That’s what Ann White of Beaufort, also known as Running Deer, says when people ask her about her psychic ability. She prefers to be called a Cherokee medicine woman, rather than a psychic. Whatever the title, she says that people have come to her when they cross over. One was a woman named Tera Dianne Tracy, who was beaten and stabbed to death while working at a convenience store across the street from her house.
Tracy told White the details of her death, gave a description of her killer, and revealed that a Winnie the Pooh bear had been placed inside her casket. A statue of a horse was placed on top of her grave, due to the fact that she had loved horses. White couldn’t have known any of the personal details of the burial because she lived 30 miles away from Tracy and her family.
White met one of Tracy’s family members by chance when she went to a chiropractor. The family was so impressed with White’s testimony that they asked her to contact the sheriff’s office to help them solve this 8 year-old case. White was able to identify the killer, based on a drawing she had made from Tracy’s description, and urged the authorities to post a nationwide bulletin with his photo.
Psychic Rosemary the Celtic Lady claims that she had a vision of Lady Diana’s death four years before it occurred, and she says it was no accident.
McArthur said that a few hours before meeting Diana in 1993 she fell painfully ill and saw flashes of lights, a black car and heard screeching metal.
“I kept hearing, ‘Paris, Paris, Paris.’ ”
Four years later, she endured the same sensations and then heard news of Diana’s fatal car crash, Rosemary said.
Shortly after that, she claims that Diana started channeling through her, stating that she was in a better place and that “they” (Parliament officials or Fayed’s family?) aborted her pregnancy. McArthur didn’t bother supporting her claims with any meaningful details, just more vague and sensationalist tabloid speculation. Haven’t we all had enough of that already? Let the poor woman rest in peace.
“The first time Jude Allman died, he was eight years old.”
This is the first line of Waking Lazarus, a story about a troubled man who becomes an unwilling celebrity after he dies three times over the course of his life. Jude Allman doesn’t know how or why he survived and goes to great lengths to protect himself from the media after he moves to Red Lodge, Montana. Under the assumed name of Ron Gress, Jude works for the local elementary school as a janitor.
He leads a very solitary, paranoia-ridden life until a strange woman named Kristina shows up on his doorstep. Naturally, he thinks she’s a reporter and tries to shoo her away. She convinces him that she is a dying woman looking for answers to the Other Side. In the meantime, children have started disappearing from neighboring towns.
Jude is aware of this and is afraid for his five year-old son, Nathan. He begins experiencing premonitions, first with a suicidal waitress and then with a man he met after a fatal pedestrian accident. When Jude bumps into this man (named Kenneth Sohler) in the men’s bathroom of the local restaurant, he experiences a strong vision that Sohler has someone trapped inside his house against their will. This vision spurns him to Sohler’s house and under the watchful eye of the already paranoid police department.
Suddenly everyone wants to know who Ron Gress really is, including his estranged girlfriend. The police are certain that he is the perpetrator of the child abductions until Nathan is kidnapped with his best friend and his best friend’s mother. Jude is let off the hook, but now he must face his past as he seeks the whereabouts of his son and friend.
T.L. Hines did a great job of weaving this paranormal thriller together. Just when you think you’ve identified the abductor, he throws in another twist to keep you guessing. Highly recommended.
One of the things I love about the latest web technology is that you can watch the TV shows that you missed because of the network schedule or your own. You can also see full previews of upcoming shows. Next Monday’s episode of Medium promises to be a doozy. Alison has an incredibly long dream of a young woman who finds herself stranded in the parking lot of the place she works. She calls her mother on her cell phone, but the mother is not much help. Then comes a stranger, eager to lend her a hand. You can pretty much guess where this is going, right? The end of the dream might surprise you.
