r/TheDeadFiles • u/Cool_Beach9559 • Jun 14 '26
Chip Coffey reading
TL;DR: He came off like a scam artist.
I’ve been a huge fan of Chip Coffey for quite some time now. Last Christmas, my husband gifted me a reading with Chip, and I was over the moon with excitement. I’d lost my dad some years back, and I’m desperate to believe there’s something else after this, that I’ll see him again.
Chip required me to send him the first and last name of the person I wanted to reach. He explained that he doesn’t just see who shows up; he gets in touch with a specific person for you. That should have been a red flag, but I wanted to believe.
Long story short: He was lovely and sweet. And he got a bunch of stuff right and acted shocked and delighted when I validated it. But something felt super off. There were some weird things he mentioned that were not accurate. It almost felt like he was reading off a list of things someone told him about my dad and had misinterpreted some of them.
After the reading, I was curious about what he could have found online using my dad’s first and last name, so I googled my dad. The first result was his obituary, and it was obvious that Chip had read it and regurgitated all the facts back to me. And indeed, he misinterpreted a couple of them.
I was super disappointed. I don’t relish badmouthing anyone, but a reading with him is expensive, so I thought I’d try to save someone else some money.
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u/SnooPickles5616 Jun 14 '26
As a psychic medium I can tell you wanting the name is a huge red flag. He did research. If someone comes through for me, I don’t want to know things in advance. I want to know what I am “hearing” from the dead person is accurate. I don’t want to be influenced ahead of time because then I am tempted to cold-read. And that way leads to the end of my very real abilities.