Voices: A Doris Stokes Collection

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Doris was the titular author of a number of successful “Voices” books, ghost-written with journalist Linda Dearsley. In December 2019, a new book title – “Voices Everywhere” – detailing Linda’s time working with Doris will be published, and how echoes from Doris continued to resonate across Linda’s life, following the death of Doris. Sometimes it seems strange to think I started out as a journalist and had to be professionally sceptical about anything remotely paranormal. Now the spirit world is as real to me as the material world, and 1 would be lost without Doris.Doris is my Guardian He then said Doris had "opened the door" and let my father through, and gave an amazingly accurate description of him. He described Dad as a small man who'd had trouble with his legs before he died and said he was quite foggy when he passed over. That was spot on and I was very moved. At the time, Linda “didn’t appreciate how amazing it all was and how, all over the country, people were having their lives changed by Doris’ work. If she had millions stashed away that would never have happened. When Terry, her adopted son, passed on a few years later there wasn’t even enough money to bury him and Psychic News ran an appeal to give him a decent funeral.

If Doris hadn’t passed when she did, I thought, ‘I wonder what other titles they would have been able to think of using voices?’ Suddenly, into my head jumped the title Voices Everywhere.

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Voices in My Ear: Autobiography of a Medium (1985). Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd; New edition. It was all press speculation. She gave away a lot to deserving causes. After she passed on, tax bills arrived and the family had to sell Doris’ modest house in SE London and auction off her personal possessions to pay the bills.Stokes was accused of using various forms of deception to achieve the effect of communicating with the dead. These included cold reading, [12] [13] eavesdropping, and planting accomplices in the audience. [14] [15] Evidence of audience plants [ edit ] For instance, she was also genuinely surprised to be asked to appear on BBC Radio 4’s iconic Desert Island Discs. Nothing ever went to Doris’ head. a b c d e f "Stokes, Doris May Fisher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. June 2004. In her book, Voices in my Ear, Stokes claimed that she had solved two murder cases in England. However, Detective Chief Superintendent Wilfrid Brooks of the Lancashire Constabulary stated that Stokes made no contribution whatsoever to the detection of either murderer. [17] Linda continued: “As time passed, I thought I was walking further and further away from the Doris Stokes phenomenon only to discover years later that I’d been going round in a circle.