[4] However, in both that interview and in an earlier one with the Dayton Daily News, Northrop said that her first real contact with dead people happened when she was 13 when she spoke with her paternal grandmother who had just died the previous week.

[10] Late in 2020, Northrop, along with Thomas John, hosted a ticketed event virtually where they provided readings and over the internet to several of the people in attendance.

[1] In 1997, Northrop was contacted by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross about appearing in a documentary being produced for HBO which would explore the question of the survival of consciousness after death.

[2] Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek, who were involved in the project, wrote a very controversial book about the research he conducted during these sessions, The Afterlife Experiments.

[2] Schwartz' findings were that Northrop, as well as the rest of the "highly skilled mediums, in laboratory controlled yet supportive conditions, can receive specific categories of information that can be rated accurately by trained research sitters.

[1] Mentalist Mark Edward was asked to explain how Northrop accomplished what appears to be talking to dead family members of the participants in the show.

Say a lot of things, so fast that the normal average person doesn’t have a chance to respond or reconstruct what you just said.”[11] He further explains how Northrop can easily overcome incorrect or unrelated guesses by telling the sitter to "watch for it" and that she also provides statements that could have multiple meanings to give herself the widest latitude for turning a miss into a hit.