October 30, 2025 • 18 mins
George Noory and psychic medium Ericka Boussarhane explore Halloween traditions, the pagan rituals surrounding death, what makes it easier for her to connect with spirits around Halloween, and her encounters with ghosts and spirits in haunted houses.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norrie with you.
Erica Bussarhani with Us is a psychic medium and paranormal investigator,
widely recognized for her ability to connect with the spirit world.
Affectionately known as the psychic Diva, she has spent decades
helping individuals find closure, clarity, comfort through messages from beyond.
(00:26):
Erica is the founder of the Pensacola History and a
Hunting's Tour, where she shares the city's rich and haunted
pass through immersive storytelling in guided paranormal experiences. One of
her books that she wrote back in two thousand and
nine is called Sam and the Boogeyman. Erica, Welcome back.
Have you been?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I've been doing great, George. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh? I'm doing fine. Why is this such a great
part of the year. It just kicks off everything, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I think it's because no matter where you are in
the world, there's a way to kind of honor your
dad during this time. It makes it not scary to
to really play with the dead, to dress up to
honor them, to even make the scary afterlife fun and exciting.
And it's a way of you know, remembering the dead,
(01:17):
and it's saying that by the decay of autumn and
the new birth of possibilities, and it retouches us to
the beyond that sometimes we're afraid of.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We're walking around.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
With skeletons and coffins and spiders and all of these things.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Pumpkins.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It makes it fun and okay and not as scary
as originally people thought it was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Do you think some times Erica that Halloween has overdone
a little bit? Is its push too much commercially?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Most definitely, I think that it kind of gets away
from the original Celtic meaning of it.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, they went through that primarily to a ritual to.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Bring in autumn and to kind of understand the changes
that were.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Happening in the environment.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You know, fast forward many years from now, you wouldn't
expect that children are going to be walking around begging
for candy, you know, instead of souling. But yeah, I
think there's a lot of commercialism to a lot of
the holidays, but specifically this holiday. I like to see
it go back ancestral in some ways where people are
(02:25):
really honoring the dead as it first intended.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You're a psychic medium in addition to being psychic, and
you communicate with the other side, with the dead. Do
they say anything about Halloween?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You know, I don't think they've never given me any
Halloween tricks or tips or anything. And you know, I've
dressed up from everything from a police officer to a zombie.
But I think it's not really so much them saying
anything about Halloween. I think it's when the veil finds
they're able to communicate with us, and I think they
(03:02):
readily love the fact that we're more in tune in
these months to set out maybe an altar, set out
some food, set.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Out some photos, do a family tree, write a letter
to our loved ones, light a candle. So they're just saying, hey,
we're here.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
So if the communication is welcome, we're here to give
it to you.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
There's a Gaelic event called sam Hayne which comes up
during the same time period. Is that similar to Halloween
most definitely.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So when we think about traditionally across the country, you've
got a lot of different things like the Day of
the Dead, the Hungry Ghost in Haiti, the Day of
the Dead, too.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
They're all kind of about the same thing.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
They have similar Celtic origins where people are remembering the dead.
They're honoring the dead in their multiple ways. But there
are a lot of cross connections with candles, with the
jack o' lanterns, with the feasting with the dead, the altars,
the different ritualistic offerings that people have via candles, visiting
(04:16):
the cemeteries. There's many, many, many connections throughout the whole
world in this same time that tied.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
To that Erica as a hurricane Melitsa hits Haiti. It
truly is the day of the Dead. Twenty five people
dead already out there.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, and you know, it's kind of the concept of
Halloween when you think about it. You know, a lot
of times these people were leaving the sunshine, we'll say,
going into the darkness and all of these things like
hurricanes and different things were happening that they couldn't control.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Had no idea. The darkness was scary.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So these kind of ritualistic things kind of came because
they were trying to understand and.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Even predict and seek protection.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And so when you look at, you know, this thing
in Haiti, I'm sure there are a lot of people
there doing ritualistic things in praying and doing these things
to try to seek some kind of protection toward the storm.
This happened a lot with the crops and the different
you know, deaths and disease during that time too, So
there is a lot of correlation and my thoughts and
(05:25):
my prayers to those families because in Pensacola, Florida.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Where I am, we're no stranger to hurricanes as well.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Does this time be hear make it easier for you
to connect with the spirit world?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I think for me it does, you know, I've always
unfortunately and fortunately been.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Able to connect. But I think for other people it's
easier for.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Them to connect because it gives them permission to lure
their guard in this thin veil, and.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It makes it okay to have.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Remembrance of their loved ones, to dress up in you know,
in costumes and have fun as a community. And you know,
in some religions it's still you know, a pagan you know,
it started out pagan, so in some ways, you know,
some people don't really want to celebrate Halloween because of
the pagan roots of it. But I think it gives
(06:22):
the majority of the people that opportunity to connect to
people and make it okay to remember the dead, because
I always say when people die, you remember that at three.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Seconds, you don't remember their life.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So a day like Halloween says, okay, it's okay for
me to honor my ancestry, my family, my loved ones.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Where is the carving out of the pumpkins, wearing costumes,
all the strange little things that happened during Halloween? How
did that originate?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So basically, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The ancestor of the beginning, the founder of Halloween is
definitely going to be the Iris. Know from the Celtic culture,
they were looking for ways to explain the changes from
from uh to autumn, and they were looking for some
kind of explanation of the darkness around them as they
entered the fall weather.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And they were.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Looking for ways to appease and seek protection for their
crops and for the animals and for the disease and
you know the different things that were happening around and
if they.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Didn't have enough food to last that winter, then they
unfortunately would perish.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
So there was a lot of scary in the in
the in the woods.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
When when I look at a lot of the movies
that are made about Irish folklore and the fairy and
the fee there's there's a lot of mystery in the woods,
you know, And so I think that Halloween started off
with them carving the turnip.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Root for protection.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It was it was made in like almost a devilish grin,
because it was to be placed with either coal or
a candle in the winter to ward off the evil
spirits are the sneaky spirits, the she that the fairy
folk that kind of run in the forest and throughout
the land. And so they did this really to seek protection,
(08:16):
as many cultures have done when they didn't understand the weather,
the climate, the different things that were going on.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And that's how the beginning of it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So they basically carved pumpkins, they did all of these things.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
They dressed up so that the spirits they could trick
the spirits.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And you know, kind of like blend in, I guess,
so that was kind of the reasoning for it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Erica, how did you enhance your psychic abilities and when
did you begin to realize you had something special?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Well, you know a lot of times intuition is innate.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You know, everybody is born psychic. Everybody can enhance their ability.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I just simply came from a family with enhanced skins,
and I went through, you know, a lot of self YouTube,
Santana Stacey's courses, and just a lot of different meditations
in order to harness the Claire audience, Claire Visuit, the
all the different players that I have. So I tell
(09:17):
anybody you know, start with something as simple as YouTube.
Look at different techniques I do offer on my website.
Also some psychic development tools, but there is so many
things that you can find on the internet.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Just practice makes perfect. Don't give up. Trust what you get.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
When you're in the psychic medium mode. What makes the
spirits come to you? Or do you go out and
find them?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You know, as a ghost under I do both.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
They tend to I always say I'm haunted, George, I'm
haunted wherever I shall.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So. But you know, as a medium, I think they
are around me a lot of times.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And you know, I'm on a zoom talking now, and
so I'm looking at the zoom and I see all
these flashes of people are things around me right now.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So I think I've already always tapped in.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But when as a paranormal investigator, I go into homes
and businesses and areas, looking for the spirits to interact
with to see what validity we can get as far
as what they're communicating from the other side.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I'm a medium, but.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I'm also a very skeptical individual, so I like to
kind of deal with evidential mediumship and actuality and not
basically folklore.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Do you visit many haunted houses Erica?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I do.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I don't honestly have to physically be in a home
to visit them.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I like to.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Practice remote viewing sometimes, and I will imagine and people
can do this at home if you're intuitive, being.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
At the doorstep. Imagine turning the door knob and walking in, and.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Then I usually separate the house from left to right,
up and down, and I usually just am drawn directly
to whatever spirit activity is there, and I ask questions,
as I think we need to do when we're learning
our intuition, ask questions, because a lot of times it's
not that you're not psychic, it's just you're not being
a reporter. You're not asking what, when, where, how and why.
(11:27):
And that's what I think works well for me.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
When you went to a haunted house, can you tell
right away that something strange is going on here.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yes, So in.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Doing haunted investigations in person and via remote, I try
not to get in the information from the homeowner. So
my team will usually we have someone on the team,
the case manager, that will inquire about what the homeowner
might be feeling, if they're waking up at a specific time,
(11:59):
if they're having visualizations of people, if they're hearing noises,
if they're having smells.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I try not to get any of that information.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
When I walk in, I ask to be guided to
the area of haunting, and a lot of times at
that point you will notice a shift.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
In the air, it'll be cold.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
A lot of times our EMP detectors will start beeping
and things like that, and I just begin talking to
them just like we're talking now, because we have to
remember they were they are human, most of them that
are good, and we shouldn't go in there like the
FBI or the CIA just asking questions. Sometimes we've got
(12:40):
to go in there and just respect that they're there
and see.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Why they're communicating with the homeowner.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Erica's website is linked up at Coast tocosdam dot com.
Do these spirits ever try to trick you or will
mislead you.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh, yes, you know, and that gets into the whole
Halloween trick or treat too, you know, because with the
Celtic in all religions, you know, there's that belief of demons,
you know, and so a lot of times, when you know,
living in the Bible Belt, people ask, well, how do
you know you're not talking to a demon?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
How do you know you're not being tricked? I personally
have only dealt with a couple of those entities.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
They're not things that I like to deal with personally,
and I find that I am not tricked because usually
I ask questions and they're validated. But there have been
occasions when I've been around some very negative energy, which
you've since it automatically if you're intuitive, and they will
tell you things that are not true, and that's when
you usually know that they're not good energies.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Exactly what is a ghost? Is it the soul? What
is there an entity behind it?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I think, from you know, from my perspective, the soul
is a living being that no longer is in their
flesh suit. They're in their soul or spirit body now,
so they're not limited to walking around they're not limiting
it to the physical way of flesh.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
They're just actually as light as air. They're they're parable.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
They can go places and do things and interact with electricity.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Hence our EMF detectors.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Will definitely sometimes highlight when they're present.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But yeah, they're they're They're not like.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I think we see them ghosts as people that were
there in their flesh suit.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
They're not. They're in their spirit body for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Have you ever been scared yourself?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yes, I try not to watch scary movies and go
to sleep because they definitely affect my dreams, and then
I have the craziest scary dreams. But in in a
ghost setting, yes, I was just recently doing a walking
to where and I often say to the tour people
when I'm walking, I'll pass by a real person and
(15:06):
I'll say, hey, that's a ghost right there.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm surprised you can see him, but it's really a human.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And last night this guy went really really loud and
we all jumped.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Because we weren't expecting it. But in reality with.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Spirits, yes, I've had things walk behind me, I've had
things touch me. I was walking someplace and a shadow
figure just literally walked up and scared the Jesus out
of me. So I've had to set real good guidelines
about what is acceptable for me as a medium and
(15:43):
what is not. And I do not allow them to
walk up on me like that because it is very
scary for me. I don't go to children either.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What creates a haunted house, what makes it that way.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So there's a lot of different schools, and I might
be different on this because I've gotten some conversations with
other mediums about this. A lot of times people will
reach out to a paranormal team and they'll.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Say, I've got somebody stuck in my house.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It is haunted, and I need you are your team,
to come and release them or let them go into
the light. We watched a lot of movies carolynne go
into the light. There's peace and serenity in the light.
And so my belief, honestly, is that spirits can't be
controlled by me.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I can't say go into the light, and here they go.
I think that spirits aren't stuck.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I think that they come and go as they please
because they have free will. Sometimes they're in an environment.
I've seen people stand in an environment because someone is
smoking cigarettes and they might have cancer and they died
of cancer, so they're hiding their cigarettes. I've seen other
people that have come back because because their loved one
(17:01):
is depressed or might be having some kind of problems
and they feel they need them, so they're there. I
have met people, unfortunately that have lost two of my
great people that I just love so much. On the
other side, that have been helpful when people are in
(17:21):
a place of suicide because that's how they got they
have appeared to their family, they have appeared to me
and other people because there's a need to help.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
They're helpers. On the other side, there were helpers here,
but they're definitely not stuck.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
And that's a bad hip peeve of my pet peeve,
thinking that we control the spirit body when we don't.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That's ego in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Are most spirits friendly in your opinion.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yes, because most spirits that come back are really truly
here for a purpose.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes, they're here to.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Guide and help heal us and to give us insight.
And a lot of it comes from prayer, you know,
when when I have prayed for individuals to be guided
by their loved ones or to be to be given information, insight,
internal insight, that prayer sometimes.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Will bring them a.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Group of people, their guides, our loved ones, our ancestry
around to help walk them through this life that's difficult
at that time. But yes, there are good ones that
come and they love us. And they're bad ones too,
but they're far in between.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
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Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norrie with you.
Erica Bussarhani with Us is a psychic medium and paranormal investigator,
widely recognized for her ability to connect with the spirit world.
Affectionately known as the psychic Diva, she has spent decades
helping individuals find closure, clarity, comfort through messages from beyond.
(00:26):
Erica is the founder of the Pensacola History and a
Hunting's Tour, where she shares the city's rich and haunted
pass through immersive storytelling in guided paranormal experiences. One of
her books that she wrote back in two thousand and
nine is called Sam and the Boogeyman. Erica, Welcome back.
Have you been?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I've been doing great, George. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh? I'm doing fine. Why is this such a great
part of the year. It just kicks off everything, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I think it's because no matter where you are in
the world, there's a way to kind of honor your
dad during this time. It makes it not scary to
to really play with the dead, to dress up to
honor them, to even make the scary afterlife fun and exciting.
And it's a way of you know, remembering the dead,
(01:17):
and it's saying that by the decay of autumn and
the new birth of possibilities, and it retouches us to
the beyond that sometimes we're afraid of.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We're walking around.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
With skeletons and coffins and spiders and all of these things.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Pumpkins.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It makes it fun and okay and not as scary
as originally people thought it was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Do you think some times Erica that Halloween has overdone
a little bit? Is its push too much commercially?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Most definitely, I think that it kind of gets away
from the original Celtic meaning of it.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, they went through that primarily to a ritual to.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Bring in autumn and to kind of understand the changes
that were.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Happening in the environment.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You know, fast forward many years from now, you wouldn't
expect that children are going to be walking around begging
for candy, you know, instead of souling. But yeah, I
think there's a lot of commercialism to a lot of
the holidays, but specifically this holiday. I like to see
it go back ancestral in some ways where people are
(02:25):
really honoring the dead as it first intended.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You're a psychic medium in addition to being psychic, and
you communicate with the other side, with the dead. Do
they say anything about Halloween?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You know, I don't think they've never given me any
Halloween tricks or tips or anything. And you know, I've
dressed up from everything from a police officer to a zombie.
But I think it's not really so much them saying
anything about Halloween. I think it's when the veil finds
they're able to communicate with us, and I think they
(03:02):
readily love the fact that we're more in tune in
these months to set out maybe an altar, set out
some food, set.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Out some photos, do a family tree, write a letter
to our loved ones, light a candle. So they're just saying, hey,
we're here.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
So if the communication is welcome, we're here to give
it to you.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
There's a Gaelic event called sam Hayne which comes up
during the same time period. Is that similar to Halloween
most definitely.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So when we think about traditionally across the country, you've
got a lot of different things like the Day of
the Dead, the Hungry Ghost in Haiti, the Day of
the Dead, too.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
They're all kind of about the same thing.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
They have similar Celtic origins where people are remembering the dead.
They're honoring the dead in their multiple ways. But there
are a lot of cross connections with candles, with the
jack o' lanterns, with the feasting with the dead, the altars,
the different ritualistic offerings that people have via candles, visiting
(04:16):
the cemeteries. There's many, many, many connections throughout the whole
world in this same time that tied.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
To that Erica as a hurricane Melitsa hits Haiti. It
truly is the day of the Dead. Twenty five people
dead already out there.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, and you know, it's kind of the concept of
Halloween when you think about it. You know, a lot
of times these people were leaving the sunshine, we'll say,
going into the darkness and all of these things like
hurricanes and different things were happening that they couldn't control.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Had no idea. The darkness was scary.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So these kind of ritualistic things kind of came because
they were trying to understand and.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Even predict and seek protection.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And so when you look at, you know, this thing
in Haiti, I'm sure there are a lot of people
there doing ritualistic things in praying and doing these things
to try to seek some kind of protection toward the storm.
This happened a lot with the crops and the different
you know, deaths and disease during that time too, So
there is a lot of correlation and my thoughts and
(05:25):
my prayers to those families because in Pensacola, Florida.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Where I am, we're no stranger to hurricanes as well.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Does this time be hear make it easier for you
to connect with the spirit world?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I think for me it does, you know, I've always
unfortunately and fortunately been.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Able to connect. But I think for other people it's
easier for.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Them to connect because it gives them permission to lure
their guard in this thin veil, and.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It makes it okay to have.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Remembrance of their loved ones, to dress up in you know,
in costumes and have fun as a community. And you know,
in some religions it's still you know, a pagan you know,
it started out pagan, so in some ways, you know,
some people don't really want to celebrate Halloween because of
the pagan roots of it. But I think it gives
(06:22):
the majority of the people that opportunity to connect to
people and make it okay to remember the dead, because
I always say when people die, you remember that at three.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Seconds, you don't remember their life.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So a day like Halloween says, okay, it's okay for
me to honor my ancestry, my family, my loved ones.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Where is the carving out of the pumpkins, wearing costumes,
all the strange little things that happened during Halloween? How
did that originate?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So basically, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The ancestor of the beginning, the founder of Halloween is
definitely going to be the Iris. Know from the Celtic culture,
they were looking for ways to explain the changes from
from uh to autumn, and they were looking for some
kind of explanation of the darkness around them as they
entered the fall weather.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And they were.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Looking for ways to appease and seek protection for their
crops and for the animals and for the disease and
you know the different things that were happening around and
if they.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Didn't have enough food to last that winter, then they
unfortunately would perish.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
So there was a lot of scary in the in
the in the woods.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
When when I look at a lot of the movies
that are made about Irish folklore and the fairy and
the fee there's there's a lot of mystery in the woods,
you know, And so I think that Halloween started off
with them carving the turnip.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Root for protection.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It was it was made in like almost a devilish grin,
because it was to be placed with either coal or
a candle in the winter to ward off the evil
spirits are the sneaky spirits, the she that the fairy
folk that kind of run in the forest and throughout
the land. And so they did this really to seek protection,
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as many cultures have done when they didn't understand the weather,
the climate, the different things that were going on.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And that's how the beginning of it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So they basically carved pumpkins, they did all of these things.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
They dressed up so that the spirits they could trick
the spirits.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And you know, kind of like blend in, I guess,
so that was kind of the reasoning for it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Erica, how did you enhance your psychic abilities and when
did you begin to realize you had something special?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Well, you know a lot of times intuition is innate.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You know, everybody is born psychic. Everybody can enhance their ability.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I just simply came from a family with enhanced skins,
and I went through, you know, a lot of self YouTube,
Santana Stacey's courses, and just a lot of different meditations
in order to harness the Claire audience, Claire Visuit, the
all the different players that I have. So I tell
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anybody you know, start with something as simple as YouTube.
Look at different techniques I do offer on my website.
Also some psychic development tools, but there is so many
things that you can find on the internet.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Just practice makes perfect. Don't give up. Trust what you get.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
When you're in the psychic medium mode. What makes the
spirits come to you? Or do you go out and
find them?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You know, as a ghost under I do both.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
They tend to I always say I'm haunted, George, I'm
haunted wherever I shall.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So. But you know, as a medium, I think they
are around me a lot of times.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And you know, I'm on a zoom talking now, and
so I'm looking at the zoom and I see all
these flashes of people are things around me right now.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So I think I've already always tapped in.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But when as a paranormal investigator, I go into homes
and businesses and areas, looking for the spirits to interact
with to see what validity we can get as far
as what they're communicating from the other side.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I'm a medium, but.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I'm also a very skeptical individual, so I like to
kind of deal with evidential mediumship and actuality and not
basically folklore.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Do you visit many haunted houses Erica?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I do.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I don't honestly have to physically be in a home
to visit them.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I like to.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Practice remote viewing sometimes, and I will imagine and people
can do this at home if you're intuitive, being.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
At the doorstep. Imagine turning the door knob and walking in, and.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Then I usually separate the house from left to right,
up and down, and I usually just am drawn directly
to whatever spirit activity is there, and I ask questions,
as I think we need to do when we're learning
our intuition, ask questions, because a lot of times it's
not that you're not psychic, it's just you're not being
a reporter. You're not asking what, when, where, how and why.
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And that's what I think works well for me.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
When you went to a haunted house, can you tell
right away that something strange is going on here.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yes, So in.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Doing haunted investigations in person and via remote, I try
not to get in the information from the homeowner. So
my team will usually we have someone on the team,
the case manager, that will inquire about what the homeowner
might be feeling, if they're waking up at a specific time,
(11:59):
if they're having visualizations of people, if they're hearing noises,
if they're having smells.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I try not to get any of that information.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
When I walk in, I ask to be guided to
the area of haunting, and a lot of times at
that point you will notice a shift.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
In the air, it'll be cold.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
A lot of times our EMP detectors will start beeping
and things like that, and I just begin talking to
them just like we're talking now, because we have to
remember they were they are human, most of them that
are good, and we shouldn't go in there like the
FBI or the CIA just asking questions. Sometimes we've got
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to go in there and just respect that they're there
and see.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Why they're communicating with the homeowner.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Erica's website is linked up at Coast tocosdam dot com.
Do these spirits ever try to trick you or will
mislead you.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh, yes, you know, and that gets into the whole
Halloween trick or treat too, you know, because with the
Celtic in all religions, you know, there's that belief of demons,
you know, and so a lot of times, when you know,
living in the Bible Belt, people ask, well, how do
you know you're not talking to a demon?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
How do you know you're not being tricked? I personally
have only dealt with a couple of those entities.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
They're not things that I like to deal with personally,
and I find that I am not tricked because usually
I ask questions and they're validated. But there have been
occasions when I've been around some very negative energy, which
you've since it automatically if you're intuitive, and they will
tell you things that are not true, and that's when
you usually know that they're not good energies.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Exactly what is a ghost? Is it the soul? What
is there an entity behind it?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I think, from you know, from my perspective, the soul
is a living being that no longer is in their
flesh suit. They're in their soul or spirit body now,
so they're not limited to walking around they're not limiting
it to the physical way of flesh.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
They're just actually as light as air. They're they're parable.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
They can go places and do things and interact with electricity.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Hence our EMF detectors.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Will definitely sometimes highlight when they're present.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But yeah, they're they're They're not like.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I think we see them ghosts as people that were
there in their flesh suit.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
They're not. They're in their spirit body for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Have you ever been scared yourself?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yes, I try not to watch scary movies and go
to sleep because they definitely affect my dreams, and then
I have the craziest scary dreams. But in in a
ghost setting, yes, I was just recently doing a walking
to where and I often say to the tour people
when I'm walking, I'll pass by a real person and
(15:06):
I'll say, hey, that's a ghost right there.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm surprised you can see him, but it's really a human.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And last night this guy went really really loud and
we all jumped.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Because we weren't expecting it. But in reality with.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Spirits, yes, I've had things walk behind me, I've had
things touch me. I was walking someplace and a shadow
figure just literally walked up and scared the Jesus out
of me. So I've had to set real good guidelines
about what is acceptable for me as a medium and
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what is not. And I do not allow them to
walk up on me like that because it is very
scary for me. I don't go to children either.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What creates a haunted house, what makes it that way.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So there's a lot of different schools, and I might
be different on this because I've gotten some conversations with
other mediums about this. A lot of times people will
reach out to a paranormal team and they'll.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Say, I've got somebody stuck in my house.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It is haunted, and I need you are your team,
to come and release them or let them go into
the light. We watched a lot of movies carolynne go
into the light. There's peace and serenity in the light.
And so my belief, honestly, is that spirits can't be
controlled by me.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I can't say go into the light, and here they go.
I think that spirits aren't stuck.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I think that they come and go as they please
because they have free will. Sometimes they're in an environment.
I've seen people stand in an environment because someone is
smoking cigarettes and they might have cancer and they died
of cancer, so they're hiding their cigarettes. I've seen other
people that have come back because because their loved one
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is depressed or might be having some kind of problems
and they feel they need them, so they're there. I
have met people, unfortunately that have lost two of my
great people that I just love so much. On the
other side, that have been helpful when people are in
(17:21):
a place of suicide because that's how they got they
have appeared to their family, they have appeared to me
and other people because there's a need to help.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
They're helpers. On the other side, there were helpers here,
but they're definitely not stuck.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
And that's a bad hip peeve of my pet peeve,
thinking that we control the spirit body when we don't.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That's ego in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Are most spirits friendly in your opinion.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yes, because most spirits that come back are really truly
here for a purpose.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes, they're here to.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Guide and help heal us and to give us insight.
And a lot of it comes from prayer, you know,
when when I have prayed for individuals to be guided
by their loved ones or to be to be given information, insight,
internal insight, that prayer sometimes.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Will bring them a.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Group of people, their guides, our loved ones, our ancestry
around to help walk them through this life that's difficult
at that time. But yes, there are good ones that
come and they love us. And they're bad ones too,
but they're far in between.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
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