Message from beyond the grave?
9:25am Thursday 27th September 2007
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A PSYCHIC from Widnes says he might have been telephoned by a ghost.
James Byrne, a well-known medium who once gave demonstrations at the London Palladium, is used to spirits interfering with technology associated with him.
But this latest case is perhaps the strangest yet, he says.
He discovered the message on his answerphone when he returned from holiday in August. The message - a man saying is this switched on?' - had been left on August 7, according to James's machine.
There was no number recorded, but the phone has the facility to return the call.
James, aged 53, of Mansell Close, says: "A woman in Bolton answered, and when I explained who I was, she said I'd done a reading for her 14 years earlier. She said she'd not made the phone call."
The mystery deepened when James told the woman about the message and, after hearing the recording, she confirmed it was the voice of her partner who had died in June.
James says the woman contacted BT to check her phone records, and they confirmed that no call had been made to James's number from her line on August 7.
"We can't explain it," says James. "I'm not saying it's a ghost or an example of EVP (electronic voice phenomena said to be the work of spirits). But it is very strange."
James became aware he was psychic as a teenager and went on to become a very well known stage medium, making frequent television and radio appearances, and published a book, The Psychic World of James Byrne.
There have been examples of James appearing on television and radio shows where the sound equipment has faltered for no reason.
On another occasion he was giving a reading to a woman and was recording the session. Only later, when the woman listened to the tape, did she hear the voice of a foul-mouthed spirit.
James said: "Once I was driving with somebody else in the car, with the radio on. Suddenly - and from nowhere - a voice on the radio clearly said 'James Byrne'.
"That's one of the best examples, because somebody independent of me heard it.
"But how do you prove this answerphone message? You can't."
l Make up your own mind. Is the message on James's phone from a ghost?
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trish kingham, hale says...
10:54am Thu 27 Sep 07
trish kingham, hale says...
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trish kingham, hale says...
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Alan, Widnes says...
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amanda.richardson, runcorn says...
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Lynne, Widnes says...
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B.A.E., Runcorn says...
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Claudio, South-Italy says...
7:06pm Sun 30 Sep 07
My wife too had this odd occurrence while driving her car, a voice from the radio called her name twice. The receiver was turned off...
Claudio
Claudio, South-Italy says...
7:06pm Sun 30 Sep 07
My wife too had this odd occurrence while driving her car, a voice from the radio called her name twice. The receiver was turned off...
Claudio
Claudio, South-Italy says...
7:06pm Sun 30 Sep 07
My wife too had this odd occurrence while driving her car, a voice from the radio called her name twice. The receiver was turned off...
Claudio
Claudio, South-Italy says...
7:06pm Sun 30 Sep 07
My wife too had this odd occurrence while driving her car, a voice from the radio called her name twice. The receiver was turned off...
Claudio
anna, nottingham says...
9:06am Mon 1 Oct 07
Alan wrote:A lot of people do alan. There is some things science has yet to understand, but im sure in time they will.
Who believes in this mumbo jumbo?
anna, nottingham says...
9:06am Mon 1 Oct 07
Alan wrote:A lot of people do alan. There is some things science has yet to understand, but im sure in time they will.
Who believes in this mumbo jumbo?
anna, nottingham says...
9:06am Mon 1 Oct 07
Alan wrote:A lot of people do alan. There is some things science has yet to understand, but im sure in time they will.
Who believes in this mumbo jumbo?
anna, nottingham says...
9:06am Mon 1 Oct 07
Alan wrote:A lot of people do alan. There is some things science has yet to understand, but im sure in time they will.
Who believes in this mumbo jumbo?
Amy, US says...
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Amy, US says...
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Amy, US says...
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Hunter, San Francisco, CA says...
5:12pm Mon 1 Oct 07
That being said, this sounds like nothing more than a bad connection with a cell phone. As for the callback feature, it returns you to the last call that was made to your line regardless of if they got through or not. She may not have called on the 7th. Maybe she wanted to call him, dialed the number, got one ring, and decided not to, so her number would have been the last one that called him.
You can believe this is a ghost leaving a message on a machine, but please, don't say that it is for sure a ghost leaving a message on a machine, because there is so much simpler evidence that it isn't.
Hunter, San Francisco, CA says...
5:12pm Mon 1 Oct 07
That being said, this sounds like nothing more than a bad connection with a cell phone. As for the callback feature, it returns you to the last call that was made to your line regardless of if they got through or not. She may not have called on the 7th. Maybe she wanted to call him, dialed the number, got one ring, and decided not to, so her number would have been the last one that called him.
You can believe this is a ghost leaving a message on a machine, but please, don't say that it is for sure a ghost leaving a message on a machine, because there is so much simpler evidence that it isn't.
Hunter, San Francisco, CA says...
5:12pm Mon 1 Oct 07
That being said, this sounds like nothing more than a bad connection with a cell phone. As for the callback feature, it returns you to the last call that was made to your line regardless of if they got through or not. She may not have called on the 7th. Maybe she wanted to call him, dialed the number, got one ring, and decided not to, so her number would have been the last one that called him.
You can believe this is a ghost leaving a message on a machine, but please, don't say that it is for sure a ghost leaving a message on a machine, because there is so much simpler evidence that it isn't.
Hunter, San Francisco, CA says...
5:12pm Mon 1 Oct 07
That being said, this sounds like nothing more than a bad connection with a cell phone. As for the callback feature, it returns you to the last call that was made to your line regardless of if they got through or not. She may not have called on the 7th. Maybe she wanted to call him, dialed the number, got one ring, and decided not to, so her number would have been the last one that called him.
You can believe this is a ghost leaving a message on a machine, but please, don't say that it is for sure a ghost leaving a message on a machine, because there is so much simpler evidence that it isn't.
David Baker, San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA says...
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Valeria, Pennsylvania says...
6:41pm Mon 1 Oct 07
There IS technology that can match voices to prove identity. It would be fascinating if there was an existing voice recording of the deceased man's actual voice to match it to.
Valeria, Pennsylvania says...
6:41pm Mon 1 Oct 07
There IS technology that can match voices to prove identity. It would be fascinating if there was an existing voice recording of the deceased man's actual voice to match it to.
Valeria, Pennsylvania says...
6:41pm Mon 1 Oct 07
There IS technology that can match voices to prove identity. It would be fascinating if there was an existing voice recording of the deceased man's actual voice to match it to.
Valeria, Pennsylvania says...
6:41pm Mon 1 Oct 07
There IS technology that can match voices to prove identity. It would be fascinating if there was an existing voice recording of the deceased man's actual voice to match it to.
Hal, Alabama says...
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Hal, Alabama says...
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trish kingham, hale says...
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