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Teresa Andrews, 59, from Harrow, Middlesex As a child, my mum filled my head with ghost stories. She believed in the afterlife and even had a strange paranormal experience in Portobello Market, London when she saw her own dead mother. ‘My mum, your

Throughout all this time, I’d continued to play with a ouija board on and off. I was saying prayers before and after playing with the board, so I thought I was protected. The experiences with the board weren’t earth-shattering either, although I had

Teresa Andrews’ experience of being psychically attacked is unusual but not uncommon. Aside from nightmares, psychic attack can manifest in other ways including: feeling down, mood swings, low energy, experiencing small accidents, bad luck and smelli

In July, our brave paranormal investigator Barry Dodds reported from the Haunted Museum, a former cinema in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire that’s one of the most supernaturally active locations in the UK. He was shown a secret door that nobody has dared

Sharon Milne Barbour, 59, from Newport, Wales, runs Bengalrose Healing Staring at the computer, I carefully read through the email I’d just written. ‘Chris, can you just check this for me?’ I called to my husband. I’d been diagnosed with severe dys

Every year in Mexico, the country enjoys two days of celebrations for the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos. The festivities begin on 2 November and coincide, coincidently, with the Christian version of All Souls’ Day on the same date. Like Al

Andy Warrington-Jones, 41, from Manchester Back in June, my mate Phil and I were chatting over a cuppa in a local café. As usual whenever we got together, talk very swiftly turned to the supernatural. Phil, a keen paranormal investigator, confided

Picking up the phone in his motel bedroom, Jim Sullivan rang his wife. It was 1975 and he was driving from Los Angeles to Nashville in his VW Beetle, hoping that the musical success that had eluded him in California would finally be his once he’d mov

Samhain, pronounced Sow-win, which means ‘summer’s end’ in Gaelic, is a popular pagan festival marking the third and final harvest of the year. Falling on 31 October to 1 November, which was seen by the ancient Celts as a time of renewal, it celebrat

When my children were young, I lived in Stockport, Cheshire. Money was tight and I needed a job where I could work evenings or nights. I was lucky enough to get a job working nights in a local nursing home – but on my first night, while I was making

Hospitals are the place where most of us enter this world, and most of us leave it, too. So it’s no wonder they’re bursting with ghost stories. St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Medway, Kent is haunted by the spirit of a small boy, aged about 6 to 8, wi

THE VENUE: Drakelow Tunnels, Kidderminster THE HAUNTING: Excavated deep beneath the hills of Worcestershire during World War II for use as a factory for the RAF, Drakelow Tunnels hide many dark secrets. The tunnels, which were owned by the gove

Dear Kirsten From washing machines to fridges, things keep breaking down! Is there a spell to make my home luckier? Penny, 50, Essex Dear Penny Straw is associated with luck and was often carried in charm bags to attract good fortune. Combine thi

Lewis Skydemore, from the West Midlands When I travelled to Doon Hill, Aberfoyle, in Scotland, it was with one mission in mind. I was going cast a spell to find my soulmate. I’m what’s known as a Wyrd – someone who follows the old pagan ways of thi

Like Marmite, beetroot tends to be something that people either love or hate. Despite that, it’s been used for healing and in medicine for centuries, as well as regional cuisine – like the famous Ukranian dish borscht, a sour yet vibrant beetroot sou

There’s something magical about Jersey, with its sparkling waters, 20 miles of beaches and tiny, tree-lined country lanes. It comes as no surprise that an island with some of the world’s finest neolithic remains has a history that is rich in fairy st

As the sun hides away for another year, and the nights get longer and darker, it’s all too easy to be filled with a sense of gloom. The good news is that, with love and fun planets Venus and Jupiter whooping it up together in jolly Sagittarius, you c

• Join a National Trust ranger and local pagan celebrant for a five-mile walk round the historic site of Avebury this Samhain, following the route of the sacred procession and learning the secrets of the legendary stones and this autumn festival as y

Susan Vousden, 61, from Essex Opening my eyes, I looked up to see a woman standing next to my bed. It was 1970 and I was 11 years old, living in a council flat in London’s East End. The woman was wearing a black cotton dress with a white rope sash