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The Best Episodes of Ghost Whisperer Season 5

Every episode of Ghost Whisperer Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Ghost Whisperer Season 5!

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Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 1 - Birthday Presence
    7.5/10(275 votes)

    #1 - Birthday Presence

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Jennifer Love Hewitt
    Writers:Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds

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  2. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 2 - See No Evil
    7.3/10(236 votes)

    #2 - See No Evil

    S5:E2

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

    Director:Eric Laneuville
    Writer:Jeannine Renshaw

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  3. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 3 - Till Death Do Us Start
    7.7/10(253 votes)

    #3 - Till Death Do Us Start

    S5:E3

    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

    Director:Gloria Muzio
    Writer:Mark B. Perry

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  4. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 4 - Do Over
    7.7/10(240 votes)

    #4 - Do Over

    S5:E4

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

    Director:John Gray
    Writer:John Gray

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  5. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 5 - Cause for Alarm
    7.2/10(226 votes)

    #5 - Cause for Alarm

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:Ian Sander
    Writers:Joy Blake, Melissa Blake

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  6. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 6 - Head Over Heels
    7.3/10(239 votes)

    #6 - Head Over Heels

    S5:E6

    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 safety.

    Director:Steven Robman
    Writers:Laurie McCarthy, Stephanie Sengupta

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  7. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 7 - Devil's Bargain
    7.5/10(215 votes)

    #7 - Devil's Bargain

    S5:E7

    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 when Aiden continues to mention his fear of "the shadows".

    Director:James Chressanthis
    Writers:Mark B. Perry, P.K. Simonds

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  8. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 8 - Dead Listing
    7.5/10(230 votes)

    #8 - Dead Listing

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Peter Werner
    Writers:Mark B. Perry, Laurie McCarthy

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  9. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 9 - Lost in the Shadows
    7.8/10(228 votes)

    #9 - Lost in the Shadows

    S5:E9

    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.

    Director:Kim Moses
    Writers:Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds

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  10. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 10 - Excessive Forces
    7.3/10(241 votes)

    #10 - Excessive Forces

    S5:E10

    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.

    Director:Kenny Leon
    Writer:Stephanie Sengupta

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  11. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 11 - Dead Air
    7.5/10(509 votes)

    #11 - Dead Air

    S5:E11

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

    Director:Gloria Muzio
    Writers:Mark B. Perry, Laurie McCarthy

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  12. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 12 - Blessings in Disguise
    7.4/10(215 votes)

    #12 - Blessings in Disguise

    S5:E12

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

    Director:Jan Eliasberg
    Writers:Jeannine Renshaw, Ben Chaney

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  13. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 13 - Living Nightmare
    7.3/10(208 votes)

    #13 - Living Nightmare

    S5:E13

    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 the mystery behind a madness that grips Jim's (David Conrad) hospital - and the rest of Grandview.

    Director:Ian Sander
    Writers:Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds

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  14. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 14 - Dead to Me
    7.8/10(221 votes)

    #14 - Dead to Me

    S5:E14

    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 know is going to die soon.

    Director:Ralph Hemecker
    Writer:Pamela Norris

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  15. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 15 - Implosion
    7.4/10(218 votes)

    #15 - Implosion

    S5:E15

    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

    Directors:John Gray, Jennifer Love Hewitt
    Writer:John Gray

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  16. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 16 - Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
    8.0/10(259 votes)

    #16 - Old Sins Cast Long Shadows

    S5:E16

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

    Director:Jefery Levy
    Writer:Mark B. Perry

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  17. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 17 - On Thin Ice
    7.5/10(218 votes)

    #17 - On Thin Ice

    S5:E17

    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 to him and the ghost is tormenting him until Melinda can help him find out who is trying to stop his work, while the things the ghost does to Damon are predicted in his comics.

    Director:Ian Sander
    Writers:Joy Blake, Melissa Blake

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  18. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 18 - Dead Eye
    7.5/10(204 votes)

    #18 - Dead Eye

    S5:E18

    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 story involving greed and suspicion.

    Director:John Behring
    Writers:Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds

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  19. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 19 - Lethal Combination
    7.4/10(207 votes)

    #19 - Lethal Combination

    S5:E19

    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 snooping through files in the file room at his work by the morgue coroner Dr. Mavis.

    Director:Kim Moses
    Writer:Stephanie Sengupta

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  20. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 20 - Blood Money
    7.4/10(200 votes)

    #20 - Blood Money

    S5:E20

    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 his own living and not rely on their handouts. He masterminded his own kidnapping with a friend of his, and seems relieved to be able to explain to his mother, via Melinda, that he's felt guilt and remorse ever since.

    Director:Eric Laneuville
    Writer:Laurie McCarthy

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  21. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 21 - Dead Ringer
    7.6/10(206 votes)

    #21 - Dead Ringer

    S5:E21

    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.

    Director:Ian Sander
    Writers:Mark B. Perry, Stephanie Sengupta

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  22. Ghost Whisperer Season 5 Episode 22 - The Children's Parade
    7.8/10(336 votes)

    #22 - The Children's Parade

    S5:E22

    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 to a climax and Melinda and Jim will realize that they know almost nothing about Aiden's powers.

    Director:John Gray
    Writer:John Gray

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Birthday Presence" is the best rated episode of "Ghost Whisperer" season 5. It scored 7.5/10 based on 275 votes. Directed by Jennifer Love Hewitt and written by Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds, it aired on 9/25/2009. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "See No Evil".