What is an Investigative Medium, and How Are They Helpful?

Investigative mediums can support law enforcement, help find missing people, and more.

What is Mediumship and Investigative Mediumship?

A medium, or someone performing mediumship, is an experience where someone can sense or feel energy. Some of these energies are thought to be that of a Soul that has passed on. These experiences can happen during the day or night, or during a dream. An investigative medium often works with law enforcement to help locate missing people.

Sometimes certain locations have a lot of paranormal activity, and people visit them to have an experience. Souls can be tethered to a location that they used to live in. The Souls have not moved on to their next incarnation yet.

Resource – book on Amazon: Chasing Evil By John Edward and Robert Hiland

An Example of an Investigative Medium

The successful and long-running series ‘Medium’ is based on the life of Alison Dubois, a real-life investigative medium.

Mediums of this type are able to connect with the energy surrounding a crime. 

They can also work with the energy of a person who has passed. This can even be a kidnapped person who is still alive in some cases.  They can work with law enforcement to help rescue people or solve a crime.

Investigative mediums are skilled in one or more of these areas: –

• Remote viewing – being able to connect with locations through geographical reference, or photos of a location.
• Psychometry – being able to read information from objects by touch. These objects may relate to useful clues.  The clues can be things found at the crime scene or related to a missing person, for example
• Energy work and clairsentience (clear feeling): being able to connect and read energy kinesthetically (through feelings). This means seeing, hearing, feeling, and sensing emotions or occurrences, as if the medium was that person.
• Receiving information through dreams.  For some investigative mediums (Allison Dubois included), often Dreamtime enables spirits to connect. This is when important messages are transmitted.
• Being able to access the Akashic Records (this is in my opinion!). Mediums may not always realize it, but they may often tap into the energetic data stream of past lives. This is how investigative mediums can sometimes relay a series of events that happened before or after a crime.

Book Resource on Amazon: We Are Their Heaven – Why The Dead Never Leave Us by Alison Dubois

Some Other Mediumship Signs: Hairs Rising and Drained Batteries

Sometimes the hairs rise up at the back of our neck or shoulders when a spirit is present.  This is because people in spirit form need to take chi or energy from somewhere to stay coalesced. This energy can come from us or our environment.

We can also feel this as a cold spot in one area of a building. A sudden temperature drop is often a sign of unusual energies in a location. This can also be the reason why visits from disembodied Souls can cause battery drains and flickering lights. 

When I worked as a medium in training for 6 weeks, my cellphone kept draining. Even the brand-new battery in my car in the attached garage drained. Electricity is a good source of energy for spirits to become more solid energetically.  They need energy to be able to communicate with us.

Mediums and Investigative Mediums – Often in a Family Line

I believe that mediums are born and not made.

We can all increase our intuitive skills through practice. To date, most clients I have worked with who are mediums have a very clear marker in their energy field.  I can feel or sense it when I read for them.

I’m not sure if mediumship ability comes down to genetics. I do believe it is often an awareness or ability passed down through a family line. Maybe one day we will find a genetic marker for mediumship!

Update: 8/4/2026. I’m reading this and smiling. I’m now pretty sure I can track mediumship skills through a client’s Human Design Chart.

Awakening Mediums and Investigative Mediums – Those Whose Gifts Were Shut Down

I also agree with the term ‘awakening medium’. This is often a person who has always had mediumship abilities but has blocked them. This often happens in younger life or the teenage years. Being a medium can often be too much to handle for a younger person.

Once the person is older, the ‘whispers’ from spirit keep growing. Finally, that person may decide to embrace their mediumship gifts. This is what happened to me. I had felt energies as a child, but blocked the experiences. Understandably, I was more interested in being a teen, living my life and growing up.

Two Different Mediumship Experiences

Since I was a child, I have been aware of energies that are not ‘me’.  I often hear messages or sense things that have happened in locations or houses.

One of my most powerful experiences was in a hotel in Kansas. I was visiting a hotel with my family for a celebration. In that case, I didn’t know the hotel was haunted. That was until I walked into a cold spot in the upstairs corridor, and a spirit began talking to me.

Read more about the haunted Eldridge Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas, here.

Hotels and hospitals attract a lot of different energies and can have unusual histories. So, these are often places where spirit energy can be sensed by a medium. Investigative mediums can also use objects associated with a missing person to be able to locate them.

Mediumship Training Resulted in This Experience

(Trigger warning).  A few years ago, I decided to embrace my gift more fully and receive some mediumship training. 

About halfway through that 6-week mediumship course, I had an unusual dream. This dream involved a disembodied spirit visiting me and trying to communicate.

Often when spirits contact us this way, the only way they show us how they passed away.  As mediums, sometimes we may experience the method of their passing.

This is often why we may feel scared and distressed when a spirit tries to contact us. They are showing us their death – it’s all they know. They may be lost and confused, and we don’t realize that they are simply trying to communicate.

The Dream Made Sense Later On

I dreamed that a doctor in a white coat had drugged me and was trying to strangle me.  In the dream, I felt woozy and was also struggling. I stood up (still dreaming) and felt like I was spinning around.

Immediately I woke up and had to take a drink of water.  I also felt pain in my neck for a short while.  This was quite intense, as you might imagine.  I shared the dream with my teacher, and she suggested I communicate with the spirit during the day.

Later I did so and received a name and some information about the spirit in question. 

After researching on the internet, I found that this person had indeed died under mysterious circumstances. The true reason for his death is still not public knowledge today.

Being an Investigative Medium Can Be Tough, But Rewarding

So far, I have only contributed insights to one group of mediums who work together to help locate missing persons.

Anyone working in this field will find the work difficult and emotionally draining, but rewarding.

I hope this clarifies an aspect of mediumship that is becoming more accepted in the crime-solving community.

Learn More About The Akashic Records Readings I Offer

One way to grow your psychic mediumship ability is to begin to work with your Akashic Records. This expands the connection to your Soul through your Higher Self (also known as your intuition).

You’ll find that your intuition expands with Akashic Records work. Questions you have on the spiritual journey will be answered. It really helps you to connect the dots.

If you are interested in an Akashic Records Reading, I always recommend starting with the Soul Star Reading.

This reading gives you 3 different immersive experiences of the Akashic Records: –

1. Connecting with your Divine Soul Blueprint (Soul-level gifts, talents, abilities).
2. Hearing about a Past Life that contains a karmic pattern ready for clearing (you’ll recognize this pattern in your present life).
3. Recognizing and clearing present life blocks and restrictions.

If you’d like to know about the different readings I offer on this site through the 6 Spiritual Paths, start here>>

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