Voices: A Doris Stokes Collection

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In the wave of interest that followed her appearance, she played to three capacity audiences at the Sydney Opera House. There were invitations to Psychic Suppers, Psychic Events, Evenings of Clairvoyance, plus Mind, Body and Spirit Festivals.

Yes, that’ll be alright love,’ she said cheerfully when I explained about needing someone to interview for the feature, ‘When would you like to come? Which made it the perfect moment – the Features Editor decided one morning, chewing her pen thoughtfully as the sun sweltered in through the non-opening windows of our new office – for a light, not too serious series on the supernatural. Asked how the latest book came about, Linda told Psychic News: “Last year, having written a couple of unrelated books for him, my editor at the publishers asked me to give him some ideas for another title. If Doris hadn’t passed when she did, I thought, ‘I wonder what other titles they would have been able to think of using voices? Many claim that during the week they pursue ordinary, down-to-earth careers – they’re builders, teachers, hairdressers, nurses, and so on – while others seem to be retired grandmas with lifelong records of good behaviour, unblemished by so much as a parking ticket.

There was nothing to suggest this story would be any different from the hundreds I tackled in my time at the magazine. Doris turned out to live on the other side of town, behind Fulham Broadway Station in a big complex built just after World War I for disabled ex-servicemen.

At the time, Linda “didn’t appreciate how amazing it all was and how, all over the country, people were having their lives changed by Doris’ work. She was also the first medium to appear at the London Palladium, with the tickets selling out in two hours.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I know what you're thinking There is, says the US 'mind reader' Marc Salem, no such thing as reading minds.

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Whilst in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, she also claimed that local murder victim Vic Weiss had contacted her with details of his murder. She was good-natured throughout and would sometimes joke, ‘They’re taking me over to the Other Side bit by bit!

It turned out that though Doris had been living in Lancaster; she was born and brought up in Grantham and never quite lost the accent. I don’t know what I expected – knowing nothing about real life psychics – but from the films I’d seen, a flowing kaftan, hoop ear-rings and a distracted, other-worldly air seemed essential. This second collection of her bestselling books brings together many more of her remarkable and moving experiences. She was recognised as a practising clairaudient medium by the Spiritualists' National Union in 1949. people spend so much time and money these days trying to develop a gift like hers - to be born with it and struggle so much is just incredible.As the decades slipped by, the intervals between these meetings grew shorter and shorter until at last I found I was back at the beginning – with Doris Stokes centre stage once again. Driving past an unassuming village pub near the M1, not long ago, I was surprised to see a large board on the pavement outside on which someone had chalked – in big, rainbow letters – ‘PSYCHIC NITE.