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Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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“Salem on My Mind”

Mary continues to meddle in her children’s lives in “Salem on My Mind.”

NEW

“Off the Deep End/Houseguest”

An aquatic creature is sought in Pennsylvania; claims about communicating with the dead via photographs are probed in Los Angeles.

NEW

“Unwanted Visitors; Strange Sightings”

The team explores more spooky viral video, from two creatures caught by a homeowner to a possible UFO encounter over Lake Havasu.

Repeat

“Spirits of Easter Island; The Moa”

The crew visits Easter Island in search of restless spirits; massive, flightless birds thought to be extinct are sought in New Zealand.

“Bhutan Yeti”

Josh seeks the yeti in Bhutan and Nepal.

Repeats

“Demon House”

Jay and Elke Yaple have been waging a ceaseless war against the unseen forces occupying their two hundred year old home.

One night Elke heard these words come over here baby monitor: “You are all going to die!” Soon after, the Yaples heard a loud crash come from their children’s bedroom. When they ran into the room they found bloody handprints on the baby’s crib. Incredibly, there were no signs of blood anywhere on the children.

Jay and Elke contacted CT Paranormal, who work closely with Father Bob Bailey, a priest and veteran demonologist. When they came to do an investigation Elke’s older dog, Mandy, went into convulsions — seemingly possessed. Father Bob ran over to the dog and began praying over it. The dog ceased shaking and returned back to normal as the prayers finished.

Father Bob then took on the entity, battling it with religion attempting to banish it from the home.

“Leave House”

When Laura Satterfield’s dogs were being frightened by something in her new house, the last thing she thought it could be was the spirit of someone who may have once lived in her home. But after Laura and her daughter were terrified by the apparition of a man in a military uniform, they became convinced there was something paranormal and evil in her house.

Fearing for her family, Laura sought help from a paranormal team who capture what they believe is a video of an actual ghost. Soon after, Laura and a team member are inexplicably burned on their backs, and they suspect it is this ghost trying to hurt them.

“The Door”

When Laza Denison and her daughters move into their new home, they are thrilled by its size and beauty. Their excitement quickly fades when they are terrorized by an unseen entity determined to run them out of the house. After their dog is kicked clear across the room by this invisible force, the family calls in a paranormal team to help them deal with their problem. What the team discovers convinces Laza that her house is indeed haunted and her family is in serious danger.

Not far from the Denison home, another family lives in fear that paranormal activity is killing all the animals on their farm.

Repeats

Shows not always in order.

For Complete listings see the Ghost TV Schedule Page.

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Ghost TV News

Destination Truth

“It’s official. The new season of DT begins on September 9th!” – Josh Gates 7/28/10

Network sources have confirmed season four of “Destination Truth” will launch Thursday, September 9 at 9:00/8:00c. See Post.
7/17/10

“Just finished 3 months of filming for DT 4.0. Sore, bruised, and tired, but headed out into the streets of Madagascar to celebrate!” – Josh Gates 6/21/10

Destination Truth..Third Season..Best Ever. See Ratings post below.

Season 4 of Destination Truth, currently in production on eight new episodes, is slated for a Fall 2010 premiere.

Ghost Hunters Academy

Adam Berry is the Winner of Ghost Hunters Academy. Jason told Adam he would be “Joining Us, the TAPS Team on Ghost Hunters.” Video interview.

Ghost Adventures

Ghost Adventures Season 4 Premieres on Friday, September 17th!!!
(Note date change)

“Get ready for the MOST POWERFUL Season of Ghost Adventures EVER!!!!!… September 2010!!!” – Zak

“The EVPs we are NOW getting, are blowing me away… we can’t wait to share this in September for our New Season’s Premiere!” – Zak

“ANNOUNCEMENT! Just wanted to officially announce that Ghost Adventures has a LONG-TERM agreement with ALL-NEW Episodes w/ Travel Channel!” – Zak

Ghost Hunters International

Karl Pfeiffer, one of two graduates/winners of the first Season of Ghost Hunters Academy, is only on one episode of Ghost Hunters International.

“I just did one episode,” Pfeiffer says, adding that episode is slated to be the premiere July 14th. “That’s what it turned out to be at this point.”

Pfeiffer says he’s not sure if he’ll be cast for any more episodes. “There’s a possibility, but they really haven’t told me much at this point,” he says. “I’m not really too sure. They’ve been juggling a lot of different cast members for the show.”

New episodes return July 14. In the premiere episode, the team travel to the famous town of Nottingham, England and search for the Sherriff of Nottingham’s Ghost at the Galleries of Justice. Other countries on their global adventures will include, Wales, Norway, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia and many more.

The team includes, Robb Demarest, Barry FitzGerald, Brandy Green, Ashley Godwin, Paul Bradford, new cast member Scott Tepperman as well as GHA winners, Susan Slaughter and Karl Pfeiffer.

The Haunted

Chris Fleming reports that he is “Currently filming the Season Finale for Animal Planet’s “The Haunted” and it’s great stuff!” 6/28/10

The Haunted has been announced as a “Returning Series” on the Animal Planet! No date on when Season Two will Premiere. 4/8/10

See The Haunted Post below for more.

Psychic Kids

Filming episode 3/Season 3. “YOU ARE GONNA BE AMAZED BY THESE KIDS!!!” – Chip Coffey 7/15/10

“Episode 2 / Season 3 of Psychic Kids is complete.”
Chip Coffey 7/9/10

“The episode of Psychic Kids that we just taped in Florida was BEYOND INCREDIBLE! I was there and still can’t believe all that happened! The New Season of Psychic Kids will begin in the Fall on A&E…probably October. I’ll keep everyone posted.” – Chip Coffey 6/26/10

Psychic Kids has been announced as a “Returning Series” on A&E! Season 3 will have 7 one hour episodes and premieres in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Most Haunted

Yevette Fielding has announced she is leaving Most Haunted.
View Post here.

Ghost Hunters

Ghost Hunters has been renewed for a seventh season, 25 all new episodes to debut in 2011. New episodes of Season Six will return August 25. See announcement post here.

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Celebrity Ghost Stories returns for a second season featuring 18 one-hour episodes on Saturday, July 17 at 10 PM ET/ 11 PM PT.

See Announcement post with list of celebrities including Marilyn Manson here.

Paranormal State

“After 70 episodes of PS, I got to hop in the director’s seat to direct the opening shot of PS today!!” – Ryan Buell 6/30/10

“Wrapped up the first investigation for season five!! Great work to the new crew and team!” – Ryan Buell 6/20/10

“Man, do we have some AMAZING cases lined up for “Paranormal State Season 5!!” – Ryan Buell

After appearing on 30 episodes, Chip Coffey reports he will not be on any upcoming episodes of the new season. Michelle Belanger has been added as a permanent cast member.

Paranormal State has been announced as a “Returning Series” on A&E! Season 5 will have 20 thirty minute episodes and premiere in the fourth quarter of 2010.

“I officially just finished the edits for my 1st book. I am DONE!!! It hits bookshelves everywhere in September!!” – Ryan Buell

Pre-Order from Amazon now!

Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

It appears that “Paranormal Investigators” which was a “working title”, has been changed to “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files”.

Syfy has ordered a new series named “Paranormal Witness”.

“From Dimitri Doganis and Bart Layton, the acclaimed creative team behind Locked Up Abroad, this tense, cinematic, high-octane drama-documentary series brings to life the stories of people who have lived through paranormal experiences that defy explanation; from poltergeists to alien encounters.

Using the mixture of intimate first-hand testimony and gritty realistic drama that the producers are known for, Paranormal Witness will take the audience into a world turned upside-down by extraordinary and terrifying events.”

My Ghost Story

Based on the success of the pilot, BIO has commissioned eight one-hour episodes of “My Ghost Story.”

The series features true and unbelievable stories of the paranormal told by the people who lived through them – and actually captured their hauntings on tape. From moving furniture to dark apparitions to violent poltergeists, these harrowing eye-witness accounts of the unexplainable are transformed into more than tales with terrifying visual evidence, viewers will have no choice but to believe their eyes.

There will be 8 one hour episodes and the Series premieres Saturday, July 17.

Ghost Lab

Ghost Lab Returns For Season Two, see Video announcement.

Paranormal Cops

Paranormal Cops reports they have yet to hear anything about their future regarding a second season.

If you want more Paranormal Cops write to A&E at AE.VIEWERRELATIONS@AETN.COM and let them know!

It could be your email that brings us more shows.

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Haunted Hotel Spooks Ghost Adventures Stars

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

David Moye

If there was any way to monitor TV ratings in the afterlife, the Travel Channel series “Ghost Adventures” would probably make a killing.

The show, which starts its fourth season in September, is not only one of the cable network’s most popular, but series stars Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin are becoming as well known in the netherworld as they are in the real one.

“A lot of people think that this, because it’s on television, is entertainment, and we’re out there yelling and screaming for no reason,” Bagans told AOL News. “We live with things that follow us constantly. This ‘door’ has been open so long that it just constantly keeps getting wider and wider. So when we go places, it’s almost like we’re known in the spirit world.

“We go places that we haven’t even been yet, and they call our names. They say, ‘Zak! Nick, come in!’ all the time.”

Bagans, Groff and Goodwin, on a promotional tour for their series, were in San Diego recently to meet their living fans at Comic-Con, but graciously gave any ghostly groupies a chance to say hello as well by agreeing to be interviewed in Room 3327 at the Hotel Del Coronado, a world-famous hotel with a world-famous ghost by the name of Kate Morgan.

Morgan has been scaring up business since 1892 when she reportedly took her own life after spending five lonely and lovesick days at the hotel waiting for a man who never arrived.

Although the hotel has hosted such living luminaries as Bill Clinton, “Weird” Al Yankovic and the cast of “Baywatch,” Morgan is the most famous permanent resident. Her hotel room is popular with guests, many of whom report having strange paranormal experiences while staying there.

In other words, the perfect place for an interview with ghost experts like these guys, right?

In fact, Bagans says he, Groff and Goodwin prefer to stay in haunted hotels whenever possible.

“It’s what we live in,” he says. “This is our environment, so to be around it, personally, makes me more comfortable.”

Groff agrees.

“We’ve been doing this for so long that usually when we walk in, we can pick up stuff right away,” he says.

At that moment, a water bottle suddenly flies out of the hand of the show’s publicist, Diane McNamara, and lands seven feet away at my feet. The suddenness freaks out McNamara, causing her to leave the room and stay away for the remainder of the interview.

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Tags: Aaron Goodwin, Nick Groff, Zak Bagans
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Waverly Hills Investigation 2010

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Medium Lynne Olson

Waverly Hills Sanitorium

Investigating Waverly Hills last year (May 2009) and this year (May 2010) were vastly different experiences. LightSpirit13 (Karen Lambert) and I were fortunate to be able to investigate together in 2009, but due to some travel snarls were obliged to investigate on separate nights this year.

I was part of the Monday night group. As you can imagine, excitement was at a fever pitch among participants because the Ghost Adventures Crew was not only present but also had split up so each group got an hour to investigate with Zak, Nick and Aaron respectively.

My first hour of investigation was with Shannon Sylvia, a psychic medium I had met for the first time at this event. We started on the fourth floor that had a lot of small isolation patient rooms. Author Jeff Belanger was also with this group. A factual story was told about a local homeless man who was known to have squatted at Waverly about 15 years ago when it was an unattended, abandoned building. He and his dog were known for walking the halls together. One day he was found dead in an elevator. Of course, this story was told directly in front of the elevator involved. (Today the elevators at Waverly are welded shut to prevent tragedies.) Immediately I saw the old man dead in the elevator. He was curled up and the dead body of his dog had been thrown in after him. He told me that his dog had been with him and dying in that elevator wasn’t his idea. He was murdered. Jeff Belanger, who does all the location research for Ghost Adventures was able to confirm that the old man was found with his dog and both, had been murdered. Not surprisingly the old man was mad as hell at being killed. It wasn’t an easy or neat death.

Since LightSpirit13 and I had to investigate separate nights I was fortunate to investigate with Mike and Rhonda Schienle. Rhonda is the founder and current President of Indiana Paranormal Investigations Inc. http://www.indianaparanormalinvestigators.org/ She is also a medium in her own right. Mike is her sword carrier and tech guru. Running around an event that some treated more like a party than an investigation and conference, I was happy to be hanging out with an old married couple. It was also great to be able to bounce my psychic impressions around with another medium. I also appreciated the fact they had good investigation protocols.

Up on the fourth floor, Rhonda, Mike and I broke off from the main group after awhile. I encountered Molly, the ghost of a young TB victim I first met last year at Waverly Hills. Sadly she was weaker than when I had first seen her. She was tucked into bed this time. I asked her if she was strong enough to get out of bed and move a plastic ball around for us. (She did last year.) Molly was game but told me she didn’t dare leave her bed because if she did Matron would be upset with her. The following night LightSpirit13 and some of the people with her were able to talk Molly into moving the ball again. I guess Matron was far away at that point.

Just outside Molly’s room, I saw a group of student nurses chatting and smoking. Based on their tea length uniform dresses, full starched caps and distinctive cloaks they dated from the 1930’s into the early 1940’s. For some reason the year 1942 stood out for me. I walked up to them and tried to engage them in conversation but they scattered telling me that my presence would alert Matron to the fact they were standing around and smoking. They didn’t want to get caught so left the area. The Matron on duty that night must have had a formidable personality!

Rhonda and I both picked up on the ghost of a young father named Daniel. He was terribly sad. When diagnosed with TB, had been forced to leave his son, a blond charmer who was “Just twoooo” years old at the time. Rhonda heard Daniel’s comment several times via her medium skills. Daniel showed me his darling little boy he hated to leave for a TB hospital. I don’t think he saw his son ever again.

At one point the three of us walked into a storage room. Adhesive from removed labels still showed on empty shelves. Matron herself finally showed up. Middle aged, short gray hair, dressed fairly similarly to the student nurses. She told me the higher, taller cupboards stored blankets and pillows. She commented bitterly that they didn’t stay on the shelves for long, there were so many patients, always too many sick coming into Waverly. The medical staff frequently struggled to keep up. Sometimes when she needed a break she would go into the storage room, especially in winter as it featured a huge, long hot water heater. She would warm herself up for a few minutes, staring outside the window of the room, onto a bleak, snow-covered scene. One of the Waverly remaining gargoyles on the outside of the building had a cap of snow on it too. I had a strong sense of her intense feelings of exhaustion and depression.

Zak playing an EVP for the group.

For some reason I saw a lot more of the Waverly medical staff this trip than I had last year. Our second hour was spent doing a group EVP with Zak on the third floor. Zak told us about his experiences in an operating suite. Something had touched his hand. He shared a clear EVP telling him to “Get back”. I looked into it and saw that Zak had walked into a past operation. The surgeon was the ghost who told Zak to “Get back”, as in out of the room to avoid contaminating his surgical field with germs. I would call this particular encounter both a residual and an intelligent haunting. The surgeon reacted to what he saw as Zak’s intrusion, but from the surgeon’s perspective he was still in his own era in the middle of an operation.

I had spent part of the previous hour in the same surgical suite Zak had his experiences in. In fact I was standing about a foot behind a taped X where GAC had experienced some activity. I was just a few feet away when Chris from T.S.P.; was scratched by a ghost on the back of his neck. The scratch drew little blood but raised a significant four-inch welt on his neck. Chris had not been doing any hostile or aggressive provoking. Instead of being scared, Chris got mad telling the ghost of the man who scratched him; “I don’t like being scratched like that. That’s not cool. Only whimps scratch!” Interestingly the angry man who scratched Chris looked exactly like the murdered homeless man I had seen in the elevator. He was striding around the room, highly agitated, but without his dog this time. I don’t know why he scratched Chris, but I do think he was responsible.

When the change signal came, Fr. Andrew Calder came into the room and offered to bless Chris and anyone else who had been present at the time of the scratch. Chris, myself and perhaps half a dozen other people took Fr. Calder up on his offer. I was surprised at how few people accepted the blessing. Personally, I will take whatever grace comes my way.

For our group EVP Zak had the paying public stand in doorways along the third floor while he handled provocation, inviting the ghosts to use all his energy if needed to create an EVP. He had those of us with video cameras set them on the floor, pointing into the hallway. I cannot speak to anyone else’s experience but my handycam got zilch. Zak was luckier. I took some video of him reviewing the results of the EVP he got during my group EVP session. As we have seen on TV, ghosts tend to remember the GAC guys. Zak got several EVP’s. The first one said, “Zak go away”. The second said, “Hate you”. It was pretty cool to be in a group with Zak that got some measurable results.

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The 2010 Parawards

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Spooktalkular Parawards Winners (2010)

Paranormal Reality Series Best Male – Zak Bagans (Ghost Adventures – Travel Channel)

Paranormal Reality Series Best Female – Kris Williams (Ghost Hunters – SyFy)

Best Paranormal Reality Series – Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel)

Best New Paranormal Reality Series – Psychic Kids/Children of the Paranormal (A&E)

The Parawards were conceived by Spooktalkular hosts, Frank and Laura Chambers in 2008 to compliment the Spooktalkular podcast.

Spooktalkular

“Thank you to Spooktalkular Awards! I am honored to win the award for “Best Male Paranormal Investigator” I love GAC and my fans!” – Zak Bagans

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Robert Bess Responds to “The Throw”

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Robert Bess Explains the Paranormal

By Andrew Cothern

On Oct. 30, viewers tuned in to the 7-hour live broadcast of Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures Live” as the group explored the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, W.Va.

Richmonder Robert Bess and his ghost-catching machine, the Parabot, were a part of that investigation. During the broadcast, Bess’ electromagnetic field detector flew from his hand, and a swarm of controversy ensued. Allegations began flying from fans that Bess intentionally threw the meter, bringing his credibility as a paranormal investigator into question.

Knowing that there are two sides to every story, we sat down with Bess to get his take on the recent events.

“People don’t realize that the investigation on ‘Ghost Adventures’ was more about ratings and attention to the stars of the show,” Bess said. “They were honestly searching for ghosts; however, they seemed much more involved in acting their parts. I thought to myself that if there is real poltergeist activity occurring, we could be in serious trouble.”

“There was definitely paranormal activity there,” he continued. “We were expecting ghosts, but we weren’t prepared for a poltergeist of that magnitude.”

Bess says the Parabot was assaulted by a paranormal presence five times before the broadcast began.

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Ghost Adventures “Poveglia Island” Special

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Medium Lynne Olson Reviews the episode.

Ghost Adventures Poveglia Island Zak

“Ghost Adventures investigation of Poveglia Island off of Venice, Italy caught not only lots of evidence, but Zak got a brutal lesson in the dangers of investigating dark energies.”

Read the Review and post your opinons in our FORUM.

Lynne Olson of Seattle, WA is available for private readings. Send an e-mail to angelzhands@yahoo.com.

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Your Cable Is Haunted

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Spirits abound on “Ghost Hunters” (Syfy), “Paranormal State” (A&E), “Ghost Lab” (Discovery) and “Ghost
Adventures” (Travel Channel).

By Susan King

Ryan Buell Your Cable is Haunted article

Ryan Buell founded the Paranormal Research Society as a student.

Vampires may be getting all the glory these days, but when it comes to day-in, day-out spooky family entertainment, it’s hard to beat ghosts.

The popularity of ghost and paranormal stories are nothing new — from the King’s ghost in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to the phenomenal box office last fall for “Paranormal Activity.”

But it’s on the small screen that ghosts are most alive — a staple of the medium, so to speak. The first two hours of CBS’ Friday night lineup are devoted to “Ghost Whisperer,” now in its fifth season, and “Medium,” which joined the network last fall after five seasons on NBC. Both dramatic series revolve around women who can see dead people.

Several of the cable networks have built their lineups around ghost/paranormal reality shows. These series follow investigators going to residential homes, historical locations, abandoned hospitals, prisons and even aircraft carriers that are supposedly haunted. They claim to use scientific methods and equipment, such as digital tape recorders to capture EVPs (electronic voice phenomena), which are believed to capture the voices of spirits.

Thanks in part to the success of these shows, ghost hunting has become a big business. Several Internet sites including Amazon offer equipment for sale for the budding paranormal investigator.

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