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Ghost Whisperer: Season 5

22 episodes Premiered Sep 25, 2009 Updated Sep 25, 2026

The fifth and final season leaps five years into the future, where Melinda's son Aiden is already conversing with ghosts and her husband Jim has become a doctor.

Previously on Ghost Whisperer

Season 5 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Ghost Whisperer Season 4.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.

Season overview

The fifth and final season leaps five years into the future, where Melinda's son Aiden is already conversing with ghosts and her husband Jim has become a doctor.

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Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S5·E1 Mytharc

Birthday Presence

Sep 25, 2009 · 45 min

Melinda gives birth to a baby boy who has inherited her gift of seeing spirits. However, the baby has one important difference in gift which will have extreme consequences.

S5·E2 Core

See No Evil

Oct 2, 2009 · 42 min

Melinda looks into a chain email that appears to be preying on the citizens of Grandview.

S5·E3 Core

Till Death Do Us Start

Oct 9, 2009 · 44 min

A messy family reunion ensues after Eli's father suffers from a heart attack. Eli also has a reunion with his mother who has been unable to cross over for ten years

S5·E4 Core

Do Over

Oct 16, 2009 · 45 min

Melinda helps a dead doctor who is reliving a surgery that went wrong.

S5·E5 Core

Cause for Alarm

Oct 23, 2009 · 44 min

Melinda help Eli with a patient who is being haunted by his sister. Meanwhile, Jim and Melinda have concerns over something Aiden has been seeing.

S5·E6 Core

Head Over Heels

Oct 30, 2009 · 45 min

The Headless Horseman from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is haunting Melinda and when the legendary book mysteriously shows up at Aiden's school Melinda becomes worried for Aiden's s

S5·E7 Core

Devil's Bargain

Nov 6, 2009 · 45 min

Jim, surprised by his colleague's nonchalance to a paranormal encounter, suspects that he is involved in a med student's sudden disappearance. Meanwhile, Melinda senses trouble whe

S5·E8 Core

Dead Listing

Nov 13, 2009 · 44 min

Melinda is pulled into a murder mystery by a real estate power couple when a ghost leads her to his own corps.

S5·E9 Core

Lost in the Shadows

Nov 20, 2009 · 44 min

When the ghost of a little girl who passed away from leukemia befriends Aiden and threatens Melinda to stay out of her way, Melinda worries for her son's safety.

S5·E10 Core

Excessive Forces

Dec 4, 2009 · 44 min

When the ghost of a high school boy accuses a Grandview cop of murdering him, Melinda is convinced that his death wasn't a mere skateboarding accident.

S5·E11 Core

Dead Air

Jan 8, 2010 · 45 min

Melinda must help Ned stop a ghost out for revenge when the Grandview radio station broadcasts the humiliating secrets that led to his death.

S5·E12 Core

Blessings in Disguise

Jan 15, 2010 · 44 min

Melinda must discover the truth hidden within a family before it threatens to tear the her family apart.

S5·E13 Core

Living Nightmare

Jan 29, 2010 · 45 min

When Melinda discovers a family secret, madness grips the hospital and the town when a ghost who is making no sense haunts a patient who's making even less. Melinda must unravel th

S5·E14 Core

Dead to Me

Feb 5, 2010 · 44 min

Ned's Occult Anthropology professor is stalked by the ghost of a secret admirer. Ned tries to use a Ouija board to help solve the mystery but instead is warned that someone they kn

S5·E15 Core

Implosion

Mar 5, 2010 · 44 min

A ghost who knows of a hidden munitions dump with unexploded bombs confides in Melinda that one of those bombs is missing and in the wrong hands

S5·E16 Core

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows

Mar 12, 2010 · 45 min

Dark forces are fighting for the soul of a little girl that cannot escape the haunted house she has been trapped in for years.

S5·E17 Core

On Thin Ice

Apr 2, 2010 · 45 min

Damon is a graphic (comic) novelist; kind of hip and edgy, he is being haunted by the ghost of a teen boy as he is ready to release his new novel and strange things start to happen

S5·E18 Core

Dead Eye

Apr 9, 2010 · 44 min

When a confused ghost dressed as a clown begins haunting Melinda's house, it's up to her and Eli to look for answers in the ghost's final case as a private investigator - a love st

S5·E19 Mytharc

Lethal Combination

Apr 30, 2010 · 45 min

When Aiden is put in danger, Melinda won't accept anything but the truth and sets out on a shocking investigation into the life of an angry murdered ghost. Meanwhile, Jim is caught

S5·E20 Core

Blood Money

May 7, 2010 · 45 min

Henry was 18 years old when he was killed, with a gunshot wound in his chest. In life he was a decent boy from a wealthy, loving family, whose parents believed that he should earn

S5·E21 Mytharc

Dead Ringer

May 14, 2010 · 45 min

When the ghost Melinda is trying to help suddenly turns up alive, she finds herself in the middle of a dangerous revenge plot and battling enemies she was unaware she had.

S5·E22 Mytharc

The Children's Parade

May 21, 2010 · 45 min

Jim's hospital is being haunted by the ghosts of kids from an abandoned polio ward in the early 1900’s. And the connection of Aidan, Melinda, the Shinies and the Shadows will come

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