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I had a profound supernatural experience that inspired me to write this true story. I moved to 125 Parmac Road in Chico, California, in the year 2000. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined the terror and confusion I was about to experience: lights flashing, the hands of the clock turning, and my three-year-old daughter’s toy, a “Sing and Snore Ernie” doll, mysteriously relocated in the center of my living room, screaming, “I feel great! I feel great! I feel great!”… And this was just the first night I moved in. The strange anomalies continued. This paranormal adventure introduced me to the ghost of a missing college student; a notorious criminal by the name of Cameron Hooker; and his wife, Janice. In 1984, Cameron and Janice were linked to a story that made national headlines: " The Seven-Year Sex Slave.”

 My name is Jodi Foster, also known as, “Chico’s Ghost Whisperer". Born in 1967 to what some would consider a nonconformist mother, I began an unconventional life in the remote mountains of Berry Creek, California. The family also lived off the land next to a Native American cemetery. Home schooled, riding horses, and taking baths in nearby Lake Oroville, I was a sensitive child, with an unusual God given gift. When younger, I thought everyone's experience was similar, that they were like me. Not until about the age of nine did I realize that I might have a special ability not everyone possessed. After my mother went off to 'rebel against the man' in the late sixties, I was raised by my Christian grandparents. It was my grandfather, a mortician form Albany New York, who shared the spiritual ideas with me of acceptance, love, grief, and the possibility that life continues, even after death.

Many years later,  I found myself on a life altering, spiritual journey that caused me to question my sanity, and wonder if I was crazy from the combined effect of premonitions, intuition, and extreme empathy, to the point I could feel what others were feeling. I wondered if my grandfather was right about the afterlife; I wondered if there were others in the world who understood or shared my unique gift.  After seeing a psychologist, and researching mental illness, as well as spirituality, I realized that I wasn't crazy. Perhaps a little eccentric, I was not crazy: God gives each and every one of us special, unique gifts and qualities. And there was a word for my unique capability: clairvoyance. 

 

 In 1999 my clairvoyance became evident, and I had no other choice than to accept it. This is the beginning of my shared story. I moved into a new apartment with my young daughter, and unknown to me at the time, I had moved into the former home of a missing, allegedly slain, teen, who went absent in 1976. This teen's disappearance, which I was to later uncover, was connected to a nationally known couple, Cameron and Janice Hooker, popularized for their notorious crime of kidnapping and torturous physical and mental abuse of Colleen Stan in the same time period.

 For years I kept journals regarding my paranormal experiences. These journals chronicled events that brought me to a point in my life where I was able to accept my position as a sensitive/clairvoyant, and use this gift to quietly assist law enforcement, from 2008 through 2011, on the nationally famous murder mystery. My experiences during this paranormal journey gave me a unique perspective on life, spirituality, and mental health, and eventually evolved into my book, Forgotten Burial.