2025 RationalWiki 'Oregon Plan' Fundraiser

There is no RationalWiki without you. We are a small non-profit with no staff—we are hundreds of volunteers who document pseudoscience and crankery around the world every day. We will never allow ads because we must remain independent. We cannot rely on big donors with corresponding big agendas. We are not the largest website around, but we believe we play an important role in defending truth and objectivity.

Fighting pseudoscience isn't free.
We are 100% user-supported! Help and donate $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can today with PayPal Logo.png!
Donations so far: $8765.50Goal: $10000

Ghost Whisperer

From RationalWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Warning icon orange.svg This page contains too many unsourced statements and needs to be improved.

Ghost Whisperer could use some help. Please research the article's assertions. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed.

You gotta spin it to win it
Media
Icon media.svg
Stop the presses!
We want pictures
of Spider-Man!
Extra! Extra!

Ghost Whisperer was a fictional television drama series (2005-2010) produced by CBS television, in which the protagonist, Melinda Gordon (played by Jennifer Love Hewitt), was able to "see" and communicate with ghosts, with assorted paranormal tropes (e.g. flying ouija boards, mobile phones sending messages out of the blue, roses appearing out of nowhere). One of the show's executive producers was the self-proclaimed "medium" James Van Praagh, so inevitably the show stooped into proselytizing that ghosts really exist and that those who don't believe are "closed minded." This usually involved stereotyping characters into two groups - those that are skeptical (usually portrayed as middle-aged, sometimes wear glasses, slightly overweight, lonely, and have no social life) and those that believe (usually young adults or teens, hunky, slim and beautiful (a la Jennifer Love Hewitt)). If skeptics and believers were swapped with African-American and white, this show would never get past NAACP.

External links[edit]