01.29.10
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
A strange man stumbles into the hospital covered in blood. He’s scared and seems as though he isn’t quite aware what’s going on only that some man with a knife was chasing after him. Jim quickly takes charge as Melinda, at the hospital visiting Jim, sees a male ghost who warns her that nothing they do will help or save him. “He’s a dead man.” The hospital identifies the man as Robert Wharton and they discover that although the blood on him was his, his injuries were minor - no brutal knife slashings as he was afraid of. When Jim tries to talk with Robert, he once again is unsure of what’s happening to him, what he’s seen or what he’s done. He keeps having images of a woman being slashed but he can’t remember anything. The only thing that is sure is that Robert doesn’t seem to be able to fall asleep. The male ghost visits Melinda again and she, Eli and Ned try to figure out what’s going on. They finally locate Robert’s girlfriend and father. His girlfriend had been very worried about him, having seen a change come over him in the last few weeks where Robert had been agitated and acting strangely. His father admits that Robert was adopted and Melinda discovers the male ghost who’s been haunting around is Robert’s real father. He’s staying close to Robert and keeping him from sleeping. From his medical records, they find that Robert may have inherited a fatal disease from his father called Fatal Familial Insomnia which renders the body incapable of falling asleep. Robert’s father had it and had started to see “demons”. When his mother tired to help, his father killed her, slashing her with the aforementioned knife in Robert’s visions. The hospital does tests on Robert and they discover he doesn’t have the disease and the “demons” that Robert’s father’s ghost was fearful of were not going to harm him. His ghost found peace thanks to Melinda, and Robert was finally able to get some sleep.
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01.15.10
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
A family who is new in town, with a daughter Ned is attracted to, starts behaving strangely. They seem to be hiding from someone — and not just the ghost that’s haunting them. When Melinda discovers the truth, buried deep in the family’s past, it threatens to tear apart not only the family, but a young couple just falling in love. The Walker family is new in town and they’re renting a house through one of Delia’s listings. She starts to suspect something rather strange when they get cagey about inviting Delia and Melinda inside. When the son is strangely attacked by flying sodas from a vending machine, Melinda believes a ghost is responsible and is even more suspicious when the family simply tries to ignore it. Delving deeper, Delia discovers the family has no past credit history and they begin to suspect the family is hiding something or hiding from something. Melinda discovers the parents used to be members of an environmental activist group and during their last big stand, a man was killed. This is the ghost that’s haunting the family, believing the father, Glenn Blessing, was responsible for his death. The family has been in hiding ever since. But the growing attraction between Ned and the daughter, Katie, helps him to convince her to let Melinda help deal with the ghost part. Unfortunately, the family doesn’t see it that way and goes on the run with the police in hot pursuit. At the standoff, the father finally relents and Melinda is able to get the facts straight between Glenn and the ghost with what really happened. The ghost is crossed over and Glenn is arrested but no longer with the charge of murder. The family can finally stop running and Ned and Katie can have a chance at love.
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01.08.10
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
Ned’s college radio show brings an old radio prank to life and a ghost that died from it, when they discover the prank was a script that was something that actually happened 8 years before word for word. The old DJ had a set up where a husband called his wife to break up with her with the promise of winning a Bahamas vacation. Ned discovers this when strange things start happening to the station and the actual wife from the original prank comes to yell at them. Melinda finds her husband, Jack, who originally made the call. Jack claims his wife, Maggie, knew it was a prank but she was already riddled with doubts about his fidelity. She wouldn’t let up in asking him who the other woman was and he finally said he was leaving her for a coworker from his office, Daisy. Jack insists he was faithful but when Melinda talks to him she discovers that he is indeed married to Daisy, having divorced his first wife, Maggie. He says that they did go on the trip but their marriage was never the same after that call. Melinda suspects the ghost is the former fiancee of Daisy’s who disappeared without a trace. Daisy insists she never cheated on her fiancee, Bruce, and only got together with Jack months and months later. Upon further prodding, Melinda discovers that Maggie was convinced something was going on with Jack and Daisy so when he named Daisy on the radio show, it only confirmed her suspicions. She called Bruce to let him know that Jack and Daisy were on their way to a Bahamas vacation so he immediately got in his car to try and stop them. The roads were treacherous and his car went off a cliff into the water. Melinda crosses Bruce over after straightening out the misunderstanding.
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