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‘Don’t worry, you’re totally safe. It’s very unusual to be able to find a ghost – let alone be stuck with one. I’ve come across haunted places and buildings, but never a person. It doesn’t work like that. If you are lucky enough to have contact with a ghost, I promise you it won’t be interested in scaring you. It will merely want to communicate.’

‘Ghosts are often visitors – they come back to see a person or place that was important to them when they were alive. The ghosts I speak to during the course of a reading are visitors. They are aware of their death and only come back for a short time.’

‘Many ghosts, however, don’t even realize they are dead. They are earthbound spirits, commonly known as “hauntings”. At the moment they died, the powerful emotions of anger or distress were so overwhelming, they refused to accept their death and go “home”. To them, this emotion is unresolved business. And a spirit cannot be forced home. It has to go willingly.’

‘There is a third kind of “ghost”. Here, the moment of death causes such a strong emotional outpouring that it leaves a residue or imprint of the event in the place that it occurred. There is no actual spirit presence, but instead the earth becomes a kind of tape recorder and the event replays itself over and over. In this instance, people might see, for example, a grey lady appearing on the same staircase at the same time on the same day each year.’

‘For us, the idea of being in spirit form, stuck on Earth where nobody can see us, sounds desperately lonely. But the reality is that ghosts are never distressed. They are just a bit confused. Even if I say, “You’re not meant to be here, you’re dead” – as I used to do in the beginning – they don’t take any notice.’

‘I remember one of the first hauntings I went to. I was called to a country cottage where the ghost of a young woman had been seen repeatedly. When I went upstairs, I saw a woman of about thirty standing in the middle of a bedroom. She was looking towards a window with a dreamy expression on her face.’

‘I said, “Hello”, and she smiled gently. There was no big emotion there.’

‘I said something stupid like, “Are you stuck here?”’

‘She totally ignored me and wandered towards the window and looked out. I stood beside her at the window thinking: say something, Mia, you have to get the contact going. So I said, “It’s a lovely garden isn’t it?”’

‘She looked at me, all animated and said, “Yes, isn’t it?”’

‘I tried again. “Do you know you’re dead?” I asked gently, but she simply pointed to the roses in the garden. I realized she was happy to talk about her surroundings, as if this was still her home but any reference to the fact she was spirit was totally dismissed. It was as if she – and all Earth-bound spirits – have a safety valve which protects them from any painful emotion.’

‘It was only when Eric came in and held her hand that she seemed to acknowledge her death and she went over with him. Since then I’ve learned that it would be dangerous or upsetting for somebody like myself to awaken the knowledge they are dead without the presence of a spirit guide to take them over once they know.’

‘You’re a long way from making contact with ghosts, so calm down. We are only going to look at auras today.’