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.
The production has taken the first two notes from the '90s song, "Stroke of Luck" by Garbage for the first two notes of their show's intro sound.
It is rather impossible for a real psychic or medium to casually walk around a place and start describing paranormal activity to a T, as Amy does. A real psychic needs to "get in the zone". This takes consciousness altering, meaning stillness, deep breathing exercises, quiet and focus, not nonstop talking and walking around. It is the only way to receive psychic impressions or E.S.P. Not only that, but Amy also doesn't even pretend to listen, focus, nor wait for visions. She just "acts" like she's in a standard---albeit quite vulgar---conversation. And, by sheer miracle, Amy Adams is the only psychic on the planet who is 99% to 100% accurate, down to the drawings she describes to the sketch artist, which look like the photos presented during the reveal, often with 90% resemblance. Yet, the credulous portion of viewers seems incapable of realizing the ruse, and that the photos Amy's husband removes and/or the photos that Steve unearths were taken by the production to the sketch artist, beforehand, to be reproduced, and not any other way around. The only magic here is called editing---meaning the scenes that took place first, and the things that were obtained early on, are made to appear as if they were correctly guessed and revealed at the end. (It is possible that Steve Schiavo is left somewhat in the dark until the reveal, to create his surprise element, as he has said he hasn't seen the sketches, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know the whole thing is staged and scripted.)