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The paranormal

Psychic mediums. How Real are they?

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MrsM1717 · 17/07/2020 01:04

I have had 2 readings and both were an expensive waste of time. I have attended many group readings as well and never had anything, I went to one group reading unaware that I was 6 months pregnant and it wasn’t picked up. Since then I lost all faith.
I’m not lost or looking for anything, Thankfully I haven’t been through anything traumatic. I just want to know if it’s real. I'm a very spiritual person so it makes sense for me to believe but I just can't based on my experience.
I have read many readings on here and from the comments people seem genuine. So if anyone could give me a reading on here I would really appreciate it.
TIA

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LadyShmuck · 02/08/2022 15:58

My ex-SIL has become a medium, she has a huge tik tok following and makes decent money from her online 'readings'.

She's not psychic at all. She never made any claims to be psychic until about 2 years ago.

She is extremely good at reading people and is possibly one of the most manipulative people I've ever met.

She told me my grandfather had given her a message about how much he loved her and was proud of her. My grandfather never said anything nice about anyone in life so the chances of him coming back from the dead to say something like that seem very unlikely, especially considering that he couldn't stand her.

I hate to think how much money she's taken from people who are grieving or vulnerable, it disgusts me.

Sitdowncupoftea · 02/08/2022 17:26

@LadyShmuck unfortunately some people are gullible. I've seen some of these tiktok phychics they are laughable. What's worse is the fools that believe them.

Algbu6 · 02/08/2022 18:16

I've had the odd fortune teller over the years. The really good one I found I lost her contact details I would love to see her again. They are a rare gem though.

Ladyof2022 · 02/08/2022 18:26

As James Randi famously said, talking to the dead is easy - anyone can do it.

It's getting a reply that's the difficult bit.

Littlepaws18 · 02/08/2022 18:33

There's a great podcast about this on bbc sounds called fake psychic. It's a true story about a psychic medium in America. Worth a listen as it gives away how they do it.

Ladyof2022 · 02/08/2022 18:39

Some years ago my boyfriend made me go along to one of these evenings of mediumship at his Spiritualist Church. To my horror the stage medium picked us out of the audience and said she could see a small child with us, a child we had, who had died as a toddler. She went on about how he was safe and happy in heaven, and loved us both, and all that sort of stuff. The audience sat, silent, spellbound, agog at her amazing psychic skills.

I'd never even been pregnant by him, let alone had a child!

My b/f did not contradict her because he was a believer and would not have wanted to show her up. I did not contradict her, either, because I didn't want him telling me off for showing her up.

On the walk home I asked him how he explained how she'd got it so wrong, if this spiritualism thing was real, and he fudged his way to an explanation. There was a child that died, but maybe it was the couple behind us, or someone who sat in our seats the week before, or maybe we would have a child in the future who would die...... ANYTHING but admit it's a load of old bollocks.

The weirdest thing was, my b/f died just four months later, and she did not predict that!

Ladyof2022 · 02/08/2022 18:40

Littlepaws18 · 02/08/2022 18:33

There's a great podcast about this on bbc sounds called fake psychic. It's a true story about a psychic medium in America. Worth a listen as it gives away how they do it.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bk77bk

Hawkins001 · 02/08/2022 18:55

MrsM1717 · 17/07/2020 01:04

I have had 2 readings and both were an expensive waste of time. I have attended many group readings as well and never had anything, I went to one group reading unaware that I was 6 months pregnant and it wasn’t picked up. Since then I lost all faith.
I’m not lost or looking for anything, Thankfully I haven’t been through anything traumatic. I just want to know if it’s real. I'm a very spiritual person so it makes sense for me to believe but I just can't based on my experience.
I have read many readings on here and from the comments people seem genuine. So if anyone could give me a reading on here I would really appreciate it.
TIA

Don't get me wrong, I think their could be more to the human mind than we realise, but I'm guessing the ones with potential are or have been recruited via special ops, etc, so unless their are rogue tomorrow people in d isgue, then it's doubtful they have abilities.

Sisterwinter1969 · 02/08/2022 19:02

They are all charlatans and liars. Every one of them.
No-one has ever conclusively proved that these mediums can contact the dead.
They are parasites and live off other people's bereavement and desperation to believe.

Sitdowncupoftea · 02/08/2022 19:07

@Sisterwinter1969 If they charge for it they are. However they are used by the police.

tillytoodles1 · 02/08/2022 19:15

I think they're a load of bollocks. I remember watching a US show and the only clue the woman gave about her husband's death was that was hot but wet. In the end the psychic decided that he'd drowned in some Caribbean ocean. He hadn't, he was a fireman who'd died on 911.

rachelaria · 09/03/2024 08:00

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