They started when he was mourning the loss of his father, ex-footballer and former Greenock Morton captain John Boag, and his worried mother feared it was a reaction to his grief.

“I would hear my dad shouting my name, but I didn’t really understand what this meant,” Dominic said.

“Then I began to realise that it was my dad’s spirit I was communicating with. I started to tell my mum all these things dad had said.” Dominic, 22, says he first realised that he could communicate with spirits after his father’s death but had always known he was psychic.

“My mum thought I was going a bit crazy at first but then she realised I could have never possibly known the things I was telling her,” he said.

“Then my mum went along to a spiritual church and they asked me to come along too. They suggested that I had psychic abilities and took me under their wing.” The former Paisley man went blind after developing a rare condition and says losing his sight has helped him to develop a sixth sense.

Dominic was diagnosed with the extremely rare Leber’s disease two years ago and this caused his eyesight to deteriorate rapidly.

But he says that he has since been able to fine tune his communication with spirits.

Dominic said: “They say that when you lose one sense the others become stronger and losing my sight has definitely made my communication stronger.

“It’s hard to explain but when I started to lose my sight four years ago, I noticed I was connecting with spirits more.

“I can see other people’s relatives clearly, their tattoos, the day they died. They give me messages which I pass on to help other people be comforted in their grief.

“I’ve told people when they’ve been pregnant, when they’ll bump into someone and about things that have happened in their lives.

“Once I even told a woman that there was a mouse in her bin. She came to see me the next day with a picture of it after it had got trapped!” Gifted Dominic, who is a fully accredited medium with qualifications from the British Spiritualist Federation, is a member of both the Cochrane Castle and Johnstone Spiritual churches.

He hosts private readings for people who want to communicate with friends and family who have passed away and also works with large groups to ‘deliver messages from the spirit world’.

Dominic began training in spiritualism using tools like angel cards, crystals and feathers, some of which he still uses today.

And he claims he is one of the youngest trained mediums in the country, something which he is exceptionally proud of.

“It took a few years before the realisation of what I could do really hit me,” he said.

“I was speaking to a woman and telling her things I was hearing from spirits and she was in tears because it was so personal and specific to her. The spirit world is like a layer above ours. We communicate with vibrations and can bounce off each other.” The full-time psychic said he has always been very sensitive and intuitive, and is good at picking up on other people’s emotions and energy, skills which he now uses as a medium.

But he added: “Some people struggle to understand things they can’t see physically but it’s not my job to try and convince or convert anybody.

“Being able to connect to my father in the spirit world still gives me comfort — I speak to him every single day and am closer to him now than when he was here. The reason I do this is to try and help other people. I get an overwhelming urge to tell people things that are important.” Interest in spiritualism is said to be growing locally and Dominic has even been to America where the appetite is even bigger.

He said: “It was an amazing opportunity for me. I love bringing people comfort in the fact that nobody ever really goes away for good.

“People ask me if I would give up communicating with the spirits to get my eyesight back but I feel like this has helped me through the journey of losing my sight and I could never turn my back on it.”