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Mountain Monsters wins Best Paranormal/Monster Series or Special in Channel Guide’s 2013 Viewers Voice Awards

Mountain Monsters wins the 2013 Viewers Voice Award for the “Best Paranormal/Monster Series or Special” in Channel Guide’s annual reader poll. There was nothing mysterious about Mountain Monsters being the hands-down winner in this category, after seeing all the comments we got on our website when we first wrote about the show. Some of you were intrigued by the possibility of unknown Appalachian creatures, others critiqued the show for being unrealistic on many levels. And some of you clearly tuned in for Huckleberry’s beard (see the Best Beard category). Best Paranormal/Monster Series or Special — Winner: Mountain Monsters Mountain Monsters/Destination […]

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Halloween TV programming 2013

As the Halloween 2013 season fast approaches, there will once again be plenty of Halloween TV programming to enjoy, from terrifying frights to more family-friendly fare. Here is some of the notable Halloween TV programming airing in 2013. All times are ET; check back for updates and additions. A Haunting (Season 6) — Sept. 29 at 10pm on Destination America. The spooky series that showcases stories of the supernatural returns. In the Season 6 premiere, Stephanie Winters and her husband encounter strange noises and objects moving on their own in their new house. They attempt to ignore the activity, but it soon escalates. […]

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Destination America orders Mountain Monsters Season 2

Destination America announced today that it has renewed its breakout hit series Mountain Monsters for a second season. Production on new, hourlong episodes will begin later this year (no word yet on when they will air), and will again follow the hardcore hunters and trappers of the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (AIMS), as they look for and try to capture mysterious creatures reported in Appalachia. RELATED: DESTINATION AMERICAN ANNOUNCES MOUNTAIN MONSTERS SEASON 2 PREMIERE DATE RELATED: DESTINATION AMERICA SERIES LOOKS FOR “MOUNTAIN MONSTERS” “Mountain Monsters has quickly become a breakout hit for Destination America, with each new episode continually […]

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“Ghost Hunters” returns with new Season 9 episodes June 12

Ghost Hunters Season 9 will pick up again with new episodes starting June 12 at 9pm ET/PT on Syfy (it had been originally slated to return back in April, but was postponed until June). The June 12 episode of Ghost Hunters marks Amy Bruni’s first investigation back with The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) since going on maternity leave last year. The episode, called “The Ghost Hasn’t Left the Building,” finds Jason Hawes and TAPS heading to Louisiana to investigate the historic Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium, famed for being the venue where Elvis Presley played his first professional gig in 1954. […]

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New Destination America series looks for “Mountain Monsters”

Destination America is getting into the legendary monster business again. Coming on the heels of its series Monsters and Mysteries in America comes the new series Mountain Monsters, premiering June 22. Like Monsters and Mysteries in America, Mountain Monsters focuses on the search for creatures out of folklore that have been reported in real life. In this series, the hunt is restricted to the Appalachian area, searching for the mythical beasts reported to haunt the dense woods and murky lakes within this 1,500-mile long mountain chain of the eastern United States. Beyond narrowing its focus to a specific region, Mountain […]

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Syfy’s “Paranormal Witness” Season 3 kicks off with a devilish episode

Of the number of shows in the “paranormal reenactment” genre that are on television, several of which air on Syfy, Paranormal Witness (on Syfy) is among the most successful, both ratings-wise and, in my opinion, in execution. Sure, there is not too much in its presentation that you haven’t seen in many a horror film (and some shots and setups seem even borrowed from notable fright flicks), but the series is generally effective in creating a tense atmosphere, and in delivering a few shocks. It will continue to attempt to creep you out as Paranormal Witness Season 3 premieres June […]

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Mary Occhino Shares The Story Of Her Psychic Family

“Psychic ability runs in families,” says psychic Mary Occhino, host of the SIRIUS Satellite Radio show Angels on Call and the new reality series Mary Knows Best, airing Thursdays beginning July 15 on Syfy. And, she notes, it certainly runs in hers, as she tells us in this exclusive interview. When did you realize you had this gift? Was your family supportive? Did this make growing up hard? Mary Occhino: I never realized I was different until I went to school. My entire family is intuitive, let’s put it that way. As a child I didn’t know what a psychic […]

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“Ghost Adventures” — Live

By Jeff Pfeiffer Following in the tradition of shows like Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted, the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures will be embarking on its first live investigation this Halloween season. Airing live Oct. 30 from 8pm-3am ET, the special features the Ghost Adventures team of Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin as they voluntarily lock themselves inside one of America’s most haunted locations — the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia — to examine the reported ghostly activity at the landmark. Built during the Civil War, the asylum is the second-largest hand-cut stone building in the world. […]

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Ghost Hunters Draw Scary-Good Ratings; Head For Star Island

By RabbitEars The fifth season premiere of SCI FI Channel’s Ghost Hunters on March 11 drew in great ratings for the network. The episode, which featured visits to the historic Betsy Ross home and Hannum House in Philadelphia, delivered a 1.9 Household rating, 2.7 million total viewers, 1.6 million adults 18-49 and 1.7 million adults 25-54. The show also outperformed the season premiere of South Park, and new episodes of The Real World, Dog the Bounty Hunter and MonsterQuest, making it the No. 1 cable telecast for the day among adults 25-54. Additionally, in the show’s 9pm ET hour, SCI […]

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Jason Hawes And Grant Wilson Of “Ghost Hunters”

By Jeff Pfeiffer At a press conference call last week, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, leaders of TAPS — The Atlantic Paranormal Society — discussed various topics relating to the upcoming Season 5 of Ghost Hunters, which premieres this Wednesday, March 11, on SCI FI Channel (see our preview). Here’s some of what they had to say.