“There has been much written and documented about Leslie Flint. For example; how he was the most tested medium of his day by researchers and found to be 100% genuine, but this account is about our experience with Leslie and I feel no need to go into other areas as it can easily be found by the researcher if needed.

 

These séances were wonderful and we learned so much. One very interesting point is that the [spirit] voices actually moved around the room. As Mickey or whoever was talking at the time went to someone else you could hear the voice was further down the room. This does not come through on the audio unfortunately.

 

Some are going to ask did anyone famous come through?

Well, yes a few did. Elizabeth Garret Anderson who started the first hospital for women. Nelly Wallace the old Music Hall star. You can Google them both and there is even some old newsreel footage of Nelly on YouTube.

 

Anyway here is my story:

 

It is hard to know exactly where to start, as not only was it so long ago, but things happened in a certain manner before we actually went to Leslie Flint's for the first time. I think the best thing is to try and give some background beforehand so it can be seen how it all happened.

 

 

SOME BACKGROUND

 

Early in 1981 my wife Wendy and I opened our back room as a healing sanctuary. We were the first ones to actually do this outside of the Spiritualist churches, in our area [of Norfolk] anyway.

 

It was a great success. Every Thursday evening we would be working away until nearly midnight on some occasions.

 

We got to know [someone named] John from our local church and he was so interested we offered to train him as a healer. I can’t recall now just how long had passed, but one night we had a new patient. A lady from Lowestoft whose name was Jo. After our healing had finished she asked if she could come again next week. We said, "of course, that is why we are here, you don’t need to ask."

 

Jo told us that she had moved down to Lowestoft after losing her husband Les, who had himself been a healer. She went on to say that she was thinking of moving back to where she had come from as she found the local people not to be very friendly and was feeling a bit disillusioned. But she said that we were like a warm breath of fresh air as we were so friendly in welcoming her.

 

So Jo started to visit each week and she got to know John, who was also a widower, having lost his wife Jean about a year earlier. They became good friends. Then a little later they married.

 

 

SÉANCE

 

During this time Jo was regaling us with stories of Leslie Flint and she lent us his autobiography Voices in the Dark.

Leslie had signed Jo's copy for her, so she treasured it but entrusted us with it. "I must have it back," she said, "but I will buy you a copy for Christmas." Which she duly did and is now one of our treasured possessions. One day she said, "Would you all like to go to Leslie Flint’s for a Direct Voice séance?"

We jumped at the idea.

 

She said that Leslie, by this time, was actually retired and only did séances occasionally for people he knew or who had been before. As Jo had been before Leslie knew he could trust her to bring a group to see him.

 

She told us that Leslie only made a nominal charge of £6 per head, which we could manage okay. But we would have to go by train from Great Yarmouth to Paddington, which was going to work out a bit expensive for us. We were existing at that time on basic benefits, which were just enough to keep soul and body together.

 

Then I had a thought. A couple of years previously I had bought an acoustic guitar, which I was vainly trying to learn to play. I had actually given up on [the idea] a while ago, as I know it was never going to happen. A friends daughter had expressed interest in buying the guitar, so I said she could have it for £25, which was half what I had paid for it. She readily agreed and now we had our train fares and enough for a meal for our visit.

 

Jo arranged things with Leslie and our séance with him was booked for June 2nd 1982.