She has had "conversations" (for lack of a better term) with those that have passed. This contact has been with close family and friends as well as complete strangers. Amazingly she can now control who she "let's through". The bottom line is that those that have passed (or their energies) continue to exist on another level; death is not the end. Again, if I had not been there during these occurrences I would be extremely skeptical to say the least. Oh, and she sees auras, also.
I've always thought things like that (which I know of personally) isn't talking to someone on the other side. Many people define it that way given they already believed in some life after death in some form.
Since I never has that detail, I figure what I experienced, those energies if you will, are spirits (family believes in spirits) working Through me. My brother gets it through auras. My mother sight. I by feeling or physical touch and being around people and things. It skipped my sister. I wonder if she would experience it when she older. My other brother tried to kill himself because of it and other things.
My mother considers it from someone on the other side mainly her mother. My experience with my grandmother pushing me back from getting hit by a car, I wouldn't say she is a spirit just hanging out with me. It's internal. Something you actually Experience. Something you feel.
As for the popularity of having external signs and proving or justifying the afterlife based on outside signs I find unnecessary. People write books and make news reports on this stuff but then put down people who experience it daily within their faith or outside of it but don't spread the Red Sea or "see dead people."
Try not to underestimate what people experience. Not all of us can tell the future and recount people we don't know in WW2 who was reicarnated from this or that.
It makes the news, but the experience is much more than that.