From spiritual torment to peace with God

Laura Maxwell was plagued by evil spirits for much of her early life. But her interest in the supernatural would ultimately lead her to faith in Jesus

As a child, the supernatural interested me. My mother was a medium and was very much into spiritualism, New Age and seeking after spirits. I was attracted simply because of the media and a lot of children’s books and TV programmes to do with ghost stories. If Harry Potter had been around then I would have loved that type of book.

One day my mum was in the park walking the dogs and a medium approached her and said he could tell she had potential. He invited her to the spiritualist church. So we would go and there would be seances. The mediums would go into trances and say they had dead people with them who they had managed to bring through. They were supposed to be our dead relatives and they would give messages to the audience. I don’t think any mediums are charlatans or are using guesswork. It’s extremely accurate. Spirits do know a lot of information.