A couple who went to visit a palm reader say one of her most shocing predictions came true a mere few months later. Charlotte McCarthy and Jak Metcalfe were in Blackpool to visit Jak's nan.
During their stay at the popular beach location in September 2018 they decided to pay a fiver each to see a palm reader on Coral Island. Charlotte and Jak were convinced they'd both receive 'generic' predictions and didn't put too much thought into what the lady might say.
But just months later the pair spent Christmas in a major trauma unit after a collision with a truck. A palm reader warned Jak that both him and his partner would be in a 'car accident' and his partner would be 'well looked after' by the hospital, Lancs Live reports.
On November 29 2018, the pair had been travelling back after Charlotte's graduation celebration when their car was hit by a truck on Grane Road, Haslingden. Firefighters had to cut the family from the wreckage.
Jak had managed to escape the vehicle but collapsed with pelvic injuries as he bravely tried to rescue Charlotte. He was given a 50/50 chance of survival, while Charlotte suffered severe abdominal injuries and was told 1mm more damage to an artery would have ended her life.
In the September before the 'life-changing' accident, a palm reader told Jak both him and his partner would be involved in a crash. They left thinking little of it, other than presuming it would be 'just a bump' as he had recently passed his driving test.
"It didn't really click with me until afterwards when I was in hospital recovering from the crash that I remembered it," Charlotte told LancsLive, "Its surreal really. We were in Blackpool visiting Jak's nan and we thought we'll go and get our palm read and see what she has to say.
"We'd done it before and she charged us £5 per reading, we didn't want to pay anymore than that because we were suspicious, we thought its just generic. She said a few things. She asked if I recently lost somebody and my grandad had died the year before, but again I thought, is that generic? yeah.
"She went on to say we've both met our soul mate, we'd have a little girl and a boy - we've just had a girl actually, so we're waiting for a boy," Charlotte said. The pair welcomed their baby daughter, Cara Anne Metcalfe into the world in December last year. News of their pregnancy came as a surprise and both mum and baby were closely monitored throughout.
It was later decided that a caesarean section under general anaesthetic was the safest delivery method and 22 people were in the room at the birth to ensure everything was as it should be.
Charlotte continued: "She went on to say to my partner (Jak) that he's going to have this car accident. Now he'd just passed his driving test so we thought she might mean a little bump - people do have bumps when they've just passed their test.
"But then she made another profound comment. She said something like, your partner will be in it with you as well but the hospital will look after your partner.
"Afterwards, we didn't think anything of it until 29th November 2018 when we had this huge accident.
"Last year we went back to the woman and I said to her, you told my partner he's going to have this huge car accident and the first thing she said was 'oh my god is he alright?'
Luckily, Charlotte said 'yeah, he's here, he's right next to me'.
"I think she was slightly shocked herself, it must happen to her a lot if she is legit, but it was quite profound to say something like that.
"When I was in hospital a couple of weeks after the accident, I was in for a few months, it just came to me and it sort of freaked me out. I was trying to think back to what else she said, but the rest of it was like 'you'll be okay financially', things like that, things that could be generic.
"Things like that, it did strike a chord and its made me think 'do I want to go back?', 'do I want to see what else she would say?' especially now I've had my daughter to see what else is in the pipeline.
"It made me trust in what she said. Obviously some people have their reservations and I think the price is reasonable if its accurate.
"It panicked me more than my partner, and she did say it to him, we just played it down and thought it would be a little bump but then it was such a life-changing incident, it was really as if she could see how our life was going to be mapped out.
"People that have a little bump in there car, its unfortunate but they just move on, usually they're not as injured as we were. It was as if she could see this accident was going to have such a profound effect on our life going forward and it has, we've got life-changing injuries from it, so I can only think what she did see was right."
Now, Charlotte and Jak are preparing to marry in July and are enjoying life with their baby daughter Cara. The couple met at Firepit restaurant in Rawtenstall and got engaged two months after their accident as they continued to recover.
