All four of us were thrilled with our readings! We just couldn't believe how accurate everything was and how much information came thru.
I guess we could say that Barbara, the first one to be read, had the best reading. Diane and I were especially impressed with it because Barbara was a last minute replacement for someone else who "chickened out." Diane was the only one who knew she would be there and Barbara didn't even know that she was there for a medium. She thought it was just to see a psychic who was going to tell her future. Since we thought we had tried everybody that we knew might want to try having a reading and still couldn't come up with a 5th person, Diane was pretty desperate to find another person when her friend backed out at the last minute. She doesn't know Barbara very well, but she was the last person Diane could think of asking. Diane and I were the only ones there when Barbara arrived. Diane explained to her that it was a reading with a psychic medium, not just a psychic, and that we were planning on communicating with the dead. Then she started telling us who she would like to hear from and why. To our absolute amazement William talked about everything she had told us and more. We believe that this was all meant to happen and that Barbara was supposed to be there at that time for a reading.
I have to tell you that we discussed everything after Barbara and William were both gone. We all agreed that Barbara definitely had the best reading, but that was because she had the most intense issues to deal with. We didn't have anything to learn about like she did so we weren't disappointed by comparing her reading to ours. To be truthful with you, I think Diane and I would have been very disappointed with William if he didn't at least mention some of the things that she had told us about before he got there. He certainly did more than just mention some things. We all felt that just being there to hear Barbara's reading was well worth it even if we didn't have any readings for ourselves.
As for me, I couldn't have been more impressed. My Aunt was the person I most wanted to hear from and she was the first one to come thru. William got it exactly right when he said she used to take me to the ocean. That was the perfect thing for him to say to me because some of my happiest memories are of going to the ocean with her. Besides lots and lots of other things that she did thru my whole life, the thing that is most special to me is the time that she made possible for me to spend in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. She took me and my brother there every year for quite a few years. I did have a specific reason for wanting to have contact with her, but that didn't come out. However, I had the last reading and it was getting late by then. I'm sure more would have come out if there was more time.
William also mentioned my Uncle who was killed in the war. He was another one that I especially wanted to hear from. Again, he was someone I had a specific reason to want to communicate with that didn't come out, but I believe also with him, that it would have come out if there had been more time. William got the information about him exactly right too. The story about him was that he was killed in WW2. He was awarded the purple heart, which was given to his wife. His wife later re-married and had a daughter with her 2nd husband. When she died, her daughter contacted someone from my family and asked if they would like to have everything her mother had kept pertaining to my Uncle, except the purple heart. For some unknown reason she wanted to keep that and we have no idea whatever happened to it. The relatiave she contacted sent everything to one of my aunts. She kept them for a while and then sent them to her sister who is my Mother. My Mother kept them for a while and then gave them to me. I felt that the purple heart should have been returned to our family with all the other things, but didn't know what I could do about it.
Working on my genealogy research I learned that you can get someone's military records and get replacement medals for them. I decided to give it a try. I filled out all the necessary forms, had my Mother sign them and mailed them in. It took a long time, but I finally got a reply saying that all of my Uncle's records had been destroyed in a fire they had in the Records Center so they couldn't help me. It also said that I could send any proof of his military service that I had and they would check other sources for records. Luckily I had all the documents, letters and more that my Aunt had kept. The original letter telling her that she was going to get his purple heart was also there. Sorry this is getting to be so long. Anyway, I was able to get part of his military record restored. Then I was told that I would have to start all over with my request for a replacement purple heart. I planned on getting to it eventually, but never did. Then a year later the purple heart arrived in the mail. I had no idea why because I never sent in another application for it. But then I learned that it was done automatically thru the department that restored his records even though they were the ones who told me I had to re-apply. A couple of other things also came with the purple heart. One is an official document that comes in a special frame. I'm positive that is the document that William was referring to yesterday when he was talking about my Uncle and his medal.
There was one thing that wasn't right with the medal and I was really hoping William would pick up on that. He didn't mention it, but again, it's something that I feel quite sure would have come out if there was more time.
My other Uncle who was killed in a car crash when he was going to the airport to go home on leave from the Army Air Corp was another one I wanted to hear from. William also talked about him and the accident.
At the end of my reading I asked William if my father-in-law was there because I wanted to be able to tell my husband that he was. William got the lung problem and heavy smoking exactly right. William said that something happened when my husband was 8 or 9 years old that my husband would either understand or he wouldn't. Well, my husband listened to my tape and knew right away exactly what William was talking about. He knew he was either 8 or 9 when it happened, but couldn't remember which. He fell out of a tree and broke his wrist in 3 places. They lived in the country, but had no car and no phone so couldn't easily get a doctor. Normally his Mother would have taken care of the first-aid, but this time it was his father who took care of everything. He applied a splint and got someone with a car to take them to the doctor. My husband remembers every detail about it and I have heard the family story many times over the years, but did not know that was what William was referring to. But my husband sure did know. He was very close with his father and has had some very vivid dreams about being with him. While he is a skeptic about all of this, he even says that those were not regular dreams, but that his father was coming to him during those particular dreams.
I want to just mention to you that my husband is still a skeptic, but nothing like he used to be. After years of living with me he started to wonder about these things. Then we bought a house that was "haunted" and lived there for 5 years. A lot of things happened there that he couldn't explain any other way. Then he wasn't quite so skeptical anymore. At least he is open to the possibility of unexplainable things now.
I'm sure there are a lot more things about the readings that I should mention. Oh, I just thought of one more, my great-grandmother and my efforts to find her grave. There is a long story about it that I won't go into, but I did tell William part of it. I assume that she is buried next to her husband. William described the location of her husband's grave perfectly. I will be going there in July or August and will look specifically for signs of her grave next to her husband's. When I was at that cemetery before, I didn't know that her grave was "missing" from our surviving family member’s memories and her church's records. I have a copy of the church record about her burial there that my cousin got in 1974, but now the record is missing from the church and they deny that they lost her record even though I have a copy of it. I've been trying to get this resolved for a little over 2 years now. What William told me just seems to confirm that she is buried next to her husband without a gravestone.
Tina was also pleased with her reading, especially when William said he would get back to her because he kind of cut hers short because it was getting late and he still had to do mine. She's really hoping that he will get back to her and wasn't just saying that to make her feel better about her reading. We work together so I'll be seeing her at work tomorrow. I'm sure we're going to spend a lot of time talking about the readings. Interesting that William and her son were friends in school.
Again, I'm sorry this has turned out to be so long, but it has been very exciting. There is one more thing I have to tell you though. We all felt that William is not just a great medium, but that he is also a very nice person. He seems to really care about what he does and has a great personality. We all couldn't help but like him.
I know that I will be back for another reading, but there is so much going on for me over the next few months that it will probably be after things settle down.
Thanks for everything. All of us will be spreading the word about how great William is.
Claudia Castle
Torrington, CT
(Claudia has offered to be contacted by anyone interested in William or thinking about having a reading with him)
