I met my husband in Blackpool and now we share our bed with ghosts of our dead relatives

Jul 07, 2023

'From a little boy he was like the boy in Sixth Sense - it just became normal over the years'

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A woman who met her medium husband while he was performing on stage in Blackpool has revealed how they now share their home with the ghosts of their dead relatives.

David Drew says he has seen spirits all his life - and today they sit on the sofa and have share a bed with the couple. The 68-year-old met now-wife Jane Drew, 59, at one of his clairvoyant shows in the seaside resort..

She says her late mum, Mary, and grandmother, Clara, hang out around their lounge, while her dad has been spotted by David standing behind the bar in a hotel they use to own. Jane says she's even been poked in the back by her late mum, who died in 2019.

And in the early days of their relationship random unknown spirits would join the couple in their bed up to four times a week. Psychic medium David has worked as a spiritual healer for more than 50 years.

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Jane is now a full-time carer for David, who is in a wheelchair and "struggles to stand on stage". But he says he still receives "hundreds" of requests from people for help with their spiritual cases.

David, from Llandudno, Conwy, Wales, said: "I'm 70 next year and my earliest experience was when I was three years old. I see people all the time and nine months after Jane's mum's passing I saw her smiling, look at me.

"I never really see my relatives but in 1979 I saw my mother soon after she passed over and I've never seen her since. The only thing you can take with you when you pass on is spiritual mindfulness. It's an unusual life I would say looking back."

Jane added: "He sometimes sees my mum and grandma sat in the lounge when he walks past. We used to have a bar and David would sometimes see my dad behind the bar too.

"We'd be in bed and feel the bed dip down and I'd ask who that would be and he would just go to sleep and I'd be lying there in the covers scared under the duvet. Sometimes it would just be a small dip and then other times it would feel like someone really bouncing their bum down on the bed.

"It just became normal over the years. My mum's not been dead quite so long - only a couple of years - but she had this habit of poking me in my back to get my attention.

"One night I was sat in bed and felt the poke in my back so I knew it was her.

"There have been some hair-raising things. What tends to startle me is when things in the house move.

"David kept a shaving mirror at the back of the counter and it jumped off and hovered for a second above the floor and then dropped and that happened three times. This happened David wasn't here and if he was here.

"He'd have been able to explain it but because I can't see who's there, that's what makes it scary."

David has "always" been able to see spirits, and even played with them from a young age.

"From a little boy he was like the boy in Sixth Sense - he's seen spirts all his life," said Jane. "When he was very small, he thought everybody could see these spirits.

"He then realised that not everyone could see them, but it's just normal for him. He would play with spirit children at the bottom of the garden too.

"As a kid he didn't want to be the odd one out so he asked his mum for a plaster whilst playing despite not having an injury just so he could fit in with the other spirits who had injuries.

"It was pretty scary for his mother but normal for him. He would say he could see Auntie Bessie round for tea despite the fact she'd died years before.

"He then realised that not everyone could see them - they're just people at the end of the day. We see a ghostly shape and he just sees a person. He's petrified of bees and thunder but if you ask him to face a poltergeist, he won't bat an eye."

Jane met David after attending one of his stage shows in Blackpool in 1984. She said: "I've always been vaguely interested in spirits and my grandma used to have premonitions with different members of the family seeing ghosts.

"I did believe that there was something after death, but that doesn't mean to say that everybody did and so when I went to see David I was open to the concept but had half a sceptical eye if this was genuine.

"So, my mum had bought me tickets to go and see him in Blackpool. I felt like I knew him, he was passing on all these messages to people.

"In the interval he said to me 'you're the girl I'm going to marry'. I gave him a call a few weeks after that for a reading and instead of that he took me for a drink. We got married a year later."

Jane says her husband's work has seen him tackle all kinds of cases - including a woman tormented by a spirit in her home.

She said: "I chatted one day, to a girl as she waited to see David. She told me that, since she had used the Ouija board with some friends one evening, taps would turn off mid-shower, the plug would be pulled out when she was in the bath, and clothes on hangers moved away from her when she reached for them.

"She had opened a door and didn’t know how to close it. As she walked into David’s office, he could see a grubby looking man with blackened teeth walking behind her. He grinned, enjoying the fear and upset he was causing.

"Usually, all that is needed in these cases, is a conversation with the spirit entity. David explains that they shouldn’t be here and shows them how to cross over to the next dimension. This would not work with this earthbound character. He was not going to willingly leave the young woman. With a prayer and some assistance from David’s spirit helpers, he was whisked away and the girl was free at last."

David's work hasn't come without a backlash, however. Jane said: "Usually the feedback he gets is very positive and very often you get someone who'll say it's the work of the devil, but you never get it from anyone who's actually seen him.

"When he was due to appear at a theatre one time, he'd had a phone call from the police saying born again Christians were threatening to slash his tyres."

David's website and Jane's book - The Psychic's Wife: Lifting the Veil - can be found here: https://www.daviddrew.co.uk/