Hello Charles,

First I would like to thank you again for speaking with me yesterday, (03/11/08) about my hairless rat Lucy after she had suffered a severe attack by one of my other special needs rats named Dodger. I want to let you know how correct you were and also how meaningful your words were to me.

You told me that my hairless rat would prefer the name "Lucy" to "Maggie" so as soon as I arrived home last night, I called "Lucy" and she emerged from her hammock and enthusiastically responded as if I had been calling her Lucy her entire life. It was also ironic that when I had previously been searching through a list of names, "Lucy" stood out the most but I did not choose that name since I had already had a rat named Lucy a few years ago. Even more ironic is that tonight as I held Lucy, I noticed how closely her facial expressions resembled my previous Lucy.

As you may recall, you suggested that Lucy's neck (more so on the right) and her lung area were both injured. At the time we spoke, I confirmed that her neck was indeed swollen and the bite/scratch marks were on the right side of her face/neck area but that I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary with her lung area. When I arrived home last night, to my horror I found her lung/chest area very swollen. You had said that you were not picking up any injury to her underbelly and that remains correct.

You were picking up injuries to her left flank and you are correct that there are bite marks on her left rear flank and not her right. You asked about her right rear foot. Both her right and left feet do have scratches. You did not mention her front feet and when I arrived home I confirmed that there were no injuries to her front feet.

You were picking up an injury along her spine area and I knew there were bite marks on the left side of her spine but I did not see anything definitive directly along her spine. However, when I was driving Lucy to the vet this morning and was stopped at a stop light, the sun shone on her giving me a perfect view of a faint but definite scar running right along her spine and I am assuming this old injury is what you were picking up. I suspect that this injury was sustained either while she was at the humane society or prior to that when the previous guardian had her.

Even before I returned home last night and discovered her swollen chest area, I was worried but since you had told me that you did not believe her injuries were life threatening, it gave me hope. My vet gave me medications for Lucy today and between your positive outlook for Lucy and my vet's positive prognosis for her, I am confident that Lucy will indeed recover.

Most gratefully yours,

Debra Mendelsohn
Marin County, California
Animal Care & Adoption Network 501(c)(3) nonprofit / Bay Area Rats Rescue
www.bayarearats.com

Charles,
I just wanted to tell you how amazed my daughter and I were with the group session and the private readings last night. Communicating with my husband who passed away almost 23 years ago was so special to me. Since my husband passed before our son was born; our son has always had a void in his life. I loved being able to tell my son that his dad spends time with him now even though they were unable to meet on this plane.

We were also amazed when you asked about my granddaughter by name. That made us gasp.

I was just looking over your website and came across the orb pictures. It reminded me that a few weeks after my husband died, I awoke at 11:00pm to see a glowing orb floating near the foot of my bed. As it started to move closer to me, I became scared and turned into the pillow. When I turned back, it was gone and I have never seen it again. I have always felt so guilty for turning away. I think I will take some pictures around my house to see if I can catch one in a photograph.

Well, thank you again.

Sincerely,

Lori House

Benicia ~ CA

Charles,
I heard you on "Sarah and No Name" this morning and think you are just amazing. I've never been a believer in psychics and have never, EVER done a psychic reading, but your authenticity is really incredible and palpable, even over the radio.

A listener

San Francisco ~ CA

Dear Charles,
Not being either a believer or nonbeliever, I went to see you today, in response to some sudden changes in my life. Your accuracy and friendliness both comforted and amazed me. You knew so much about both the living & nonliving, the animal & human folk in my life, and the most personal aspects of them, that I returned with more questions the same day! I noted, how some of my questions remained unanswered, and I got a feeling the information was none of my business. You handled my grief over a broken relationship sensitively. Even my own health issues, about which you could have known nothing, you were able to speak to cogently. Amazing. Truly.

Thank you, for contacting my friend who was murdered last summer. It was such a shock to our "gaggle" of close friends. We visited him in ICU before he died, and I had so much to say; you assured me that he knew what I'd told him. When you got tears, saying they were his, because of his joy at the contact, and that he looked forward to our eventual reunion, I experienced a warm, healing relief. The details you were able to give me, about which you said he laughed, amused and encouraged me - you even knew his profession and avocations, without my input! You still do not know the details of two of the inside jokes - in fact, you could not have know they were inside jokes - but you laughed sincerely, and said he was doing the laughing. I'm glad he is still amused.

Thank you, also, for the rest of the hour you spent talking to me, and being patient with my emotionality. At one point, I felt a little self-centered and rude, but you were patient, given my grief. You've experienced so many wonderful things through this gift. I read your testimonials, and it sounds like your wife is a gem, too. Not all of the gift is sweetness and light, it seems; it is a serious responsibility. From my personal questions, to your examples and your messages from the whales that swam up the Sacramento River, you have taken on the mantle of this responsibility bravely. In my gratitude, I also admire your - and your wife's! - strength.

Most sincerely,
Maggie Scott

Benicia ~ CA

Charles,
Thank you for the reading on Thursday. My friend and I came in just after noon. I went home and called my Mom and Aunt and told them about the red car reference from my cousin. They both had several ideas (one being that I drive a red Mustang) but nothing concrete. You had said that it was bigger than a Matchbox car, perhaps a model car. This morning my Aunt called to tell me about a red toy car, about 6 inches in length that my Great Grandma had and all the kids played with including my cousin. This meant a lot to our family. My cousin committed suicide 11 years ago.

I was also very impressed that you were able to bring my favorite cat through. This cat meant a lot to me. I got him after my divorce. He was the only animal that I acquired without having to consult anyone else. He was mine. You were immediately right on with the details. Siamese, head injury, seemed intentional (wasn't). I know in my heart that it was an accident but still very difficult to think about. I miss him. Thank you for this and I will be bringing my Mom in to meet you next month for a reading.

Thanks,
Nicki

I haven't written a letter of this sort before, but then I haven't experienced anything like talking with Charles Peden before. My telephone conversation with Charles was nothing short of amazing. He put me in touch with my father, who "passed over" 12 years ago.

The things Charles shared would have been impossible to stage. It was so moving that I asked him to spend time on the phone with my mother (89 years old) so she could experience the same connection with Dad, and their conversation was even more poignant.

Personal, private matters -- like the fact that my father never actually proposed formally to my Mom -- came up (Dad said he was sorry he didn't do that the right way). He described the formal she wore the first time they went dancing. Charles even got a sense of a ripping or tearing sensation in Dad's legs which zeroed in on a surgery he had -- a vein stripping. Suffice it to say, I am convinced he has a profound gift.

Kind regards,

Christy C. - Portland, Oregon

To Whom It May Concern:

Charles Peden and I met approximately after I had spoken with his beautiful wife about a belief we shared in the existence of dimensional beings. Charles was said to be communicating with energies that had transcended the “Dimension of Humankind”, or in short, spirits. To my knowledge, Charles was born with these remarkable abilities that were suppressed as a child and then triggered by a later life event.

I will not bore you with why I believed this possible but this same day Charles and I shared some digital photographs. In an instant we knew that these photos were not of dust particles, moisture or errant lighting. I had indeed seen this type of apparition close up and personal without the aid of a camera or other artificial means. I listened intently as Charles described in detail the spirits that he communicated with that were traveling disguised as orbs.

This was the beginning of the walk we have made together on our similar paths for approximately one year. We have grown much on this journey and Charles never ceases to amaze me with his ever broadening talent. He has worked on a weekly basis in the store as a medium for many who have needed a final good bye or one last, “I love you”. To some this may not be the final definition of mediumship, but for others it has meant the world. Charles continues to cultivate his talents and recently has developed the ability to speak telepathically with pets, dead and alive.

He is clairsentient, clairvoyant, clairaudient and conjures smells from the other side that aide him in delivering very special messages. Clairsentients can sense energy and spirit and by this knows what a spirit needs to convey. Clairvoyants are of course psychics who have the ability to see images or messages in their mind's eye of the future, the past and spirit. Clairaudients hear the information from spirit and relay it as deciphered messages. Charles can be described as all rolled into one and is a skillful medium when making sense of these events or situations in some lives that otherwise may be difficult to interpret.

Ron Cordes
A FaeryTale
501 First Street
Benicia, Ca 94510

To Whom It May Concern:

Charles is a very professional medium that was able to confirm a crime that had happened to someone very close in my family. He described the place that it happened, the victims and the person who committed the murder to the last detail. I would gladly refer him to any criminal investigator that needs help from a different perspective.

-Wendi Glaser

Benicia, CA

To whom it may concern,

For my entire adult life, I held the position that there was "no such thing" as ghosts. I simply had no room in my reality for "the other side." Until my son Charles Peden started talking with spirits, that is. Now I am a firm believer. I am in awe of Charles's ability to communicate with spirits--whether earth-bound, crossed-over, or heavenly--including the spirits of animals both living and passed on.

When Charles first told me a little over a year ago (January 2006) that he was talking with a ghost, I quite frankly didn't know what to think. I did my best to stay open-minded, and the more he talked about it, his and his wife's conviction--coupled with the wealth of details he spoke of--made me realize there had to be something to it. Accepting that it was "real" took on a completely new dimension, however, when he told me on the phone one day that my mom--who died about 15 years ago--was with him, and wanted to talk to me!

I didn't know then that it was customary to ask a spirit "test" questions that only you and they would know the answer to, but my mother brought up a couple of things from my childhood that I'm certain Charles could not have known about: the violets that I dug up in the woods and planted in her garden, and my dad's fondness for the breakfast cereal Rice Krispies. There was absolutely no doubt in my mind that this was my mom communicating with me through my son. It was an incredible and very emotional experience.

Thanks to my son, my formerly troubled relationship with my mother has been healed, which has helped me in many ways. One of the most wonderful aspects of Charles's awakening of psychic powers is his commitment to using them to help people--both those still living, and those no longer in body--in whatever way he can.

It still amazes me that Charles can take an object such as a ring, and tell the history of the people involved with it. Or assist a spirit who is caught between worlds to cross over to the other side. Or have a 2-sided conversation with an animal. But he can do all that, and more, and it appears, as time goes on, that his abilities keep getting stronger and broader in scope.

I am very proud of my son and his desire to utilize his psychic mediumship in service to those in need. Anyone who is skeptical should have a "reading"--I would be very surprised if it did not make a believer out of them, too!

In all sincerity,

Lalita Karst
3/21/07

To whom it may concern,

My name is Jonathan Ortiz. I am your everyday, ordinary, small town resident. I own a small retail store, work there nearly every weekday, enjoying barbeques and family on the weekends. I like to think that I am pretty well prepared for whatever might happen. I don’t indulge much in extraordinary activities or “believe” in things that I can not explain- to be quite honest, in a word, one might describe me as pretty boring. However, my reason for writing is to briefly share my experience with Charles Peden and express my sincere support and/or belief in his abilities.

I have long considered myself to be a skeptic of the supernatural. Then, in October of 2006, I hired Charles to provide his services to my customers during that month’s special event. I had met him through his wife who had already been a customer of mine and happened to mention him in one of our conversations during one of her prior visits. In any event, Charles came and provided a connection for several of my clients to many of their past loved ones. His link to these individuals is something which I can not understand and, honestly wasn’t expecting. Yet, it definitely was there. Charles provided details about each individual (spirit) that only one who either knew them in life or was actually communing with them then could have known. He was able to answer questions and present information that was previously known only to the families of the deceased. Both my clients that night and myself left feeling inspired, awed and excited by the time that we had shared with previously “lost” loved ones- which was only possible through Charles and his miraculous gift.

There are many times that we encounter things in life which we can not understand or begin to explain. However to experience such things in spite of our up to then understandings, is to become a believer yourself. I am still an ordinary man, and still live an ordinary life; yet, having experienced the extra-ordinary (through Charles Peden) I now consider myself a believer in even those things that I still do not understand.

Sincerely,

P. Jonathan Ortiz

To whom it may concern,

It all began quite innocently. For my entire life I have lived in a Chicago suburb and just blocks from Lake Michigan. For as long as I can remember I loved going to the beach and collecting beach glass. When I was little it was something to do that was both fun and relaxing. As an adult I find it to be a sure fire way to relieve stress.

Over the years I have collected lots and lots of beach glass. I fill a bowl with some and keep it on a coffee table. I have jars filled to the brim, each jar filled with a different color. I put some in a glass and plunk a votive candle in the middle. I have even attempted to make simple jewelry.

More and more home magazines are featuring articles about sea glass collectors and jewelry makers. There are sea glass festivals, books about sea glass, and an official North American Sea Glass Association has been founded.

There are a gazillion web sites about some aspect of sea glass from private jewelry designers to sites on ebay selling sea glass in bulk. There is even fake sea glass, sometimes being sold fraudulently, passing it off as the real thing.

Christmas ornaments can be made from it, mosaics, kitchen and bathroom tiles, and coasters. You can drill holes in it yourself or have a sea glass drilling service drill them for you. Then there are even more things you can do with it.

One day while poking around on the internet I typed in “jewelry made from sea glass”. I wanted to see what was being created by all the different jewelry designers.

That’s when I came across By the Bay Treasures and Charles Peden, jewelry designer and sea glass collector. I was fascinated by his website. He did so many different creative things with glass he collected from the beaches near San Francisco. Here was a guy who was so into it he would rappel down cliffs to reach a secluded beach. I liked him immediately. On his web site he talked about By the Bay Treasures being a family thing. How he and his wife and two young daughters would all go together in search of sea glass. As a family. It was so normal sounding. They appeared to be a perfectly normal family. An All American family. He was the breadwinner and she was an at home Mom. They had a beautiful seven year old and a brand new infant. Life looked good. Good and normal.

They lived in the historic town of Benicia, CA in a beautiful condo with a view of the water for them and a pool for the kids. So normal. They had lots of friends and had family in nearby Santa Cruz. Life was good. Life was normal.

I read about the sea glass drilling service Charles offered and emailed him asking for more info on the cost and the shipping procedure. Should I send my glass or buy some of his, or could I do both.

And here is when it all stopped making sense. Charles promptly answered my questions and later I came up with more. And he promptly answered those. In my emails I started saying “Say hi to your wife Heidi for me” or “How is Heidi feeling?” or “How many days until the new baby is due?” And within a few months Charles and Heidi and I became friends. Good friends. I am old enough to be their mother and young enough to be their friend. So here is this growing friendship between three people who had never met in person, yet it felt like we had known each other forever.

Then one day Charles emails me and jams a stick in the spokes of our seemingly normal lives. He asks “Chris......do you believe in Spirits? As in Spirits of people who have died.”

I answered, “Yep, sure do. Why are you asking me this?”

He answered, “Because I think we have one staying with us. Her name is Isabelle and she was born in 1878.”

So much for normal. I said, “Huh?”

He said, “I can feel her. She was murdered and last night I experienced her death.” And he went on filling me in with more details. I was fascinated.

I said, “I had no idea you had this ability!”

He responded, “Neither did I. This just started happening very recently.”

The next day he emailed me and said “She was here again last night. We took pictures and you can see the orbs. I’ll forward them to you. Tell me what you think.”

And sure enough. I downloaded the file and there were several pictures. Very interesting pictures. One was a picture of Heidi sitting on the couch, staring blankly at either the wall or the TV. She looked like she hadn’t slept in days. To her right, on the arm of the couch was an orb. It was Isabelle and I could see her face in the orb. This was a first for me.

The next picture was another one of Heidi on the couch, staring blankly at the wall/TV. In her lap was little Maya, staring intently at the ceiling. Up around the ceiling were wispy, bright white streams of fuzzy light. A lot of them. Charles had added the note “This is a picture of a psychic hurricane that Isabelle created just to get a rise out of us.”

The next picture was of Charles. He was sitting in a chair with his hands facing up and resting on his knees. He had a very strange expression on his face and it looked like his eyeballs were rolling up in his head. His mouth was hanging half open. He looked screwy. Not normal. Charles added the note: “This is me channeling Isabelle. See the other orbs ? One on the mirror and one right behind me, over my right shoulder.” That’s not normal.

A few days later I received another email. This time he told me there were several Spirits staying with them now. It was getting too “crowded” and Heidi was becoming more and more uneasy and just wanted things to be ‘normal’ again.

Isabelle moved in almost on a full time basis. Charles spent hours researching all the facts Isabelle had ‘told’ him, trying to verify her existence and her story. I had the feeling that he better get that information soon......before Heidi had her bags packed.

Soon he had gathered all the info and it all matched up. What Isabelle had told him could all be verified through Benicia’s historical records. All of it. Every single word. This was amazing.

Heidi and Charles continued to have a revolving door filled with various “Spirit Friends” coming and going. Each one telling Charles their bizarre stories.

With every passing day Charles’ psychic and medium abilities grew bigger and better. Almost everyday they would call and tell me all about whatever had occurred the night before. There were some incredible things happening to them and around them and through them......almost around the clock.

Heidi handled it the best she could. Better than I would have handled it. Charles would go out for the day in his Kayak to collect sea glass to make money to keep a roof over their heads. Heidi would stay home to take care of the girls and deal the best she could with spirits who were hanging out at their place. Almost every time Charles would come home he would be accompanied by a few wayward ghosts who had met him while he was at the beach. Often there would be a ghost who needed help in crossing over.

Within days Charles discovered he had the ability to help people cross over to the other side where they belonged.

A week or so later he called to tell me that now when he walks down the street and sees someone he can see their dead relatives hovering around the person and he could tell what the person was experiencing in his job or in his home.

His gift just continued to blossom. Every day there would be some new development. The big one for me was one night Charles called and said my Dad, who had passed on two years ago was at Charles and Heidi’s and wants to talk to me. I never doubted Charles for even a split second. I just went with it. Within 10 seconds my Dad told Charles something that only my Dad and I knew about. I asked Charles to ask my Dad who , if anyone, was with him. Charles said, “He’s with his sister Ellen.” Something else that Charles had no way of knowing about. Since that first connection with my Father, Charles has called me several times to tell me that my Dad was there and needed to talk to me. And sometimes my Dad just shows up at Charles and Heidi’s just to hang out with Charles.

One night Charles and I were on the phone and talking about how incredible this whole thing is and how quickly it is progressing. And how accurate he has been almost 100% of the time. So I asked him to tell me what he sees or feels is going on around me right at that moment. Keep in mind that Charles has never been in my house and we are talking on the phone thousands of miles apart. He started to pick up on my cat and my cat was telling him how he came to us as a stray, where he had come from and who he lived with and why he left and found me. Charles then described what my cat looks like and how old he is and he was 100% accurate.

This was Charles’ first experience communicating with a living animal. A few days later I asked him to tell me everything he sees or feels about one of my dogs. Charles described what the dog looked like, his age and he said the dog was experiencing a problem with his eyes and that it was very painful. Earlier that day I had taken him to the vet and was diagnosed with a degenerative condition in both eyes. He had ulcers on both corneas and the vet said he didn’t know of a more painful condition. Again Charles had hit it right on the head.

Recently I had been considering a change in my career and asked Charles what he saw or felt about it. He said he saw me teaching the class I had hoped to teach and he saw me teaching it in a dance studio. At the time I had not put anything together for the teaching and I didn’t know of anyone who had a connection with a dance studio. A week later I began taking a class with six other women I had never met before. After the class we walked to our cars and I started talking with one of the women from the class. I mentioned that I was hoping to begin teaching a class of my own soon and was looking for a place to hold the class. I said I would let her know when and where it would be held and maybe she would be interested in taking it. She said she had a better idea. She told me she was part owner of a new dance studio and would I consider teaching my class in her dance studio. I said I would love to. To Charles I say thank you.......another job well done.

Chris Graf

Wilmette, IL

Hi Charles,

I just want to let you know you how totally astounded I was when a few nights ago, while we were chatting, you said that something was "coming through." It's truly amazing to me, that the soul "who was coming through to you" was and is very dear to us. She left this planet only 2 weeks before. You and I really don't know each other that well so you know few details about my personal life. Thanks for being the bridge. You have a remarkable gift.

Sincerely,

Sharon

- Hawaii