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And welcome back to coast to coast.

George Norrie with you.

Erica Bouserhaney 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

erika is the founder of the pensacola history and hauntings tour where she shares the city's rich

and haunted past through immersive storytelling and guided

paranormal experiences. One of her books that she wrote back in 2009 is called Sam and the

Bougieman. Erica, welcome back. How have you been? I've been doing great, George. How are you? Oh,

I'm doing fine. Why is this such a great part of the year? It just kicks off everything,

doesn't it? Well, 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 really play with the dad, 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, 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.

We're walking around with skeletons

and coffins and spiders and all of these things,

pumpkins. It makes it

fun and okay and not as scary

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