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The Dead Files

6.9
15 seasons
218 episodes
Canceled
Documentary
Reality

Plot Summary

Psychic medium Amy Allan and former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi investigate locations that are reported to be haunted.

First Aired:September 23, 2011
Last Aired:April 2, 2022
Episode Runtime:45m
Networks:
Travel Channel

Cast & Characters

Where to watch free (US)

Spectrum On Demand
Travel Channel
Tubi TV

Seasons (16)

Season 1

Season 1

8 episodes

Aired: 2011

Season 2

Season 2

14 episodes

Aired: 2012

Season two premieres with an astonishing examination of the Lizzie Borden House in Massachusetts. Highlights from the season include a historic home in Cartersville, Georgia, where the duo investigates a terrified mother's claims of strange paranormal activity and soon discover aggressive entities and evidence of a shocking murder. In Santaquin, Utah, the team explores disturbing paranormal reports at a family-owned restaurant, along with a residence in Elizabeth City, North Carolina housing a tragic past. Additional sites include the Slocum House Theater in Vancouver, Washington, where increasingly odd unexplained activity and ghostly apparitions have left its staff fearful for their safety, and a family home in Wichita, Kansas that is the center of a bone-chilling paranormal mystery dating back to the cowboy days of the 1800s.

Season 3

Season 3

17 episodes

Aired: 2012

In the third season, retired NYPD Homicide Detective Steve DiSchiavi and medium Amy Allan travels to a variety of locations including Huntington, West Virginia; Joliet, Illinois; Carmel, New York; Rome, Georgia; and Garrett, Indiana.

Season 4
9.3

Season 4

19 episodes

Aired: 2013

Season four begins in Egg Harbor City, NJ where one couple's home has turned from a cozy fixer-upper into a living hell. Additional locations include a house in Browns Summit, NC where haunted activity is adversely affecting one family's health; a childhood home in Wabash, IN that has taken on paranormal activity since it was rebuilt after a mysterious fire; the former home to a murderous mobster in Rock Island, IL that's ridden with unexplained shadows and noises; a Watervleit, MI home overcome with aggressive activity that terrorizes its inhabitants; a 19th century mansion in Buchanan, VA with dark secrets; and two haunted hotels - the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, WY and The Amargosa Hotel & Opera House in Death Valley, CA, both of which are rapidly losing business due to terrified guests.

Season 5

Season 5

14 episodes

Aired: 2013

The fifth season opens with an investigation of Iowa's Villisca Axe Murder House - site of a gruesome century-old mass murder whose case still remains unsolved. Other highlights include a Chicago home where a woman has returned to confront childhood nightmares; violent forces terrorizing a family home in St. Clair Shores, MI, that leaves the team questioning the safety of the house; a special "Dead Files Revisited" episode in which a violent exorcism was recorded in a Flint, MI home after the duo uncovered malicious entities; and more.

Season 6
8.0

Season 6

21 episodes

Aired: 2014

From the Pacific Northwest to the Florida everglades, DiSchiavi and Allan are on a mission to help solve each case and restore peace to their distressed clients - whether it's an entire family living in terror, a besieged business or an unexplained violent attack. In the season six premiere, Steve DiSchiavi and Amy Allan travel to Florida City, Fla. to help a frightened family terrorized by disturbing paranormal activity. Upcoming investigations take place in Abilene, Texas; Chester Springs, Pa; Flint, Mich.; Ft. Barnwell, N.C.; Hanover, Pa.; Leslie, Mich.; Roseburg, Ore.; Santa Paula, Calif; St. Louis, Mo.; Sumpter, Ore.; Toledo, Ohio; and Warsaw, Ind.

Season 7
7.0

Season 7

22 episodes

Aired: 2015

Featured locations in the seventh season includes Montego Bay, Jamaica; Falconer, N.Y.; Independence, Ore.; Macon, Ga.; Oregon, Ill.; Covington, La.; Struthers, Ohio; Delaware, Ohio; Coupland, Texas; Marshall, Mo.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Delmont, Penn.

Season 8

Season 8

13 episodes

Aired: 2016

Season 9

Season 9

13 episodes

Aired: 2016

Season 10

Season 10

13 episodes

Aired: 2017

Season 11

Season 11

13 episodes

Aired: 2018

Season 12

Season 12

13 episodes

Aired: 2018

Season 13

Season 13

13 episodes

Aired: 2019

Season 14

Season 14

13 episodes

Aired: 2019

Season 15

Season 15

12 episodes

Aired: 2021

Production

Painless Productions