Our top 25 countdown continues, and we are now entering our top 10. Can you believe it?

Coming in at number 10, Zulema Arroyo Farley, also known as the Latina medium.

Zulima, so good to see you. Hello, Alicia. How are you?

I am so happy to have you here. So many questions. So let's start with the one on everyone's mind. What is a medium? A medium is someone that has the ability to connect with our loved ones that have departed. What that means, and I don't really like to talk about it in these terms, is that I speak to the dead.

Why don't you like to talk about it that way?

There's a lack of information and misinformation and education on mediumship.

And a lot of people think it's something negative, especially in the Hispanic culture where I come from.

They think it's like witchcraft or black magic,

Brugheria. So to say the dead, it has like, to me, it feels like we're disrespecting our

loved ones because there's still our loved ones, no matter the fact that they passed.

You sort of grew up all over. One of my favorite parts of the book is your time in Jersey

city since I grew up in Union City. So I was very happy to see that North Jersey shout out. That's right. Back and forth to Puerto Rico, some time in California. Growing up, did you know anyone who had these gifts? Personally, no, I didn't, but I always suspected that there had to be something of this sort going on with my paternal grandmother.

And I had that confirmation and validation last year after I decided to come up publicly on national television that I was a psychic medium.

And someone from my dad's side of the family contacted me, and they said that my grandmother

had the gift.

When was the first time you communicated with the spirit world?

The first real recollection that I have of connecting with spirit was what we call in the mediumship world my first in living

color apparition, which is my maternal grandfather presenting himself to me to let me know

that he was going to pass. And I thought that had happened for real, and it didn't. It wasn't until many, many, many years later that I asked my mom, can you tell me more about that day that, you know, grandpa died and he was brought on the stretcher to her home. The ambulance stopped in the house. And she's like, what are you talking about? That never happened. Yeah. But I remember

since I was five, by the way, we had a huge backyard in the house that I lived in Puerto Rico that I grew up

and I had a swing and I had a roundabout and I always remember like when I say seeing its silhouettes

and shadows is not like full color like I'm seeing you or like I saw

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