''Sam and the Boogie Man'' ISBN 978-1438931074
Media
- Paranormal gathering in Prescott Arizona: HauntedCon-day three Arizona Haunted Sites Examiner Sept 29 2009
- Super Psychic Radio on Achieve Radio Host Bill Schreiner September 26 2009
- Blog Talk Radio with Michael Carbone Oct 5 2009
- "Family Uses Psychic to Find Missing Daughter" ,April 7, 2009, Lexington, Kentucky'"WKYT-TV Wkyt.com"'
- "CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK" March 14,2009, Pensacola News Journal
- "Haunted Con 2009 coming soon in Prescott Arizona", July 31, 2009, Miami, Florida "The Examiner"
- "Mother by Day and Psychic Detective by Night", August 8'th, 2009,Pensacola,Florida Media One News
- Psychic Radio on CBS
- Paranormal Awareness Radio Show
- The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell
- Book Bites for Kids on Blog Talk Radio
- Eerie Radio on Rara-X
- Think Again Radio
- Through The Veil Radio
- Yours Truly with Nancy Tursi on Contact Talk Radio
- Haunted Times Magazine Radio
- Cross Roads Raranormal Radio
- Paranormal Talk with Annette Jones
- Paranormal Talk with Annette Jones
- THE AARF SHOW
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- Dream Catcher Entertainmen Radio
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Events and Speaking
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Meditation helps to destress
UWF graduates can help you learn to find your center
By Jennie Hobbs Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Jennie Hobbs
Erika Boussarhane, center, leads a demonstration of singing bowls for Cindy Greene, left, and Crystal Evans. Greens's Mystic Cottage, "metaphysical gift store," offers a variety of resources and information for people who are looking to find a meaning in life. Evans and Boussarhane are UWF alumnae.
Chakra Color Light Bed Therapy, a good stoning, palm readings, meditation classes and haunting hunting are some of the unique services provided by the Mystic Cottage at 4971 Mobile Highway in Pensacola.
Tantalizing essential oils and incense immediately intoxicate the senses of anyone stepping into the little gift shop, which is celebrating its two-year anniversary.
Recent UWF graduate and Cottage employee Crystal Evans, known as the “Love Diva,” provides love and relationship guidance.
“I’m here to help people,” Evans said.
Another former UWF student, Erika Boussarhane, leads the weekly meditation classes, which draws heavily on visualization techniques while incorporating soothing sounds and utilizing tools, such as singing bowls, worry stones and pure essential oils to facilitate relaxation.
“We use a combination of East, West, and American cultural meditation techniques to help in de-stressing” Boussarhane said.
The small, nondescript storefront dons a Mystic Cottage logo over the door, which masks the multitude of candles, herbs and jewelry found within. There are also areas for vendors to display related wares.
It’s more than a store — it’s a “safe haven,” owner Cindy Greene said. “I try to provide a tranquil space to get away.”
Bringing people together for social events, like the upcoming “Goddess Night,” does exactly this. This “fun excursion” will be a night for “networking and pampering,” Greene said.
“People will dress as their favorite goddess or deity and dine on decadent hors d’oeurves with meditation and mini massages,” she said.
Dress-up activities are a running theme at the Cottage. One of the recently held anniversary activities was a “Mystic Cottage Paranormal PJ Party.” The pajama-party participants joined the Southern Paranormal Researchers on an investigation for the night.
One of the most interesting offerings is the chakra light therapy bed. It focuses different-colored lights at seven pressure points, while treating its user to various scents and relaxing music.
“It’s 30 minutes of ecstasy,” Greene said.
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July 11, 2009
Pattie Krakowski, founder of Pensacola History and Hauntings, left,
and local psychic medium Ericka Boussarhane are offering ghost
tours of Seville Quarter. (Ben Twingley/btwingley@pnj.com)
Take a walk on the weird side
Spice up your summer UFO tours and ghost walks
Rebecca Ross rross@pnj.com
http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009907110303
Dinner and a movie? How dull.
Summer is here, bringing its share of long nights and lazy weekends. But for those seeking to shake up their entertainment routine, the Gulf Coast has plenty of unusual fun on tap. Ghost tours, psychic readings and alien encounters abound.
Ready to get weird? Just follow the little green men.
Every Saturday through Sept. 5 (excluding today), guests can take an intergalactic trolley ride through Gulf Breeze and Pensacola Beach on a UFO tour.
Presented by Pensacola Winterfest, the 90-minute tours offer a lighthearted take on the UFO phenomenon that swept the Gulf Coast during the late 1980s. The family-friendly tours depart from the Pensacola Visitors Information Center and include stops at the former home of Ed Walters, who allegedly filmed a UFO sighting; Shoreline Park; and the UFO House on Pensacola Beach.
"We've had one tour so far, and it was hysterical," said Denise Daughtry, event organizer. "We've got an intergalactic flight attendant who will teach you how to fold your foil hats and the trolley will be visited by some surprise guests."
Daughtry rated the UFO tours "not scary," but there are other haunted happenings creeping around town.
Pattie Krakowski, founder of Pensacola History and Hauntings, will share a slew of spooky tales each Tuesday at Seville Quarter on Government Street.
Krakowski interviewed current and former Seville employees about the ghosts rumored to haunt the downtown entertainment complex.
"I was surprised by all their stories," she said. "They told me about male ghosts, female ghosts, child ghosts and animal ghosts."
Beginning at 10:10 a.m. each Tuesday, Krakowski will lead guests on a spirit-soaked tour of Seville, which includes coffee and lunch. Paranormal investigation enthusiasts also can attend a future "Paranormal Boot Camp" at Seville, where Krakowski and local psychics will explain the basics of ghost hunting.
"There is so much interest in the paranormal right now, from people of all ages," Krakowski said. "The tours are fun, and something definitely different."
Weird and unusual events:
n UFO tours
8 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 5 (except today, July 11). Ride the red trolley and see the sights that made Gulf Breeze the UFO capital of the world. Tickets are $25 adults; $5 children. Reservations required. Details: Denise Chenel Daughtry, 435-0914, or visit www.fiveflagstrolley.com.
Pensacola Haunted Theater
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturdays. An audience participatory mystery show complete with clues and a little night magic. There will be live seances by psychic medium Ericka Boussarhane. $10. The Mystic Cottage, 4971 Mobile Highway. Details: Ericka Boussarhane, 456-5119, e-mail psychicgift@aol.com or visit www.coldcasepsychic.com.
Ghost Stories at Seville Quarter
10:10 a.m. Tuesdays. Ghost tours and lunch in the Palace Cafe at Seville Quarter. Tickets: $24. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. Details: Pattie Krakowski, 221-1977, or visit www.pensacolahistoryandhauntings.com.
n Tour-iffic Summer Ghost Tours
Tours start each half-hour from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, Saturday, July 24 and 25 and Aug. 21 and 22. Learn the haunted history of the oldest settlement in America. There are two walking tours to choose from: the family-friendly Seville Tour and the adults-only Redlight Tour. Rent a ghost meter during your tour if you dare, and see if the ghosts want to show themselves. Ghost Meters rent for $5 per tour. Tours: $10 for adults; $5 for children ages 12 and younger. Pensacola Historical Museum, 115 E. Zaragoza St. Details: Wendi C. Davis, 595-1559, or visit www.pensacolahistory.org.
Lisa Williams: Messages From Beyond
7:30 p.m. Dec. 2. Internationally acclaimed medium and clairvoyant Lisa Williams will appear at the Saenger Theatre and do readings for audience members. Tickets are $37.50 to $67.50 (plus applicable service charge) and can be purchased at the Saenger Theatre box office, by phone at (800) 745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox Place. Details: 595-3880.
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Chip off the old block
Abilities were a family affair, celebrity psychic says
Rebecca Ross • rross@pnj.com • March 14, 2009
Unlike the ghost-besieged boy in the movie, "The Sixth Sense," Chip Coffey does not see dead people. Well. Not often.
Usually, spirits and wandering souls communicate to the Atlanta psychic through energy, mental imagery or by speaking to him, he explained.
"It's rare for me to see them as a full apparition," said Coffey, who will speak at the Circle of Life Expo this weekend at the Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds. "But it happens."
The soft-spoken 54-year-old said he has been psychic "since childhood," and a professional medium and paranormal investigator since 2001. Most would recognize Coffey, with his trademark buzz cut and glasses, from his frequent appearances on the A&E cable series, "Paranormal State," which follows a team of investigators from Penn State University's Paranormal Research Society.
Organizers of the Expo, a physical, metaphysical and spiritual festival, say they are excited to present the celebrity psychic.
"I watch Chip on 'Paranormal State' just like everyone else," said Cindy Greene, event organizer and owner of The Mystic Cottage, a metaphysical gift store on Mobile Highway. "So many people are interested in the paranormal and in Chip. He's so down-to-earth."
Coffey certainly is matter-of-fact when it comes to discussing what he believes are his God-given abilities.
"This is just a part of me, like my eye color or shoe size," he said. "I don't remember a time I wasn't psychic. By the time I was 2 or 3, I was telling my parents that the phone would ring, before it did, or that unannounced people were coming to visit."
He said his parents accepted his quirks without question.
"My great-grandmother was Minnie Sue Morrow Foster, a famous Native American medicine woman, and my dad's mom read tea leaves," Coffey said. "It wasn't a big deal in my family."
It wasn't until 2001, while he was working in the travel industry, that Coffey's ghost-whispering skills emerged.
He said he was startled when he was contacted by a coworker's deceased brother.
"I thought I was going crazy," Coffey said, laughing. "This man started talking in my head, and I thought I had really gone round the bend."
The grieving coworker wasn't convinced that Coffey was chatting with her brother's spirit until Coffey described what she had been wearing the last time she'd seen her brother at the hospital.
"He pushed me into an Italian restaurant, and showed me a red-and-white checked tablecloth," Coffey said, describing the vision. "When I told my coworker this, she gasped and started to cry. She'd worn a dress with that same fabric."
Since then, he has become a full-time psychic, medium, paranormal investigator, author and speaker. He travels internationally, giving private readings, and is looking to expand his national gallery readings, which he calls, "Coffey Talk."
Coffey isn't bothered by those who scoff at his claims of psychic and spirit channeling — skills that aren't backed by scientific fact.
"People have the right to believe or not to believe," he said. "I never dealt with many detractors until I started appearing on TV, but you know, I try not to engage with those people."
Ericka Boussarhane, a Pensacola psychic medium, said that people should keep an open mind when it comes to "anything that's outside of their experience."
"It's not something that everyone believes, but I think most people would be surprised if they gave it a chance," she said. "I've had the pleasure of working with Chip before, and I'd encourage anyone to come out and see what he can do."
Fans can see more of Coffey on "Paranormal State." He just completed his 26th episode of the show and said he hopes to film another installment of his A&E show, "Psychic Kids," in the future.
Why are such shows so popular? Coffey said the reasons range the gamut.
"Some people love being in dark, spooky places with meters," he said. "But others just want answers to those eternal questions."
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