Reading about unsolved murders can be terrifying for Margaret Solis.

Like most people, she finds it hard to hear details of how an innocent person has vanished and been presumed dead.

But, for Margaret, it's worse, as she's a psychic and "sees" dead bodies.

Margaret, 60, has been "seeing dead people" since she was three years old.

She has become so renowned that celebrities including Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore have asked to meet her.

Over the years she has used her gift to help police solve murders.

She now believes she knows where the body of missing bookkeeper Suzanne Pilley has been buried and she has "seen" the dead body of English chef Claudia Lawrence, who vanished on her way to work.

She's currently helping to try to find Lanarkshire schoolgirl Moira Anderson - who disappeared 53 years ago and she has been asked to help trace Madeleine McCann.

Margaret said: "It's very distressing to see bodies and I try not to do that kind of detective work too often.

"I try to use my gift to help people.

However, sometimes I see images and I just know something terrible has happened to them."

Margaret is certain missing Suzanne Pilley is dead - and believes her body is buried in remote countryside.

The bookkeeper vanished in May after catching a bus to her work in Edinburgh city centre.

Her ex-boyfriend, David Gilroy, has been charged with her murder and police have been scouring the Gare Loch area of Argyll for her body.

"She's definitely dead," Margaret said. "The problem is they've not been looking for her body in the right place. They need to look further south."

Margaret had such strong visions about missing chef Claudia Lawrence, she called the police.

Claudia vanished on her way to work in York in March 2009.

Margaret said: "I saw her picture in the paper and I knew her body was lying behind a bakery.

"I saw a railway bridge. Beside that, there was an old bakery and she's in there. I left the police my number but they didn't phone me back."

Margaret, who has been working as a psychic across the globe for more than 30 years, has just finished writing a book about her life.

It includes testimonies from clients who confirm she has predicated huge events in their lives.

Famous clients include actresses Michelle Collins and Julie Goodyear and TV presenter Anna Richardson.

And Margaret famously predicted Piper Alpha and Lockerbie - and the divorce of Charles and Diana. But it was almost 60 years ago, when she was just a little girl, that her mother realised how gifted she was.

Margaret said: "I was about three and I was in my room talking away.

"My mum walked in and asked who I was talking to and I said, 'Don't you know it's your mother?' She's sitting in her special chair with wheels.' "It was my grandmother who had died two years before I was born. My mum wasn't that shocked. She and my gran could both read tea-leaves.

"Our family is from Avoch in the Black Isle and we call it the Highland gift of second sight."

Twenty years later, Margaret had moved to Spain and wed holiday sweetheart Isidro Solis.

While bringing up her three children, she began to do tarot cards for locals in Santa Caloma, Barcelona, where she'd been living for 14 years.

Margaret said: "Before I knew it there was a huge demand. I ended up on national radio in Spain and all over the papers. When I moved back to Glasgow in 1983 I decided to start working as a clairvoyant here."

Margaret's career sky-rocketed when she was asked to fly to Hollywood and meet Bruce Willis.

Since then she's flown over twice a year, staying in a luxury condo on Laguna Beach, reading the stars for a string of celebrities.

She said: "I can't tell you everyone I've read, as it's confidential. But I have met Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Kevin Costner and Billy Bob Thornton."

But Margaret insists it's reading the fortunes of people who need help that means the most to her.

She said: "People come to me broken and I try to fix them. It's the people in Glasgow that humble me.

"There was a woman from the Gorbals who came to see me. She'd been battered for 20 years.

"I said to her, 'Who's the man you married? Is it the man who was wonderful for six months or the man who has battered you?' "I told her I wasn't letting her go home. She had three hairline fractures in her skull. I told her, 'If he hits you again you'll be dead and what will your four boys do?' "Four years later she came back to see me with a man and a huge basket of flowers. The two of them started crying as they told me their story.

"It turned out that, when she'd left she'd moved into a women's refuge. She'd never gone back to her man.

"She'd fallen in love with the man who'd helped her move her stuff into the refuge and they were just back from Vegas, where they'd got married.

"She said, 'I always thought nobody would want me.' "Her man looked at her. 'She's wonderful,' he said. 'She's my wee pot of gold.

"These stories can bring a tear to a glass eye. It humbles me."

The woman's testimony is in Margaret's book, along with a string of others, including client Elizabeth Mitchell. In 1987 Margaret predicted her son would die within a year. He passed away on May 11, 1988.

Zoe McColl had a reading when she was 20. Margaret predicted her life would change forever on her 24th birthday. At 11.57pm on her 24th birthday she gave birth to her daughter Becky.

Over the years Margaret has used her gift to help the police solve crimes.

Police in Northern Ireland contacted her when Eileen Moore, of Newton Abbey, went missing in 1996.

Margaret had met Eileen on holiday in Majorca and the young mum had come to see her, with a new boyfriend in tow, while in Glasgow.

Margaret said: "I couldn't even shake his hand. He was a creep.

"I took her aside and whispered, 'Eileen, what are you doing with this man. He's no good for you.'" Police contacted Margaret after Eileen went missing and, spookily, she told them Eileen was dead the day before her body was found.

Margaret said: "When they said she was missing I said, she's dead. I knew.

"I told them her body was not far from water and wrapped in black.

They found her by a lake wrapped in bin bags. The boyfriend killed her."

Margaret has also been asked to help find Madeline McCann - but has so far not got involved. She says the request would have to come directly from her parents, Kate and Gerry.

But she is helping hunt for the body of missing school girl Moira Anderson.

The 11-year-old disappeared 53 years ago and is one of Scotland's longest-running mysteries. No trace of Moira was ever found - but it's widely accepted she was abducted.

Moira disappeared on February 23, 1957, after being sent on an errand to the local Co-op in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, by her grandmother.

Prime suspect for Moira's abduction and murder is paedophile Alexander Gartshore, who worked as a bus driver near the schoolgirl's home.

Gartshore, now dead, was named as Moira's killer in a deathbed confession by a fellow convicted child abuser.

Gartshore's daughter Sandra Brown has investigated Moira's case for decades.

Sandra said: "Margaret Solis is the most remarkable woman. She has been helping me in the search for Moira's body.

"Margaret has been accurate in the information she's given me.

"Following years of work we believe we know where she is and we're fighting to have the grave in question exhumed."