List of The Dead Files episodes

The Dead Files is an American paranormal television series, airing on the Travel Channel. Psychic medium Amy Allan performs "walks" through haunted properties, while former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi interviews those affected and performs research into the location's history. The more prominent portions of what Amy perceives during her walk are sketched and later revealed during a meeting with Steve, the victims and herself.

Series overview

Season	Episodes	Originally aired		DVD and BD release date
	Season premiere	Season finale	Region 1
	1	22	July 23, 2011	July 20, 2012	August 20, 2012
	2	36	August 10, 2012	August 2, 2013	N/A
	3	15[1]	November 1, 2013	January 31, 2014	N/A
	4	13	June 12, 2014	November 15, 2014	N/A
	5	13	April 25, 2015	N/A	N/A

Episodes

Season 1 (2011)

Ep.#	Title	Location	Original Airdate
1.1	"Evil in Erieville, NY"	Farmhouse on Erieville Road, Erieville, New York	September 23, 2011
In the series premiere, psychic Amy Allan and former police detective Steve Dischiavi work together on a paranormal case at a circa 1790 barn and farmhouse in Erieville, New York where a mother poisoned her husband and three children in the early 20th century.
1.2	"The Devil Made Me Do It"	Plan B Restaurant, Asbury Park, New Jersey	September 30, 2011
Amy and Steve visit a haunted restaurant to investigate claims that an evil entity is harassing the staff. Steve finds out that a brutal murder took place here when it was an antique shop in 1997. Amy claims that a demon is wreaking havoc in the basement.
1.3	"Terror In The Shadows"	Privately owned farmhouse, Acampo, California	October 7, 2011
The children of an older woman who lives alone in a 70-year-old farmhouse in a small town ask Amy and Steve to help their mother with alleged dark shadow figures they believe are evil spirits who tormented them while growing up.
1.4	"Death and Dolls"	Private home, Cramerton, North Carolina	October 14, 2011
Amy and Steve travel to a private home the owner calls her "House of Dolls" in North Carolina to look into claims that the 2,000 dolls within its walls are possessed by spirits of the dead who are contacting her 9-year-old daughter.
1.5	"The White Widow"	Private home, New Orleans, Louisiana	October 21, 2011
Amy and Steve head to the Big Easy to investigate an urban legend of a Creole woman, a widow named Louisa Clay who supposedly hanged herself in the attic in 1888. Her ghost is suppoedly seen in a white dress haunting a single mother and her young son in their 200-year-old house.
1.6	"Hotel Hell"	Don Vicente De Ybor Historic Inn, Ybor City, Florida	October 28, 2011
Amy and Steve look into paranormal claims of an apparition of a small Hispanic woman seen in Room 305 and in the basement by guests and employees at the Don Vicente De Ybor, an historic hotel that was originally a hospital in the once organized crime town of Ybor City. Amy and Steve claim Jose Louis Avellanal was a man who pretended he was a doctor by experimenting with the dead and is haunting the location.
1.7	"Am I Crazy?"	Gibson House (private home), Great Falls, Montana	November 4, 2011
Amy and Steve investigate a house built in 1890 that belonged to Paris Gibson, the founder of the town and look into paranormal claims that the ghost of a murdered woman believed to be his wife Valeria is said to haunt a mother and her 6-year-old daughter in the former home where she died.
1.8	"Killed By The Klan"	Shotgun House (private home), Key West, Florida	November 11, 2011
A woman thinks her partner, a salvage worker who says he sees ghosts is bringing evil spirits into their Key West "shotgun house" (former cigar factory worker home) on Whitehead Street. Amy and Steve say the house is associated with a man called "The Islander" who was tortured here in the 1920s.
1.9	"Special Investigation: Alcatraz"	Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California	March 9, 2012
Steve visits Alcatraz Island with a man who claims to have been attacked while in Cell 14 on D Block in the former prison by an unknown evil entity when he was a 13-year-old boy 38 years ago. Meanwhile Amy takes a psychic tour in the same areas visitors say they had had ghostly encounters with former inmates. They investigate the many myths and legends of Alcatraz from reports of paranormal activity to demonic possessions.
1.10	"Special Investigation: Lizzie Borden House"	Lizzie Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts	April 20, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate recent reports of attacks and apparitions at the Lizzie Borden House bed and breakfast. Steve visits the house to interview the owner, employees and former guests about their past experiences. Meanwhile, Amy takes a tour of the house and claims to see the ghost of Lizzie Borden. Steve finds out more about a possible alibi to the infamous hatchet murders that occurred here in 1892.
1.11	"Scandal in the South"	Private home, Cartersville, Georgia	April 27, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate alleged paranormal activity at a haunted historic home in Cartersville where a mother says she sees apparitions, hears giggling kids and a woman crying, and has personal belongings go missing. The owners believe there is an "evil room" in the house with the spirit of a police chief who used to lynch African-American men on the back porch during Prohibition.
1.12	"Fear at the Family Tree"	Leslie's Family Tree Restaurant, Santaquin, Utah	May 4, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate reports of paranormal activity at a family-owned eatery that used to be an old saloon, a dance hall and a post office in the small town of Santaquin where the owner and employees say they are seeing ghosts, hearing strange noises and having electrical problems. They believe the ghosts of four children who drowned in flood control channels which ran behind the restaurant in the early 1950s and are the cause of the alleged hauntings.
1.13	"A Watery Grave"	Nell Cropsey House, Elizabeth City, North Carolina	May 11, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity at a historic house in Elizabeth City, where a grad student claims to be terrorized by a desperate ghost in his childhood home. They also reveal the unsolved murder of Nell Cropsey, the former resident who disappeared; her body was found by a river near the house in 1901.
1.14	"Final Curtain Call"	Slocum House Theater, Vancouver, Washington	May 18, 2012
Amy and Steve descend upon Slocum House Theater, the oldest community theater in town of Vancouver, Washington to investigate reports of goings-on of mischievous ghost children who like to play with the stage lights during a performance. Amy and Steve say that the ghost of Esther Slocum inhabits the theater, especially when children visitors are present.
1.15	"Deadly Attraction"	Private home, Wichita, Kansas	May 25, 2012
Amy and Steve travel to Wichita to investigate claims of paranormal activity in a house where a grandmother is afraid her grandchildren will be harmed by evil spirits. Amy claims she finds many disturbing entities including a prostitute who was killed in a shoot-out and children who were burned in a fire. Steve says his research reveals the house sits in the middle of what was once the bloody neighborhood of Delano Township where it was a red-light district during the wild west.
1.16	"Pandora's Box"	Private home, Blackshear, Georgia	June 1, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity from a frightened family who believe their 100-year-old home in Blackshear, Georgia is haunted by an evil entity.
1.17	"Surrounded"	Private home, Cedar Park, Texas	June 8, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity at an old homestead in Texas. Sightings of hooded figures in long white robes are believed to be the KKK. Also it is discovered Samuel Chelton Inman who was a deacon of the first church here in 1844 killed a man on the property.
1.18	"Blood and Gold"	Mackay Mansion, Virginia City, Nevada	June 15, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity at Mackay Mansion, a miners museum in an old Nevada mining town. Steve investigates the history of the murder of Julia Bulette, a famous prostitute and the ghost of Louise Mackay at the mansion, while Amy says she encounters several disturbing entities including John Millain, the French drifter who killed Julia still residing there.
1.19	"A Widow's Rage"	Plantation house, Uriah, Alabama	June 22, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate reports of paranormal encounters in an old Civil War-era plantation house outside Monroeville, Alabama where the owner thinks her life is in danger from being physically attacked by an evil spirit of a man who also resides there. Through research, Steve learns that the house was built by William "Dock" King in the early 1860s and was moved in the 1960s by different owners from "Packers Bend" on the Alabama River in Clark County to its current location. And most of the King family members died of yellow fever in the house.
1.20	"Death Sentence"	New Mexico State Penitentiary, Santa Fe, New Mexico	June 29, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate New Mexico State Penitentiary, the site of the prison riot. Steve interviews an actress who filmed a movie there and claims to have been locked in a cell by a shadow man. Amy claims to she meet a murderous evil spirit she calls the "Shadow Devil".
1.21	"Starvation Heights"	Private home and Abandoned house, Olalla, Washington	July 6, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate reports of paranormal activity from frightened teenager who believes his family is in danger in his newly built house. He also thinks he has opened up a portal for evil spirits when he and his friends performed 17 séances at his former home next door. Steve and Amy say that Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard had lived here a century ago when the area was known as "Starvation Heights" due to an allegedly cruel fasting treatment.
1.22	"Arctic Wrath"	Circle Hot Springs Hotel, Central, Alaska	July 20, 2012
Steve and Amy visit a remote village called Central to investigate Circle Hot Springs Hotel, where the caretaker and his family claim to see a three-headed apparition with a monkey head and feathers they believe to be a shapeshifter that hates women. Through research, Steve learns about a fatal helicopter crash involving a newlywed bride that took place near the property, while Amy claims to encounter ghosts of the original owner and his German wife.

^1 ^2 ^3 ^4 "The findings of this Dead Files investigation do not constitute evidence of a crime and would not be admissible in a court of law."

Season 2 (2012–2013)

Ep.#	Title	Location	Original Airdate
2.1	"Fatal Attachment"	Private office, Huntington, West Virginia	August 10, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate reports of ghostly apparitions at a dental office in Huntington, West Virginia. While Steve uncovers evidence of a mysterious death, Amy says she encounters spirits.
2.2	"A Banshee's Cry"	Smalley's Inn, Carmel, New York	August 17, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate reports of violent paranormal activity at Smalley’s Inn & Restaurant in upstate New York. While Steve investigates, Amy claims to confront aggressive entities that desperately want her to leave.
2.3	"Revisited: Deadly Attraction & Fear of the Family Tree"	Private home, Wichita, Kansas Leslie's Family Tree Restaurant, Santaquin, Utah	August 24, 2012
Amy and Steve return to Wichita where a woman claimed her house was haunted. Then they travel to a family restaurant claimed to be haunted in Santaquin to find out if the owners followed Amy's advice.
2.4	"Revisited: Blood and Gold & Pandoras Box"	Mackay Mansion, Virginia City, Nevada Private home, Blackshear, Georgia	October 5, 2012
Amy and Steve revisit Mackay Mansion, a miners museum in an old mining town where they say the ghost of former owner Louise Mackay resides and Julia Bulette, a famous prostitute was murdered. Then they revisit a 100-year-old house in Georgia that they feel has a high amount of paranormal activity.
2.5	"Revisited: A Widow's Rage & Death Sentence"	Plantation house, Uriah, Alabama New Mexico State Penitentiary, Santa Fe, New Mexico	October 12, 2012
Amy and Steve revisit an old Civil War-era plantation house in Alabama where members of the King family died of yellow fever in the house. Next they revisit New Mexico State Penitentiary where a spirit called the "Shadow Devil" is said to reside.
2.6	"Revisited: Surrounded & Hotel Hell"	Private home, Cedar Park, Texas Don Vicente De Ybor Historic Inn, Ybor City, Florida	October 19, 2012
Amy and Steve revisit a homestead in Texas where a family claims to have sighted figures in long hooded white robes they believe to be the KKK. Next, they revisit the Don Vicente De Ybor Historic Inn where the ghost of an elderly Hispanic woman believed to be a nurse when the hotel was a hospital is allegedly seen in the basement.
2.7	"Revisited: Final Curtain Call & The Devil Made Me Do It"	Slocum House Theater, Vancouver, Washington Plan B Restaurant, Asbury Park, New Jersey	October 26, 2012
Amy and Steve revisit the Slocum House Theater where Esther Slocum, the original owner is said to haunt this community theater. Next, they revisit Plan B Restaurant where a brutal murder occurred that is alleged to result in the basement being haunted by a demon.
2.8	"Blood on the Tracks"	Private home, Garrett, Indiana	November 2, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate reported paranormal activity at a newlywed couple's haunted house in the old railroad town of Garrett. Through research Steve learns that the previous owner Ralph died from a stroke in the house. Also Ed Hammers, a railroad brakeman who bought the house in 1896 was killed by a 150-ton train in August 1918 and had his bodily remains in the home for his wake. Amy claims to encounter Ralph in the basement and make contact with a depressed woman believed to be Hammers first wife Susan who battled his second wife Carrie in court over their husband's estate.
2.9	"The Soul Collector"	Private home, Parkersburg, West Virginia	November 30, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate reports of paranormal activity from a mother and her eight children who say they are being terrorized by paranormal activity in their West Virginia home. Through research, Steve uncovers the property's history: on March 19, 1909, a young couple was killed when two massive water tanks collapsed and flooded the town. Meanwhile, Amy says she has encountered the ghosts of a teenage boy and a man in a black coat, believed to be Civil War General John Jay Jackson Sr., one of Parkersburg's founding fathers who owned the property.
2.10	"The House of Death"	Fine Arts Center, Clinton, North Carolina	December 7, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity from volunteers at an arts center house in Clinton who fear that the place is haunted by a previous director named Dr. Victor Small who died of a heart attack in a freak snow storm on February 3, 1971. Through research, Steve discovers evidence of the former owner Dr. Leeman Matthews who slit his throat in the bath tub. Meanwhile, Amy says she becomes ill from the spirit of the original owner Ambraham Hobbs, a Confederate soldier who got wounded at the Battle of Antietam and a gentleman farmer.
2.11	"Blood in the Bordello"	The Jury Room Food & Spirits, Columbus, Ohio	December 14, 2012
Steve and Amy investigate a tavern established in 1831 after hearing reports that an evil entity has attacked the owner's wife and is scaring employees. Through research Steve learns that the area was a Hopwell Indian burial mound. In the 1820s, the settlers dug it all up and took the clay and bones to ground up into bricks. The tavern was built to accommodate the courthouse and it later became a bordello. Frances Miller, a prostitute shot and killed a young man named Paulus Reprecht at this location on March 31, 1859. Meanwhile, Amy claims to encounter a shadow man up in the attic she believes to be the judge, Mayor Lorenzo English who presided over Miller's case. English was the 20th mayor of Columbus, Ohio.
2.12	"Family Curse"	Private home, Belvidere, Illinois	December 21, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity from a mother and son who say they were touched by a ghost in their home. Steve uncovers a history of tragic deaths of original owners. Amy claims to meet a child-like demonic entity in the barn that she believes changes into an elemental that can possess the living.
2.13	"Deadly Gift"	Private home (Emily Dawn Salon), Wichita, Kansas	December 28, 2012
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity from a couple who fear that they are in danger from spirits at their beauty salon and auto body shop. Steve learns that the land changed hands 30 times in the last 80 years and a biker named Mark committed suicide nearby. Also Helen Hillman who moved into the house in 1947 with her husband William is believed to be the victim of a suspicious death when she fell down the stairs. Meanwhile, Amy claims to encounter the spirits of Helen in the attic and an angry man she calls the "greaser guy".
2.14	"Burned Alive"	Merchants Café, Pioneer Square Seattle, Washington	January 4, 2013
Amy and Steve visit what is said to be Seattle's oldest restaurant (est. 1890) that the owner believes is haunted by spirits that want to cause her harm. Steve learns that on January 18, 1882, a lynch mob strung up two men who killed businessman George Reynolds and hanged an innocent man named Payne. The original structure was burned to the ground during the Great Seattle Fire on June 6, 1889, where many perished. Then owner John Ossner turned the basement saloon into a gambling den and the hotel into a brothel. In 1898, F.X. Schreiner took over but his wife Mary, a devote Catholic opposed it and died from tuberculosis in 1905. Amy says she encounters Mary's ghost and a wrestler named Otto Hink, a bartender who died of syphilis in 1957.
2.15	"Tormented"	Private home, Westminster, Colorado	January 25, 2013
Amy and Steve investigate reports of paranormal activity from a single mother whose two children are afraid to be in her house alone. Through research, Steve learns that her property was originally owned by a farmer who came here in 1869 to start Church Farm to bring water to the town. During the irrigation process in 1936, a man by the name of John Shannon fell and drowned in a ditch after he tried to smother his newborn baby. He also uncovers evidence of a century-old murder in 1912 when a young bride named Getrude Weaver who lived on the land was fatality shot while on her honeymoon. Meanwhile Amy believes that a female entity called Getrude and a poltergeist called "The Tormentor" poses a threat to the family.
2.16	"Never Alone"	Private home, Forester, Michigan	February 1, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate reports of paranormal activity from a mother who says her house is haunted by a ghost. Steve uncovers fires in the home that happened in 1871 and 1881 where people died. He also finds out a local legend that 15-year-old Minnie Quay committed suicide by drowning in the lake. Meanwhile, Amy says she encounters a shadow figure of a man a crying and a woman holding a stillborn baby that she believes are previous owners Harrison Cooper and his daughter Emma Jay who miscarried her child in 1903.
2.17	"Forgotten"	Private home, Bloomington, Illinois	February 8, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate reports of paranormal activity from a woman who tells them that she is living in fear in her home because ghosts are targeting her special needs son. Steve says there were land disputes and burials from a poor farm on the property. In 1836, Steve says it was a 350-acre farm owned by William King who first came here with his wife and four children. King's first wife Amelia died at 29 during childbirth along with his two boys. King himself died a tragic death on the farm at the age of 41. His son George died when he accidentally shot himself in the chest in the 1870s after the deed to the farm went to his younger brother. Meanwhile, Amy says she encounters dead people acting strangely and a man with an axe who created a black mass she calls "The Doll".
2.18	"Betrayed"	Private home, Egg Harbor, New Jersey	March 8, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate a family in Southern New Jersey who believes their house is haunted by an evil entity. Through research, Steve says he discovers evidence that in the late 1800s, a nearby "health spa" that was really a sanatorium was run by an allegedly insane doctor named Dr. Smith who believed he found the fountain of youth. Steve also learns about a German immigrant, Louis Roesch who came to town in the 1860s and was betrayed by his people because there was no civilization here. Meanwhile, Amy says she encounters a monstrous shadowman in the basement who attempts to harm the living including herself. Also Amy claims to come into contact with the previous owner, Louis Brunk who died in the home and the two of the six children of the Roesch family.
2.19	"The Beast"	Private home, Browns Summit, North Carolina	March 15, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate a family who say they are getting sick in their family home and uncover what they feel is attacking their daughter with special needs. During the investigation, Steve uncovers past evidence of a fatal train disaster in 1907 caused by a flagman that occurred on the property which was the Rudd farm. The property history allegedly includes two men who threw dynamite inside a Black Methodist Church along with 4 men from the KKK who burned down the school next to it. Meanwhile, Amy says she confronts a beastly, dog-like apparition that she fears can kill anyone who gets in its way and an old man who was beating an 8-year-old boy named Elmer who once lived here.
2.20	"Revisited: Fatal Attachment & Blood on the Tracks"	Private office, Huntington, West Virginia Private home, Garrett, Indiana	March 29, 2013
Amy and Steve share updates on their follow-up investigations when they revisit a dentist's office in rural Indiana that scared away patients and the staff. Next, they revisit a family home where a couple believes there is something demonic in their basement.
2.21	"Deadly Grounds"	Private home, Wabash, Indiana	April 5, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate a mother who believes her home is infested with monsters that are targeting her three children. Steve learns that Ed and Maggie Williams were the first white settlers to live on the property. Ed died of pneumonia and six weeks later his wife died of heart disease leaving six children. He discovers that the property belonged to the Miami tribe who were forcefully shipped off to Kansas. Amy encounters a white mist believed to Maggie's spirit spilling out emotions of depression especially on the living and always watching the family. According to Amy, seven shallow graves outside are evidence of a murder here in 1854 when the French family took in the Hubbards, a couple who beat them and their five children to death with hammers. John Hubbard went to jail for the murder of railman Edward Boyle who was beaten to death.
2.22	"Evil Underground"	Private home, Rock Island, Illinois	April 12, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate the family home of a mother and her 4-year-old daughter who say they are being terrorized by evil spirits inside their house. Through research, Steve reveals that there was a Native American tribe called the Sauk Nation that inhabited the land. One of them named Keokuk appeased the white settlers by selling out his whole nation and had them displaced. Meanwhile, Amy says she encounters a man dressed in black she believes to be John Looney, a ruthless gangster and convicted murderer who was involved in prostitution, gambling and bootlegging and owned the property in the 1920s possibly to bury his victims. Also Amy says she sees the Sauk people in the rooms as well as naked dead people down in the basement who want to destroy the house.
2.23	"Revisited: The Soul Collector & Deadly Gift"	Private home, Parkersburg, West Virginia Private home (Emily Dawn Salon), Wichita, Kansas	April 26, 2013
Amy and Steve revisit a West Virginia house where a mother and her eight children say they are being terrorized by hauntings in their home. Next, they return to a home in Wichita where a couple claim to be victimized by evil entities in their place of business at their beauty salon and auto body shop.
2.24	"Possessed"	Private home, Watervliet, Michigan	May 3, 2013
Steve and Amy receive a call from a woman who believes if they don't help her then her house will "kill her" because her health seriously declined and she is being scratched and burned by an unseen force. Steve learns the property was developed in the early 1830s by Isaac Swain who owned the largest lumber mill in the county. Swain and his family had three children who died suddenly. Their second daughter, Louisa had a tragic accident when she fell and hit her head so hard that she became mentally disabled and was left alone after her family died. Also his wife Vallonia died from tuberculosis-like symptoms. Amy says she sees a woman she believes to Saddie Smith who moved here in 1914 and died four years later of Spanish influenza, having her wake in the house. She also allegedly encounters an angry old man in the basement she thinks may be Saddie's father.
2.25	"Spellbound"	Private home, Buchanan, Virginia	May 10, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate a family who fears the house which was in their family since the 1930s is haunted and something on their property is attacking them and making them sick. Through research, Steve uncovers evidence that the property was once a slave plantation where slaves including children had a hard life raising tobacco. Meanwhile, Amy says she senses two sisters who are ghosts who she believes to be the wives (Helen and Elizabeth) of Starky Robinson who bought the house in 1870 and are causing ill will towards the family. She also says she encounters the plantation owner Nicholas Burks who had five mulatto children with a slave named Louisa whose children ended up victim of human trafficking. According to Amy, she was a hoodoo practitioner who wants to demolish the house.
2.26	"Death Valley"	Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, Death Valley Junction, California	May 17, 2013
Steve and Amy travel to desert of Death Valley to investigate the paranormal claims that the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel is overrun by ghostly guests which is a problem for the manager who fears this could put him out of business. Through research, Steve learns about a former road agent turned janitor named Thomas Blower who hanged himself in the older part of the hotel known as "Spooky Hollow" and a man who was found dead in the sewer plant across the street. Meanwhile, Amy says she encounters several ghosts, including sick men who could be borax miners and a short-heavy woman she believes to be "Shotgun Kitty", a brothel and bar owner who ran the town and doesn't like how this place is being run. She also claims to meet a spirit named Blower.
2.27	"Bloodlust"	Occidental Hotel, Buffalo, Wyoming	May 24, 2013
Steve and Amy travel to the Occidental Hotel (est. 1880) and meet the owner of who believes paranormal experiences have frightened away her employees and guests. Steve learns that the hotel was right in the middle of The Johnson County War which was the biggest event in the town's history. In 1892, homesteaders settled onto cattle ranchers land. The Wyoming Stock Growers Association hired 50 gunmen known as the "Invaders" to clear them out. They met at the hotel saloon and came to arms with the men at a nearby ranch. It cumulated in a three-day standoff with the cavalry riding in. When the hotel was a courthouse in 1884, the cook Jacob Schmerer was murdered by Bill Booth over venison meat. At that trial he confessed to murdering his wife and 2 children and 12 other people and was hanged behind the hotel. Amy says she saw a group of men in uniform who resented the mission they were sent to complete, and a negative spirit she believes to be the original owner Fred Waegele who was poisoned by his daughter-in-law after raping her.
2.28	"Hotel Nowhere"	Wolfe Manor (official name undisclosed), Clovis, California	May 31, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate a mansion that was formerly a mental hospital after the owner who bought the home in hopes of turning it into a hotel believes the paranormal activity is out of control and not safe. Through research Steve learns that the building was originally a tuberculosis sanitarium run by a married couple named Lee and Gladys Brashears from 1942 to 1973 when hospital administrator Carl Lamoreaux took over. He took in mentally ill patients until 1985 when he died in the facility. Meanwhile Amy says she encounters what she believes to be sick people seen throwing up in the halls and crawling on the walls wanting to harm the living. She claims to meet the ghost of the original owner of the mansion, Tony Andrews who built the place for his wife in 1922. He lived beyond his means and his house got foreclosed on in 1927 and had to move into a small shack on the property and died at an early age. She also says she meets the Brashears who she says believe they did a good job running the place. Any also claims to see bodies in the basement from the TB epidemic.
2.29	"Revisited: Family Curse and The House of Death"	Private home, Belvidere, Illinois Fine Arts Center, Clinton, North Carolina	June 7, 2013
Amy and Steve revisit a home where a child-like demonic entity is said to change into an elemental that can possess the living. Next, they return to a Fine Arts Center that is inhabited by the ghosts of a gentleman farmer, a Confederate soldier and two Doctors, one that died in a freak snow storm and the other that slit his throat in the bath tub.
2.30	"Violated"	Private home, Fort Wayne, Indiana	June 14, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate claims of paranormal activity inside a family home with a deadly past. Steve learns about a murder that took place in December of 1996. The victim, Alberto Lopez, 25, had a live-in girlfriend, 43-year-old Lucy Rivera. They got into an argument and she stabbed him with a knife in the back and he died in the kitchen. Steve also discovers that the property belonged to the prominent Olds family who used the land as a business investment in the late 1800s. Henry G. Olds inherited the property in 1876 and had many mercantile interests. When he died in 1902 at the age of 62 from a series of strokes, his wife Caroline took over. There were lawsuits brought against them when a worker fell and was killed inside their wagon factory. His widow sued the company for unsafe working conditions for $10,000. The family took more hits to their wallet with another accident at their coal factory in 1913 and a fire burned down their glove factory in 1920. Amy claims to come into contact with an abusive dark figure that she says sexually assaults the owner's daughter. She also says she encountered a distraught young man she believes to be Alberto and finds antique guns with "residual energy" that drains her own energy.
2.31	"Battlefield"	Private Home, Flint, Michigan	June 21, 2013
Steve and Amy travel to Flint, one of the most violent cities in the country to help a frightened mother in her haunted house. Steve learns that a little girl named Loretta Eschenweck died inside the home in 1936 when she fell inside a hot water laundry tub. Tracing back the history of the property, Steve discovers that the land belonged to the Saginaw Chippewa tribe who were allied with the British coming from Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812. They would capture American soldiers and ransom them back to white representatives for money. After the war, the Indians are left high and dry and had to sell their land to the United States. They relied on fur trader, Jacob Smith who the government paid to influence them to sign the Treaty of 1819. Smith secures their land by naming his children Chippewa names into the treaty language. Their client's property is called "Nondashemau" after Smith's youngest daughter Maria Stockton. Amy says she sees a "demonic creature" that is able to change shape and a young girl called "The Babysitter" she believes to be Loretta.
2.32	"Lethal Waters"	Riverside Inn, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania	June 28, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate paranormal claims at a haunted hotel called the Riverside Inn where the activity has gotten so bad that the owner says her employees and guests are scared to work and stay there. Through research, Steve learns that the property was acquired by Dr. John H. Gray in 1859 who went out looking for oil and discovered a spring instead and bottled mineral water in the basement. He started prescribing it to the locals, advertising it as "Gray Mineral Water" and made this place into a wellness sanitarium which was anything but since several people died from too much magnesium in the water. Meanwhile, Amy says she encounters Dr. Gray as a younger man, sees many of his sick patients, and meets two boys who drowned in the French Creek in 1979 who like to manipulate electrical energy. She also claims to see a scene of a man killing a woman she believes to be Doris Hatch who was murdered in the summer of 1953 by her boss and love interest William Turner.
2.33	"Tortured Souls"	Private Home, Manchester, Connecticut	July 12, 2013
Steve and Amy help an ordained minister who believes there is evil in his home by a black mass. Steve learns the property originally belonged to farmer James Lanfear who lived here with his wife Mary who died of tuberculosis when she was 25 in 1851, leaving their two girls. Five months later, James remarried to a woman named Harriet Sparks and their children (two boys) died at childbirth. In 1860, they were charged with child abuse when they burned his girls with a hot iron and it went to trial but they were acquitted. In 1881, Irish immigrant Thomas Coleman bought the land losing his infant son and wife. After, he married his first cousin against the churches wishes and his father disowned him. Amy encounters an angry man in the basement who is believed to be Thomas' oldest son Edward, a fireman who died from kidney failure at the age of 43. She meets an older man that was formerly a police officer known for his bad temper who also happened to be the minister's wife's father. Also she thinks James Lanfear who appears as a dark figure wants to harm the minister's daughter.
2.34	"Revisited: Forgotten and Burned Alive"	Private home, Bloomington, Illinois Merchants Café, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington	July 19, 2013
Amy and Steve revisit a home that is haunted by an axeman and an entity he controls called "The Doll", as well as numerous other entities believed to have previously lived on the land when it was a Poor Farm. The mother of the current family initially called The Dead Files team because her disabled son was being harassed by paranormal activity. Next, Amy and Steve return to what is apparently Seattle's oldest restaurant. A former saloon and brothel, one of the entities believed to be residing there is bar manager and former wrestler Otto Hink. The original building was a hotel that burned down during the Great Seattle Fire.
2.35	"Revisited: Betrayed and A Banshee's Cry"	Private home, Egg Harbor, New Jersey Smalley's Inn, Carmel, New York	July 26, 2013
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2.36	"Revisited: Evil Underground and Killed by the Klan"	Private home, Rock Island, Illinois Shotgun House (private home), Key West, Florida	August 2, 2013
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Season 3 (2013–2014)

Ep.#	Title	Location	Original Airdate
3.00	"Q and A Special"[2]	Private home,	November 1, 2013
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3.1	"Plagued"	Private home, Cressona, Pennsylvania	November 1, 2013
Steve and Amy help out a retired military couple. They discover that the house is stalked by John Cresson, the railroader who founded the town. Steve learns that Cresson was a ruthless businessman who was not above selling out his own workers. Amy also states that Cresson dislikes children. Also present are victims of the Spanish flu, of a railroad accident which killed six men, and one of the clients' mothers, who has replaced Death itself.
3.2	"Evil Within"	Private home, St. Clair Shores, Michigan	November 8, 2013
Steve and Amy travel to St. Clair Shores, MI, to help a frightened family terrorized by violent, invisible forces. While Steve unearths the previous property owners’ devastating secrets, Amy encounters several disturbing entities, including a serpent-like creature that stalks the living.
3.3	"Revisited: Battlefield & Violated"	Private home, St. Clair Shores, Michigan	November 15, 2013
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3.4	"Forever Scarred"	Private home, Chicago, Illinois	November 22, 2013
In this powerfully emotional episode of The Dead Files, retired NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan investigate a Chicago home where a young mother seems to be suffering from horrifying recurring nightmares.
3.5	"The Ax Murder House"	Private home, Villisca, Iowa	November 23, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate startling new claims of paranormal activity at an infamous murder site in Villisca, IA. But after violent unexplained encounters at the property, Steve and Amy’s client worries that living next door to the notorious Ax Murder House may have put his family in danger.
3.6	"Dead End"	Private home, Neosho, Missouri	December 6, 2013
Steve and Amy investigate terrifying paranormal activity at a police officer's home in Neosho, MO. As Steve uncovers evidence of a brutal homicide, Amy faces her own fears when she encounters a powerful shadow person with deadly plans for the living.
3.7	"The Devil's Bidding"	Private home, Williamsport, Pennsylvania	December 13, 2013
Steve and Amy travel to Williamsport, PA, to investigate a home tormented by a devil. As Steve discovers the property was once the site of a historic massacre, Amy faces off against an evil entity that she fears has been ruining lives for generations.
3.8	"Summoning Souls"	Private home, Starks, Maine	December 20, 2013
In Starks, ME, Steve unearths a property’s dark past when he discovers that the nearby land was once a desecrated cemetery. Meanwhile, Amy confronts several terrifying spirits, including a legion of the dead, determined to destroy the lives of unsuspecting victims.
3.9	"Invaded"	Catfish Plantation (restaurant), Waxahachie, Texas	December 27, 2013
A disturbed entity overwhelms Amy as she and Steve investigate violent paranormal activity at a family-owned restaurant located in a Victorian house built in 1895 House in Waxahachie, TX.
3.10	"House of Horrors"	St. Albans Sanatorium, Radford, Virginia	January 3, 2014
Amy and Steve travel to Radford, VA, to investigate frightening paranormal activity at the eerie St. Albans Sanatorium. Steve’s fact-finding mission reveals the hospital’s horrific past, while Amy encounters numerous powerful spirits, including a dangerous entity with the power to possess the living.
3.11	"Ghosts of Deadwood"	Fairmont Hotel and Casino, Deadwood, South Dakota	January 10, 2014
When violent paranormal activity plagues the owner and staff of the historic Fairmont Hotel and Casino in legendary Deadwood, Steve and Amy step in to investigate. Through research Steve finds out that famous lawman Wild Bill Hickok was murdered by Jack McCall right next door at a saloon while playing poker. And also an ex-police officer and former middleweight boxing champ John Gorham was gun downed by the local police chief right in front of the hotel in 1949. Meanwhile, Amy is surrounded by spirits who refer to this place as the "City of the Dead".
3.12	"Master of the Damned"[3]	Private home, Potsdam, New York	January 17, 2014
Steve finds evidence of a brutal bar fight that left a man dead in the street, while Amy senses a dominant entity that commands other dead people to terrorize the living.
3.13	"Innocent Blood"[4]	Private home, Rome, New York	January 24, 2014
When terrifying paranormal activity targets the children of a Rome, NY, family, Steve and Amy step in to investigate. Steve discovers the property has a distressing connection to a bloody Revolutionary War ambush while Amy encounters a vicious entity that preys on children.
3.14	"Dark Inheritance"[5]	Private home, Winthrop, Massachusetts	January 31, 2014
Steve and Amy investigate a frightened family's claims of violent paranormal encounters inside their home in Winthrop, MA. While Steve discovers the property’s violent past, Amy confronts a vengeful, disfigured entity that wreaks havoc on the living.

Season 4 (2014–2015)

Ep.#	Title	Location	Original Airdate
4.1	"The Aftermath"	Private home Florida City, Florida	July 12, 2014
Steve and Amy respond to a family's desperate call for help. During the investigation it is revealed that the family's residence was ravaged in a hurricane in the 1990s, even more disturbing is the number of entities seen during Amy's walk through the home.
4.2	"Fractured"	Private home, St. Louis, Missouri	July 19, 2014
Steve and Amy are called to a home where violent paranormal activity has been taking place. Steve's investigation leads him to learn of those who called the property home once before, including a business tycoon whom tragedy had repeatedly fallen on. Amy's walk reveals several children-like entities in the home, possibly demonic in origin who intend to harm the living as well as an entity capable of manipulating the living.
4.3	"Assaulted"	Private home, Hanover, Pennsylvania	July 26, 2014
A family is reporting violent encounters with an unseen being in their home. During the investigation Steve learns of a man who lived on the property that was eventually institutionalized. Meanwhile, Amy comes across a grotesque entity that might be causing most of the alleged paranormal activity within the home.
4.4	"Demon War"	Private home, Toledo, Ohio	August 2, 2014
Amy and Steve try to help a family in Ohio who are experiencing disturbing activity in their home, Amy's walk reveals that there are several entities roaming about in the home, all locked in a struggle for control, and one in particular that wants the living to leave the home.
4.5	"Satan's Revenge"	Private home, Leslie, Michigan	August 9, 2014
Amy and Steve head to Michigan to assist a family who are being terrorized by an evil force. Steve's investigation leads him to previous owners of the home, including an adulterer and a man who suffered a mental breakdown. Amy's walk leads to the discovery of an angry man with a grudge against the family and a shadow entity she refers to as a demon.
4.6	"The Dark One"	Private home, Abilene, Texas	August 16, 2014
Amy and Steve look into paranormal claims of an Air Force veteran whose home has become a battlefield. Records of the home shows it was the scene of violence and tragedies over the years, and the investigation reveals dead people draining energy from the living along with an entity so dark the utterance of its name places the living in danger.
4.7	"Double Jeopardy"	Glenn Tavern Inn, Santa Paula, California	August 23, 2014
Amy and Steve investigate a hotel that seems to be alive, forcing the owner to stay and her family to fall apart. The investigation revealing the hotel was the site of murder and other disasters during the time it operated.
4.8	"Feeding Grounds"	Private home, Sumpter, Oregon	August 30, 2014
Amy and Steve assist a family-owned bed and breakfast who are experiencing bizarre occurrences in their home. The investigation reveals Sumpter's dark history, its past as a mining town, and a miner who murdered his family. Amy reveals five female entities who are able to drain energy from the living and a male entity that comes into conflict with the other spirits.
4.9	"The Cursed Path"	Private home, Roseburg, Oregon	September 6, 2014
Amy and Steve travel to Oregon to help a couple whose residence is also a nursing home, all who live in the house claim to hear noises and see apparitions throughout the building. Steve discovers that the area the property lies on was home to brutal massacres and bloody battles as well as murder. Amy's walk reveals that there is a doorway to other dimensions on a path close to the home where non-human entities manage to slip in and out of the human world, and even more disturbing, learns that humans can also become lost in this portal.
4.10	"Bound"	Fort Barnwell, New Bern, North Carolina	September 13, 2014
Amy and Steve head to a historic home that is the site of a family being torn apart by paranormal activity, the wife wanting to leave the home without a second thought whilst her husband wishes to stay and fight the entities that reside in the home. The investigation takes Steve back in time to the early days of Native American massacres and tragedy, while Amy's walk leads to the possibility one of the homeowners is a medium, a person who can communicate with spirits.
4.11	"Living Nightmare"	Private Home, Flint, Michigan	November 1, 2014
Amy and Steve return to Flint when a police detective requests their help with his family home which only his mother lives in currently, everyone else not wanting to deal with the activity in the home, among the incidents is the family members having been attacked in their sleep by an unseen entity, Steve's research reveals the dark history that has plagued the property for decades, Amy's walk revealing that multiple entities were residing inside and outside of the home.
4.12	"Eternal Hatred"	Private Home, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania	November 8, 2014
Amy and Steve receive a call for help from a family that their countryside home is being terrorized by frightening paranormal activity, even more disturbing is claims that a presence tries to control them while in the barn outside the house. During research, Steve discovers that a murder had occurred on the property one-hundred years prior to the current family's residence, however, Amy also finds that the entity residing in the barn is a demon, trying to force the family into harming, even killing each other.
4.13	"Intolerance"	Barbee Hotel and Grill, Warsaw, Indiana	November 15, 2014
Amy and Steve head to the midwest to help a hotel owner who claims that his business is suffering due to the activity, Steve's research into the hotel's past reveals that in the 1800s, the land that eventually became the hotel was the site of a brutal double homicide, meanwhile Amy's walk discovers that among the entities in the hotel, the most prominent are a dead woman who was the sole survivor of a brutal attack against her family and a male entity who is aggressive towards the living.

Season 5 (2015)

Ep.#	Title	Location	Original Airdate
5.1	"Guardians of The Dead"	Rose Hall, Montego Bay, Jamaica	April 25, 2015
Steve and Amy travel to Jamaica's famed Rose Hall for their first international investigation, the research and the walkthrough explore a tragic history and a deadly legend behind a previous owner of the hall.
5.2	"Deranged"	Private home, Falconer, New York	May 2, 2015
Steve and Amy head to rural New York when a mother of three calls, reporting violent encounters with an unseen force, the activity has even caused the oldest of her children to move out. During Steve's research, the horrid history of the home becomes unraveled, including that many women who lived on the property all died suddenly, along with the murder of a pregnant woman. Amy's walk discovers a spirit in the home who was a fanatical religious man, who wants the family out of those house because in his eyes they are "unclean".
5.3	"House of Mirrors"	Private home, Independence, Oregon	May 9, 2015
Amy and Steve head to Oregon when a man calls desperate for help due to bizarre activity in his home, his partner and son are also victims of the more malevolent activity that occurs in the home. Steve's research details the past and tragic events that had occurred on the land where the property currently sits and Amy's walk involves sinister entities referred to as "Tricksters" whom seem to have a diabolical purpose for the residents.
5.4	"The Instigator"	Private home, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	May 16, 2015
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5.5	"The Obsession"	The Road House, Oregon, Illinois	May 30, 2015
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5.6	"From Beyond"	Private home, Macon, Georgia	June 6, 2015
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5.7	"Afflicted"	Private home, Covington, Louisiana	June 13, 2015
Amy and Steve head to Louisiana when a family recall bizarre encounters with terrifying beings in their new home. The daughter of the family even tells about seeing a creature that looks "Like an Alien" Steve's research of the property and the land it lays on reveals dark secrets and misery for those who've resided there in the past. Amy's walk has her encounter the being seen by the daughter, revealing the creature is not an alien-but a demonic being who seems intent on tearing the family apart
5.8	"Torn Apart"	Private home, Struthers, Ohio	June 20, 2015
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5.9	"Perfect Storm"	Private home, Delaware, Ohio	June 27, 2015
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5.10	"The Creeper"	Private home, Coupland, Texas	July 11, 2015
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5.11	"Madhouse"	Marshall Cinema, Marshall, Missouri	July 18, 2015
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5.12	"Vengeance"	Church Street Cafe, Albuquerque, New Mexico	July 25, 2015
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5.13	"Smothered"	Private home, Delmont, Pennsylvania	August 1, 2015
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Season 6 (2016)

Ep.#	Title	Location	Original Airdate
5.1	"Toys For The Dead"	Dumas Brothel Museum Butte, Montana	April 2, 2016
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6.2	"Evil Influence"	Private home, Mayfield, Kentucky	April 9, 2016
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6.3	"No Vacancy"	Holebrook Hotel Grass Valley, California	April 16, 2016
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6.4	"Gateway to Hell"	Private home, Lake Jackson, Texas	April 23, 2016
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6.5	"The Darkening"	Private home Wausau, Wisconsin	April 30, 2016
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6.6	"Bent on Revenge"	Private home, Sicily Island, Louisiana	May 7, 2016
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