A lot of my experiences throughout my childhood were kept to myself. After the passing of my father, my life was pretty difficult; it had no room for spiritual expression.
After my father had passed I would see him either driving by in a car and smiling at me or I would see a glimpse of him standing in a shop and then the next minute he had gone. I would say about the sightings, but I knew that people just thought I might be having trouble dealing with his death.
I would hear echoes of my name being mentioned, calling me. I never knew who this was. Our family was very open spiritually, unfortunately contact was lost with my father's family so I missed out on the teachings of my granddad.

In my early twenties when things really started to open up, I felt fearful of what was happening. I had no idea how to control it, use it, nothing. I went to see a vicar at a church. He stated that medium ship was the work of the devil and that if I entertained such trickery then I would be in league with him. My goodness what is wrong with some of these religious bodies? Let us just say that he did not help me in my quest!

FULL MANIFESTATION
Following the episode with the Bognor story (see my story) all channels were wide open. I remember my first powerful experience was when I had my wisdom teeth out. The first two were taken out while I was awake. They became excruciatingly painful, swollen and infected. In seven days time I had to have the second lot out. I was at my wits end, as I really didn't want to experience this again. I was beside myself with fear and upset as I sat back up in the hospital chair.
I was about to get up and just run for the hills through my tears and there standing as large as life was my dad casually leaning against the door frame in full solid form smiling at me with his arms crossed. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He was wearing a mauve shirt, buttoned down and a pair of dark tonic type trousers. I stood there watching him, him smiling at me before I knew it the procedure had taken place. My dad disappeared. The dentist said that I had very successfully managed to drift of somewhere as he said that I was just staring into space!
That was my first experience "I am here to comfort you" of many more to come. In later years, I found out from other people whom my dad had visited during that time that he was wearing the same clothes.

FIRST PLATFORM
Within in a month of my very first time in a circle I was on platform standing in front of an expectant audience. I cannot tell you how terrified I was. I felt that there was absolutely no way I was ready, but thanks to my circle leader and her faith in me this was the first of the beginning of my career.
I stood there sending desperate thoughts up begging for a link. (I have changed the name of the link by the way). I stood there, the four-second silence seemed like a lifetime. Then he came, a young man, he said he was sorry and showed me a pub he visits before he passed and then a motorbike and that he had driven off of the road intentionally but at the very last minute realised that it was a mistake. I sent this out to the audience. A lady put her hand up. She understood, thank goodness! I then asked for his name, ROBERT came through very strongly. I said to the lady "He is telling me Robert." She stated "Oh my God that's his name" I then got a massive rush, said thank you a million times to Robert who then gave a beautiful message of love and regret to this lady and for her husband.

My platform has now improved from that time in 2003 immensely. Last week in Wickford for the first time in the room I was linked with a brother who died tragically. As the first bits of information started to come through, I said to the man, "Did your mobile ring at 3:08 yesterday, and you didn't know who it was?" As I said this, a booming male voice said either YES or it was a big exclamation. The voice came from a part of the room where noone was sitting. The congregation reacted to the voice by jumping away from it. Many people heard the voice there was no explanation for it. The recipient indeed did get a call that time the day before. The caller did not state who he was. The call was not registered. It was confirmation from his passed brother that he had made the call. He is a very physical spirit and will continue to carry out this type of phenomena. This particular occurrence was Independent direct speech, where the spirit person uses my energy to create his own voice. Keep it coming spirit friends!

AUTOMATIC WRITING
I recall when I was in a circle, there was another member linking with someone else. I drifted off and heard "get a pen and paper now". I did this and almost immediately with my eyes closed I started to write in French. I have a little knowledge of the French language from school, but this was different. It was neat, quick and accurate. I was writing with my eyes closed. I asked in my mind who was giving me this information and I heard and wrote, Louis Claude St Martin. I then got the date 1743.
I came around and saw the writing. I then sped home and researched this on the Internet. There as large as life, 1743 Louis Claude de St Martin. It spoke of him being born 1743, he was a soldier and then lead the cause for spiritualism in France. You could have knocked me down with a feather. The Writing was translated, it described a battle between the French and the English. Amazing stuff!

MEDITATION
I do believe in trying to evidence things by researching them.
Another wonderful example was a meditation I did in the summer of 2005. I was out for an hour. I met with Julius who pointed to a cave opening. I walked into the cave and came out the other side. I could see tall trees that remind me of the Mediterranean. I looked down and could see that I was dressed in a brown rough material frock. My silhouette showed a headdress with a flat square shape, I was in a habit. I asked where I was and I heard, "You are in Travest.(something! Couldn't hear it that clear) In Italy. I then found myself in gardens and near a big crypt. I then heard "The date is 1452". I asked who was saying this and then a beautiful man walked up to me and said, "I did Mary. I am your loving protector, I look after you, my name is Nicholas. He then pointed to Julius. "Oh good" I thought, someone familiar. "This is how you know Julianus." Oops I had always known him as Julius. He then said, "we must make haste, Ava Mary is soon upon us," he then looked up at the sky. I then asked him, "But where am I?" He then pointed up to an archway that had the name 'St Cecilia' on it. The church was called St Cecilia. I then said to Julius, "Who am I?" He said, "You are from the house of Mary Magdelena. You are now welcome here at this place." He then kissed me on the forehead and I walked away from the gardens back through the cave where I heard the name St Francis.
That was it! It was so powerful.

THE PROOF!
Again in true fashion, I researched everything on the internet. The church, St Cecilia's in Travestere, Rome exists. It was extremely odd seeing a picture of it. The date was when Pope Nicholas the V was in residence. The place was run by St Franciscan monks, who derived from St Francis who followed in the realms of St Francis of Assisi. Part of his devotion was remaining in a cave as a hermit prior to his service. 1452 saw the nuns being welcomed into residence at the church. This church also houses messages and scriptures of prophecy and healing by Julianus, a St Franciscan monk. This is also interestingly the date that Leonardo Da Vinci was born. The nuns were homed in the House Of Mary, derived from Mary Magdalene. During the 15th Century Ave Maria, the well known prayer song was actually pronounced Ava Mary. It was chanted half an hour prior to sunset and dawn.
What can I tell you, I was blown away. I do not know any history of this religion. In fact at school even though I loved history, my teacher was terrible so I totally switched off in history lessons. I believe this was the plan as I do not know historical dates, eras or figures which keeps me completely fresh and clear for paranormal and venue investigations.

PREMONITIONS
I also have premonition dreams and feel low or anxious if a disaster is about to happen. The problem I find is that the dreams don't give you an exact date or time or place! Even if they did what could you do?
The most recent, I had dreams of walking by a hotel and black sharks swimming next to me in the street. I told people this at the time. I then dreamt of people being washed up around the same streets where I was walking. They were awful nightmares. I thought that perhaps they were an echo of the terrible tsunami disaster, but then a couple of weeks later, Hurricane Katrina hit South America.

I have day-to-day psychic happenings. Things like, "Get up now there is a delivery coming to the door" sure enough as soon as I'm down the stairs I hear the person coming down the path. "Don't go down that road, there is a traffic jam" put the radio on, yes there is an accident. "Don't drive home now" Wait for a while. Then hear on the radio that there was a bad accident on the road I was due to be on an hour ago.
Experiences can range from very simple to astronomical.

TRANCE & PHYSICAL
I adore physical mediumship and trance work. I had been attending a trance workshop and during the trance state I have a lovely lady called Elsie who comes through me from the Second World War. She had had a stroke and so when she comes through me I feel the stroke and I apparently can be seen to be an old woman, gnarled and sloped with stroke conditions.
I welcome any physical phenomena, even when on a recent investigation I was scratched by an irate spirit man! My circles can sometimes be quite lively also! This also stretches to readings where again independent direct speech, extreme temperature changes, flickering lights and bangs and taps are the norm!
Another phenomena I adore is table tipping. With the right energy around the table, it will flip from side to side without even touching the floor. Pure spirit energy creates the movement of the table.
I have also seen a table stay tipped over and remaining in that exact position without it hitting the floor, defying gravity.
EVP is another love, 'Electronic Voice Phenomena' I have heard many spirit voices talking to me through this media on investigations. Want to try it? Digital recorder/Dictaphone, invite the spirits to talk, hey presto! Simple as that.

I recall just after I got medically retired in 2003, when the mediumship started hotting up again, a time in my lounge when I was ironing. Trust me though, me ironing is a phenomena in itself! I was standing there away with the fairies when my partner said, "Nick, look up" I looked up and the chandelier was swinging from one side of the ceiling to the other. It was terrific.

I could go on and on, but I will leave it at that for the time being. Got to keep you keen!