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Ghost Stories: Spirits
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Actually, Melinda Gordon, the character Hewitt plays in the new CBS drama Ghost Whisperer, sees ghosts. If this sounds suspiciously like Medium, the NBC drama in which Patricia Arquette plays Phoenix psychic Allison DuBois (and for which she just won an Emmy), well, yeah. On its face it's a lot like that. But Allison uses her gifts to solve crimes. Melinda helps spirits cross over, or whatever it is they have to do to rest in peace.
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----- There is said to be the ghost of an old Indian man who appears along the Saline River in Ellis County. The ghost once appeared to a cowboy who was camping there in 1879. The spirit was doomed to roam the banks of river until he found the skull of his father, who had been murdered by white men in the 1840's.
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The series' presence here among the living might have something to do with the success of "Medium," which, like "Ghost Whisperer," looks at the home life of a psychic. But this well has been visited many times before. It wasn't so very long ago that "Joan of Arcadia," "Tru Calling" and "Wonderfalls" — series concerning young women receiving bulletins from the Beyond — arrived all in a burst. It has roots as well in such this world/that world anthologies as "Highway to Heaven" and "Touched by an Angel." "Six Feet Under" is at least a cousin. Not to mention "Blithe Spirit." And "Topper."
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Many people become very frightened when they see a ghost but there is in reality no cause for alarm. The real people, their spirit selves, have moved on long ago into the worlds of the afterlife.
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