Has anyone been to a psychic who has told them something that has come true?

[Faerie87]

Just that really, years ago I went to see two different psychics about a couple of years apart and they have got things quite close to the mark, somethings that even I did not volunteer!

I am quite skeptical, so I tend to go into these meetings with an attitude of trying to be as poker faced as possible.

The last one I went to see said I would have a little girl, and twins!

I’ve recently had a little girl so she got that right! I know not that much of a coincidence! I keep joking with my oh saying it will be twins next time!

So, my partner thinks it’s a whole load of rubbish, I don’t, I try to keep an open mind!

Not really AIBU but would like to hear stories from other people about things coming true or not true and opinions about whether people believe there is something in it?

Xx

How come not one has even stood up to a scientific test.?

If you are that confident that you an name family members then why not do it under test conditions

I saw a medium. I don’t believe it at all but I thought it would be interesting to see how much cold reading she could get out of me.

She told me she was seeing an old lady, possibly my grandma, who was with me at all times. She said this old lady was meeting up with an older man on spirit and she missed him when he had died. Then she told me that my grandma was with her mother and brother in spirit too.

Wow. How did she guess that a woman in her 30s had dead grandparents and great grandparents? Must have really been my grandma coming through

I was annoyed because even though I didn’t expect to be told anything solid, it was the most genetic stuff you could imagine. I could have done a more convincing job. At least have a guess at a name or something

Generic, not genetic. Obviously nothing genetic about it at all!

Yes. Told me a lot of things that I laughed at at the time. None of it made sense. It was to do with moving countries and big life changes. She also told me I was pregnant, I went home and took a pregnancy test and what do you know - I was!

As a young girl I went to a school fayre and they had a psychic there. She told me that in my future she saw a handsome dark haired man from overseas. I married a very handsome Chinese guy and now live in his home country with him

It's all bullshit though - the"psychic" was my year 5 teacher!

I’ve had several reading and my Dad comes through every time no matter the psychic. I’m young to have a parent in spirit.

The best example I have was when I was pregnant with my youngest (not showing). She was due 10th December (I didn’t tell psychic I was pregnant tho) but my eldest had been a week early so I kind of expected her to too. Mid reading psychic asked me if 16th December meant anything to me. I said no and she said remember that. Then carried on. My youngest arrived on 16th December.

I went along to a spiritualist church a few months ago where the guest speaker went around to each person. When she came to me she said the spirits were 'exasperated' that I was taking so long to get my ring sorted, and I should do it ASAP as I wouldn't have long to wear it before I'd have to take it off again as it just wouldn't fit. They wanted to see the Ruby shining!

I have an antique eternity ring my husband bought me for the birth of my DS but haven't yet gotten around to resizing. It's a Ruby ring, my son is now nearly 2 years old and I'm 4 months pregnant with rapidly swelling fingers.

The same person was also very accurate with descriptions of family who had passed and their mannerisms - particularly a very quirky great grandmother who passed in unusual health circumstances - they were spot on with her symptoms too.

I saw a psychic this year because I’d ended a great on paper relationship to be with someone quite a lot younger and was worried I’d made a huge mistake. She said we would move in together before the end of the year and asked me if I wanted children - because she could see them strongly in the reading. She said I didn’t have anything to worry about in terms of being able to get pregnant (I’m 41 and have worried massively about this for years). I’m now pregnant (natural conception without actively trying) and moving in with my BF.

I have friends who are really sceptical and I know they would just say she’s guessing and I do understand but I personally don’t agree with that - I don’t think she’d have said these things if she didn’t really believe them as it would have been quite cruel. But I am quite a woo person!

Both the psychics I have seen have been really lovely people, and it felt a bit like a counselling session rather than ‘having your ‘fortune told’. Also when I saw one at a very difficult point in my life, I found the fact that she was talking about future me (in my 40s etc) helpful in giving me perspective and making me see that the present wasn’t forever, time would change things and that helped me see past the painful stuff that was going on - that it would end and I would feel differently one day.

Has anyone been to a psychic who's told them something that can true?

Of course they lhave. Loads of times.

No.
A “psychic and healer” once spoke to me uninvited; she claimed to have advice about how to “cure” my husband’s (terminal) cancer. When, rather than opening my purse, I told her to leave me alone, she said my lack of faith would kill him.

What that lot peddle is exploitative lies, OP, and sometimes highly damaging ones. Stop going to see them.

I was told many many true things, even that my ds had a medical condition that wouldn't kill him but one he would have to learn to live with - he has ME, and that my aunt had MS, that I would divorce my dh as the more I go to know him the less I would like him! He turned out to be very deceitful and I ltb! She only charged a tenner at her home, just an average old lady!! Scared the bejesus out of me tbh!

Yes, very badly. My mother took me to a famous psychic in the 1960's. She did my reading with no smiling at all which I found quite sinister for a start, well I was only a kid.
She said I'd have three children and be married three times and at the end of my life I'd be happy in the most beautiful garden.
So I had three kids, two of them died. I was married three times, extremely unhappy marriages that ended in divorce. I'm guessing the "beautiful garden" is a cemetery.

I don't believe in it at all, but when my SIL said there was a woman in Manchester who was scarily accurate, I went, just to prove her wrong. This woman said she wasn't psychic but did all the tarots cards etc.

She told me my job and my (then) husband's job.

She told me how many children I had (one was at home, one was with us in a buggy - she had no reason to know I had two.)

She told me I'm one of 9 children, then said there was another child. Told me there were 5 girls, 4 boys, but she could see another boy - I had a brother who died as a baby.

She told me there was an older woman who hated me. I had what she wanted and she thought she would never have it unless I died. I thought this was my MIL but knew she wouldn't have what she wanted (my husband and kids) even if I died. When I told my husband this as he was driving out of the multi-storey, later, he bumped the car into the one in front. Eight years later I discovered my husband had been having an affair since I was pregnant with an older woman, who hadn't believed him when he said he would leave me. And yes, I kicked him out.

She told me one of my children would be super-talented in one particular area and that a massive effort would be needed to get this child into a school for that specific talent. Over twenty years later, she's proved absolutely right.

So most of that could have been crap, but to guess my family size and gender balance? I'm not sure how anyone would guess that.

There are plenty of charlatans but so.rare very genuine.I have seen both but lots have been so true and could never have known anything about me or my family.and predicted future events

Yea I was told something very specific regarding something I'm really passionate about. That someone close to me would try to take my work and pass it off as their own. It was only a throwaway amongst a lot of other things and I didn't pay it much attention - until a close family member did just that a year later.

Their “predictions” are vague enough they could apply to a lot of people. Once they get a “hit” they continue to second guess. People who see psychics want to believe and that’s what they prey on. You just need people to believe. It’s nothing, but manipulation.

Conversely, if the stuff they seem to know about you are extraordinarily accurate, one has to suspect they have another source of information. Take PsychicWoo's experience. That's some weirdly specific stuff. But wait: the woman was recommended by the poster's SIL. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that she had found out most of these facts by chatting to the family member she had already seen? Nah, must be the spirits having nothing better to do with their afterlife than tell their friend all about a customer's family

Mind you, I don't entirely deny the existence of psychic phenomena including precognition. But it so rarely seems to be anything useful. I don't need some stranger to tell me how many siblings or children I have - I already know that stuff! Tell me something I don't know that I can do something about.

I tell you what is really spooky. I let myself be railroaded into signing up for the evil Facebook the other day. I put in the very, very least info it would accept, name, date of birth, address sort of thing. The first thing it tried to do was link me up with a whole load of people I knew, including two former work colleagues whose number I did not have on that phone and who I've never emailed, and relatives I don't share a name with. How did it know? Now that's magic.

Scared the bejabers out of me too, I may add. No wonder I've been avoiding it studiously up till now.

I saw one from a town over 100 miles away on a day trip. He told me that I had a connection to Canada (not at the time). 2 days later I went to my mum's house which is 10 miles from where I live. While there younger brother who is in the army phones to say that the regiment had just been told that they were being deployed to Germany but 20 of them were instead going to Canada.

It definitely is not manipulation, when you see a genuine Psychic, you dont tell them anything,they dont ask you anything, sometimes you just have to wait and see if their predictions happen, i have seen too many genuine ones not to believe,
Derren Brown is right about the charlatans though,fairground ones are usually fake, but again not always
Also genuine ones wont tell you anything bad
I have been told things that no one could possibly know,or even guess at,and could not have been coincidence either

The mediums you see at a spiritualist church do not aim to read your fortune. As a religion their aim is to show us proof of life after death. Hence why they focus on quite mundane stuff.

I've seen a medium who was so accurate that its thrown the skepticism away that all these people are frauds.

She was accurate about so much about my future which at that time I didnt see. Not random, vague nonsense.

No. It’s all a load of suggestion and utterly bollocks. An easy way of parting fools from their money.

It definitely is not manipulation, when you see a genuine Psychic

There is no such thing as a genuine psychic. It’s all bollocks. Just look at the examples from people on this thread, of the “unique” predictions that “came true” - they are things that most people in same age range/social class/area could find a connection to.

There has been huge amounts of scientific research into psychics and not one bit of credible evidence has been found. All that’s ever been shown is that humans can be incredibly suggestible.

People reveal more than they think they do
People remember less well than they think they do.
Coincidences happen more often than people think they do.
People’s lives are more similar than they think they are.