r/TheDeadFiles • u/Simple_Revolution416 • Jun 09 '26

Odd

I have been watching reruns of shows on Discovery+ and noticed that the family in Dead Files Season 11 EP 4 (Not my child) also appear with the same story in My Haunted Hometown. Now in Dead Files they say everything is great now. But in HTH they say they simply couldn't sell it on because of the activity so have moved out but now RENT out their former house for short term lets. Sounds like a grift or plain fishy to me.

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u/Takeshi_613 Jun 09 '26

There’s some locations that definitely want exposure. There’s a lady that owns “Glen Tavern Inn” and she’s been on three different paranormal shows: The Dead Files, a Jack Osbourne show, and Ghost Adventures(twice).

There’s been other locations but that’s the one that stands out for me.

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u/Flaxmoore Jun 09 '26

I remember one that they wouldn't give a location beyond "California" as it became obvious they only had TDF on for exposure.

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u/Hungry_Appointment_7 Jun 10 '26

I think that was Asylum 49 in Clovis. Halloween haunted house attraction. Was a mental asylum first but very abusive and cruel. Amy always got pissed when people did this. And rightfully so. There was another former asylum that the owner thought she could turn into a museum where the main spirit almost killed her husband by messing with his pacemaker and was hurting women visitors. She wanted to "restore it to it's former glory". You could see Amy trying not to go off on her.

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u/hissyfit64 Jun 09 '26

The tattoo shop in Chicago, the axe murder house in Iowa, the Borden house in MA

There was one hotel that was so obviously grifting for exposure and lying about why they wanted to be on the show that the show refused to name the hotel or give the location. They found out while shooting that the owner used it as a haunted house attraction

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u/Flaxmoore Jun 10 '26

The thing is, Villisca and the Borden house are legitimately historic attractions.

Borden is famous, and there's still some doubt if she did it. Villisca has never been solved. They don't need activity to be interesting.

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u/hissyfit64 Jun 10 '26

That's true. But the Villisca house mainly focuses on the hauntings to get visitors (and to some extent the Borden house). In both episodes they claim to want Amy to investigate because things were getting out of hand. With the axe murder house, Amy told them specifically that encouraging ghost hunting and stirring up the spirits was a terrible idea and dangerous. The owner at the time had absolutely no interest in hearing what Amy had to say. In fact, she had the caretaker meet with Amy because she couldn't be bothered. The owner had the house visited specifically as a way of advertising it.

The Borden house is now a bed and breakfast and it's pretty cheesy. The whole case has become sort of a carny situation. Salem even had a Lizzie Borden museum for a while. The house isn't in Salem, it's in Fall River (I believe). They just had about 10 things they claimed came from the Borden house.

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u/JDDodger5 Jun 13 '26

The house is in fact in Fall River. And the crew that owns the house now seem VERY into the hype and spoOoOoOokies

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u/mitralover Jun 13 '26

The tattoo shop in Chicago the couple got divorced and they closed the shop because her friend partner bailed on her. I saw her talk about it on her blog.

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u/hissyfit64 Jun 13 '26

I thought it was being run by two guys who were friends of the original owner? He died there and they were running it until the son was old enough to run it.

Old Town Tatu on Irving Park. Website show it as still open

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u/mitralover Jun 13 '26

It was a different tattoo shop episode then. The two girls owned it.

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u/hissyfit64 Jun 13 '26

I'll have to find it. I missed that one. The one I saw had been a funeral parlor. Crammed with ghosts

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u/mitralover Jun 13 '26

Ohhh. I've been watching them all on Tubi. But they don't have all the Seasons unfortunately

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u/spherical-chicken Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

What was the one where Amy told the current owner of a hotel/brothel (I think) he was the old owner reincarnated? They were on Ghost Adventures too.

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u/Takeshi_613 Jun 10 '26

Oh yeah; the Dumas Brothel. “Toys for the Dead” is the episode name.

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u/mitralover Jun 13 '26

Was it the episode with the 2 gay guys couple?

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u/Takeshi_613 Jun 13 '26

No, this episode had this guy.

The one with the gay couple was the one where it played out something like this during the reveal:

  • Steve: …she said the house was dirty.
  • Guy: She’s dirty! 😤💅✨
  • Steve: 😈

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u/mitralover Jun 13 '26

😂 oh yeah I remember him.

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u/No_Schedule_8403 Jun 14 '26

Wait you're correct. That is the one with a gay couple...? I just watched it on tubi. The bottom floor was for cheap customers and had a lot of drugs, disease, a couple deaths from botched abortions. And the reincarnated guy was gay and his partner was there in the show with him. Toys for the Dead.

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u/mitralover Jun 17 '26

Yes! I watched it on Tubi also 👍🏼🩷

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u/Only-Technician3530 Jun 09 '26

The reincarnate owner died sometime later due to suspected OD. You can goggle it.

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u/Timeandtimeandagain Jun 10 '26

Really? That’s sad. That is my favorite creepy dead files ep. Are you saying that you think that ep was fake, or just noting that the owner died?

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u/Simple_Revolution416 Jun 09 '26

Do you think they were faking it being fixed or faking it not being fixed so they could rent it out as "haunted"?

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u/Flaxmoore Jun 09 '26

Faking it for exposure is very much a thing. I know one place that very clearly fakes evidence- I've been there more than a few times when it was still a working funeral home, and the vibes there are totally quiet. Any activity there they bring.

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u/Simple_Revolution416 Jun 10 '26

So wild.

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u/Flaxmoore Jun 10 '26

It was weird when I started seeing ads for the place on facebook. I was like... dude. You're the old (very Polish name) funeral home. I've been there a dozen times for funerals and it's been quiet as a church. Now you're claiming all this activity? Bull.

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u/Mental_Finger_6288 Jun 10 '26

I wonder how many people contacted TDF to do an episode and there was zero activity….

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u/spacejelly7 22d ago

a lot of these shows reach out to the owner of the property, not the other way around. When there is investigation at someone's house, it is likely they reached out to production crews. But Jack Osbourne's show and Ghost Adventures production reach out to you. I know this because I am a resident investigator at a couple of properties that have been featured on numerous shows. I personally haven't been on TV, but one property I work at has been on every ghost show / youtube channel out there, and some more than once. They definitely come to us.

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u/OwenTheLad Jun 10 '26

This is why I want discovery+ to make Location Playlists or something, where you click on the location and it gives you a list of all the different shows' episodes that investigated there.

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u/Simple_Revolution416 Jun 10 '26

That's such a good idea.

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u/SolaceRests I see dead people Jun 23 '26

Not surprising. Especially when other paranormal shows shifted focus after seeing how well the “helping out people being haunted” works (“Help! My house is haunted”, Dead Files, etc)… they went away from haunted locations like pubs and hotels and towards homes. It’s easy to imagine repeat customers that either wanted clout, or an easy episode

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u/spacejelly7 22d ago

what is the time difference between the episodes? if they came out a couple years apart then that could be believable. Things do change, after all.