I am the youngest of six children and I was born in 1971 in Footscray, Australia. My earliest memory of the paranormal is when my mum and dad took us our family to a spiritualist church, and I remember watching and listening in absolute awe as the clairvoyant sat on the stage holding a flower and giving a reading. My love for the paranormal and occult started then. One of my encounters with the paranormal was when I was at school, we were asked to do a five-minute speech for our English exam and my speech lasted about thirty minutes. I chose to talk about the paranormal and took my mum’s crystal ball into school as a visual aid. Whilst doing the speech, the books in the school library fell off the shelf, scaring the pupils and teacher. I passed my oral exam.  I grew up with my mum doing readings and a normal Saturday night consisted of using a Ouija board around the dining room table.

I’m from a Catholic background and attending mass on a Sunday morning was a typical family tradition, although I sometimes find mass dull as I disagreed with some Catholic beliefs. I still occasionally attend mass (not as much as I used to) but prefer to sit in church on my own with my own thoughts. I still believe in God regardless.

The paranormal and occult for many years has been quite a taboo subject, and only now do I feel that people feel relaxed talking about it without being judgemental.