"The Dead Files" on the Travel Channel

I watch this program. Back when it was a new and hot show, they used to air bloopers. Steve was an actor for a period of time. There are shots of him clowning about in a bubble bath that are also incongruous with the grim nature of The Dead Files. Amy eventually married the fella that clears the houses of things that might clue Amy in on the personalities of the clients.

I like the show, but it is unbelievable to me that she is spot on everytime. Also, she never has just a ghost haunting a placce whichis most common-it’s always some kind of weird creature or something. I have seen dead people myself and am a bit of a psychic empath-nothing great. I like Amy, but feel the show is staged too much.

This show is a very guilty pleasure of mine, OP. Yes, Amy's expressions are fabulous.

One thing that cracked me up every episode is the part when she says, "I've made you a sketch," to the client. Bitch please, you did no such thing. You hired a sketch "artist." And, considering how awful most of the drawings are, why would you want to take credit?

Also, around the time I watched the show, I worked at a middle school. I had a student on the spectrum who wanted to be a cop and feigned a New York accent despite being a native Texan. He sounded just like Steve D. One of my favorite students. I hope he's happy and doing well.

R2 I find Amy very likable too, and she at least *appears* to be going off the cuff during her reading of the places. I do believe that people are able to tap into the energy of a place and possibly perceive things that have happened there, and she does make that distinction on the show—if she feels something is "residual," she says so. But yes, she is too spot-on for me to fully believe the arc of each episode. I also like Katrina Weidman from "Paranormal State" and "Paranormal Lockdown"—I think she's since done a show with Jack Osbourne. She seems legit to me, possibly more than Amy—she's not a psychic, but just an investigator who explores haunted places. She seems to make a conscious attempt to rule out practical explanations for things before determining whether or not there is some sort of supernatural activity happening.

The show is fake as fuck, but a guilty pleasure from time to time. The producers do a little bit of research into historical records in advance and they phone into Amy when they are interviewing the guests and spill her the deets, then she pretends to be "psychic" when she finally meets them.

This most recent season is so cookie cutter with each episode. Every single guest claims to see "shadow people with no faces". Every single drawing the artists come up with just happens to be spot on...

Has anyone noticed how Amy will sometimes slip into random accents when she's talking? At times she'll pronounce words like someone from Wisconsin, and I've notice others where she sounds like she's a straight-up lifelong Brooklynite. It's very weird. She is from Denver, which, to my knowledge, does not have a noticeably pronounced accent, similar to a lot of the western states.

I bet Steve was cute when he was young. He has that classic Italian-American New Yorker look. He's short though and can't really carry the weight he has—he's got a huge beer belly. I Googled him and couldn't find any photos of him in his youth.

Also, there is something about Amy I find endearing. I don't know what it is, but she seems sweet and genuinely quirky. I've noticed in the later seasons that it looks like she may have used some of that Dead Files cash to get some cosmetic procedures. Her face looks a little "stretched" (or possibly botox-ed?) in the last couple of seasons. She looked cuter before.