiden name). I use a random password and a password manager.

I just googled myself, and found 4 references. LinkedIn being the most obvious, and I've not completed most of the profile, keeping some really personal stuff off there. FB is in my own name, but locked tight. I have other social media, but my own name is never used.

I have a stalker ex, so have had to work at keeping myself anonymous. I'm teaching both DCs to follow suit.

Given what you say about googling people, is there anything else I can do to keep information secure?

Bloody love Derren Brown and his ability to expose how this stuff works. I don't believe in it.

Why do posters even engage with these threads if they think it's a load of hokum? Of course, a lot of people disbelieve or are highly sceptical, but OP was asking if anyone had received a prediction which had come true.

Why do posters even engage with these threads if they think it's a load of hokum?

No idea, it gets very boring. Like they have an superiority complex or something.

I had a friend who went to a famous psychic who she had to wait months to see he was so popular. She was amazed about the stuff he told her about her life so far and how right he was. But he failed the acid test. His prediction for her future (that he was absolutely 100% sure of) never came true. I guess he was just good at reading body language and s got the historical stuff right (or else has an assistant research his clients in the months leading to the appt!).

I saw a fortune teller at a festival just for fun when I was at uni. He asked me what I was studying at uni so I told him computer science. He said, no no, that's not right. I see you working in preforming arts which was a bit weird considering what I was doing at the time. Many years later, I'm now a professional singer.

He also did the usual "someone close to you will pass away in February" (this was about June) "but you won't be sad as they have had a long, good life". I obviously equated that to my grandmother as the only elderly person I was close to and most student age prime probably still have a grandparent so I just thought whatever - she was fighting fit so I joked about it to my dad and he said "oh for goodness sake, that's silly". But guess what, she died in February quite unexpectedly from a short illness.

Although I think most are fake and don't really buy into it, that guy clearly had some kind of talent for picking up on things that pass others by.

I used to see clairvoyants for fun, group of friends round, drinks and nibbles so never really took heed beyond that night. I married the man I was predicted to marry, I believe. I was told he’d have lived abroad and been married before, and some other details. I was at the time head over heels with a man not fitting that description but who later turned out to be a bad ‘un so I didn’t really register what she said. The man I eventually married had not long moved to the UK from his native country and was a widower. It was about 6 months in I found the notes we’d all made of the readings that night.

I saw someone when in Florida with my exh (then boyfriend). I wanted to talk about work as I was a bit stressed at the time but she said I should be talking about my relationships. She said I wouldn’t end up with the person I was with but would end up with someone I already knew.

What rubbish I thought as I was perfectly happy and exh and I laughed about it when we got married. I’m now divorced from him (turns out he really wasn’t great husband material) and I’m married to a guy I dated at school!

"OP was asking if anyone had received a prediction which had come true."

To which "No, because....." is surely a perfectly legitimate answer?

Bertrand I think the point is, OP is asking those who have received predictions, not those who have never had a reading because they believe it’s hokum. But, comment is free.

To which "No, because....." is surely a perfectly legitimate answer?

Not unless they have a story behind it. To say simply 'No, because it is a bunch of supernatural crap' adds nothing to the thread. If they went for a reading and it was rubbish, the relay that story.

I like how some people thought the lottery winner was serious

Not me - but I was the psychic. May as well share while my NC is still active: I grew up in a very woo family surrounded by Crystal healing, angel chakras, you name it. Naturally, I learned to read cards.

A couple of decades on, I've long decided it's all bullshit - but do end up doing some shit-and-giggles readings from a poker deck of all things one NYE.

And I deeply convinced a friend of a friend that I was the real thing:

That woman is adamant to this day that I knew she was a lesbian even though she'd never told me that and that I'd 'seen' her recent acrimonious split and correctly predicted she'd find someone new who's younger soon.

My own recollection is more along the lines of me saying 'I see that there's a woman in your past. Someone very close to you. But there is also hurt. Or heartbreak. And a young person in your future. Or maybe a child. Someone who will be very important to you.'

Naturally, my description would have been as spot on if she'd taken it to mean that I saw she had a crap relationship with her mother and then retrofitted a pregnancy to my 'prophecy'.

It's easy to convince yourself if you happen to be in the right mindset. Doesn't necessarily mean anything except that you want to believe.

Unless you genuinely think transcendental truth may be gained from a drunk management consultant reading your future to you from a poker deck in a seedy club. In which case you may need a much more earthly kind of help.

"Not unless they have a story behind it"
You don't need a story behind it. You need evidence. People are posting explanations, talking about how cold reading works, talking about confirmation bias, talking about how fraudulent mediums work, saying how Derren Brown, among others repeatedly explain how it's done. Incidentally, I have had several readings. But they are no more evidence that psychics don't exist that other people's readings are evidence that they do.

I've have never had an interest in visiting a psychic and never believed in it. Four years ago someone I barely knew told me (out of nowhere) that I would have twins, one boy and one girl. No history of twins, no plans to have children any time soon.
Two years later I was at my 12 week scan with lovely pictures of my one baby on the screen when we suddenly heard 'hold on... I have some extra news for you...'
I never found out what we were having until they arrived but I wasn't at all surprised by then that we had one of each.

I visited a psychic when pregnant with my daughter. Half way through my reading she asked me “does the 16th December mean anything to you?” I said no and she simply said remember that. My daughter was due on 10th but I’d been early with my older child so expected to have her in November. I went into labour on 15th December and my daughter was born at 12.50 am on 16th December.

Another experience at a spiritualist church. We had been trying for a baby for 6 months. My sister in law was pregnant already (not with us). It was my husband, his brother, his Dad and I at the church. The psychic came over to us and said they’ll be two babies in your family this year. 2 weeks later I found out I was pregnant with my 1st.

My Aunt works with a funny lady whose not a professional psychic, but apparently she has the ability to guess weird things about people. For instance when someone lost their dog they drove her round and she said to stop the car where the dog was. Apparently she’s very quiet about it and will only occasionally tell people things she ‘sees’. Anyway my aunts mother had passed away leaving a large house and garden with several outbuildings, one a rather attractive stable block. Aunt and her siblings decided to get planning permission in the garden which would require knocking out all of their mothers beloved garden and the pretty outbuildings to maximise the sale value, but she felt terribly guilty about the whole thing. This lady one day came up to here and said ‘I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m seeing something about horses, old buildings, perhaps an old stable or outbuilding and I just wanted to tell you your mother is happy with your descion. Please don’t worry anymore’. Aunt is not a believer of woo, but she was freaked out. She works miles away from where the site was (so local gossip unlikely but not impossible) and she’s very private and had deliberately not mentioned any of the house stuff to any colleagues of hers. I suppose the colleague would have known her mother had died previously beacause she must have had some compassionate leave. I don’t believe in psychics but it was rather odd.