Expert reveals the signs you could be psychic

Many say that ‘psychic’ occurrences can be explained away by science or coincidence, or even be a sign of a mental health issue.

However, an expert has claimed that experiences such as knowing when a friend or relative is going to call – or having a poltergeist encounter may well be a sign of untapped psychic talent. 

Dr Richard Sugg, who has lectured at Durham University, is somewhat of an expert when it comes to the mystical side of life and is the author of 13 books, including Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires, Fairies: A Dangerous History, A Century of Ghost Stories, and The Real Vampires.  

The expert is currently researching a new book, We Need to Talk about Ghosts, running from the death of his father in 1989 to that of his mother in 2021. He says she came back to say goodbye a week later.

Dr Sugg claims that women may be more psychic than men, and often have ‘feelings’ about places and people far sooner than the opposite sex. 

For those with an interest in the supernatural side of life, he’s revealed potential signs of latent psychic abilities that you may not be aware of.

1. Have you ever been badly spooked by a building or a place?

According to Dr Sugg this has been a common theme when viewing a property or visiting a historic building. 

He said: ‘If you get a strong feeling that you need to leave or run away when viewing a house or flat, you should take it seriously. 

‘Have you had such an experience and had it laughed off by a skeptical boyfriend, husband or male relative?’ 

‘If an opposite sex couple go to view a house together you might just want to listen if the woman says she wants to get away – or doesn’t like the property. 

‘In the severely haunted Essex house known as The Cage in St Osyth, numerous witnesses have had sudden inexplicable feelings of depression or even rage.’

The Cage is a former village lockup where drunks and villains would be kept overnight. 

But is it best known for holding Ursula Kempe, an Essex woman accused and found guilty of witchcraft for living and having a relationship with another female.

A mother of two called Vanessa Mitchell bought The Cage, which is now a museum, in 2004 and it took 12 years to finally sell the place because people ‘felt spooked’ when they came to view it. 

2. Have you ever experienced a poltergeist?

 If you believe in ghosts and ghouls, you may want to watch out for the signs of a poltergeist – often depicted as the trickster of the spirit world. 

A poltergeist could easily be explained away by scientific factors, but Dr Sugg claims those with psychic abilities – especially women – may have been on the receiving end of their tricks. 

The supernatural expert claims that a so-called poltergeist in your home may not always look like a Hollywood movie. 

Dr Sugg told FEMAIL: ‘Its tricks could range from stealing objects or moving them around undamaged to thunderous hammering noises, severe flooding, and devastating fires. It could hurl around objects up to the size of a heavy table or wardrobe, and throw people out of bed – as happened to my old tutor Mike several times.’ 

He says a poltergeist can also produce smells with no source, from perfume or aftershave, to cooking food or live tobacco smoke. 

During his research the lecturer says that poltergeist reports seem to focus on younger women or girls and says they can follow them around closely.

The Cambridge educated parapsychologist A.R.G. Owen claimed that the ratio in poltergeist agents was 4-1 female-male.

Dr Sugg explained: ‘If you have had this experience, there’s again a strong chance that a male partner or relative will be incredulous or even irritated to hear about it.

‘About two thirds of pubs I’ve been in in recent years are haunted: by poltergeists and visible apparitions.

‘Interestingly, you can ask female staff and male staff in the same pub, and get detailed persuasive stories from the women, whilst the men shake their heads grumpily and say ‘I don’t go for that.”

3. Have you ever seen a ‘ghost’ which those beside you couldn’t see?

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According to the author there are many well documented cases of ghostly encounters which suggest the ghost witness is not hallucinating – they may actually be psychic and draw the ‘spirits’ to them.

He says animals might react violently to something no one else can see or hear – like when your pet cat scurries across the room for no reason or suddenly has a bushy tail and hisses at nothing. 

The expert says that photographs have picked up ghosts which no saw when taking the shot. 

He explained:’Tape recordings replay ghostly voices which no one heard at the time. 

‘So far as we know, machinery does not imagine ghosts.’

He details what was recorded as a ‘severe poltergeist outbreak’ in a wealthy Dublin home in 1841, the noise in the house was so loud that the family left the house, losing a good deal in rent. 

He said:’And as so often happens, the poltergeist followed them. It was evidently following a young female servant employed by the family. 

‘It turned out to be her brother, who had been killed in a railway accident. He would come back and talk to his living sister, and beg her to pay off all his outstanding debts to local shopkeepers. 

‘Spookily all the amounts she gave proved correct when she went into the shops to pay off her dead sibling’s debts.’

4. Have you ever had an out of body experience?

A significant range of people have reported moving out of their bodies in various circumstances: during Near Death Experiences, under anesthetic for surgery, or simply while sleeping – this could be another sign that you are psychic. 

Medics say that phenomena such as sleep paralysis are explained by mechanisms within the brain but during his years of research the lecturer and author claims these experiences can mean someone is in touch with their psychic side – they just might not know it.

Dr Sugg said: ‘People might look down at a room from the ceiling, or pass through walls and doors and even fly.

‘There is also a small group of people who quite literally appear in two places at once, often according to need.’

It was said that in 1905 the British Conservative MP Sir Carne Rasch was sick in bed with severe flu. 

He badly needed to be in the Commons for a crucial vote. Just as the House was gathering for the vote, it was claimed Rasch was seen there by a fellow MP, Gilbert Parker. 

Parker later stated that Rasch failed to answer his greeting, and did not look quite himself. Little surprise, as he had never left his bed that day, but Dr Sugg says this is a classic example of how ‘thought affects the body’.

5. Have you ever had a premonition? 

The famous cases of premonitions tend to be of major disasters.

Well known doomsday psychic Baba Vanga told of ‘steel birds felling the twin towers’ commonly thought to predict the September 11 disaster. 

The expert claims that a surprising number of people can predict minor ordinary events, such as a phone call from a friend or relative.

He said: ‘More seriously, many people have felt a sudden overwhelming need to check on a relative or friend; arrived at their home and found them helpless from a fall, or the aftermath of heart attack or stroke.

 ‘Sometimes a person may feel severely agitated for no obvious reason. 

‘This happened to one woman out at the theatre with her husband, and became so bad they had to leave the performance. She directed him to drive to a set of garages, again with no obvious explanation. 

‘She then pinpointed one garage in the row. They got the door open, and found a man running his exhaust in order to commit suicide. They saved his life.’