Chip Coffey

Chip Coffey and his amazing abilities

Chip Coffey and his amazing abilities have been documented in

numerous publications, including:

Atlanta Journal-Constitution;

Philadelphia Inquirer; Chicago Tribune; Kansas City Star;

Elmira, NY, Star- Gazette; Spartanburg, SC, Herald-Journal;

In Style magazine; Southern Distinction magazine;

Fate and Fortune magazine; and Oracle 20/20 magazine.

Chip Coffey is my favorite Medium.

Chip also makes frequent appearances on both radio

and television programs.

'God-given talent' is channeled in mysterious ways Published on: 11/24/04 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Chip Coffey asked his mom what time they'd be leaving for dinner at Aunt Helen's.

There were no such plans, she told the toddler. Then the phone rang.

Aunt Helen was calling with an invitation for dinner.

Young Coffey had a knack for knowing when the telephone was going to ring. It wasn't long before he was using his "God-given talent" to read the past, present and future for family and friends.

Today, Coffey, 50, is a full-time psychic who works out of his home in Lilburn. The South Carolina native prefers to be called a spiritual counselor. Whatever he calls himself, people across the country pay up to $150 an hour to learn more about themselves.

Coffey does readings over the phone as well as face-to-face. He conducts "sittings," private sessions where he tries to channel messages and images of the deceased to living relatives. He travels the country giving seminars and group readings, and he writes a monthly column, "Mystical Mentors," that runs in The Oracle, a monthly metaphysical magazine.

But Coffey would never come right out and tell you any of this. It's not that he's ashamed of how he's made a living since 2001. He's leery of how people will respond, despite the popularity of celebrity psychics John Edward and Sylvia Browne.

"We're in the Bible Belt and a lot of folks believe what I do is sacrilegious -- that's the kind comment," he said. "The unkind comment would be someone saying, 'You do the devil's work.' So I tell people I am a spiritual counselor. If they push it further and pressure me, I will tell them I am a psychic."

And like most of us, there's a part of the job that troubles the former travel agent and theatrical performer -- the endless stream of women seeking answers to rocky relationships.

"Either he loves you or he doesn't," the bespectacled Coffey said. "Either you're happy or you're not. The best answers to relationship questions aren't found in consulting a psychic. They are found in your own self-evaluation and self-esteem. Deep down inside, they want to hear that he's coming back to me, or that he is going to love me. There's a sense of desperation, and many people are looking for hope."

One of Coffey's favorite readings was for a family that wanted to channel a 2-year-old girl who'd died of leukemia. The girl told Coffey she was riding in a red truck.

It turned out the girl's mother had often played a CD that contained a song: "Riding Over the Rainbow in a Big Red Firetruck." When the family left Coffey's residence to return to their home near the Georgia-Alabama line, a rainbow flashed across the sky.

When Coffey was 6 weeks old, he had to undergo a risky urological surgery. His late mother made a promise to God. She told him that, if her only child lived, she would encourage him to "do God's work."

"My Mom was thinking priest," said Coffey.

God works in mysterious ways.Psychic says he's 'flying sky-high' over 'Airline' appearance

Former Elmiran will be on A&E reality show Monday night.

Published in the Elmira, NY, Star-Gazette on May 5, 2005.

Written by "Neighbors" columnist, John P. Cleary.

Chip Coffey, an Elmira native who works as a psychic and medium in Atlanta, will appear Monday on an episode of the A&E Network reality show "Airline."

"Airline" shows the real-life adventures - and misadventures - of airline employees and travelers in airports. It usually features segments on people stranded without their luggage or scrambling to make connections after flights are canceled. My favorite scenes involve patient airline employees trying to explain to intoxicated vacationers why they can't be allowed to board their flights.

On Monday's show, Coffey's friend, paranormal investigator Patti Starr, is captured on tape by the shows film crew in the Louisville, Ky., airport. The crew follows her to Birmingham, Ala., where she meets up with Coffey for a ghost hunt at an old foundry. Coffey said they discovered psychic evidence of ghosts.

Coffey was born in Elmira and lived here off and on growing up. He studied at Elmira College and last lived in the area in the early 1980s before giving up for good, he said, on our cold weather.

He said he grew up in a haunted house on Sullivan Street.

"Lights would turn on and off, things would levitate, pianos would play by themselves," he said.

None of that was terribly surprising to Coffey. He said his family has always been "tuned in" to such things.

"We've always been drawn to paranormal things or things outside the ordinary," he said.

Coffey started giving tarot card readings in high school and has always been able to pick up on a person's or a place's vibes, he said. But it wasn't until a few years ago that something really strange began happening.

"I started talking to dead people," he said. "I thought I'd gone around the bend.

"The first person who tried to reach me was the brother of a co-worker who had died in a car accident," he said. "She was able to confirm what he was telling me. I was telling her details that only she and he would know."

Coffey was working in the travel industry, he said, and lost his job when that business took a downturn following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"I very unceremoniously lost my job," he said. "I had been working as a psychic a little bit for a few months before then. I packed up my desk, walked out and have never looked back."

He's been working as a psychic ever since, he said.

"I've never been happier," he said.

The appearance on "Airline," which was taped in February, may lead to more exposure for Coffey and Starr. He said a producer is pitching a television series about the psychic and ghost hunter to the company that produces "Airline."

"It's exciting," he said. "Pun intended, I'm flying sky-high."

John P. ClearyWho ya gonna call? Ghost Chasers!

Published in the Spartanburg, SC, Herald-Journal on May 8, 2005.

The Internet brought two former Spartanburg residents together. Monday night, they'll go ghost-hunting on the A&E network.

Patti Acord Starr, a Spartanburg native, is president of Ghost Chasers International, headquartered in Lexington, Ky. She and her husband, Chuck Starr, went to Alabama to check reports of a ghost sighting for the cable program "Airline."

In Birmingham, they met Chip Coffey of Atlanta, who grew up in Spartanburg and with whom Patti Starr had been corresponding online. Coffey, an ordained minister, psychic/medium and certified ghost hunter, and Starr were there to investigate Sloss Furnaces, a haunted iron mill.

The Starrs also ran into a ghostly airline passenger named Joe at the airport, making them perfect for "Airline." The segment is set to air at 8 p.m. Monday.

And the two ghost busters are in discussions about a possible series for the fall, depending upon the response to "Airline"

October 17, 2005

PROFESSIONAL GHOST CHASERS TO STIR UP SPIRITS AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AMBLER

written by James Duffy

What are those whispers that you hear during the darkest hours of the night? Is it the rustling of a branch against your window frame, or is it something altogether otherworldly?

What is that shadow that skirted past the corner of your eye? A trick of the light or a restless spirit seeking your attention?

If you ask Patti Starr and Chip Coffey, the answer may not only surprise you, it could frighten you.

Ever since personal experiences as children led them down the path to seek explanations to the paranormal, Starr and Coffey, both certified “Ghost Hunters,” have been gathering information and evidence of ghostly phenomena.

On Thursday, October 27, Starr and Coffey with bring their extensive personal experience with the paranormal to the Ambler campus for a special lecture — which will include a wide variety of sounds, images, and video from their research — at 7:30 p.m. in Bright Hall Lounge. The event is free and open to the public.

Coffey, an internationally known psychic and medium, and Starr, who brings the ‘scientific’ to the duo’s investigations, will also lead select members of the audience on a mini campus ghost hunt.

“Patti and I both grew up in the area of Wellford, South Carolina. It was an interesting connection that we discovered when we first met and started working together.

We’ve both lived in haunted locations in the past, and in the present for that matter,” Coffey said. “Together we blend the scientific with the sensitive. Patti is well versed with her scientific equipment — cameras, video, electromagnetic readers, EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) recorders.

I grew up in the psychic arena; my great grandmother was a Native American medicine woman and my Dad’s mother read tea leaves.”

Coffey’s first official “ghost hunt” with Starr took place in 2002 “and it scared the bejeezus out of me, but I’ve been hooked ever since.” Of course, that wasn’t his first encounter with ghostly experiences.

“For a time, my family lived in a haunted house in New York,” he said. “Lights would turn on and off, you’d hear footsteps, doors would open and close, but none of it was ever malicious.”

All of the occurrences, Coffey said, began when he and his mother started exploring the history of the family that had lived there previously and appeared to have more than a few secrets — a daughter who fell down the steps and broke her neck, a son who was murdered not far from the home, and an eldest son who simply…vanished.

“Perhaps we were learning information that the Murphy’s didn’t want anyone to know. Still, when we moved from New York to South Carolina, we asked them to come along,” Coffey said. “It was a huge turn-of-the century farmhouse. I remember on the first day wondering aloud if they had taken us up on the offer. That’s when a shirt levitated half way across the room — I’d take that as a yes.”

For Starr, her first experience with a ghostly form came in early childhood; a shadow man that would appear in her bedroom.

“I was horrified. At the time I wasn’t thinking about a ghost; I was afraid it was someone actually in my room.

I came to understand that the form wasn’t there to frighten me but was most likely there to protect me,” she said. “Later in life, when I had children of my own,

I would see the image of a small child in the corner of my children’s bedroom. I would think they had invited a friend over, but when I would look again, it would be gone.”

As she got older, Starr said, while learning all she could about ghostly visitations, the image of spirits, or at least the awareness of them, “became clearer.”

“At historic locations, I’d be able to sense if a ghost was male or female, an adult or child, though they weren’t as clear as if it was someone I had been connected to on an emotional level, such as a relative. I’m nowhere near as sensitive as Chip; whereas I might see a shadow form he might see and hear the actual person,” she said. “I’ve never been afraid during any of my experiences. I may get startled, but then I get so excited and I’m grateful that they’ve allowed me see, hear, or feel them.”

Coffey hasn’t been quite as fortunate. During an investigation that Starr and Coffey have undertaken for a special to be aired on the Discovery Channel, Coffey descended into the basement of a location know as “the Bishop’s House” in Lexington, Kentucky, where several murders allegedly occurred — a location replete with shackles, specimen trays, claw foot bathtubs, and examination tables.

“The basement is infested with such negative, fearful, sad, energy, it’s overwhelming. One young lady on our investigation team felt she was being possessed when we were down there — a photo of her at that time shows her eye sockets completely white and glowing red,” said Coffey, who also has the ability to communicate with the dead and share messages from the other side. “I didn’t sleep for two days after being there.”

According to Starr, who offers courses in “Ghost Hunter Certification,” hauntings can take many forms. During an “intelligent haunting,” for example, the ghost reacts to outside stimuli, such as being called to, whereas during a “residual haunting” it is like watching a section of film looping over and over again — a memory burned into the surroundings.

“Poltergeist activity usually includes some form of physical manifestation, floating objects or items thrown across a room. The activity might center around a child,” she said. “Crisis hauntings might be a last goodbye — a child is killed in a car accident and appears at the foot of the bed of their father.”

A portal haunting, Starr said, may take any number of forms, as they are commonly “a doorway from one dimension to another” — often there is no telling what might make its way through.

“I don’t think that my house or Chip’s house are haunted. I believe that we are the haunted ones — as sensitives, we give off a different vibration, a different light that they follow seeking understanding,” she said. “One thing that I would like to do is change the fear that typically surrounds ghosts and spirits and replace it with understanding and compassion. We can learn so much in our life from their experiences in death.”

Coffey also hopes that audience members will leave “a little more open to the possibilities.”

“There are so many things that our human senses are not able to pick up unless we are open to them,” he said. “The paranormal isn’t supernatural. It is simply experiences that are beyond the norm."

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