This is the Past Lives podcast episode 257, and I'm your host, Simon Bown.

My mission here at Past Lives podcast is to investigate evidence that demonstrates survival

of the human soul. We will look at past life memories, near-death

experiences, spirit communication and other incredible phenomena. And please check out my other podcast.

It's called the Alien UFO podcast. And I release new episodes every Monday and you can find

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This week I'm talking to John Russell about his book, A Knock in the Attic,

true ghost stories and other spine-chilling paranormal adventures.

John has been a professional psychic for 50 years.

He is a psychic reader, a medium, a certified

taro master, a paranormal investigator and now a published author. Internationally known,

he has provided psychic readings for clients in over 40 countries. John became aware

of his psychic abilities when he was about six years old when he encountered a ghost and by the age of 18

he was reading professionally. Hi John. Thanks a lot for coming on the podcast. Simon, I'm delighted to

be here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm looking forward to it. So we were going to talk about your

book. It's called A Knock in the Attic, True Ghost Stories and Other Spine-Chilling, Paranormal Adventures. And it's called a knock in the attic true ghost stories and other spine-chilling

paranormal adventures and it's fascinating book it starts off where you talk about when

you were five years old and you saw your first ghost what happened there yeah that was

incredible Simon I was literally about five five and a half years old.

And I was sound asleep in my bed. It was late at night, maybe early in the morning. It was

pitch dark outside. And my parents had put a nightlight in the hallway so that when I woke up

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