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The Dead Files

  • TV Series
  • 2011–
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
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6.7/10
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Steve DiSchiavi and Cindy Kaza in The Dead Files (2011)
The Dead Files
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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.

  • Creator
    • Jim Casey
  • Stars
    • Steve DiSchiavi
    • Amy Allan
    • Matthew Anderson
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    • Creator
      • Jim Casey
    • Stars
      • Steve DiSchiavi
      • Amy Allan
      • Matthew Anderson
    • 163User reviews
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    Steve DiSchiavi
    • Self
    • 2011–2023
    Amy Allan
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    • 2011–2023
    Matthew Anderson
    • Self
    • 2011–2023
    Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Davis
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    • 2012–2021
    Cindy Kaza
    Cindy Kaza
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    • 2023
    Lou Hebert
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    • 2019–2021
    Tom Armelli
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    • 2016–2018
    David Domine
    David Domine
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    • 2017–2020
    Mary Jamba
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    • 2020–2022
    Natalie Fritz
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    • 2018–2021
    David Leighton
    • Self - Journalist
    • 2018–2020
    Anthony Horsch
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    • 2012
    Kelley Fanto Deetz
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    • 2013–2017
    Ron Frechette
    • Mary's husband…
    • 2013
    Tina Scott
    • Self…
    • 2015–2017
    David Domine
    • Self…
    • 2017–2020
    Mary Hegeman
    • Self…
    • 2017–2019
    Cheryl Dorsey
    • Self…
    • 2018–2023
    • Creator
      • Jim Casey
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    10swiftie-heart13

    My Favorite Show

    If i could vote 100 stars I totally would! :) This is my favorite Ghost show on TV! It might even be my favorite show on TV now in general. I always watch it with my family every Friday night! :) I really hope to see it back for season two and many more! Everyone involved with this show does an excellent job (What is a better word for excellent?) Amy and Steve find such amazing results in their investigation! So happy to see a show with real paranormal evidence, And proof! I Just cant wait to see the next season of this wonderful show! I'm entertained with the reruns of the show too, and I typically hate watching something twice, but The Dead Files is the only exception! :D
    shannonalke

    Loving Cindy

    Thank you to Cindy for co-hosting this show. I have a very hard time relating with Amy or taking anything she says seriously as she tends to smile at inappropriate moments ie. " He's evil" while grinning. Part of the job, especially when dealing with already traumatized people, so more sensitivity is required than that. Although Amy may indeed feel very bad for these people but it doesn't translate, and Infact comes off like she's mocking their situation. If I were the client and saw that, I'd send her packing. Cindy, on the other hand comes off as very sympathetic and sincere and her empathy registered in her face. Please make her the host more often.
    9kkpreston

    Second most favorite paranormal show

    I've been watching The Dead Files since it began. I find Amy to be very believable.

    One reviewer gave one example of why he felt Amy was a fake. Amy said a helicopter crash involved it "spinning", yet he researched it & it clipped a mountain & exploded, instead.

    Any is seldom 100% accurate. There are, more often than not, some inconsistencies between her information & Steve's research. It is for that reason that I find her credible. If she were spot on every time, I would be suspicious. I doubt any medium is 100% accurate. Her accuracies & inaccuracies both convince me she's the real deal.

    Yes, she does have a potty mouth sometimes & yes, she's a little quirky at times. Sometimes she's on the show with makeup & sometimes with no makeup at all. The fact that she's not polished tells me she's not putting on any acts; just being herself. The first season, she was waaay out there. I don't know if the producers urged her to act that way, but it didn't last long.
    10kurt-2000

    Best paranormal show.....

    ...on TV. Whether you believe in the paranormal, or you believe that Amy is a physical medium, it's entertaining. There is no middle ground. No gray area since there are no stories like this on other shows. They've even been to places that other paranormal shows have explored and Amy comes up with a different take on the nature of the haunting. Like the episode where she investigated the Lizzy Borden home. I like the cast for this show and I believe them. I might be gullible and proven wrong, but I believe in the afterlife as well. And that's what this show is all about. I've always been a skeptic regarding the paranormal, but they make the subject interesting and thought provoking. I respect people of faith, agnostics and atheists.
    sebpopcorn

    Unconvincing

    I watch all these paranormal shows but I think this is probably the worst I've seen.

    Amy Allan walks around a location she knows "nothing" about making faces that have an animatronics look about them. Then she reveals some uncannily accurate information. Notably more accurate information than psychics ever give outside of this format, which has been used on shows like haunted homes etc. She's joined by a retired detective who does a great "I'm surprised at that!" face.

    The first thing I find unconvincing about her is the way she'll tell you there's a dead person stood right in front of her but she barely gives it a second glance. If you really could see dead people wouldn't you be slightly more interested in looking at that than the camera?

    Then there's the Lizzie Borden house. She tells a little girl in a previous episode that she was obsessed with that house as a child yet, the very next episode claims to have no idea where she is. Did she get there by rendition or what? That bears some explaining I think.

    I gave up watching this one. I like ghost hunting shows but this just seems very phoney to me. Also, just as an aside I looked into the helicopter crash she described. The victim wasn't spinning around as she suggests, it clipped a hill and exploded instantly. The sensation of spinning around is just the kind of thing a bogus psychic would slip in because it sounds fitting.

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    • Trivia
      Several 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.
    • Goofs
      In over a dozen seasons, not a single homeowner has ever produced any video footage of the violent paranormal activity they claim takes place in their house night and day, non-stop in many cases; they are homeowners who live in expensive houses and could easily afford video recording equipment yet none of them has been able to set up a tripod or even record anything paranormal whatsoever with their cell phone.
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      • September 23, 2011 (United States)
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