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Yes - a good experience, very many years ago now.

Mediums really don't have time to research everybody's Facebook history or indeed any record of people's back stories. Good ones aren't in it for the money. It seems to be a sort of gift that some people have. It's a pity that they are discredited due to some fraudsters.

minimoon
I saw a clairvoyant who, before I had even taken my coat off and sat down, said "Oh, your dad, Bill, is here with you".
I have no idea how..

PECS that is really funny, and as for psychic evenings in a pub , brilliant, a couple of gins and I would believe the sky was about to fall if someone told me ?

I am a sceptic, but have been recording and watching 'Mama Medium' on Saturdays on Quest Red freeview channel at 6pm. It is difficult to understand how she could know some of the details from strangers she comes across when out and about, but of course the programme could be staged.

Well I don't know about that MissA, but my carer friend had absolutely no input from me. She specifically asked me not to say anything, and she knew nothing about my family.

I'm with Jane10, I think.
Some people are good at 'reading' others, and make one size fits all comments, expanding on them when people react positively.
Perhaps they (the clairvoyants) don't even realise that's what they're doing.

I worked in a care home for several years. We split our night staff in half to work the two floors. A carer worked downstairs, and used to come up to find me if she needed a nurse's input.
One night she found me sitting having a break, and told me that a man was standing behind me. She described my maternal grandfather in minute detail. She even knew the age he was when his hair turned white. (This was later confirmed by my mother).
This carer did readings for people, but didn't charge as she regarded it as helping people at times of crisis.

Except it was true! I saw it recently at the local pub that has regular Psychic Evenings???

People hear what they want to hear, any vague reference to a loved one is accepted as a connection. Mediums are clever con artists, they extract information without you realising it. If you have to make an appointment to see one then they use the time to do research, never been easier with FB and so on.

Groan ?, that’s an old one PECS

They had to cancel a local Psychic Event recently due to unforseen snow.

BlueBelle how does your (rather rude IMO) post apply to the experience of BradfordLass in the previous post, where no money changed hands?

I agree Jane10, there are frauds but also something which cannot be explained really

It's very easy to just write this sort of thing off and call it claptrap. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. There are some fraudulent mediums but equally there are innumerable examples that cannot be just written off. I was very struck by a presentation I attended by a professor of physics and maths. He had been profoundly affected by clear evidence that he'd uncovered while trying to prove it was all nonsense! This was a well respected research scientist.
I'd never write this off as nonsense and wouldn't ever want to mess around with it either!

Unkind to call people who so often see clairvoyants because they are troubled - fools

I m afraid I don’t believe anything about clairvoyants and think they are all just making money out of vulnerable folk
The saying a fool and his money are soon parted comes to my mind whenever I hear about these people

Like you Dolce my experiences were mixed.

Just after my father died, although at the time this had absolutely nothing to do with the visit to the psychic, I was mending a standard lamp for Mum which Dad had promised to do before his very sudden and unexpected death.
A friend who wanted company, called for me to go with her to a reading.

At the medium's house, I sat in the kitchen having a cuppa with her husband whilst my friend was having the sitting.

When she came out, the medium beckoned to me but I said, 'Oh no, I was only here to keep Kathy company.'
But she said, 'That's all right, just pop in here a moment.' So I followed her and she said, 'You Dad says thank you for mending that lamp for your Mum.'
Kathy didn't know about the lamp so she couldn't have said anything.

I was also once in a 'development circle' - 25 years after the above event and somehow seemed to get everything right and was told I was a gifted medium myself but it was absolutely exhausting, I used to come home completely drained of energy and had to go to bed! So I gave that up despite my apparent successes.

I watched Ghost starring Whoopi Goldberg.

Does that count?