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Believe what a medium has said?

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wellhelloyou · 07/04/2019 06:53

Has anyone had a reading from a psychic medium (or like) and had something exactly came true? Not something vague but something specific almost word for word?

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BertrandRussell · 07/04/2019 08:00

“I was told by 2 separate psychics that I would have 2 daughters. I did!”

Most people have two children. And there are only 3 possible combinations. And if they had got it wrong, you wouldn’t have remembered.

Yogagirl123 · 07/04/2019 08:06

I have seen a medium on a couple of occasions, I definitely believe.

DH was very skeptical, thought it was rubbish etc, he saw a medium last year, he is now a believer too. What was discussed no one could possibly know, the information was very specific to him and his dad who had passed around 20 years ago.

As with anything in life they are good and bad people at a certain skill some may well be cheats etc. I can only base my view on personal experience. I wonder how many people that rubbish it have actually visited a Medium.

Warpdrive · 07/04/2019 08:07

@strangerthongs 5 of the 6 in you list apply to me too. Funnily enough it’s the same 5 that applied to your mum.

IceRebel · 07/04/2019 08:08

What was discussed no one could possibly know, the information was very specific to him and his dad who had passed around 20 years ago.

Again though this depends on your definition of specific. How detailed and exact was the information?

GreenTeacup · 07/04/2019 08:09

Yes I did on 3 occasions.

One was a palm reader while I was on holiday and he was in a shopping mall. He started naming names that were close to me. There was no way he could know me and this was 20 years ago so no online checking. He said one person by name would do something to me and gave me a date. I am a natural skeptic so soon forgot but a few months later, I discovered this person had in fact done this thing at exactly the same time.

I was also told I was pregnant with my 4 child. As I had no intention of having more children, I didn’t not believe only to discover I was in fact pregnant.

The last one I was told an event would happen and in order for it to happen, 3 people would be on hand to help. I did not know the names given and again thought nothing of it. A few months later, this event did indeed happen and I was at a loss. My DH spoke to someone in passing about the situation and a day or so later, I got a knock at the door. That person had in turn spoken to someone who they thought may help and I wasn’t introduced to them all. The names all matched the names given to me.

Despite all of this I am still convinced that 99% are charlatans. I am a big believer in energy and know that you can pick up vibes using energy but speaking to the dead? No!

HunnyCaramel · 07/04/2019 08:10

I am a really pro science, sceptical sort of person but ive had 3 readings now (online woth no contact do no body language reading or leading questions) which have been bizarrely specific and accurate so i simply cant discount it entirely anymore. If nothing else, these people are impressively in tune to our mind's workings, by whatever mechanism.

WhatToDoAboutWailmerGoneRogue · 07/04/2019 08:10

As with anything in life they are good and bad people at a certain skill some may well be cheats etc. I can only base my view on personal experience.

Yogagirl123 If you actually believe this please tell me why nobody has yet won the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge?

Surely if there were any genuine ones at least one of them would have won it.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 07/04/2019 08:11

I do think some people have some sort of inexplicable gift. A sibling who is very level headed was told very specific things about a newly dead relative by someone she happened to know (not a close friend) that the person could not possibly have known. And this was not on a paid basis - the person did not do it for money.

When same sibling had problems with a new (old) house (the dog wouldn't enter a certain part of it) the same person came (again unpaid) told them why, and 'cleared' the problem. After that the dog had no qualms about that part of the house, and I don't see how a dog can be fooled.
But again, all this was unpaid, which is probably very relevant.

WhatToDoAboutWailmerGoneRogue · 07/04/2019 08:12

I’m seriously concerned for anyone who genuinely believes in psychics as they are demonstrating a huge knowledge gap and/or worrying mental health.

Flaverings · 07/04/2019 08:12

I was told by 2 separate psychics that I would have 2 daughters. I did!

Really? Nothing else? Nothing about how you would have a life long connection with a sunny spot or make your living from writing or that a small blue object would be significant in the next six months but you'd only become aware of the significance afterwards?

GreenTeacup · 07/04/2019 08:12

Sorry in”was” introduced to them and I “did” not believe

Flaverings · 07/04/2019 08:13

And all of these are crap, so you've only remembered the one "prediction" that is true?

IceRebel · 07/04/2019 08:16

Surely if there were any genuine ones at least one of them would have won it.

I'm sure a psychic will be along in a minute to say they're not in it for the money. Grin They just want to help people.

BertrandRussell · 07/04/2019 08:20

Please watch someone like Darren Brown explaining how he can know things nobody could possibly know before you hand over any money, ot scare yourselves. Please.

SerenDippitty · 07/04/2019 08:25

I was standing at bus stop quietly minding my own business when a passing man suddenly stopped, turned to me and said I was going to give birth to a son, a gift from God. Then went on his way. I was ttc and having IVF at the time so it shook me up a bit. Never did give birth though. Either he was mentally ill or got a kick out of walking up to people on the street and telling them earth shattering things.

I don’t believe in mediums.

Groovee · 07/04/2019 08:27

I went to one in 2016. She was pretty accurate. Told me that is despise liars... that I knew someone was lying to me in my friendship group and that no amount of confronting would get the truth from them. (Very true) then she said I would have a change in job, including my hours. That I would be reluctant due to past experiences but that it would happen. 14 months ago I was approached to cover something said I would do it while they found someone else and then became that someone else. I did really want to say no but felt like I would let them down if I said no.

She also told me that someone with the initial J was ill. I rubbished it and she moved on. A few months later my father in law admitted he had had tests for cancer. Mine and dh's faces were like WTF and told him about the reading.

HarrysOwl · 07/04/2019 08:27

I used to believe in it when I was a lot younger. My DM is massively into it all. I think she needs to believe that when you die your spirit lives on whereas I'm more 'when you're dead you're dead'.

We go back wherever we were before we were born.

I'm older and wiser, now, and can see it's all performance with these psychics.

Crappywife · 07/04/2019 08:27

The thing I struggle with is that even if these so called mediums can speak with the dead is how do the dead know what’s going to happen ? Do we all get the gift of foresight when we die ? Does death make us all knowing in our family’s futures ? We have free will we at any point can change the outcome of anything.
I’d like to believe in life after death, I do believe in vibes I however do not believe that my dear old gran is hanging about waiting for a medium to tell me that my car tyres need changing (what I was told by a medium. I didn’t have a car or driver license) These so called mediums are nothing more than common frauds who pray on people at there weakest.

NormaNameChange · 07/04/2019 08:30

I went to see a very famous US psychic medium at a theatre so I suppose it was paid for. He had several messages for me that I cannot explain how he knew the details of; they were very specific and not information in the public domain. In an audience of a couple of hundred people he came right to me with them and my reluctance to admit I knew what he was talking about didn’t put him off. I’m still not a believer but I am curious how he knew a considerable amount of personal information about me that he shouldn’t have been able to find out. Was a bit funky!

PanGalaticGargleBlaster · 07/04/2019 08:35

A shower of cunts the lot of them

April241 · 07/04/2019 08:35

I used to think there was something in it and had a few readings but there wasn't much in it, a few things that I could relate to but nothing really specific to me. I've seen Derren Brown live and watched a lot of shows and hes brilliant at picking out really specific things but it's all in how he reads you.

I do however think though that some people have a gift, my sister was on a night out years and some random person starting chatting to her about some really specific things that were happening, just said she wanted to pass them on, didn't want paid etc, just said her bit and then they both went about their night. Sister and I didn't think much of it until said event happened and she remembered what she'd been told, was spooky and its things like that that make me wonder do people have a sense of what's to come, not necessarily speaking to the dead etc but having a feeling about something.

Pharlapwasthebest · 07/04/2019 08:36

There are charlatans out there yes, but there are also genuine here. I saw one, she knew my name, that's all. There was stuff she genuinely couldn't have known, and could not have 'picked up' from reading me.
If you want to know her name pm me.

ZigZagIntoTheBlue · 07/04/2019 08:37

I'm a sceptic but there's a boy at my dc school, who knew my name and what I'd had for dinner the night before - he was several years older than dc so wouldn't have known me outside of school through them and no way would he have had a conversation with my dc about what I'd had for dinner the night before. Poor kid struggles daily though and has 1:1 help with ASD (I think)

IceRebel · 07/04/2019 08:38

There was stuff she genuinely couldn't have known, and could not have 'picked up' from reading me.

I see people say this all the time, but they never say what these specific things are.

PregnantSea · 07/04/2019 08:38

I agree it's all bullshit but that doesn't make it worthless. If someone is grieving and a medium tells them something comforting then there is some value in that. I suppose the issue is if they charge lots of money because then it turns into them just taking advantage.