Ghosts Join Extras in Spooky TV Show  7/24/06

The dead are spooking actress Jennifer Love Hewitt and her Ghost Whisperer cast and crew by making blink-and-you'll-miss-them appearances in frames of film.

Editors behind the scenes of the hit US TV show, in which the actress speaks to ghosts, have started spotting sinister images when they check back through film.

Producers think that perhaps the dead 'extras' are trying to tell loved ones they've left behind they're OK, and so they've posted the split-second cameos on the show's official website.

Love Hewitt says, "They (editors) find presences on film all the time. In one instance they froze the still and saw a person in the background who wasn't in the frame before or the frame after."

The actress admits her show has helped grieving parents and spouses come to terms with their loss - and realize their dead loved ones are never too far away from them.

She adds, "I was talking to a fan and she told me how her and her husband always sit down to have dinner together and watch the show and hold hands.

"It wasn't until the end of the conversation that I realized that the woman's husband was dead."