Cobh's 'White Witch' Helen Barrett- What are your experiences with her?

Thanks for that, I'll definately let you know how i get on!:)

Well i went to see Peter Matthew last week. I found him brillant, very accurate about everything, as he says he doesn't really predict future events cos we all have free will, but he does say a few things. Same things came up as when i went to see annette singleton months ago and a lot of the stuff he described no-one would have known. Definately would recommend him and annette singleton anytime!

Colsin91 wrote: »

Hey, could you kindly p.m. me the number for the white witch of cobh

She has a number here and in 6th's Psychics and Mediums Directory (scroll down) on http://www.paranormal.ie/. Try both numbers.

I've been holding off posting because I really don't know what to say. He's a really nice person but there was nothing in the reading for me.....it wasn't for want of trying on his part, I was with him for an hour and forty minutes. He let me record it and I've played it back a few times. He started off by giving names and descriptions of people that had passed over I can honestly say I was trying to match them up but I had to keep saying no, not really etc. Near the end he said there was a block up around me, (having said at the beginning that I was a bit physic and a healer, which I'm not) and I said that I didn't understand this as I had travelled to get this done and was looking forward to it. Anyway he went on and eventually he hit on a name and I thought we were getting somewhere but it wasn't to be. He apologised and said that there were people coming for readings that evening and perhaps he was getting their spirts???? He would say stuff like does November mean anything to you and I would say no don't think so (while frantically running every birthday, anniversary or mishap through my head) and then he would say oh thats something for the future. He finished by making a few predictions for the future which were very specific and quite near, so you never know.

One thing he did say that upset me, was that there was going to be a bereavement very soon. I asked was it someone close to me and he said yes and that it would bring me closer to spirituality, religion etc. I got a bit upset about this and on my way home I got a call to say my Dad had been taken into hospital, so you can imagine my panic all the way home. He's fine now but I did get a fright, and I didn't think they were mean't to tell you that sort of stuff.

All in all, I'm not sorry I went to see him because I was so curious and maybe there is a block around me but I don't know how to get rid of it if there is. I would have said that I am very open to this type of thing, but when I said that he said that maybe there is a sadness around me that is blocking, but if that is the case surely my loved ones (spirits) would want to come through to help me. I thought he was really nice, spent a lot of time with me, didn't rush, I've listened to the recording a few times but unfortunately nothing is ringing any bells.

Maybe MrMojorisin might be able to help make sense of it, he did apologise for stuff not meaning anything, but I was disappointed, having said that I would love to give it another go, maybe I was having a bad day?

virgo69 wrote: »

had a really long post but its hasn't appeared yet, I'll wait before I post again, quickly though it wasn't that great

I see it's up now, impatient me

God, sorry to hear that. Can only imagine how you must have felt when you got the call about your father.
Just remember, the thing about someone passing soon, if he didn't seem to hit the nail on the head with everything else, I wouldn't really give this much thought, if you can. Not nice hearing it.:(
Can i ask, how much was he? Where did you meet? Is he tricky to get a meeting with. Thanks

virgo69 wrote: »

I've been holding off posting because I really don't know what to say. He's a really nice person but there was nothing in the reading for me.....it wasn't for want of trying on his part, I was with him for an hour and forty minutes. He let me record it and I've played it back a few times.

I'm sorry to hear the reading wasn't any good. Especially since you had travelled some distance for it.

virgo69 wrote: »

He started off by giving names and descriptions of people that had passed over I can honestly say I was trying to match them up but I had to keep saying no, not really etc.

I wouldn't feel bad in any way about honestly disagreeing with any info he related to you. It'd be far, far worse if you were to agree with everything for the sake of appearing amenable.

virgo69 wrote: »

Near the end he said there was a block up around me, (having said at the beginning that I was a bit psychic and a healer, which I'm not) and I said that I didn't understand this as I had travelled to get this done and was looking forward to it.

Yeah, I don't really understand that whole 'there's a block around you' schtick. Now, I do think a person can have latent psychic and/or healing abilities remaining distinct from any potential 'blocks' reading-wise. Btw, I don't think he meant (even though I wasn't even bloody there, I know) that you're a healer in that you go around healing people on a semi-professional basis, or whatever - he probably just meant that you could explore that potential further if you wished.

I do wonder about the 'block' thing though. I wonder is it because a person might be a bit more tense or stressed than usual from prior travel that makes them difficult to read, or what? Would it be harder to get in tune with a person's energy field and, thus, their deceased relatives or friends, if they're sort of hyped up? I've never quite got any of that, tbh.

virgo69 wrote: »

Anyway he went on and eventually he hit on a name and I thought we were getting somewhere but it wasn't to be. He apologised and said that there were people coming for readings that evening and perhaps he was getting their spirits???? He would say stuff like does November mean anything to you and I would say no don't think so (while frantically running every birthday, anniversary or mishap through my head) and then he would say oh thats something for the future. He finished by making a few predictions for the future which were very specific and quite near, so you never know.

Okay, so it's safe to say that the connecting-with-deceased part wasn't good at all. I don't know what was going on that he was so muddled with it. Still, I suppose you can wait and see if the predictions are on-target. Considering they were specific for you, they should be easy to spot should they be made manifest. The rest of the reading, however, sounds like a total non-runner though.

virgo69 wrote: »

One thing he did say that upset me, was that there was going to be a bereavement very soon. I asked was it someone close to me and he said yes and that it would bring me closer to spirituality, religion etc. I got a bit upset about this and on my way home I got a call to say my Dad had been taken into hospital, so you can imagine my panic all the way home. He's fine now but I did get a fright, and I didn't think they were meant to tell you that sort of stuff.

Oh Jesus, that must have been very disconcerting. He should be careful of saying anything of that nature to people because, as in your case, it'll make them fear the worst. Yeah, I also thought it was general 'policy' not to tell clients about impending deaths, even if they're 99% certain of it. That's quite irresponsible. I suppose with things like that, just don't take it all as gospel.

Like, that reminds me of the time one of my sisters and her friend saw this fortune teller in a caravan in some field years ago and my sister came home bawling crying because yer wan in the caravan had told her she'd be dead in four years' time. Apparently due to organ failure (as a result of what ailment or mishap, Miley from Glenroe only knows). I had a burning desire to head over and fling a few eggs at that clown in the caravan but I heard they were all moving on elsewhere the next day.

Anyway my sis was inconsolable for about a fortnight and worried unnecessarily about it. They had paid that dopey lady around €7 to get their cards read. Eventually my sister seemed to forget about the prediction altogether (which was just as well) and, needless to say, she's still very much alive and kicking beyond the dreaded four-year supposed death knell.

The point is, don't ever take anything a reader tells you as an absolute certainty unless there's obvious concrete substantiation of which you are aware to support that assertion. But I'm glad your dad is okay anyway.

virgo69 wrote: »

All in all, I'm not sorry I went to see him because I was so curious and maybe there is a block around me but I don't know how to get rid of it if there is. I would have said that I am very open to this type of thing, but when I said that he said that maybe there is a sadness around me that is blocking, but if that is the case surely my loved ones (spirits) would want to come through to help me. I thought he was really nice, spent a lot of time with me, didn't rush, I've listened to the recording a few times but unfortunately nothing is ringing any bells.

I seriously don't know how any person would go about removing a so-called 'block' around themselves when they aren't even aware of it on a conscious level. That's like pissing into the wind. Seriously though, I don't understand that at all and, in any case, I don't see how something like that would have such permanence and potency anyway. You did your best to be open to it all, so that's all you can do. Don't blame or berate yourself.

I wish I could know for certain why a person's loved ones wouldn't try their damndest to come through in spirit even if the conditions for communication aren't ideal - from what I've read, distance and matter of the earthly kind are completely immaterial on the spirit plane, meaning there should be no barrier to making contact. It baffles me, tbh.

virgo69 wrote: »

[...] He did apologise for stuff not meaning anything, but I was disappointed, having said that I would love to give it another go, maybe I was having a bad day?

It is very disappointing, and it seems like a journey in vain, but I wouldn't go putting yourself down in any way either because of it being a bit of a shambles. The whole psychic readings scene is a hard one to make out at the best of times - the only certainties within it are uncertainty, variability and unpredictability; one person's experience largely differs from that of another person's most of the time. But when I find that a reader falls somewhere outside that margin based on what I've witnessed myself and been told by others I know, I don't hestitate to recommend them, e.g. the likes of Peter Matthew.

Everybody has bad days, or the day could start off well and end up bad (and vice versa), but I don't see how that would impact so strongly on effective spirit communication. If anything, it would be that the reading was a balls because the reader themselves was having a bad day (or week) and their concentration wasn't optimal. That's what I would think. I don't want to sound harsh and go laying the blame on any particular party, but in my mind, I'd attribute a fairly crap reading to impaired concentration due to stress or fatigue on the reader's part. Above all, just don't blame yourself.

Bumder wrote: »

Was just reading this thread when I noticed the above statement,could it be you have a subconscious psychic ability or is their another reason you mentioned a seeminly random person like miley from Glenroe in relation to predicted organ failure a month before the great man Mick Lally indeed passed away with reported heart failure?

No idea. It just popped into my head. Stupid, random things pop into my head once I get into the swing of writing something long-winded.

Was it heart failure that killed Mick? I thought it was something to do with his lungs.

Anyway, R.I.P. Mick/Miley. Nice man.

This is from some news story:

The twilight world beyond the grave, fairies and the dead, haunting and possessions, the whispering spirit, and the ancient, ghostly Guardian of Self Defence.
They’ll all be discussed at this year’s World Ghost Convention, which takes place in the Cork City Gaol on October 29.


The Ghost Convention, now in its tenth year, is an always successful, always entertaining conference on a subject that fascinates most Irish people – even those who claim to be skeptics.


At this year’s event, there is an eclectic mix of speakers, from academics to spiritual healers, and from mediums to white witches.
One regular attendee is Ireland’s most famous witch, Helen Barrett, who is better known as the White Witch of the Isles. Barrett will be giving a talk about fate, “the power that predetermines our life’s events.”


Barrett is known for her ability to predict the future.


“I predicted that Diana would die in a tunnel. I predicted that birds would smash into the Twin Towers. I predicted that JFK junior would die in Martha’s Vineyard,” she said in a telephone interview. And just so she is not resting on past predictions, Barrett is happy to offer up a few for the future. First, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil will be discovered off the coast of Cork, making Ireland as wealthy as the oil-rich Norwegians. And second, there will be a European army and it will have a major base in Cobh, County Cork.


“I’ve always been right about these things because I think I slip back and forward into the future. And once while I was on Barrack Hill in Cork, I saw all these people coming down in blue hats.”
EU soldiers, that is.

The rest of it can be found here: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Cork-set--to-host-10th-annual-Ghost-Convention--104078154.html

And once while I was on Barrack Hill in Cork, I saw all these people coming down in blue hats.

The Village People.

She's now made some predictions concerning the foreseeable future of this country, and some other stuff.

“I was the one who first said that when Cork and Ballincollig meet, Cork would go under water… and it did (last November).” But what of her prediction that we will return to more prosperous times - when will the worst of the recession be over?

“Ireland has such a phenomenally good hand or palm that by June next year, the country will be back on an even keel,” she said. “Oil will be found and there will be a swift movement of planets that will see anything negative go positive and anything positive go negative. An awful lot of the world is depending on that moment when they say a combined decision made will result in the finances of the world improving dramatically within a month.


“We consulted a numerologist, another palmist and an astrologist and it was worked out that we will certainly not go under. They know exactly where the oil is - they are within inches of it - and if we can just get to June, then there will be a phenomenal change in fortunes and things will improve massively.

We'll see. Someone told me that this supposed oil is going to be found off the coast of Cork. That's what the witch had said anyway.

Read more of it here: http://www.thecorknews.ie/?q=content/june-next-year-country-will-be-back-even-keel

And for those who like to arse around a bit for Halloween, she has some cute magic spells to try here: http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Magic-spells-from-white-witch-of-Cobh-101372589.html

Tarini wrote: »

I went to the white witch 3 times with a 2 year gap in between visits minimum... the first two times, the pieces of paper are identical!!

Yeah, I know a couple of people who went to her twice - with each visit punctuated by at least two intervening years - and she told them practically the same thing. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing though - at least she's demonstrating consistency in what she sees in people's futures (as daft as some of the predictions may be and all). I reckon the White Witch offers more of a 'whole life reading' than a 'what's-bothering-you-at-this-moment-in-time' sort of reading.

Tarini wrote: »

Down to a ballet dancer grandchild... she said there was a spirit of a baby boy hanging over me, he was a brother my mother miscarried before me. I scoffed saying impossible until I went home and asked my mother, apparently this is true... she then said to a friend "your grandfather loves you" and held up a hand and showed he was missing half a finger, which was true!!

Interesting. My cousin's friend was told that her ex's initials were K.O.C. (which was correct), and that she could see him experiencing a shoulder problem that would require him to go to hospital. The friend texted Ken (the ex) after the reading and asked him about his shoulder - he texted back and said that he had just had surgery on his shoulder a couple of days before. She hadn't mentioned his name or anything at all about him to the Witch during the reading (until the Witch brought it up). They recorded the reading and listened back to it - no involuntary leakage of information whatsoever.

Tarini wrote: »

She tells everyone they are physic and this thing about sons in military! Let's not hope a World War is about to break out for the next generation!

She seems to tell everyone that ('You're psychic') alright. Points out crosses in their palms to 'substantiate' it. I presume she just means that everybody has some degree of intuition. She told one girl I know to go out and buy The Secret to develop her psychic powers. Told my sister that her psychic powers (which are nil, btw) would increase dramatically after she marries when she's 32. But the sis has often said she has no intention of ever getting married. Heh, heh.

Well, she's been steadfast concerning her prediction that Europe will have its own army, and that Ireland will be part if it by early 2012, during the last few years. She said its military base will be in Cobh because she saw throngs of soldiers of mixed race marching down a hill wearing blue hats. 2012 is only around the corner, so we'll see if she's on the ball about that.

Further corroboration of this European Army's existence in her eyes are all the palms of Irish people which she has read and which apparently feature military badges. She has somehow connected the badges with people's future offspring (as in, their kids will have a military career in the European Army).

Tarini wrote: »

The 3rd time I went to see her was a bit different... she did tell me more or less same things in a different way and seemed to tell a lot of people they would meet their partners through online dating and encouraged them to do this (???)

Ah yes, the dating thing. I know she told one woman that she should start up her own dating agency.

Tarini wrote: »

Go in with an open mind and take it all with a pinch of salt, she's good craic at the very least

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