People often ask me, “What types of evil spirits are out there?”

It is a difficult question to answer because I don’t believe we can simply put everything into neat categories and give each one a name.

I can only talk about what I personally believe I have experienced through my work as a medium and what I have encountered when helping people who feel that something negative is around them.

Over the years, I have come across many different situations. Some have involved people in spirit who, in my understanding, have not properly moved on. Others have involved what I would describe as mischievous spirits, negative entities or simply forms of darkness that are much harder to explain.

They can feel very different from one another.

Not Every “Evil Spirit” Is the Same

Sometimes, when someone tells me they have an evil spirit with them, what I sense is somebody who once lived here on the Earth plane.

They have died, but for whatever reason, I believe they haven’t moved properly into the next world.

I have spoken before about how I believe there are many souls in this situation. Some may simply be confused, frightened or unwilling to move on.

But others aren’t very nice.

Problems can sometimes begin when people deliberately try to open themselves to the spirit world without understanding what they are doing.

This might happen through an unprotected circle or other spiritual practices where somebody is deliberately trying to become extremely receptive.

My advice has always been that opening yourself spiritually should be approached carefully.

Not everything you sense should automatically be assumed to be good simply because it comes from the spirit world.

When a Spirit Becomes Attached to Someone

In some of the cases I deal with, I believe a spirit has remained close to someone for a very long time.

People sometimes describe this as an attachment. Others may use much stronger words such as possession.

Recently, I worked with a woman who believed something had been affecting her for around 20 years.

When I concentrated on the situation, I didn’t sense some tremendously powerful form of evil. I believed it was a person in spirit who had remained with her.

With the help I believe I receive from those on the other side, I was able to move that presence away.

Think about what that can feel like from the person’s perspective.

If you have spent years believing something is affecting your thoughts or your life and then suddenly feel that presence has disappeared, the change can be enormous.

It can take time to adjust.

Mischievous Spirits

Another type I regularly believe I encounter is very different.

Sometimes I sense what I would describe as several small, mischievous spirits around somebody.

I don’t regard these as particularly powerful.

They are simply unpleasant and troublesome, and the person may feel as though their thoughts or emotions are continually being interfered with.

Some people tell me they have experienced this for a few weeks. Others believe it has been happening for years.

In my experience, these particular cases are usually relatively straightforward to deal with.

Once I believe they have gone, I also talk to the person about spiritual protection and being more careful about how they open themselves in the future.

What I Call an Entity

Then there are things that I find much more difficult to explain.

I tend to use the word “entity” for something I experience as profoundly negative but do not believe was once a human being.

I cannot tell you exactly what these things are.

I can only describe how they appear to me.

Sometimes I perceive them almost like small concentrations or balls of darkness. On other occasions, they can seem much larger and far more threatening.

Some feel relatively weak.

Others feel extremely powerful.

When dealing with something I perceive in this way, I take it very seriously. I never assume that I can simply confront everything myself. My belief is that the protection and help I receive from the spirit world are far more important than anything I personally do.

Sometimes There Appears to Be a Connection

Something else I have learned is that sometimes there appears to be a reason why a negative presence remains close to somebody.

I once worked with a woman who had a particular picture in her home.

I wouldn’t describe the picture itself as haunted, but from my perspective there appeared to be some connection between it and what she was experiencing.

I encouraged her to get rid of the picture.

Once she had done that, I felt the situation changed immediately and the negative presence disappeared.

Experiences such as this have taught me not to assume that every case will be the same.

Sometimes you have to understand what is happening before you can understand how, in my belief, the connection can be broken.

The Darkness I Sometimes See Around People

There is another phenomenon I occasionally encounter that is difficult to describe.

Sometimes I perceive a person as having a form of blackness around them.

It can feel extremely unpleasant.

In many cases, I don’t experience it as particularly powerful. I believe it can be removed without any confrontation or difficulty.

But occasionally I encounter something that feels completely different.

There have been cases where I have read an email from somebody asking for help and immediately felt that I needed additional spiritual protection before becoming involved.

Those situations can take considerably longer.

I don’t rush them.

I wait until I believe the circumstances are right and that those helping me from the other side are ready.

I Don’t Pretend to Have Names for Everything

One thing I think is important is that I don’t claim to know exactly what every one of these things is.

I cannot give you a complete list of names and categories for everything I have encountered.

I don’t think anybody should pretend that they completely understand the spirit world.

I simply know what I believe I have experienced.

Some cases feel as though they involve a person who has died but hasn’t moved on.

Some feel mischievous rather than truly evil.

Some appear completely different from anything human.

And occasionally I encounter something that, to me, feels like very powerful darkness.

Each situation can be slightly different.

Fear Gives Negative Experiences More Power

There is another important point I always try to make when talking about subjects like this.

Don’t spend your life frightened of evil spirits.

Most people are going to live their normal lives without experiencing anything like the cases I deal with.

The danger with constantly worrying that something evil is around you is that fear itself can begin to dominate your thoughts. Every bad day, strange feeling, nightmare or coincidence can then become interpreted as evidence that something is attacking you.

That isn’t healthy, and it isn’t how I believe we should live.

If you are developing spiritually, be sensible. Don’t deliberately open yourself to everything simply because you want an experience. Learn properly, understand protection and remember that not everything you sense necessarily has a spiritual explanation.

Helping People Without Charging Them

People contact me from all over the world about experiences they cannot explain.

Sometimes they tell me they have already spent enormous amounts of money going from one person to another trying to find somebody who can help them.

I don’t charge for this work.

I have never wanted somebody’s fear to become a way of making money from them.

From my perspective, there have also been many occasions where the timing of these contacts has felt as though it has been arranged from the other side.

Someone may suddenly feel drawn to search online. They find one of my videos, perhaps watch several more, and eventually contact me.

I believe sometimes those in spirit are helping to guide that person towards somebody who may be able to help.

There Is Darkness — But There Is Also Help

After everything I have experienced as a medium, I do believe there are things around us that aren’t very nice.

But I don’t want that message to create fear.

Quite the opposite.

Throughout the cases I have dealt with, what has impressed me most is not the darkness itself, but the help that I believe comes from the other side.

I never consider myself to be doing this work alone.

When I deal with something difficult, I believe there are those in spirit around me helping, protecting and arranging the circumstances.

So yes, from my experience, there are many different forms of negative or evil spiritual presence.

I cannot name them all.

I cannot explain them all.

And I certainly don’t pretend to understand everything that exists beyond this world.

But I do believe that however frightening something may initially appear, fear should never be allowed to take control of your life.