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The Secret Room | True Stories

211. I Was a Child Psychic

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ben’s guest Vicky was a child psychic. And when she flexed her youthful powers, the adults in her life listened with rapt attention. Now all grown up, Vicky’s here to tell her story

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi Ben, my name is Vicky and my secret is that I was a child psychic.

0:05.6

All my predictions were imaginary, but that didn't stop the adults around me from falling for the charade.

0:11.6

Today the secret room presents, I was a experienced occasionally. There were things that I still think I wonder or experienced occasionally.

0:32.8

There are things that I still think,

0:34.3

I wonder what that was.

0:35.6

This episode is brought to you by Better Help Therapy online.

0:42.2

For 10% off your first month, go to Better H-E.com slash secret. My guest on today's show was a child psychic. When she flexed her youthful

0:57.5

powers, the adults in Vicky's life listened with rapt attention. Now as an

1:02.2

adult, she joins me to tell her secret.

1:06.8

Hi Vicky and welcome to the secret room.

1:10.5

It's great to be here, Ben. You have a very unique secret that I'm really excited to get into.

1:15.0

Yeah.

1:16.0

And depending on where the story goes, I might have some follow-on questions for you toward the end.

1:21.0

Yeah, no problem.

1:22.0

Okay, you might be able to guess what kind of questions I'm going to ask. I don't know. And you're speaking to us from Melbourne? Is that where you grew up?

1:29.6

Melbourne, Australia, yeah, it's the southern part of Australia and I grew up kind of out of the main city.

1:36.8

It was pretty much a beautiful countryside by the river and lots of trees and I had a quite idyllic childhood, basically swimming in the river and climbing trees a lot.

1:47.0

I was a, what would have once be called a tomboy, I guess.

1:51.0

And how many siblings did you have? I have two older sisters and two older

1:55.8

brothers so I was the baby but by the time I came along my oldest sister was

2:01.0

married with a daughter who's basically the same age as me.

2:04.1

So we kind of grew up like sisters almost.

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