RENOWNED MEDIUM JAMES VAN PRAAGH, "GHOST WHISPERER" CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, TO CONDUCT ONLINE SEANCE ON HALLOWEEN, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 EXCLUSIVELY ON CBS.COM

Just in time for Halloween, CBS.com will feature a "Ghost Whisperer S�ance" hosted by renowned medium James Van Praagh, on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 3:00 PM, ET/12:00 PM, PT. Van Praagh, who is a co-executive producer of the hit CBS Television drama GHOST WHISPERER, will conduct a one-hour live s�ance where he will perform readings for the general public via streaming video on CBS.com.

The public will be able to call Van Praagh at 323-CBS-1000 and speak to him personally as he connects with the dead, while others can simultaneously converse in a designated chat room.

The public reading will be streamed live on CBS.com and the event will be archived on the site.

GHOST WHISPERER stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Melinda Gordon, a woman who communicates with earthbound spirits and ghosts who cling to the living because they have unfinished business that prevents them from moving beyond the familiar plane of existence that we call life. Inspired in part by the work of famed medium James Van Praagh and of Mary Ann Winkowski, a real-life communicator with spirits, GHOST WHISPERER explores the spiritual side of life and death as Melinda navigates among the dead and the living in her sometimes chilling, sometimes heart-rending and sometimes amusing attempts to act as an intermediary between the ghosts and those they haunt. In addition to Hewitt, David Conrad, Camryn Manheim and Jay Mohr also star in the series, however, the stars of the drama will not be taking part in the online s�ance.

James Van Praagh is recognized as one of the foremost mediums in the world. His unique paranormal experiences during the past 23 years have been recorded in his best-selling books Talking to Heaven, Reaching to Heaven, Healing Grief - Reclaiming Life After Any Loss and Heaven and Earth - Making the Psychic Connection. He has introduced his practices to teenagers with the book Looking Beyond: A Teens' Guide to the Spiritual World. His book, Meditations with James Van Praagh, brought a new awareness to the mediation experience.

GHOST WHISPERER is broadcast Fridays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

On the web: www.cbs.com/primetime/ghost_whisperer/