To ask has anyone had a ‘medium reading’ done that’s actually been pretty accurate?

[Stampy84]

Ok ok let me start by saying, my logical side of my head says ‘of course it’s not true, these are very clever people who take money from vulnerable people and are extremely well at picking up on things they’re saying’
I had one done last year, a moment of madness but I was feeling pretty crap at the time and I can only say I was desperate for some sort of peace.
This could all be a genuine coincidence, I absolutely get that but I’m just wondering has anyone else had a reading done where things they ‘predicted’ have happened?

Firstly I was told I would be moving residence very soon and I’d be a lot happier there- I thought absolutely not, I’ve not been in this property long and intend to stay at least 5 years as my landlord wanted a long letting.. one month later I got my notice from my landlord saying he needed the property back- I moved a month later and I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my new home..

She also asked me had my daughter been tested for autism and that she would be diagnosed and get the help she needs- weird thing to ask right? Funnily enough she was already being referred for this and I had my suspicions for months (absolutely nothing I would ever ever put on any social media so pure good guessing I suppose?)

She also told me to be careful with my purse, that I would lose it though not a massive amount of money. Guess who’s purse has gone missing this week? Yep, mine.

Also mentioned my partner (who I’ve been broken up with and having a terrible time with) had suffered a massive lose and was t himself- this is true, his friend committed suicide the year before.

All a big coincidence? Most likely, however I’m interested to see if anyone else had any experience with this?

"I don't need a preview."

I found the preview really useful and wish I'd acted on it more.

Been there, done that. I studied up on how to give a "good" cold reading, out of interest, and it is surprisingly easy to convince your subject that you have second sight. Tarot cards help, because you can always blame them if necessary.

Tips:
If you are giving a reading remember always that your subject will remember the things you got right and forget the things that you didn't.
Also that he or she will unconsciously twist what you said to fit what happened.
Be vague enough, and they will be convinced that everything was correct and be in awe. Avoid specifics: they are risky. Do not say "You will meet a wonderful man called Fred from Pontypridd on the evening of 3rd June this year", because you can't arrange for such an encounter. Do say "near the beginning of June you will meet a Welshman you like". The subject will fill in the gaps -- and if they live in Shropshire, it's a fairly safe bet they will meet someone male from Wales in the first week or two of June in some year or other.

Actually having second sight is not like being able to read tomorrow's newspaper. It is a series of little partly-images and feelings, just as memory tends to be. You are aware that something nasty is associated with a road you are about to drive down. You don't know what, or whether you will be involved: just that a crash has happened/will happen/is happening and that two cars are/will be in the ditch in a mental picture you have. What do you do with this information? Go a different way? Go down that road very carefully? Call yourself an idiot and risk it? Nine times out of ten (or more: I don't have the data, it hasn't happened often enough) what you "saw" was on a different road, at a different time, or nothing to do with you.

Dilemmas arise, too: you work with someone and become aware that you think they have cancer and don't know it. Would you tell them? Really? How would you do it? How would you deal with it if they had, and blamed you? or if they hadn't after all, and hated you?

No genuine psychic I have known (a few, now) tells fortunes for money, and many of us know that if we did, we'd never "see" another thing. We mostly find it all rather irritating and unsatisfactory, rarely helpful, and almost never properly explained afterwards. Mostly, something happens and we find we are thinking "Oh, that's why I was edgy about him/her" or "I ought to have listened when I didn't want to go to that party and couldn't think why" or whatever.

I had one at a spiritualist church, he described my grandad exactly, his mannerisms things he was interested in and noises I’d been hearing in my house that he said were him watching over me. Everything he said was spot on and I hadn’t spoken to anyone about any of it the medium just picked me out and said I have a gentleman that wants me to let you know he’s here.

I went to an ‘evening with a medium’ type thing with about 50 people in the audience, as it was in the community hall right next to my house and it was cheap and I was bored. Didn’t expect them to come to me but she did, and she told me some really specific things that made no sense to me at all, in any way - that the person she was communicating with was showing her images of Scotland and Scottish things, dancers in traditional dress, bagpipes etc which meant nothing to me, I have no particular interest in Scotland, nor does anyone I know and we have no Scottish family connections at all. So I dismissed that. Then she started talking about a room full of shelves with rows and rows of dolls. Again, meant nothing, I wasn’t really into dolls even as a child. And finally something very specific that did make sense but would have been a very odd guess. She said the person, a man, was showing her little fish having their heads chopped off with a knife. When I was a kid I used to go out on my French grandad’s boat fishing in the med for mackerel. I was too little to fish but it was my job to chop up the sardines with a knife for bait and this was the only thing I used to really do with him. (His hobbies were fishing and smoking ) I told my mum about it later and she said that (slightly oddly, being a Frenchman with no connection to Scotland) that he was absolutely obsessed with all things Scottish. And my grandmother, his wife, had rows and rows of dolls in the house when my mum was small but they were gone by the time I was born. So yeah could be coincidence but it’s pretty weird.

In early 1990 I was dragged along to one with my best friend who was having marriage issues at the time - I wasn't. I was very sceptical but she was clutching at straws. We had joint readings. Both were spookily accurate!

She told my friend she would have twins in the future. She split with current husband about a year later - no children. She then met an Albanian man and married him. I jokingly told her she should insure against having twins in the future as she had forgotten about the reading. There were no twins in either family and no IVF treatment. yes - she had twins!!!! Sadly she didn't insure...

As we left the reading my friend had turned to me and said it was all a load of rubbish. I asked why she thought that and she said that the woman had spoken about my brother and I didn't have one. I explained that actually I did but had no contact with him and therefore never mentioned him.

She also predicted that in the future I would work with my husband [both working in the Civil Service at the time] and we would have a connection abroad. Absolutely no chance of either of those scenarios happening AT ALL!!!!
Anyway, fast forward about 15 years, my husband set up his own business which I then helped run AND we bought a property abroad that we never had any intention of doing.

Because I was so sceptical I always remembered the predictions because I thought them impossible to happen. Weird.

“Son I made my life out of reading people’s faces, knowing what the cards are by the way they hold their eyes, if you don’t mind me saying I can see you’re out of aces, for a taste of your whiskey I’ll give you some advice”
Some people are very good at reading people.
I work one to one with people from all walks of life (not as a reader or anything) but I’m usually pretty accurate at reading people - don’t try to do it or anything but I do tend to be right. Don’t think it’s spooky though just that some people have a skill at picking up on stuff 🤷🏼‍♀️

Same as dogs, I often think I’d make a good psychic (conwoman) because I’m good at reading people. I don’t believe in any psychic powers though, I think I’m just good at picking up on emotions.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

I would actually really like to find a psychic who is willing to tell me "negative" things. I take your point that a real one wouldn't take money, but ironically I would pay!

If I had any way to contact the lady I saw years ago, I'd want to contact her again.

I went to a spiritualist thing and joked with the people I was with about needing help with a sentimental piece of jewellery I had misplaced.

I was spoken to by the medium who talked about someone who matched the description of the person who left me the jewellery. Then started making a connection with this person and me choosing my wedding dress which made no sense as this person did not come to my wedding due to ill health

Yes, months later I found the jewellery in the bag where my wedding dress is stored - I had forgotten I had put it in there.

I am cynical but struggle to explain that as she was very specific about this person ‘telling’ her about my wedding dress.

I don't believe in cold readings - what are the chances of getting anything right?!

Of course if someone books online and pays with a card, I assume they will be googled and maybe some information will come up.

Oh I had my tarot done once and she told me about 6 times to be careful not to get pregnant- as she ushered me out she said again ‘you will take care not to get pregnant’

Always been confused by that too- although she may have guessed my boyfriend at the time was an arsehole!

Thank you everyone, I’ve enjoyed reading all your posts, from both perspectives

I saw one in a town over 100 miles from where I live. It was a man who told me that I have a very close connection with Canada. I didn't.
The next day my younger brothers regiment was informed by his commanding officer (army) they were being deployed to Canada.

I went along with a friend. Her sister was meant to be going with her and backed out at the last minute and I took her slot.

He is well known for being accurate and I wrote down everything he said.

He got exactly where I lived, described the house and where it was near shops and a roundabout. Said my front garden was a mess, which it was.

My parents dog would have an op on his foot, he did a few months later. it was a cancerous lump.

It’s not something I want to repeat, it freaked me out how much he knew. This was years ago before SM. Anyway my friends sister was booked in and I took her place.

Dobby "It’s not something I want to repeat, it freaked me out how much he knew."

that's exactly why I'd like to repeat it, but sadly it's not possible!

Showing my age here, but 30 years ago (no social media),my two best friends and I arranged a reading. We got his name from an advert in a local newspaper (telling you this to set the scene).
His name was Maurice. Not Morris, but Maureece. He looked and sounded like Alan Carr and wore an incredible amount of gold necklaces, bracelets and rings.

We had this 'reading' at my friend's house, as this was their goodbye gift to me because I was moving 200 miles away.

Friend 1s reading was so so. Easily explained away.
Friend 2s reading really only made sense a couple of months later. He told her she had doubts about her marriage ( she did), but that she was looking in the wrong direction - there was definitely no other woman ( which she suspected). That she would have involvement with the police, but not to worry about it as this would be the start of a new life for her.
That she had traumatic times to go through but she would be happy.
Her DH was a milkman. The police became involved when he had....well.. appropriated cash from customers houses. They knew it was him, but with no proof, he was never charged. Friend2 was devastated at the thought she had married a thief. Their house was searched at the time and as she was tidying away afterwards, she found letters from DHs lover. Very explicit.
He was having an affair with another man.

She divorced, remarried, very happy.

For me, there were a number of spot on cements, from the very specific ' your father is no longer alive. It was not a natural death and his place of rest is in a country far away. But he is not alone in his grave. You will visit him again'
'You are making a big move soon. Be very, very careful with the timing. I cannot stress enough to just be sure of your move.'

My dad was killed in a car crash and buried in the far East with my brother who died as a baby.

We did make the big move as planned. We had a buyer for our house, all was well.
Except that we were stupid on our desperation to be together ( DH was living and working 200 miles away from me, a baby and a toddler), so we continued with plans to move even when there was a delay on exchanging......
Yup, buyer pulled out. We had 2 mortgages to pay for 8 months which crippled us financially for years and we eventually sold the old house for less than we had paid for it.

I still cannot believe.

My logical mind just won't accept it, even though a LOT of what we were told was spot on, without prompt and with no fore info.

Bet when I click post I will discover this is a fecking essay😁

I had an odd one. It was a friends mum who liked to do tarot cards and things as a hobby. She told me that there was an old lady trying to get her attention. The old lady was showing her a pendant with a ruby surrounded by gold leaves. And she was trying to say it was hers and that it was to be mine. It was really weird because a) friends mum said she was seeing ghosts ffs! And b) my gran had always had that very same unique pendant round her neck all the years I'd known her. (Friend has never met nor seen photos of gran) and c) gran was very much alive.

I asked gran later and she told me the pendant had been my Great-grans and she matched the description of the so called ghost. Years later I inherited that pendant. Carried it at my wedding too. I'll always wonder if there's a spooky connection or what. Normally I'd say that clairvoyants and mediums are shysters and liars but that one makes me sceptical of my scepticism.

I have both had readings that have been accurate plus done readings for myself and others. It runs in my family but I was the one who actually went and expanded on it. There are some fakes but don't expect someone to be 100% accurate as its not as easy as it sounds. Its like a game of charades and it takes time to understand what it all means before you can actually go out there and do actual readings. Like any ability it needs to be nurtured.

A friend's office did a medium evening at their premises. Just a fun, social thing. I went to meet my friend there, he wasn't expecting me, and one of his colleagues asked me if I wanted a reading. Was all very casual and off the cuff. I sat down she took my hand and looked at me then she told me I was a Pisces and that I was in the middle of a break up from someone I had been with for a long time, but would soon meet someone else he would be from another country and he would be involved in some kind of winter sport - skiing perhaps? I wouldn't stay with him but would move away from the city we lived in and meet and marry someone else and have children there. She said she didn't see long term happiness with a man but I would be happy in the long run. There would be loss but I would learn to accept it and be happy.

I thought it was absolute twaddle. I was in the middle of a break up that was true but no way looking to meet anyone else. A few months later I met a professional ice hockey player from another country. I had never met anyone involved in this sport in my whole life, was unheard of for me. I was with him for almost two years. Then I left our city and moved to another big city where I met and married someone quite quickly and had two children and so on. Most of it was stuff anyone might have predicted given my age and situation but somehow the winter sports thing has always made me pause for thought. So random, how could she have guessed at something like that? It all came true. I did meet and marry someone and have children in my new city and we are divorced now and I am long term single. So who knows. I'm a sceptic but the ice hockey player, who I am still friends with always makes me think.

My mum went to see one about 30 years ago (long before social media) as a replacement for someone who dropped out last minute. She was told all about my dad's alcohol issues and that she had 7 siblings. As far as my mum was aware she had 6 siblings but it turned out she had an older sister who'd been put up for adoption! No idea they do it.

My old best friend's dad is a medium. We were teenagers so spent a lot of time together. On two separate occasions he said things to me..

• "tell your mum that the baby is okay, there is a lady with white curly hair in a rocking chair watching over her"
• Another was something about a pair of bright red maternity leggings that my mum had, nobody except me or my sister knew about them

I obviously told my mum and that lady is my mum's great nanny. My mum had been really worried about her pregnancy and i believe that helped her.

I paid to see a medium in 2011. She told me that there was a lady in a rocking chair (same as above!) sitting with a boy with blonde curly hair and blue eyes and that either me or one of my sisters would fall pregnant that year.
I thought that was total rubbish because i was on contraception and my sister is a lesbian who was single at the time, and my other two sisters were both under 5.
I unexpectedly fell pregnant 4 months later and had a blonde curly haired boy with very blue eyes.

But she also mentioned things that were totally off point. Like asked if i was studying psychology when i was doing childcare.

There should be paragraphs in my post, not sure why there isn't!

I don't think they're any better than con artists. The good ones are just better than average at reading people and then throw in a few generalised statements which everyone can relate to.

I had one inflicted on me by a friend who was trying to be helpful when I'd had something bad happen and the woman was unbelievable. She got me so wrong that she did me a favour because for the first time I started to laugh again and my sense of humour came back.

She said I was really into fitness and the outdoors (she hadn't realised I was disabled and couldn't actually walk more than a few meters because I was sitting at the kitchen table), she said I had a beautiful singing voice (people fall about laughing and once actually walked out of a bar in horror when I was doing karaoke), that I'm a keen cook (I'm pretty hopeless) and I'd temporarily lost my feminine side (I never really had one).

Once she started telling me that my home needed to be cleansed with white sage I couldn't stop laughing. I still thank her for snapping me out of the dark daze I was in, so I suppose she did a good job, but the medium stuff was a load of hot air

Me . And because it was so very accurate I went again this week to same woman and even if it's a load of bollocks she didn't half make me feel better.

I don't believe many are genuine but I dont think they are all phoney either .

Sue if you feel like it and if the person is anywhere near London, please DM me. No worries if you don't want to.