To be honest with you, I really don’t know if my gift – or curse, as it sometimes feels like – started When I was a baby, but what I can tell you is that I remember, when I was four years old, that Something would come into my room and rub my stomach at night and put me to sleep. The only Problem with that is I was alone in the room at the time – or at least, the only living presence in the Room.

Of course I was too young to know this wasn’t normal, so it never really scared me, I just accepted it. But looking back I think it was my introduction to what my life was going to become as I got older. And, sure enough, it was only the start of my encounters with the paranormal.

A few years later, while sleeping over a friend’s house, I was visited by a horrible monkey-like figure That appeared in the doorway to his room. It had red piercing eyes and razor-sharp teeth. For a while Afterward I kept seeing it in my house, sometimes even in my room, but eventually it stopped Appearing. To this day I still have no idea what it was, or why it appeared to me.

I actually recorded my first EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) at the age of eleven. I had received a Small radio for Christmas that had a recorder in it, and I used to take it with me to school. Afterwards I would go down to a local graveyard and I would turn it on and leave it recording while I Sat and did my homework. I think it only took me a week to get my first EVP, which I recall was a Voice speaking a name.

I didn’t have many friends at school when I was growing up. Most people thought I was weird – and There were even times back then that I started to wonder if they might be right.

When I was thirteen or fourteen a group of about nine of us went down to an old abandoned Boarding school not far from where we lived. It was said to be haunted because supposedly a man Had hung himself there. As we arrived at the school we all witnessed the figure of a young man Carrying a roll of rope around his shoulders moving towards the clock tower. This vision lasted only For a few seconds before disappearing, but I remember the friends I had at the time all were very Impressed – and kept telling me that I must have a gift if this is the kind of thing I could see all the Time.

Then there was a time when I tried out a Ouija board at Hanham High School. It was the only time I’d Ever used one. While we were using it nothing at all happened – but once we stopped and were About to pack up, someone noticed the glass was moving by itself. We took note of this and wrote Down the message, ending up with something that seemed to be in a foreign language. Not having a Clue what it might mean, we took it to our tutor in school and asked him if he knew what it was. He Didn’t, but suggested we show it to another teacher who spoke Latin. We followed this advice, but As soon as we showed the other teacher the message we had received he suddenly grew extremely Angry and demanded to know where we had copied this message from. He then told us we should Never play around with Ouija boards – something I have never done since. It turned out the Translation of the phrase was: “I am the Master of the heights and the depths, whoever meddles With me beware.”

Since realising I have the ability to speak to and communicate with the spirits of the dead, I have Dedicated my life to helping trapped spirits move on. This has actually caused friction from some Unexpected places – one ghost group I know got very hostile to me. They asked me who the hell I Thought I was to play God like this, and asked what gave me the right to set spirits free? My answer To them – and to anyone else who might wonder that – is that you must respect that the spirit you Are encountering may have been someone’s loved one. Would you like to think of someone you loved Being trapped and exploited for someone else’s entertainment? It turned out that the ghost group That got hostile were simply angry that I had cleared a place they wanted to investigate and he was Worried about losing money. I have no time for people like that. Maybe one day someone will haunt Him, and then he’ll know what it’s like – or he might end up a trapped spirit, and be grateful if Someone offers him a way to move on.

The thing is I never force a spirit to cross over unless they are causing harm to someone else. I Always give the spirit the choice, and from experience, most are willing to go. So the person that Gives me the right is the spirits themselves – I offer them the choice, and if they wish to remain and Are doing no harm, I let them stay. If they want to go, then it is their choice and I help them.

To help myself in this work, I was ordained a priest in 2011. To be clear about what this means – I am Not a preaching priest and am not assigned to a church, but I am able to act in an official capacity as A man of God. I also feel a lot safer in myself since I became a priest, because I have started to Realise that there is a lot of bad as well as good in the world, and I think that fighting evil should Come down to men of God.

To help me in this work, and to further our understanding of the paranormal, I have put together a Team of experts (and two new trainees) in the field of the paranormal. This team comprises of:

· An EVP specialist/Tarot reader/cameraman,

· A technician/trainee demonologist/cameraman

· A photographer

· A debunker.

Between us there is nowhere on this planet that we wouldn’t go to help trapped spirits and to Investigate the paranormal.

Now, everybody tells me that I have a gift. Do I? That’s probably the biggest debate that I have with Myself, and to be honest, as I have said before, sometimes it can be more of a curse. There are days When the things I can do bring me a lot of joy, but there are other days when I just wish I was like Everybody else, and I would give anything to be normal (whatever normal is!). I am now beginning to See signs of the same gift/curse in my three-year-old son, and I will have my work cut out for me in Helping him to understand what this means, coming to terms with the world he will face, and Helping him to not be scared by it. I hope he will come to share my views, and will continue to help Free those trapped spirits that he encounters.

But until he is ready to take over from me, I will continue to do what I do. I am now 33, and not Getting any younger, but I aim to keep going until my dying day, and hopefully my son will keep alive The legacy that I have started.