fizzy55
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I'm not sure where to put this, 'It happened to me' seems the best option but feel free to move it if it would serve better posted elsewhere, or delete if noone is interested!
Before I start, I want to make clear that I'm really not claiming to have definitively uncovered the identity of Jack the ripper with the help of ghosts. I would feel a bit silly doing that. But I've had what I feel is a strange experience and where else would I tell it?
Around the end of 2014, I went with my mother to a seance. My mother claimed that the medium who held these seances was amazing and my mother honestly believed that she was talking to deceased members of our family there in that room with her.
I was sceptical at best, but I try to keep an open mind and if nothing else, it would be an experience. The medium met a group of four of us at the door. She was gruff, no nonsense and a little intimidating.
We were led to an upstairs room where the windows were open, letting in the sunlight, the curtains fluttered in the cool breeze and calming instrumental music was playing on low volume. Not what I'd been expecting.
We were instructed to sit around around a wooden table in the middle of the room, lay our hands flat on the table and touch our fingers together.
I think the right expression for how the medium worked was 'table tipping'. She went through the letters of the alphabet, the table would tip (quite violently) at times to one side after every letter and stop on the letter it wanted.
The medium, after a few minutes of calling on spirit guides, announced that the spirits had arrived and off the table went. It was impressive. The table did spell out a lot of things that only family members would know. It also predicted a few things. The 'spirits' told me I could expect to have twin girls on the way before very long. I was certainly not looking to have anymore children and was looking forward to proving this statement to be incorrect!
At certain points this (extremely heavy) table would leap sideways into our laps and the medium would declare that this was a deceased loved one giving us a hug. She also announced the presence of various animals around the room which, upon their names being spelled out, turned out to have belonged to us all as pets in the past, including a goldfish called Barbie which as far as guesswork goes, was pretty impressive, I thought.
I tried to figure out how she was doing it. Glancing at her feet for the pedal that must control the table. Found nothing, her feet didn't seem to move. Surely though, we were subconciously putting extra pressure on the table when it arrived on a letter we expected, giving a cue when she should stop it? I tried putting pressure on the table at random points. It just carried on regardless or would wobble to a stop and the medium would say the spirits said it was wrong. I decided in the end to stop looking for tricks and just go with the experience.
As we neared the end, the medium asked if we had any questions for the spirits. Everyone else asked about health concerns or their childrens futures or their own. The table had given bad news before and I didn't want to risk it. Instead, when it was my turn, knowing that one of my deceased relatives was into true crime, I blurted out:
'So have you finally solved the mystery of Jack the ripper now?'
There was silence. Then the table tipped over to spell: 'yes'
I asked who Jack the ripper was. The table stayed still. The medium said 'the spirits have rules they have to follow. They are making sure its ok to tell you.'
Then the table began to move. It spelled out 'George Kloskowski'
And that was that. I read through all that I could find on the suspects and history on Jack the ripper over the following weeks, but I never came across the name. Eventually, I let it go. I became very busy anyway after the birth of my twin baby girls in early 2016.
This morning, I came across a crime magazine. I can't find when it was printed, although it looks fairly recent. An article inside the magazine caught my eye. It speaks of a man called Severin Kloskowski, aka George Chapman, who was hanged in 1903 at Wandsworth prison having been found guilty of murdering 3 women by poison. He arrived in the Uk from Poland in 1888 and was living in whitechapel at the time of the murders. He was 23 at the time. He changed his name to George Chapman, taking the surname of his mistress, Annie Chapman. Not THE Annie Chapman, but it feels like another odd coincidence!
According to reports, chief inspector Abberline believed him to be Jack. When I put his alias first name together with his real surname, it spells the name given to me at the seance. Now I'm not claiming anything. It could all just be a coincidence. The medium could have just plucked a name out of thin air, but what a coincidence again if so! She could have been aware of this suspect, although I had never heard of him, but if so, why didn't she spell out George Chapman or Severin Kloskowski? Why didn't, for that matter, the spirits? Whatever the explanation, it's all left me feeling a little odd. And I felt the experience was strange enough to post on here. Im attempting to post some pictures of the article, but it keeps saying file too big, I'll keep trying.
*edited to correct spelling mistake
Before I start, I want to make clear that I'm really not claiming to have definitively uncovered the identity of Jack the ripper with the help of ghosts. I would feel a bit silly doing that. But I've had what I feel is a strange experience and where else would I tell it?
Around the end of 2014, I went with my mother to a seance. My mother claimed that the medium who held these seances was amazing and my mother honestly believed that she was talking to deceased members of our family there in that room with her.
I was sceptical at best, but I try to keep an open mind and if nothing else, it would be an experience. The medium met a group of four of us at the door. She was gruff, no nonsense and a little intimidating.
We were led to an upstairs room where the windows were open, letting in the sunlight, the curtains fluttered in the cool breeze and calming instrumental music was playing on low volume. Not what I'd been expecting.
We were instructed to sit around around a wooden table in the middle of the room, lay our hands flat on the table and touch our fingers together.
I think the right expression for how the medium worked was 'table tipping'. She went through the letters of the alphabet, the table would tip (quite violently) at times to one side after every letter and stop on the letter it wanted.
The medium, after a few minutes of calling on spirit guides, announced that the spirits had arrived and off the table went. It was impressive. The table did spell out a lot of things that only family members would know. It also predicted a few things. The 'spirits' told me I could expect to have twin girls on the way before very long. I was certainly not looking to have anymore children and was looking forward to proving this statement to be incorrect!
At certain points this (extremely heavy) table would leap sideways into our laps and the medium would declare that this was a deceased loved one giving us a hug. She also announced the presence of various animals around the room which, upon their names being spelled out, turned out to have belonged to us all as pets in the past, including a goldfish called Barbie which as far as guesswork goes, was pretty impressive, I thought.
I tried to figure out how she was doing it. Glancing at her feet for the pedal that must control the table. Found nothing, her feet didn't seem to move. Surely though, we were subconciously putting extra pressure on the table when it arrived on a letter we expected, giving a cue when she should stop it? I tried putting pressure on the table at random points. It just carried on regardless or would wobble to a stop and the medium would say the spirits said it was wrong. I decided in the end to stop looking for tricks and just go with the experience.
As we neared the end, the medium asked if we had any questions for the spirits. Everyone else asked about health concerns or their childrens futures or their own. The table had given bad news before and I didn't want to risk it. Instead, when it was my turn, knowing that one of my deceased relatives was into true crime, I blurted out:
'So have you finally solved the mystery of Jack the ripper now?'
There was silence. Then the table tipped over to spell: 'yes'
I asked who Jack the ripper was. The table stayed still. The medium said 'the spirits have rules they have to follow. They are making sure its ok to tell you.'
Then the table began to move. It spelled out 'George Kloskowski'
And that was that. I read through all that I could find on the suspects and history on Jack the ripper over the following weeks, but I never came across the name. Eventually, I let it go. I became very busy anyway after the birth of my twin baby girls in early 2016.
This morning, I came across a crime magazine. I can't find when it was printed, although it looks fairly recent. An article inside the magazine caught my eye. It speaks of a man called Severin Kloskowski, aka George Chapman, who was hanged in 1903 at Wandsworth prison having been found guilty of murdering 3 women by poison. He arrived in the Uk from Poland in 1888 and was living in whitechapel at the time of the murders. He was 23 at the time. He changed his name to George Chapman, taking the surname of his mistress, Annie Chapman. Not THE Annie Chapman, but it feels like another odd coincidence!
According to reports, chief inspector Abberline believed him to be Jack. When I put his alias first name together with his real surname, it spells the name given to me at the seance. Now I'm not claiming anything. It could all just be a coincidence. The medium could have just plucked a name out of thin air, but what a coincidence again if so! She could have been aware of this suspect, although I had never heard of him, but if so, why didn't she spell out George Chapman or Severin Kloskowski? Why didn't, for that matter, the spirits? Whatever the explanation, it's all left me feeling a little odd. And I felt the experience was strange enough to post on here. Im attempting to post some pictures of the article, but it keeps saying file too big, I'll keep trying.
*edited to correct spelling mistake
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