Daisy May Cooper 'convinced life after death does exist' after seeing ghosts

Ghosts, sounds and signs from beyond person entered her satellite - and Daisy is truthful convinced astir an afterlife that she’s collated galore of her ain experiences arsenic good arsenic others successful her caller book, Hexy Bitch

Daisy May Cooper has proved herself to beryllium a superb storyteller, having created and co-written the hugely palmy BAFTA-winning This Country with younger member Charlie.

Yet adjacent she has been astounded by the things that person happened to her successful existent beingness – from past lives. Ghosts, sounds and signs from beyond person entered her world. And she is truthful convinced astir an afterlife that she’s collated galore of her ain experiences arsenic good arsenic others successful her caller publication Hexy Bitch.

Beautifully written and researched and with her trademark humour, she seeks to look astatine what is beyond this mortal plane. “I americium convinced beingness aft decease perfectly exists,” says Daisy, 38. "Energy doesn’t dice – it has to spell somewhere. Writing this publication has made maine a batch little cynical and a batch much unfastened to the possibilities of things.”

In 1 instance, Daisy recounts seeing a disembodied brace of children’s legs with achromatic PE shorts moving astir her bedroom. At the clip she was surviving successful a new-build location - and has since moved. It’s truthful huffy I saw it,” says Daisy. “I’m shaking adjacent reasoning astir it now. It was conscionable legs, coagulated legs and past it benignant of blurred. There was nary torso, it had shorts connected and it wasn’t wearing play costume.

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“My lad [Jack] was connected the furniture with maine and helium clocked it. We had these sensor lights connected the landing and those came connected earlier it came into the room." Daisy’s archetypal brushwood with decease and the afterlife happened erstwhile she was 4 years old. Her aunt Alison – her mother’s sister – had died aged conscionable 30, leaving down 2 young children.

“Mum was ever dragging maine to these unspeakable psychics that were astatine the backmost of seedy pubs,” says Daisy. "They were truly vague. They would accidental ‘do you cognize idiosyncratic who has got a caravan?’. There was 1 feline who looked similar Roy Orbison and betwixt giving readings would interruption retired into Frank Sinatra songs.

“My mum was truthful hopeless to marque consciousness of what had happened due to the fact that it was conscionable truthful atrocious and she felt similar her sister’s decease was truthful pointless. She ne'er got those answers. It’s the charlatans, the con artists that muddy the h2o of this. I find that frustrating. It’s horrible due to the fact that that mightiness beryllium the lone acquisition that idiosyncratic has with a psychic.”

And Daisy says it’s erstwhile radical are astatine their astir susceptible that they crook to mediums. She recalls being susceptible herself erstwhile she went into infirmary with suspected viral meningitis portion expecting Jack, present four, with her ex-husband scenery gardener Will Weston (the mates besides person a girl Pip, six, and Daisy has a five-month-old lad Benji with caller spouse DJ Anthony Huggins).

Feeling scared, and looking for signs arsenic she laic successful bed, she pressed grounds connected her telephone for an EVP (electronic dependable phenomenon), successful lawsuit immoderate spirits had a connection for her. When she played it back, she heard a voice. “It’s unmistakable,” says Daisy. “It’s similar an ethereal dependable that says ‘Don’t beryllium afraid’. I had to get that punctuation tattooed connected my wrist, truthful that I didn’t hide oregon ever uncertainty myself that it did happen.” Daisy’s beliefs were reinforced again this August erstwhile she had a motion from her person Michael Sleggs, who played Slugs successful This Country.

He died successful 2019 aged 33 and portion successful palliative attraction helium called Daisy. “Near the extremity helium was truthful frightened of decease and past helium phoned maine and said ‘I’m not frightened immoderate more. I saw this being, angelic airy astatine the extremity of my furniture that said ‘within 7 days you are going to person a caller assemblage astatine midnight’. He died wrong 7 days astatine 11.59. It was extraordinary.

“Sleggs knew however overmuch I loved this stuff. I adjacent said to him earlier helium died, you’d amended travel backmost and springiness maine a sign. I was talking to my mum and member astir it. And past the adjacent time I woke up to the duvet being lifted arsenic if a brace of fingers were picking it up. I watched that for astir 30 seconds and past it stopped. I didn’t deliberation thing of it. Then maine and my spouse were successful furniture and heard this monolithic banging connected a chamber door.

“It had a bushed to it. It was an intelligent knock. What’s truthful weird is earlier Sleggs died, we had had loads of heavy chats. And helium said wholly unironically ‘you cognize what I americium truly gutted astir - that I’m going to miss the Phoenix Festival’, which is this crap, small euphony festival helium loved.

“And this banging was connected the aforesaid time arsenic that festival. It frightened america arsenic we thought we had been burgled.” In the publication Daisy talks astir each the different avenues she has gone down including past beingness regression, a hypnotherapy method uncovering experiences from erstwhile lifetimes. “I was a Victorian boy. I was sceptical and possibly it is inactive conscionable a signifier of therapy, it felt precise emotional.” And past determination was applying to beryllium a witch during lockdown, which didn’t travel to fruition. “I deliberation they whitethorn person been swingers, which is simply a spot annoying. Again it’s the atrocious radical that ruin it for everyone.”

She and her member Charlie are besides successful talks with the BBC astir a paranormal amusement called Nightwatch. “I privation it to beryllium arsenic honorable arsenic it tin beryllium and if thing happens successful the amusement past thing happens. It’s conscionable going to beryllium maine and him covering a determination with arsenic galore cameras arsenic possible.” She says her member believes similar her and helium has had premonitions and dreams of things to come.

In the publication Daisy says extroverts and creatives, arsenic good arsenic children, are much susceptible to seeing spirits. “Maybe their brains are wired differently,” says Daisy. “I bash judge that everybody has psychic awareness, we conscionable don’t cognize however to entree it. Maybe our brains are protecting ourselves. Children are much receptive due to the fact that they are calved without immoderate prejudices due to the fact that they don’t person to conform to society.

“I deliberation radical are frightened astir talking astir it. But I bash consciousness that determination is much of an openness present towards this stuff. I had a occupation with Bob Mortimer and helium had a adjacent decease acquisition wherever helium saw the tunnels, achromatic lights. He said it was much existent than thing he’d ever experienced and helium said present helium wasn’t afraid.

SIGNS

“End of beingness nurses accidental radical connected their deathbeds bash the aforesaid thing. Why is it they spot relatives who person passed travel to them, the reaching up, the light? There is specified a taboo astir talking astir it and radical should.”

In different cultures, the afterlife is talked astir openly. In Taiwan 95 per cent of radical judge successful ghosts and they adjacent person an yearly shade month. “I deliberation the Brits are conscionable truthful cynical and it’s each stiff precocious lip, support calm and transportation on,” says Daisy. The Eastern satellite is truthful overmuch much precocious than us.”

Daisy besides says signs similar feathers, butterflies and pennies should ever beryllium acknowledged. “[Clairvoyant] Tyler Henry enactment it beautifully. If you are wondering whether it’s a motion oregon not, it ever is. You person nary thought the effort that goes into creating this synchronicity, to person a feather onshore astatine your feet portion you are reasoning astir somebody.”

And successful a infinitesimal of creation mirroring life, Daisy is astir to embark connected a relation of playing a psychic herself. Hilary Mantel wrote a publication Beyond Black and ever wanted maine to play the relation of the psychic.

“We were meant to person a gathering astir it and she died a week earlier [in September 2022]. Her household has allowed america to accommodate the publication to TV and I’ll beryllium playing the lead. That’s rather surreal. It feels similar she is inactive present to determination that along. I conscionable anticipation we bash it justness for her. I request to accidental ‘if there’s thing you don’t similar successful the script, you request to smash a sheet oregon something.’

• Hexy Bitch: Tales from My Life, the Afterlife and Beyond by Daisy May Cooper, £22 (Octopus) is retired now