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

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Experiences?

"some psychics are genuine."

No. Some claim they are, because they make money from it.

Some think they are, and they are wrong.

“Yes there is an explanation, some psychics are genuine“

Can I ask why you think that?

How do aeroplanes fly? How can you speak to somebody on the other side of the world? Or send an email that is delivered immediately thousands of miles away? How are animals able to sense and know things that we can't?

I wouldn't have believed all those things were possible but, given that they are, it seems perfectly possible that some people have unusual powers that eventually will have a scientific explanation. Maybe it is to do with the distortion of time or any one of a number of factors.

I have an open mind, but my own experiences point to some people having a genuine 'psychic' ability, or whatever you want to call it.

The posters who hijack the thread to assure us that they are right and everybody else is mistaken are tiresome bores. Why don't you start your own thread?

Yes Bert - and I’m agreeing that a lot of apparently successful readings are the result of those methods. I think most people accept that. But not all readings. To use the Jodie Kidd example to demonstrate that psychic ability doesn’t exist is flawed and is in the same category as “I see an older man with a bad cough” arena of reading. Very specific and obscure readings are not explainable when the subject is completely unknown to the reader.

Yep. Told me a close family member would properly screw me over and apologies but that the best I could expect would be to be given vague tolerance so long as all their demands were met but no more. Also told me a very specific thing that person would do which at the time I didn't believe they were capable of.

18 months later it came to fruition and turns out had been brewing for much longer than id realised.

Someone on this thread was told they’d meet a man holding a red rose to his chest. Then said it was true because her husband identified as English (can no-one just be anymore, do we all have to identify?) so it was a symbolic rose. That tells you everything you need to know about the mental gymnastics people will perform to make a reading true.

“it seems perfectly possible that some people have unusual powers that eventually will have a scientific explanation”

Yes, it is perfectly possible. But this sort of psychic reading already has a perfectly good “scientific” explanation.

In order to think that something is possible you have to have some reason to think it.

Vivaldi - none of your examples have anything at all to do with the supernatural though do they? Silly 🙄

I’ve had a few experiences over the years. Mostly awfully exploitative garbage but there was one amazing reading/coincidence/whatever. The lady “contacted” my grandma and I totally didn’t believe her until she got her name right (Helga - not at all common here!) and said she wasn’t a particularly nice woman (she frightened the life out of me!) and apparently Nan was saying that grandad, the stubborn old mule, was gravely ill and hiding it from everyone. A few months later it turned out to be true, he had a very painful cancer and had deliberately been concealing it from the family as he knew it must be serious but didn’t want to go to hospital. There

Going to a Pychic Sally show was the final straw for me. To see all those bereaved people desperate to twist all the “clues” she was saying she was hearing from the other side into a message from their loved one. It was terribly sad. Shame on her.

• There was more that she got right but I can’t remember now. That was the only reading that ever rang true and even though it was before the days of internet research and I just queued to see her at a fair so she didn’t know anything about me, it wasn’t really enough to convince me! I went to the Psychic Sally show with a friend who had a spare ticket.

I think Derren Brown has done great work in debunking the cruel world and practices of ' Psychics' and 'Clairvoyants.

It's basically an exploitative practice, praying on the bereaved, confused, distressed and mentally ill.

My twopenneth( like anyone's interested! )

1. Anyone who goes to see one, even if they are jus 'tagging along' or ' going for a laugh' wants to find something out. The 'psychic' therefore has the upperhand even before you walk through the door.

2. Interpretation and recall is everything. ' They couldn't possibly know that' you cry..well they are professional scammers..actually some might even feel they have a ' gift' ..and use many different techniques and observational skills to give you unique information. They read your facial expressions, your body language, and add that to the basic stuff like age, sex, dress sense , hair style etc. Recall is your memory of what was said, and even if you have taped it you can't recall how your face reacted, if you leant in closer , expressed shock etc.

3. People lie about their experiences. I would put good money on that some of the stories told in this thread are greatly embellished, didn't actually happen to them but to a friend , or are made simply up for whatever reasons. If people want to believe in something, they will add to a thread or discussion like this despite not having first hand experience.

Having said all that, I guess it's a bit like believing in a deity..if it gives comfort and doesn't harm anyone or affect your life adversely, then it's just a personal belief.

1. I would have a girly girl daughter and then twin boys.

2. There would be a South America connection through work.

Yes to both.

She was an excellent physic who did not ask for anything at all for her readings.

I also went to see a complete charlatan who complained that I wasn't telling him enough information for him to give me my reading ! in the end he said that I was something to do with children and computers. Duh! This was at a mum's night out fundraiser and who didn't have access to any form of computer in 2010?

I have been twice, The lady told me while ttc that I would give birth to a boy but he would be very sick, not dying but very unwell. She actually ruined my pregnancy and the early years in his life I was so worried waiting as he was an unsettled screamer, I was convinced he was sick or it would show in his development.

Yes definatly.

She only knew my first name and nothing about me. No phone or last name and no credit card details so no traceable.

Can’t go into details because it’s outing but she told me 3 things noone except me and dh know about.

1 thing only I know about and have never told anyone including the name. She knew and her look told me she knew.

Around 4 other predictions that I had no idea of happening or links have happened.

I went for a laugh but not anymore. I cannot explain this rationally or scientifically.

Seriously very wierd.

Oh and it was free.

I've never visited a psychic but my friend has quite a few times. Anyway I went with her to see Colin Fry and some other psychic whose name escapes me and it was utter rubbish. A bit like a previous poster's experience with Derek Acorah in Edinburgh! Nothing but social engineering and a process of elimination.

I was told I would have 2 boys and a girl. I have 3 boys. I am awaiting for one of them to tell me they want to transition .......

Absolutely. Twice this happened for my daughter. The medium was very, jovial I would say, asked my daughter if she liked to go out dancing, in heels, ( true, would always complain about her poor feet the day after) medium then asked if my daughter knew anyone by the name of Simon. Daughter said no, didn't know anyone of that name. The medium laughed and indicated she would be meeting someone of that name quite soon.

Well, a few weeks later my daughter phoned me from work saying her toe was really painful and could I get her to the Dr. I was sitting in the car park waiting to pick her up and googled chiropodists. There was only one that could see her. Turned out she had an ingrowing toenail, which he dealt with. We thanked him, paid and left, only for him to run after us with this business card. Yes! His name was Simon. 😄
Medium also told her what her friend, sitting next to her had in his pocket. It was an unusual gift for a friend.

When I visited the medium came straight out with 'your mum has her friend with her, Lily!' No ifs and buts or questions. He was spot on. Lily was her best friend.

None have ever told me my future except to say things would get better, which is true. I was in an abusive relationship at the time and now I am happily single. 😊

Just remembered I have had one woo experience I can't explain, posted about this previously on a thread a while back. I was heavily pregnant, having lunch with my husband in a restaurant. A very distinguished elderly man and his female companion approached us as they were leaving and he introduced himself (very unusual surname) and went on to say that I would deliver a healthy baby girl on the 18th February, 3 days after my due date. He said he was never wrong. Anyway fast forward and my daughter was indeed born on the 18th, my due date was 15th. I told my mum about it and mentioned the man's name and she said 'he delivered you'. She had medical complications and he apparently was her consultant.

My Ex went to a medium after his dad died very unexpectedly and found the experience a great comfort. The medium gave him information that no-one else could have known. Ex's mum went in afterwards and didn't find it a comfort at all, and has never received 'the sign' she was looking for that her husband was there and looking out for her. In fact she remains very angry with him for having the cheek to die suddenly at 50 and leave her!! The medium didn't charge for either.

I'm convinced that some mediums/psychics are genuine and that if they are, they won't charge money. I also believe that, as humans, we do not and cannot and should not be able to explain absolutely everything that happens to everyone in life and that just because something cannot be scientifically proven or recreated in a lab then it doesn't make it wrong or irrelevant.

I don't understand why people think that if psychics are genuine they shouldn't charge for their time and skill.

It's like saying JK Rowling shouldn't be paid royalties because she used her gift of writing to bring happiness to people, or bereavement counsellors should work for free because they're using their talent to help people come to terms with loss.

I don't actually believe there are any genuine psychics, but if I'm proved wrong on this I don't see why they shouldn't be paid for providing a service.

Yes, I don’t understand that either. I don’t think they should charge because they are either defrauding or codependently delusional. But if I thought they were genuine then surely the workman is worthy of his hire?

I have always paid and have no issue with it.

I don't really believe it but conversely in the dim and distant past I went to see a lady called darlinda, who turned out to be very well known later, I saw her in her home. I was maybe 18.

She told me many things, and bizzarely they came true. That I would get married at 25 (I did) that I would be left money by a woman (my grandmother) , that although I grew up in poverty I would be wealthy when I was older (career wise I've been successful) , that I would ge surrounded by men all my life ( I work in a hugely male dominated industry) . She even told me short term things, like I would be offered two jobs but pick further education, I was I was offered a job in the bank and the patent office and plumped for college instead.

None of these things could be guessed at 18. There were many more which I can't recall, but she was very specific, and it was only looking back I realised she had been correct, I had a tape recording of it. She did the tarot cards.

I don't really understand it if I'm honest, but I can't dispute she predicted my future accurately.