Evidential medium Cindy Kaza and former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi continue to investigate allegedly haunted locations at the request of their clients to provide proof of parano... Read allEvidential medium Cindy Kaza and former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi continue to investigate allegedly haunted locations at the request of their clients to provide proof of paranormal activity.Evidential medium Cindy Kaza and former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi continue to investigate allegedly haunted locations at the request of their clients to provide proof of paranormal activity.
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- TriviaSeveral viewers have reported incongruencies in The Dead Files: in one episode Amy stated that she was obsessed with Lizzie Borden at one time, and then a few episodes later, they went to the Lizzie Borden house, and Amy claimed that she had no idea where she was, or knew anything about the house.
- GoofsThe process of editing a TV show, which might be lost on modern audiences, clearly gives away their ruse. TDF claims that, in order to prevent undue influence on the other's findings, allegedly, both Amy and Steve make it a point to investigate independently of the other, and supposedly only interact with each other at the end when they reveal their findings to the clients. Amy's cameraman is seen going into the house ahead of time, and removing pictures, religious items, and any other personal items that may lead Amy or influence her reading. However, of course, there is no way to corroborate this, or that she wasn't shown the homeowners items ahead of time. And this does not matter because Amy always repeats the same thing over and over again about there being a mean ghost who is being 'very bad', and who acts out when they don't get any attention. In reality, they are all actors posing as 'homeowners with a ghost" and the whole thing is scripted. This is corroborated by simply watching the show back to back, as the Travel Channel tends to air them every week, and hearing Amy constantly repeat the same exact monologues, as does Steve. Of course, Amy, being no psychic, does not 'predict" anything at all. It has long been revealed that so-called reality TV shows are of course scripted ahead of time and nothing is left to chance.
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Garden variety "psycic" scammers working the rubes... Yawwwn.
Watching this show is like watching a seedy scam "artist" hustle drunks with a game of 3 card monte in front of a liquor store. It's just so shameless and pathetic. There is always a certain percentage of fools who "want to believe" they wont be getting ripped off though; They want to believe the age old scam is somehow "legit". It's just a sad part of human nature I guess...
Psychics like Amy are the same as televangelists, faith healers, snake oil salesmen, card hustlers, Nigerian e-mail scammers or any other thief that makes their living telling naive people what they want to hear.
These "psychics" research the location on the internet or at the local library and then go in and act like they are "sensing" it all for the first time. If they can't find enough real info through research, then they basically just make it up as they go along. It's not hard. As a matter of fact, it's insanely easy... You just have to have the "gift" of being able to look a person in the eye and lie to their face.
Now, don't get me wrong. We live in a would full of strange, unexplained phenomenon. It seems logical that there may even be a lot of bizarre paranormal activity happening in a lot of these locations. Hustlers like Amy & her partner Steve sure aren't "communicating" with anyone or anything, though. They just tell them what they want to hear and "work the crowd".
If they really wanted this show to be a hit, they could try BEING HONEST for a change! They could go in and do EXACTLY what they've been doing, but then just let them in on how they SCAMMED THEM at the end of they show.
"Ugg yea, we researched this place on the internet before hand -- Read some old police reports and local history and WORKED you with a little trick called COLD READING. We acted like we were "sensing" this guy "George" who hanged himself back in 1963! We had you EATING OUT OF THE PALMS OF OUR HANDS! You wanted to believe us SO BAD, you bought the whole story! DON'T YOU FEEL EMBARRASSED THAT IT WAS SO EASY TO EXPLOIT YOU!?"
Psychics like Amy are the same as televangelists, faith healers, snake oil salesmen, card hustlers, Nigerian e-mail scammers or any other thief that makes their living telling naive people what they want to hear.
These "psychics" research the location on the internet or at the local library and then go in and act like they are "sensing" it all for the first time. If they can't find enough real info through research, then they basically just make it up as they go along. It's not hard. As a matter of fact, it's insanely easy... You just have to have the "gift" of being able to look a person in the eye and lie to their face.
Now, don't get me wrong. We live in a would full of strange, unexplained phenomenon. It seems logical that there may even be a lot of bizarre paranormal activity happening in a lot of these locations. Hustlers like Amy & her partner Steve sure aren't "communicating" with anyone or anything, though. They just tell them what they want to hear and "work the crowd".
If they really wanted this show to be a hit, they could try BEING HONEST for a change! They could go in and do EXACTLY what they've been doing, but then just let them in on how they SCAMMED THEM at the end of they show.
"Ugg yea, we researched this place on the internet before hand -- Read some old police reports and local history and WORKED you with a little trick called COLD READING. We acted like we were "sensing" this guy "George" who hanged himself back in 1963! We had you EATING OUT OF THE PALMS OF OUR HANDS! You wanted to believe us SO BAD, you bought the whole story! DON'T YOU FEEL EMBARRASSED THAT IT WAS SO EASY TO EXPLOIT YOU!?"
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