Kim Russo, also known as "Kim The Happy Medium," is an American psychic. Russo has worked with several cable networks including A&E and The Biography Channel. From 2012 to 2016, she was the host of Lifetime’s The Haunting Of. ^{[27] [31]}

Growing up, Kim often saw random spirits in her bedroom and sometimes felt their presence walking home with her from school.

Not knowing what they wanted, they scared her then.^[1]

In an interview, she specifically recalled a childhood memory where she was making her bed and saw the spirit of a girl with a burned face.

The girl said she had died in a fire and asked Kim to contact her parents.^[27]

In 2005, Kim received the Certified Medium designation from The Forever Family Foundation in 2005 and The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential in 2011.^[27] This foundation is dedicated and committed to proving the existence of life after death by integrating mediumship along with scientific studies.

Kim has appeared on A&E’s hit show, Paranormal State and their hit TV show Psychic Kids. She has also appeared on The Biography Channel's Celebrity Ghost Stories. She is currently the host of the weekly running series The Haunting of... on the LMN channel. ^[18]

Kim is a listed healer for Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop, and she appeared at the 2019 Goop Health Summit.^[30]

In 2016, Kim published her first book, The Happy Medium – Life Lessons from The Other Side, which combined stories from her personal life with some behind the scenes tidbits from the various shows that she has worked on.^[30]

In April of 2019, she published her second book, Your Soul Purpose – Learn How to Access the Light Within which guides people on using their own energy to access the otherworld.

In April 2020, Celebrity Ghost Stories was reconsidered for as another, six-scene show. Kim Russo is the host of the show and guides VIPs to where they had paranormal experiences. Russo will work with the gathering between every VIP and the phantom they had an encounter with.[29]

In the debut scene, Russo takes rapper, Ice-T and his significant other, Coco Austin to a distribution center in New Jersey that the List of Law and Order: Special Victims Uni star at first visited while recording for his NBC series.

With the area going about as a background for his show, after getting back with Russo for the A&E series, he actually considers the structure pretty dreadful.

However, with the star feeling a specific way about the site, Russo concedes that she also has her own "anxiety" and "wavering" when moving toward specific areas, and taking in those energies.[28]

Russo said:

"Particularly when I stroll into deserted stockrooms — that is actually the heart to soul exercises, similar to they occupy space, it resembles a neglected structure, you'll discover vagrants there.

[But] that is truly where they like to abide, they don't care to be irritated, they like their own space, thus you actually never know what's sneaking in these neglected structures.

Those are hotbeds, deserted structures, huge distribution centers, tall spaces, open regions, not in general visibility, not a great deal of pedestrian activity, that is when mediums definitely should be anxious and extra careful."[28]

Paula Abdul, Terry Bradshaw, Taye Diggs, NeNe Leakes and Kelly Osbourne show up in later scenes to stand up to their ghosts.^[29]

Russo has an aunt who also has a special gift.

She shared:

Kim Russo is a mother of three.

During her childbearing years, she said that she didn’t have "random visions" and was able to live a "normal" life.

Things changed after her third child was born.

She described the change by saying the following:

As of May 2020, Russo has over 43,000 followers on her kimrussomedium Instagram account, where she posts her work photos mainly. She also has over 33,000 followers on her THEHAPPYMEDIUM Twitter account, which she uses to share her Instagram posts.