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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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KissingInTheRain · 10/04/2019 15:32

Kerplunk...it's the antidote to voodoo. Pulling the pins out.

Yeah, but Guess Who? is the game of choice for those channelling the spirits: did she wear a beret? or hoop earrings? or plaits? or, or, or...?

RomanyQueen1 · 10/04/2019 15:36

Lifecraft et al.

On the contrary it shows how things are added over the years, it is almost 100 years ago.
During the 70's I was little so didn't pay too much attention, but was used to people talking about it to my mum.
Isn't it a shame about your aunt x, she never did get over her son dying in an accident at the mine.
I know the sisters did tea leaves and mum said the prediction was why they didn't speak after he'd died.
Those are the facts, I don't need to check as I've heard the comments first hand.
If he didn't die in an accident and the sisters did speak after he died a lot of the town were lying Grin

RomanyQueen1 · 10/04/2019 15:39

Oh, and btw I don't particularly believe in clairvoyency, so not sure where that bollocks comes from. I just keep an open mind.

BertrandRussell · 10/04/2019 15:41

Romany- he could well have dues in an accident in the mine. But you said so did 19 other young men. It is impossible for there to be no record of a mining accident killing 20 people in near living memory.

HotMint · 10/04/2019 15:45

Romany, you claimed to be clairaudient further up the thread, which is essentially the same thing as clairvoyancy using a different sense -- you post from yesterday:

I can see aura in people and colours in music, it's called Synesthesia I'm also Clairaudient too. Only 1/2000 people have this and it's hereditary. So this isn't because I'm Romany, but a member of my family passed it down.

Smellslikemiddleagespirit · 10/04/2019 15:49

You also said, Romany

“A genuine psychic person doesn't advertise the fact, you are right”

So you think there are genuine psychic people?

RomanyQueen1 · 10/04/2019 17:11

HotMint Synesthesia is hereditary, I am also clairaudient

A genuine psychic person doesn't need to advertise they are recommended by word of mouth, people always asking on fb for recommendations.

Bert, as I said, it shows how facts can be elaborated over the years. Maybe he was the only one who died and 19 others.
I know it's true about the sisters as my mum was a devout Christian and against anything like that, she believed they were real, but didn't want anything to do with it. So I know she wouldn't embellish, but can't say for sure that others didn't. I do know he died in the salt mines in an accident because I heard about it, but that generation were dying off in the 70's.
So, it was sort of forgotten about with future generations.

Sweetlittlepug · 10/04/2019 17:36

Fair enough if people don’t believe , but it sometimes gets ridiculous the depths they’ll go to to debunk someone’s unexplainable experience. Why not just keep an open mind and accept that there are things that happen that simply can’t be explained. Surely it’s easier than to rack your brain trying to find explanations. Just because we don’t have the power and knowledge to SEE everything doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

RealJudas · 10/04/2019 17:41

So all these spirits hanging around, reporting back obscure but accurate events to the mediums.... Presumably they're watching our every move, when we go to the loo, when we pick our noses, when we dtd..... They must know all our secrets.... But #awks when we all get to the afterlife.

HotMint · 10/04/2019 17:43

HotMint Synesthesia is hereditary, I am also clairaudient

So, Romany, are you saying that you don't believe in clairvoyance, but that you are clairaudient, so presumably you believe in that? That makes no sense, given that they are essentially the same thing. Hmm

it sometimes gets ridiculous the depths they’ll go to to debunk someone’s unexplainable experience.

The point is that Romany's story, which she presented as evidence for the existence of psychic powers within her family, turns out not to be an 'unexplainable experience' at all, because no such major mining disaster happened. It's probably just the usual misremembered, embroidered family hearsay. Like so many of the stories on this thread, where people who weren't present at readings are insisting on their accuracy.

HarrysOwl · 10/04/2019 17:44

Why not just keep an open mind and accept that there are things that happen that simply can’t be explained

There's always an explanation, but lots of people would rather believe a supernatural one rather than believe they've been duped.

notwhitedee · 10/04/2019 17:48

I believe in them simply because the reading my mum got was just weird at the time my mum has just found out she was pregnant and was first told she was going through the menopause my mum was very skinny but 5 months pregnant, she knew this and knew my mum had recently been told wrongly she was going through the menopause but was pregnant with a girl.
She also knew my aunt had just become a grandma to a son named Joshua.
She also knew my dad had been battling skin cancer, at the time and what place it was in,
I was in trouble with gangs and she told my mum if she doesn't move house within ex amount of time I would be in a serious trouble and she sees a knife involved,
my mum left their scared and because of what was happening at the time phoned the council to move us and they did just like the woman said , my mum would move once to country side, then rural, she was correct again. Just before we moved I was arrested for carrying a knife. I don't know how she did it but she knew stuff only we would know she only asked for my mums name and was a random booking make of that what you will. Oh and she also told my aunt she'd been running a pub soon and weirdly enough my mums friend got asked to run one when she'd never done it before and had to be trained up on the spot.

Smellslikemiddleagespirit · 10/04/2019 17:50

Why not just keep an open mind and accept that there are things that happen that simply can’t be explained

But it can be explained. The methods used by psychics have been exposed countless times.

RomanyQueen1 · 10/04/2019 17:55

Hotmint

I'm pretty sure I said I neither believe or disbelieve.

Smellslikemiddleagespirit · 10/04/2019 17:55

Romany, my point was that you claimed you don't necessarily believe in clairvoyance (indeed accusing you of doing so was "bollocks"), but then you also talk about "genuine psychics", which kinda suggests you do.

notwhitedee · 10/04/2019 17:58

Sorry meant to say my mums friend was my aunt not blood related but she was my mums best friend

BertrandRussell · 10/04/2019 17:59

Romany- Do you agree that the mining disaster never happened?

RomanyQueen1 · 10/04/2019 18:03

Bert

I don't know I wasn't there, it's about 100 years ago.
Maybe it did and maybe it didn't.
It has no bearing on the lad who died in an accident in the mine.
He died in an accident in the salt mine, at 14. This is fact.
Another fact I believe from my mum is the sisters did a tea leaf reading, one predicted the accident in which the other ones son died and they never spoke again.
I don't even know his name, although surname or his mothers maiden name was Kennerley.

BertrandRussell · 10/04/2019 18:08

“I don't know I wasn't there, it's about 100 years ago.”
But you said with confidence that it had happened and 20 young men had died. There is no record of anything like that happening, despite extensive history of that mine online.

HarrysOwl · 10/04/2019 18:10

Romany, that's an anecdote. Believing a story doesn't make it fact.

You believing these things happened despite there being no recorded evidence but only based on a family anecdote is not the firmest of factual foundation.

RomanyQueen1 · 10/04/2019 18:26

Harry

The whole town lied, my mother lied, her aunts lied, and now I'm lying. It never happened, the lad lived to a ripe old age, miraculously missing the second world war Grin
We like making things up in our family, you know the odd death from accident here or there.
It more than likely says on his death cert, but I'm not doubting it, so won't be paying the tenner.

BertrandRussell · 10/04/2019 18:41

Nobody’s disputing the poor boy died. It’s the mining disaster we’re questioning......

Puzzledandpissedoff · 10/04/2019 18:57

Acis so glad I left that book on the shelf now!! However I've put a reservation on Gaudy Night so will look forward to it coming back in

Apologies for derail, though - as you were Blush

Puzzledandpissedoff · 10/04/2019 19:07

We like making things up in our family

To be fair, you did say your family have made an absolute fortune doing this, and "this" is something which has never been shown to have any foundation - and has in fact been thoroughly debunked by all those mentioned

So perhaps the quote in the header isn't so far off the mark?

BertrandRussell · 10/04/2019 19:15

And to be fair, your family has already made up a mining disaster...........