“Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files”

Premieres Thursday, July 15, at 10PM (ET/PT) (working title)

Debunks fact from fiction by uncovering the truth behind supernatural and unexplained occurrences which have been caught on tape.

In each episode, the six-person team, led by former FBI special agent Ben Hansen, searches for the most intriguing and unusual images, videos and unnatural phenomenon found online and around the world.

Selecting the most intriguing images, the team heads into the field attempting to recreate the video, carrying out key experiments and searching for clues and evidence. The team uses all the latest tools, CGI and investigative techniques at its disposal to try and answer the question, “Is it real?”

Note – Name changed from “Paranormal Investigators”.

Mary Knows Best

Premieres Thursday, July 15, at 9PM (ET/PT) (working title)

Mary Knows Best is a light-hearted, docu-soap reality series following Mary Occhino, a successful radio host, psychic intuitive and mother of three, who gives a whole new meaning to the term “mother is always right”. Her children, Jackie, Chris and Carl are a mismatched group of siblings consisting of a skeptic, a paranormal investigator and a reluctant psychic.

In each episode viewers will meet a humorous and unforgettable cast of family characters including Mary’s outspoken older brother Charles and two adorable grandchildren.

TLC to Premiere Special, PARANORMAL COURT

 TLC announced plans to premiere PARANORMAL COURT, a one-hour program following Robert Hansen, a renowned psychic medium who steps in to help families get the answers they need because the death of a loved one has left them with questions and a lack of closure. Viewers are taken on a journey with Robert as he is called in to settle disputes and get three families the verdict that they need once and for all.

PARANORMAL COURT is a one-off that will premiere Saturday, March 27th at 10PM, only on TLC.

PARANORMAL COURT demonstrates Robert’s psychic abilities in solving disputes when two parties come together and agree to be bound by the ruling enlisted from the other side. First, a mother and daughter battle over their loved one’s gold cross. Then, a close-knit group of siblings is ripped apart after one allegedly steals their dead brother’s car. And finally, a mother’s inability to let go of her deceased daughter strains her marriage to the breaking point. Can Robert provide these families with a resolution — so that their loved ones may rest in peace?

“PARANORMAL COURT is about helping families in their time of need,” said TLC SVP Production and Development, Nancy Daniels. “Robert Hansen is an amazing talent with deep compassion. He connects with families and their lost loved ones to resolve issues surrounding death — and most importantly to give them closure.”

At PARANORMAL COURT, there may not be a will, but there is always a way. What will happen when the dead speak?

Just Released Book Profiles Feline Angel of Death

Ray Henry

Oscar, a hospice cat with an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, sits outside a patient’s room.

The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients’ deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours.

Dosa’s doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years, a process he explains in a book released this week, “Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat.” The feline’s bizarre talent astounds Dosa, but he finds Oscar’s real worth in his fierce insistence on being present when others turn away from life’s most uncomfortable topic: death.

“People actually were taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass,” Dosa said. “He was there when they couldn’t be.”

Dosa, 37, a geriatrician and professor at Brown University, works on the third floor of the Steere House, which treats patients with severe dementia. It’s usually the last stop for people so ill they cannot speak, recognize their spouses and spend their days lost in fragments of memory.

He once feared that families would be horrified by the furry grim reaper, especially after Dosa made Oscar famous in a 2007 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, he says many caregivers consider Oscar a comforting presence, and some have praised him in newspaper death notices and eulogies.

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National Geographic Channel

Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary is said to be the one of the most haunted places in America. Since its closing in 1971, many have reported hearing eerie voices, weeping and tormented screams, while others have seen shadows dart in and out of cells. Investigators use the latest technology to search for paranormal activity. Motion sensors are rigged, night-vision and infrared cameras positioned, acoustic triangulation systems set up, and 3-D laser scanners offer a rare view inside.

Scientists try to answer the question: What are Ghosts made of?

Can super low frequency sound waves make us see ghosts?

Is this abandoned prison haunted or just haunting? A team of scientists try to separate objective reality from human imagination.

By Ken Hoffman

Sonya Fitzpatrick can talk a cat out of a tree — and it doesn’t matter if she’s home in The Woodlands and the scaredy cat is in Sydney, Australia.

Fitzpatrick can talk common sense into squabbling squabs. She can reason with rattlesnakes. She can figure out what’s agitating an alligator.

More important, she can get your cat to cheer up or your pooch Scruffy to stop piddling when friends come over to your house.

Fitzpatrick can talk to the animals.

Humans? At least in one case — programming executives at cable’s Animal Planet — she can’t get them to return a phone call.

Fitzpatrick’s pilot show, Pet Psychic Encounters, aired last week on Animal Planet, and Fitzpatrick hasn’t heard a word from the network on whether the show will be picked up as a series.

“Humans don’t communicate very well,” Fitzpatrick said. “I guess I will hear from them … when I hear from them. I do know that they’ve had a tremendous response to my show.”

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