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Celebrities have been flocking to a UK mom in order to connect with their dead relatives after the 25-year-old revealed that she is able to communicate with the dead, as well as angels.

Chloe Smith, 25, first began advertising her special “powers” some 14 months ago after discovering at her grandmother’s funeral that she could see spirits.

News of her talents spread after it was revealed she has been acting as a ‘spiritual advisor’ to many of the UK’s best-known media personalities, reality TV stars and singers.

Smith claims she is ‘not just a person who sees dead people, but helps with depression and anxiety too’.

“I just talk to these people. They have regular readings and I [am] in constant contact with them.”

Not only can she see beyond the veil, she also listens. All the guidance from beyond seems to be paying off, as the mom of three hosts her own Youtube series and is set for a book deal. As she says: “Things are going well at the moment.”

“I’ve always kind of sensed things happening before they were going to happen. My [grandmother] passed away four years ago and I went to her funeral and I saw her standing there.”

It was after the third-eye opening funeral, where Smith saw her dead granny standing next to her grave, that she found herself seeing angels and other spirits at home. This made her convinced that she could help others with her gift.

Initially, she did her crystal ball gazing for free, but after being swamped with requests for an audience, she began charging for her visions, thereby joining the multi-million-pound psychic industry in the UK. Psychics seem to have a short shelf life, so you need to make hay while the divine light shines.

Despite all the psychic power centered around the British celebrities, there has been, so far, no confirmation from Elvis on whether he enjoyed Austin Butler’s performance in the recently released blockbuster.

Hogwarts has however promised to keep on probing the veil.

Smith’s incredible story is not unlike that of ‘I see dead people’ John Edward, who used to grace Mzansi’s TV screens with his game show, Crossing Over with Jon Edward. The SABC show, where a live audience gets to cross over with the bespectacled wonder, made him an instant hit with viewers and skeptics alike.

If you cannot recall the show, it usually began with Edward seeing a ‘B’ or an ‘F’. “Frank? Francine? Fanie? I feel a Fred.”

A transfixed audience member would then jump up and proclaim that his great-grandfather’s uncle was a ‘Victor’. An excited Edward would reply yes, it is indeed Victor crossing over and the audience can all rest easy knowing Viktor is at peace and playing with his favourite pet goat in the ‘crossed over‘.

Viktor’s connection then gets lost in the ether and the audience member buys a private sitting, and a signed copy of Edward’s book, What If God Was The Sun? (Now available on Amazon for R143)

Illusionist and skeptic James Randi revealed that just 3 of 23 statements made by Edward during a ‘seance’ were confirmed as correct by the audience member being read, and the three statements that were correct, were trivial and nondescript. Let the grieving people fill in the blanks.

Edward and the angel-seeing Smith have been accused by their detractors of using ‘cold reading’, whereby they throw out random information and then focus on a specific person who appears to be duped. From there it’s a shotgun approach to names, places, and events.

After all, if you ask a stranger whether a male in their family died in the last 200 years, they would most likely say yes. Bait, hook, and begin to run through the alphabet until their eyes glisten up at B.

Ben? Barnie? Bullshit?

I would love nothing more than to be able to ask my uncle Keith where he lost my father’s Rolex, but the dude’s dead and I doubt whether the likes of Smith and Edward have a direct line to the afterlife when even Prophet Bushiri and the Pope seem to be lucratively thumbsucking their way through the spiritual realm.

Perhaps a crystal ball like the one Smith uses might help. If not there are always tarot cards, crystals, ouija boards, tea leaves, palms, and a number of mail-in services where deceased people’s stuff to be ‘touched’ remotely. Apparently, potatoes work as well. If you have faith.

Perhaps I have been jaded into skepticism by too many girlfriends who did Reiki, but if these shysters are able to liaise with the dead, I will be sure to get in touch with our Pscycic-in-Chief, Seth Rotherham, after I kick it. He can let our loyal readers know that I was wrong, doing fine, and at peace in the great beyond. Stay tuned.

For those of you who like to cross over however, here’s John doing his thing:

Kul jou hier, kul jou daar, en siener daar!

[source:nypost]