(WXYZ) - “I see dead people.” The chilling one-liner Haley Joel Osment whispered in the 1999 sci-fi thriller “The Sixth Sense” is something Kristy Robinett can relate to.
“I do see dead people,” she insists. “I have seen them since I was about three-years-old.”
Kristy’s family called them imaginary friends, but to her they were real. That included the spirit of her Grandfather who died when she was eight.
“At the cemetery I saw him next to the tree next to his gravestone. All he did was just smile at me, and then he just dissipated,” explains Robinett.
She suppressed this “sixth sense” for years. She considered it a curse because her loved ones thought she was a freak.
“I was the black sheep of the family,” she says.
Her mother did not approve of it at all. She died a few years ago, and Kristy says she now sees her frequently. “She is very accepting. We talk all the time. But right before she passed away, she did give me her approval and said, ‘I know what you do.’”
Several years ago, strain from a divorce caused her to re-evaluate her life.
At the time, she was working as a Human Resources Manager at a southeast Michigan school district.
She started seeing more spirits. So, she went to see her Lutheran minister to talk about it. During the meeting, she suddenly saw a spirit that was related to him and described who it was.
“He was convinced. He was like, ‘Okay, I give you my blessing. You’re a medium."
That’s when she left her job to become a full-time spirit medium.
“I’d been doing it undercover for 15 years,” admits Robinett. “I work on a lot of police cases.”
She also conducts personal one-on-one readings for people.
“I only do three or four appointments in my office a day because they’re so intense.”
What does she tell the naysayers?
“I never push. You know, they can believe what they want to believe,” she insists. Then she adds, “Until they are in my shoes and they see what I see, and they walk my walk, they don’t know what I see and hear.”
“I say often times that even the disciples saw Jesus as a ghost. And why can’t we see other spirits?”
She met her husband of three years on a blind date. She put it out on the table right away that she was a medium.
“It didn’t even faze him,” she laughs. “He was like ‘Pass the ketchup.”
“It’s pretty funny because his Dad has passed away. I’ve never met his Dad, but his Dad comes to me. So, I have met his Dad. So when I talk about his Dad to his family, it’s a little odd,” she explains.
Her husband Chuck Robinett admits being married to a medium makes life interesting.
“I say it’s kind of like her being a telephone line to a relative that’s in California, and I’m able to talk with them. And they’re able to give me messages -- except these relatives are dead,” explains Chuck.
We met up with Kristy Robinett at the Historic Straight Farmhouse on Merriman Road in Garden City.
She senses the spirits of a father and son who died there in the 1800s along with a woman she cannot identify.
“She just has this nice, sweet feeling like welcome-to-my-house kind of feeling,” she smiles.
Then she turns her attention to me.
“I have three spirits around you,” she says. “They’re family members. They seem attached to you.”
“Where do you see them?” I ask, gulping a bit.
“They’re standing next to you,” says Kristy waving a hand on either side of my shoulders.
“The first is a male who comes across as a Grandpa,” she explains. “He just shows himself with this wise type of speaking where it might not have been a whole lot of words said, but what he said was worth it.”
I start to tear up because this is a very good description of my not-very-talkative grandpa. But I’m still skeptical. He is my father’s father.
So I ask Kristy, ”Is this my Dad’s Dad or my Mother’s Dad?”
“He’s definitely connected to your Dad,” she answers confidently.
I’m a bit stunned.
“Now I have a female that comes across as being connected to Mom’s side,” she continues.
“She’s more prim and proper. But she’s got a great sense of humor. Everyone would think she was all so elegant. And then she would just let loose,” she laughs.
“She’s what I would call a spit fire,” she continues.
This definitely describes my Mother’s Mother. I have goose bumps at this point.
She told me about other spirits around me that were not as clear, but I was definitely intrigued.
“So they can talk to you right now?” I ask.
“Yeah, yeah. They talk over each other which is very confusing.”
“Well, tell them I love them,” I say.
“Yes, they share their love with you. They really do.”
Whether you believe or not, a moment with this medium – for me – was pretty wild.
Kristy Robinett is holding a séance at the farmhouse on Friday, October 30th at 7:00 p.m.
If you’d like to learn more about Kristy Robinett, check out her website:
www.tangledwishes.com
