course there real,just because you can't explain something doesn't mean its not real,from personal experience i know there real,i lost someone very close to me a while back and like you i hadn't really put much thought into wether they were real or not until i went to one. and believe me i drove half way across the country and used a different name, well what they told me blew my mind ,there is no way this person could know what they told me,not a chance,it would be impossible. ,they told me stuff about my childhood what noone new,they also kept telling me my real name which i hadn't disclosed,the stuff they new was too accurate to be faked, changed my life. it doesn't matter how many times you try to convince someone these gifts are real.and i genuinely believe there are fakes out there conning people,but real mediums do exist and theyv been about since the dawn of time. for most it will take them to actually experience what i went through to open there eyes to this stuff... theres a lot what we can't explain out there,doesn't mean its not real.