Hannah Roper visited a fortune teller who warned her not to go to the neighbouring town and to watch out for drink if she ended up visiting, leading her to avoid the area for months
A carer claims ignoring a psychic’s warning left her with a partial ‘metal head’ – as she ‘predicted’ her horror fall after drinking a bottle of rosé with a pal.
Hannah Roper says she went to visit a fortune teller back in April 2024 who warned her about not going to the nearby town of Fenton, Staffordshire, and ‘watching her drink’ there if she did. The 24-year-old admits the bizarrely specific warning alarmed her so much she avoided the area for months.
But after sharing a bottle of rosé at the pub with a friend on her day off work in October last year, she opted to hang out at a friend’s house – who lived in the town she’d been warned about. When she went to use her friend’s toilet, Hannah claims she accidentally mistook the cellar door for the bathroom one and fell down the staircase.
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Her friend heard a loud ‘bang’ and found Hannah lying at the bottom of the stairs bleeding from her nose and ear. And when she began to fall in-and-out of consciousness and started to throw up, she was taken via ambulance to The Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.
After being diagnosed with a bleed on the brain, Hannah needed the left side of her skull removed to relieve the pressure and reduce the swelling. She then spent five months wearing a helmet to protect her exposed brain before having a metal plate inserted to replace the missing skull.
If she hadn’t undergone the first operation, surgeons said she would have died – and she admits a ‘drunk silly mistake almost cost her life’. Hannah now believes her drunk accident was ‘predicted’ by the psychic, suspecting the warning to ‘watch her drink’ in Fenton was a reference to the future horror fall.
Hannah Roper, from Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, said: “I had a day off work so my friend and I went to the pub and shared a bottle of rosé. After going back to my house and cooking tea, I went round to my friend’s boyfriend’s house.
“We didn’t drink much more at her house. I said I was going to the toilet, and then she heard a bang and I was at the bottom of the [cellar] stairs. It was a terrace house so I’m assuming I got confused and went through the cellar door instead of opening the toilet door. I slipped down all of the steps to the bottom.
“I was bleeding from my nose and my ear and I was in-and-out of consciousness. They put me in the recovery position because I was being sick. I had no bruises so I must have just hit my head.
“All I remember then is being at the hospital but I don’t remember much because of the injury and because I was on very strong painkillers [in hospital]. Doctors said that if they hadn’t called the ambulance I would have died. A silly drunk mistake could have cost me my life.
“On the fourth day in hospital I had a scan and within 10 minutes they had told my mum I needed to be taken into surgery else I would die before the end of the night. My brain was bleeding and it was swelling and that’s why they had to remove the skull.
“What the surgeon told me was that my brain was swelling so they had to put a drain in to remove the blood. They removed half of the left side of my skull. I will now have a metal plate in my head for life. Part of my head is going to be metal for life.
“Last year I went to see a psychic. There’s a town near me called Fenton and she asked if I ever go out there. I said I sometimes do. She told me to be careful and watch my drink.
“I didn’t go for months and then I went and this happened. She predicted my accident.” After a scan discovered a bleed on the brain, Hannah was rushed into a three-hour emergency surgery where she had half of the left side of her skull removed.
Now a year on from her injury, Hannah says she has not been left with any permanent brain damage but does get extremely tired and dizzy on a daily basis.
When preparing for her second operation this year, she shaved her whole head and raised more than £2,000 for Headway – a brain injury charity. Hannah said: “Because it’s an injury to my brain, it can affect everything.
“I went away in August in Spain, and it [my injury] affected my temperature control and I was sick every day. I now have hormonal imbalances because of it too now.
“The night before surgery I shaved my whole head and I now wear wigs while it grows back. I raised over £2,000 for Headway which is a brain injury charity.”