Foul spirit, BEGONE!

I’m a modern-day exorcist

Ali Mather, 55, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire

The woman was shaking and hadn’t slept properly for weeks. The 32-year-old told me that, when she shut her eyes, she heard whispering and felt a dark presence in her bedroom.

‘Something’s attached to me,’ she whispered, her eyes wide with fear. ‘Something sinister.’

She’d come to me seeking spiritual help, and when I tuned into her aura I sensed a spirit, a lost soul.

It had hooked into her energy like an emotional vampire.

Years ago, the church would have called this a ‘possession’ but that’s an old-fashioned term now. These days, people like myself who do cleansing work use the term