Watching this show is like watching a seedy scam "artist" hustle drunks with a game of 3 card monte in front of a liquor store. It's just so shameless and pathetic. There is always a certain percentage of fools who "want to believe" they wont be getting ripped off though; They want to believe the age old scam is somehow "legit". It's just a sad part of human nature I guess...
Psychics like Amy are the same as televangelists, faith healers, snake oil salesmen, card hustlers, Nigerian e-mail scammers or any other thief that makes their living telling naive people what they want to hear.
These "psychics" research the location on the internet or at the local library and then go in and act like they are "sensing" it all for the first time. If they can't find enough real info through research, then they basically just make it up as they go along. It's not hard. As a matter of fact, it's insanely easy... You just have to have the "gift" of being able to look a person in the eye and lie to their face.
Now, don't get me wrong. We live in a would full of strange, unexplained phenomenon. It seems logical that there may even be a lot of bizarre paranormal activity happening in a lot of these locations. Hustlers like Amy & her partner Steve sure aren't "communicating" with anyone or anything, though. They just tell them what they want to hear and "work the crowd".
If they really wanted this show to be a hit, they could try BEING HONEST for a change! They could go in and do EXACTLY what they've been doing, but then just let them in on how they SCAMMED THEM at the end of they show.
"Ugg yea, we researched this place on the internet before hand -- Read some old police reports and local history and WORKED you with a little trick called COLD READING. We acted like we were "sensing" this guy "George" who hanged himself back in 1963! We had you EATING OUT OF THE PALMS OF OUR HANDS! You wanted to believe us SO BAD, you bought the whole story! DON'T YOU FEEL EMBARRASSED THAT IT WAS SO EASY TO EXPLOIT YOU!?"