Shaun Talks With The Dead

by Eleanor Scotchbrook
Psychic Shaun Dennis’s special sixth sense has led to a lifetime’s fascination with the paranormal.

When Shaun Dennis was a child he could instinctively tell things about his mother’s friends just by looking at them. “After they left I’d say to my mother ‘has that lady just lost her mother?’ and she’d ask me how I knew and I just couldn’t explain it,” the stage psychic said.

His special “sixth sense” has led to a lifetime’s fascination with the paranormal and he now wows audiences up and down the country with his spookily accurate readings.

From an early age the Liverpudlian knew he was “an instrument between this world and the next” but his strict Roman Catholic upbringing meant he kept his gift to himself, often secretly meditating while his parents were at church. “I felt I was being pushed in a different direction,” he said. “I could pick up sensations but at that age I thought everyone could.”

His natural intuitiveness combined with his curiosity to find an answer to the biggest mystery of all, whether there is life after death, saw him enroll at a school of mysticism, where he was able to indulge his passion for the paranormal.

He later joined the Spiritualist Church where he was first invited to demonstrate his ability to the congregation.

Image: Shaun Dennis says death is something we all have to face one day

His gift for bringing forth staggeringly specific information led to readings outside the church movement and in 2005 he gave up his job as a business studies lecturer to become a full-time medium.

“All I do is act as a channel of communication by demonstrating that the spirit world does exist and that our loved ones are still part of our lives,” the married dad-of-three explained.

Just a few weeks ago, the 56-year-old accurately described a woman’s lost loved one in amazing detail, even down to a patch of carpet sticking up on her staircase!

“Everything I said was right,” he explained. “When you get such a wonderful connection like that it really blows your mind.”

His messages have also brought great comfort to people. “I did a haunting investigation in a pub once and this guy appeared in front of me with a shotgun. “He told me that the pressures of life had become too difficult and the people who worked there confirmed that a previous licensee had shot himself. Some years later I gave a reading for lady and it turned out to be her husband. When I told her what he’d said she burst into tears as they’d had an argument before she left the pub that night and she blamed herself. It gave her closure.”

With the popularity of shows like Most Haunted, Shaun said interest in the paranormal is at a high, although there will always be sceptics.

Even his wife Liz was cynical at first. As a nurse caring for terminally-ill children, she found it hard to believe in an afterlife.

“Death is something we all have to face one day and I think people seek reassurance that there is something after this life,” Shaun said.

“There will always be non-believers and when you get a hardened sceptic there’s nothing you can do to convince them. All I ask is to come with an open mind.”

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