IN REAL LIFE: Psychic medium ‘speaks with dead people’ in Ontario

Psychic medium Elaina Bahm got the first hint that she was different when she was about eight years old.

Bahm, who now offers readings and life coaching in Georgetown, said she knew things that other people didn’t.

“When I look back, I had this psychic gift around when I was about eight years old,” she told INsauga.com. “I just knew things. But you’re a kid, you don’t know how to process this information.”

She said she knew her mom would die before her dad and it turned out to be true. Her first encounter with a spirit came a few years later.

“It was the night my grandmother died, and….she visited me the day she died, and she scared the hell out of me so much, so I actually told her to go away, and she did,” Bahm said.

For the last 20 years, she has given tarot readings for family and friends but became more serious just recently.

She saw one of her mentors, who’s a psychic comedian, and he told her she should work full-time as a psychic medium. The psychic comedian told her this is her calling and purpose.

“So actually, I brought it out to the public for the first time last year, and it’s been fantastic,” she said.

When she does a reading now, she starts by communicating with her spirit guides about the person. Bahm said there are four ways spirits speak to you —clairessence, you feel things; clairvoyance, you see them or you see things; or clairaudience, you hear them, and then claircognizance is you have a sense of knowing something. Bahm said clairessence and clairaudience are strongest for her.

As a psychic, Bahm can see into a person’s future, and with mediumship, she connects with past loved ones.

“So with a psychic, I’m just connecting with your energy and talking to your spirit guides, and they’re telling me what’s coming down. Mediumship, I’m connecting with your past loved ones directly,” she said.

Bahm has worked on her connection with spirits but she said everyone has intuition.

“It’s just whether you want to pay attention to it and develop it,” Bahm said.

For example, people often have a “gut feeling” about a person they meet for the first time.

“Always listen to your gut feeling,” Bahm said. “That’s your intuition. We all have it. It’s just whether you want to listen to it or not.”

At times, Bahm said a spirit talks to her because she’s open and tuned in. It has even happened while she is at a grocery store or in a restaurant. Occasionally, the spirit pushes her to speak to the stranger in this public place.

“I always start off with, ‘you’re going to think I’m crazy, but I’m a psychic medium, and just let you know your father’s standing beside you, and he has this message,'” she said.

Bahm understands that many people are skeptics. She once had a reading where the man immediately said he was a skeptic. He didn’t provide information, which Bahm said is fine.

“I remember his father came in through first I gave him some messages,” she said. “And then I took a deep breath, and I said, ‘your son’s here,’ and he lost it.”

The son had died by suicide and wanted to let the father know he is happy. The son also said he moved his father’s tools around because he was a jokester.

“The dad started laughing. He goes, ‘That was my son’s personality,'” she said. “‘Yes, I’m missing tools. Tell him to bring them back.'”

She hopes to bring these messages to people who need them.

“My whole goal is, if I can bring you peace and clarity, I’ve done my job,” she said.

Some things Bahm would like people to know about psychic mediums include the fact that they can’t read your mind, they can’t see their own future and it’s not devil’s work.

“But the biggest message I want people to know is when your loved ones pass, they’re always around you, and they have got nothing but love and light around you,” she said. “They don’t hate you or have regrets or they’re not mad at you. It’s just us humans. We carry that guilt, but your loved ones are always around you. You’re never alone. And the greatest gift you can give to your loved ones, live your life. Do what you want to do, stop playing it small.”

Stop worrying about what other people think about you, she said.

“I talk to dead people,” Bahm laughed. “How do you think people react to me?”

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story contained the incorrect spelling of Elaina Bahm. INsauga.com regrets the error.