Erin O. Wallace is married to her high school sweetheart, James Jimmy William Ghedi. Erin is a fifth-generation Texan born in San Antonio. She is deeply proud of being a descendant of the famous Texas Ranger William Alexander Anderson Big Foot Wallace and Nicolas Zuercher, one of the founding families of New Braunfels. She attended MacArthur High School in San Antonio before her family transferred to Louisiana. She spent many years in St. Tammany Parish, where she raised her two children, Jennifer and Michael. With her deep passion for history and genealogy, she became a local historian, a museum curator, a journalist, a history editor, a published author and an award-winning syndicated genealogical columnist. Her love of history and genealogy was always her first choice of conversation, but speaking of the mysteries of hauntings was never far behind. Being born to a parent with extreme psychic abilities, the supernatural was impossible for her to avoid. Throughout her upbringing, she was involved in her mother's paranormal accounts on a daily basis, making her comfortable around the spirit world. Erin did not acquire her mother's psychic capabilities, but she was blessed with the ability as a medium. It is this gift and her love for the Magnolia Hotel for which the spirits have entrusted her with their deepest, darkest secrets.