My psychic reading with ghost whisperer Suzie Price

WHEN I enter the room to meet Suzie Price - winner of the 2014 International Psychics Association ‘people’s choice award’ - there’s a purple scarf on the boardroom table, along with what appears to be a crystal ball, a statue of a wizard-looking guy in a floating robe, tarot cards and a bowl of walnuts (Price almost chokes on a walnut during our 20-minute reading ... whether this somehow “blocks” her abilities is unclear).

For more than 17 years, Price has been connecting the living with the dead.

Her ability to “communicate with spirits” began when she was seven years old and she was hit by a car.

She was knocked unconscious and had a near-death experience where she saw an angel surrounded by a bright white light (there were no wings, but she knew instinctively she was an angel).

“I felt the most amazing, powerful love I’ve ever felt,” she recalls.

“I said I wanted to stay with her, but she said I had to go back”.

Ever since then, Price, who is now based in NSW’s Hunter Valley, has had spirits visit her. When the visits started, she tried to explain what was happening to her mother, but it was dismissed as a phase she’d grow out of.

But fast forward to 2016 and Price is making a fairly lucrative career as an “international psychic medium”.

She has a 14-month waiting list for one-on-one readings (we’ve jumped the queue as she’s doing short readings for journalists in the lead up to her Sydney live show). A one-hour session with Suzie will usually set you back $250.

She has also released a book, Heaven on Earth, and an album titled Heart of the Universe:

As well as the personal readings (that can also be conducted over Skype or phone) she also does readings at a series of live shows.

Here are some highlights from her appearance at the Lithgow Show:

Price’s career really began to take off in 2013 when she became the main medium on the TV show Haunted Australia.

As well as attempting to communicate with ghosts on commercial television she also has “insight” into some unsolved criminal investigations. One cold case in particular is still troubling her — that of Bathurst resident Janine Vaughan, who has been missing for 15 years.

Janine’s sister went to one of Price’s live shows, where she was singled out in the crowd.

Price believes that Janine was murdered, and that the killer is being protected by members of the Bathurst community. She says that she and Janine’s family are not allowed onto the property where she believes the body will be found.

Before my 20-minute reading at the PR agency’s office, Price has asked that I peruse a document that encourages me to relax and be open to the psychic experience.

At this juncture I’d like to point out that I’m fairly agnostic when it comes to psychics and spirits and the like. I’m not dismissive and I’m not a complete believer. I’m pretty much Switzerland when it comes to the supernatural.

We hold hands and she asks for an item of my jewellery to hold onto throughout the reading.

I give her my ring that is made from an monogrammed cufflink that my (dead) grandfather wore every day of his working life. He never comes up in conversation.

Here is a snippet of our exchange:

SP: Is there a brother?

Me: Nope

SP: A sister?

Me: I’m an only child.

SP: Is there a D ... David?
Me: Who’s David?

SP: ... How about a small dog?

Me: Nope.

SP: ... A cat?

Me: I’m allergic.

She tells me that one of my (dead) grandmothers is telling her that I have been sick, but I can’t place much weight on this as I sound like I am drowning in my own snot and I actually look like the clip art designer’s rendering of a sick person.

She says my grandmother wants to wish my father a happy birthday, which is extra amazing because grandma had dementia before she died and couldn’t even remember her own birthday.

To finish, we do some tarot cards. She says I’m going to come into some money which is spookily accurate as it is indeed payday this week. She then looks at my palm with a magnifying glass and a flash light and tells me that I will have a son, and then a daughter.

I realise I am quite possibly a ghost whisperer’s worst nightmare. I have no siblings, pets, nieces or nephews and I’ve never met 50 per cent of my grandparents. I am terrible with names, so even if I have had a significant “David” in my life, there’s every chance he’s slipped my mind. Everyone I know who has died has left this world pretty happy, and it wouldn’t surprise me if any spirits around me had little more to say than “Hey girl, what have you done to your hair?”

It’s very possible that the problem is me and I just have a dud aura/lazy spirit community, because more than 16,000 people ‘like’ Suzie on Facebook and as previously mentioned, there are individuals who are waiting 14 months to hold hands with her.

She’s a gentle soul and I genuinely don’t believe she is “fleecing” vulnerable people, as is the criticism of many psychics. There are plenty of testimonials on her website from people who have found comfort from their session during the period of grieving a loved one.

For example: “My heartfelt thanks to Suzy for her private reading with myself and my daughter last week. Suzie was breathtakingly amazing and very accurate, connecting me with long time and recently departed people who were incredibly important to me and my family. Her authenticity, delivery and sensitivity is beyond reproach and after a long period of turbulence she has given me a sense of calm. I couldn’t recommend Suzie and her talents more highly — a true professional and just an incredibly lovely human with a beautiful soul.”

Yep. I have a dud aura.

Suzie Price is appearing at the Dockside Function Centre in Sydney on Sunday, August 14. More information at www.ghostwhisperersuzie.com

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