On Sunday, the internationally renowned star of Spirit of John Lennon and Living TV's Psychic Investigators teamed up with Diane Lazarus – winner of Channel 5's Britain's Psychic Challenge – in the Manx leg of his 2008 Psychic Connextions Tour.

Both have helped in well-known police investigations including the Jill Dando, Sarah Payne, Sally Anne Bowman and Shannon Matthews cases.

Sitting in the audience of a psychic show was a totally new experience which I approached eagerly but with some degree of scepticism.

However, it became clear that we were nestled within some hardnosed Power groupies returning to see their favourite medium.

Our hosts eased us in with some tame jokes but soon put us on the edge of our seats as a camera immediately surfed the audience like a shark throwing its prey on an enormous screen at the back of the stage.

The prospect of our faces being splashed three-metres-wide for all to see was more alarming than the possibility of being surrounded by dead people.

An embarrassed teenager was the first victim.

He stood up and answered Diane's questions but soon threw himself behind his mother in the next seat hiding his anxious hysterics.

She took the bait but remained fairly flat faced throughout the apparent appearance of past relatives in the spirit world.

During the evening we heard how Diane was visited by a variety of people wanting to speak to their relatives in the audience.

Part of me scrunched down hoping I wouldn't be next but my more adventurous side was quite intrigued and didn't want to miss out.

After struggling to pass on a message from two grandmothers who were embroiled in their own banter, she informed one woman of her husband's impending baldness and a wheelchair-bound man, whose condition she correctly identified, to choose hydrotherapy over an operation.

Another woman was told her ex-husband was in the room wanting to talk to her.

'Oh I don't want to speak to him,' she said which had the audience reeling with laughter.

But this was followed by a poignant moment when a teenage girl asked bravely if her dad was ok.

She was told that he was often with her and that he would be at her wedding.

As Diane described his appearance and character the girl nodded - tears streaming down her cheeks.

I cried with her.

But it was left with a smile as she was told not to get that tattoo.

Her eyes sparkled rebelliously as she revealed her stomach.

After the interval Joe mastered his audience with the magic they were accustomed to.

Moments of disbelief followed one by one. A message was conveyed to a member of the audience by a family member in the spirit world and Joe asked the audience member whether there were any twins in her family.

She said: 'Yes it was her - she was a twin.'

The microphone exploded with electric static and the audience were left breathless.

Another family were assured that two cousins who were like brothers had met up with each other in the spirit world and were still larking about together claiming: 'Its still girls girls girls here!'

Another emotional moment came as a woman was told of a young woman trying to reach her.

He said: 'There is something wrong with her head.'

Her best friend had recently died from motor neurone disease.

He said: 'She fought to the end.'

The woman nodded.

He added: 'She is happy and healthy now. Back to her normal self.'

She cried uncontrollably.

Other people were left with confused and embarrassed faces when he asked them about stockings and leather in the bedroom.

One guy was asked about his tattoo.

He said which one?

Joe said: 'On your arm - like a snake.'

The man lifted his sleeve to reveal what looked like a lizard image on his upper arm.

Joe then asked him if he had nicked stuff off the back of the lorry.

'Depends what sort of stuff,' said the man sheepishly.

In his dressing room after the show Joe spoke to me about my relatives.

Some of the details he threw at me seemed relevant and at other times he plucked out numbers and names which meant nothing.

I desperately wanted to believe that my grandma was really standing behind me and telling me everything was going to be ok.

And maybe the significance of 53 and 22 and Mark and Graham will be unveiled in the intricate web of my life.

Perhaps time will tell.

Perhaps it won't.

For more information about Joe, who will be returning to the Island later this year, please visit www.joepower.co.uk