Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer is a sci-fi drama show from CBS that focuses on Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and her husband, Jim Clancy (David Conrad), newlyweds who are beginning their life together in Grandview, New York. Melinda is a loving wife, exceptional best friend to Andrea (Aisha Tyler), antiques dealer, and business owner; she's just a normal woman trying to lead a normal life. Except for one thing. Melinda has a supernatural gift: she has the ability to see and speak to ghosts who have not yet moved on to their afterlives. Melinda communicates with these earthbound spirits so that she can help them come to terms with whatever is keeping them on Earth and move on to their next journey. Communicating with these ghosts isn't always easy and Melinda faces disbelief from her fellow humans about her gift. She faces this adversity head-on, and always manages to find a way to convince people to listen to her and to the spirit she is helping. By the end of each episode, Melinda has helped the ghost to enter the light. What's behind that light is unknown to Melinda, but she always senses that it fills the spirits with happiness as the enter. Other friends who eventually help Melinda in her work include Delia (Camryn Manheim), who is skeptical of Melinda at first, Delia's son Ned (first Tyler Patrick Jones, later Christoph Sanders), Rockland University occult professor Rick Payne (Jay Mohr), and Eli James (Jamie Kennedy), who can hear but not see the earthbound spirits. In season five, Melinda and Jim's son, Aiden (Conor Gibbs) joins the show. Aiden has the same powers as his mother, and it is suggested that he might even be more powerful than she is. As the show progresses, the ghosts begin to get stronger and some evil spirits come together to try to destroy humanity. Melinda and her friends struggle to balance having a normal life while also trying to keep the spirit world in check. Ghost Whisperer is based on the real life work of James Van Praagh, a Spirit Communicator who also co-executive produces the show, and Mary Ann Winkowski, another Spirit Communicator. MORE