KELSI DAVIES IS THE HIEROPHANT: ENTER HER DIGITAL AFTERLIFE COMPLETE WITH AN UNDEAD DOLL POSSE

Universe, if you’re listening: when my mortal body decays and I leave this physical world, if possible outside of mortal timelines, please reincarnate me into a porcelain vessel that catches Kelsi Davies’s eye on eBay. Amen.

In step with the bleed of the Full Moon in Capricorn, I found myself intertwining invisible tethers  — with the otherworldly Kelsi Davies: clairvoyant, TikTok horror darling, and paranormal investigator.

Kelsi let me slip inside the cobwebbed corners and obscured lens of the part haunted dollhouse, part digital horror set, part shadow-work coven world she’s building. We talked like witches on a lunch break, enjoying clove cigarettes and absinthe pastilles. We lamented about long accepted stereotypes such as the preconception that ghosts are evil, or that they resemble us mere mortal normies in any way whatsoever. Pretty soon we were chatting about everything from spooky merch drops, to her rise to internet fame, to some very necessary spirit etiquette.

Before we dove into our interview, I pulled a card from my astrology deck with help from Kelsi: the North Node — a card of karmic direction and soul contracts. Kelsi laughed: “I definitely came into this life to break karmic cycles.”

Kelsi does it with grace, dissolving the gatekeeping tendencies of so many spiritual influencers. She wants to explore the blurry border through observations, playful skits, and EMF detectors.

This is what makes her work so intriguing: Fear, that primal, complex emotion, deserves to be explored, and not exiled from the realm of meaning.

Kelsi boasts an impressive verified presence: a TikTok with over 178 million likes and 6.1 million followers, a YouTube channel with more than 3 million subscribers, and an Instagram audience of 596,000.

Her next chapter is all about expansion, on her own terrifying and terrific terms. This past summer she recently wrapped a short paranormal horror film called “REM” (directed by Blair Bathory), which premiered at Fantasia Film Festival.

On YouTube, she’s been undertaking a full-scale revamp: envisioning an immersive “investigation board” vibe that threads together spiritual dots between this world and the next, a deeper, more interconnected expression of her work. 

Her early days as a performer began with dance and acting, first experimenting with Instagram and later vlogging on YouTube. Some of her first videos documented haunted locations, allowing her to step fully into a world of unexplainable experiences she’d kept quiet about as a kid. Her inspirations track accordingly: Tim Burton, Jack Stauber, Lady Gaga.

Managing an online career as a clairvoyant is more than understanding algorithms, it’s feeling them as well. “When you have so much energy watching you… there’s a lot coming at you constantly,” Kelsi says. “If I go and do a meet-and-greet, everyone is kind and excited but it is a large energetic exchange.”

Taking proper time to rest and recharge is vital to the work Kelsi is doing. Her cleansing process is a mix of bathing, sound bowls, Reiki, and somatic energy pulling from her chakras, especially her throat. Once during a plant medicine journey, Spirit taught her how to pull tendrils of energy directly from her chakras with her hands. She demonstrates for me and I can see her relationship to clairvoyance come alive as if she was untangling invisible vines from her own tree trunk, releasing them lovingly back into the ethers.

Kelsi’s clairvoyance doesn’t always present itself in the cinematic fashion we imagine or see in the media. Her visions are often quick flickers and luminous glimpses. “A lot of times it’s in the corner of my eye. Flashes of light or a white mist,” she explained.

There’s an ancestral connection too, and that’s often when she sees apparitions in mortal form. She recounts a recurring presence of an older Native woman, as well as her great-grandfather, who appeared during a dark time in her life and only left her periphery once she had emerged through to the other side.

Her ties to her ancestry are profound, informing both her personal practice and her use of spiritual tools, especially as she engages directly with her lineage from the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux. In the broader spiritual community, it’s worth remembering what is open practice and what is closed: while using sage for clearing, as Kelsi does, is a practice reserved for those with Native ancestry, her philosophy on connecting with spirit itself is radically accessible — and open to all.

Of course, this comes with important guidelines. I was curious about spirit etiquette, and Kelsi emphasized how critical intention is: seek to connect for the soul’s purpose and genuine curiosity, not to feed the ego.

Anyone can do it, she believes, but the entry point isn’t simply downloading an app or picking up an Ouija board. “Start with your shadow work, with your own inner frequency,” she told me. “You have to be doing the work to raise your vibration. Then it just… comes. You won’t need to force it.” She also points out that sometimes it really is that straightforward: ask for a sign, keep your senses softened, and see what happens.

I asked Kelsi what she thought about haunting after her own death. She offered a cosmology both poetic and quantum: “Past, present, and future are happening all at once. Time doesn’t exist. When spirits appear, it’s like pieces of consciousness bleeding into this moment. We’re all fractals.”

She imagines herself visiting every place she’s ever loved. “I’d just be everywhere, all the time — a memory in motion,” she said, mentioning her grandparents’ home in Colorado as one of the beloved sites she may haunt.

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