Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
I had spooky time after speaking to a spirit medium
SEEING children all dressed up at my door on Halloween, and their proud mums standing behind them, is always a highlight of the year.
I will miss them terribly this year, and I’ll miss eating the leftover sweets.
But it’s right to follow the restrictions and more important to keep everyone safe.
My sons Jonathan and Robert never really celebrated Halloween because when they were young we hadn’t really adopted all the big American ideas like trick-or-treating as we have now.
Instead Halloween reminds me about a spooky experience I had.
When my husband Colin was alive I always told him that I fancied seeing a medium but he always told me psychics were a load of bull.
Then a few years after he had passed away, my friend Sue in Manchester had a psychic to her house and I couldn’t resist going along.
My friends advised me not to give anything away by showing emotion when I was talking to him, so my steely face hid my nerves.
Within minutes he said things only I could have known.
As soon as I sat down, he looked over my left shoulder and said he had two people battling to come through to me. He said: “The name that’s coming to me is Colwyn.”
I went numb. I thought of my Col. And my mum, who was Olwyn. And when he told me the pair of them were jostling to come through, I thought, “Yep, that’s my mum. Always had to be at the front of the queue”.
The medium went on to say one of the spirit’s names was Colin Michael – hardly anyone would have known my Col’s middle name.
He told me Colin was content now because he was with his brother Peter.
Again, that’s a family detail that hardly anyone would have known.
I left wi shing I had spent £70 for an hour rath er than half the time and money. And I felt somehow comforted.
I won’t go again though. It can be a dangerously slippery slope, paying money to seek comfort from beyond the grave. And I do have Colin’s warning in my mind.
I’m left believing there’s something else out there beyond everyday life as we know it. But I don’t know what it is and I don’t think we should try to look too hard.
People we have lost and loved live