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Explores hauntings through witness accounts, pictures, on-location shots, and re-enactments.

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Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain of the episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder—and whispers of things far worse—that have scarred its grandeur almost from the...

A quiet loner finds himself stranded in a remote town when his car breaks down. Unable to pay for the repairs he needs, he agrees to spend the night cleaning Willy's Wonderland, an abandoned family fun center. But this wonderland has a dark secret that the "The Janitor" is about to discover. He soon finds himself trapped inside Willy's and locked in an epic battle with the possessed animatronic mascots that roam the halls. To survive, he must fight...

An aimless ne'er-do-well becomes a tour guide in a historic estate and winds up befriending the manor's resident ghost.

Incorporating eyewitness accounts and cinematic reenactments of some of the most eerie and inexplicable stories ever recorded, this explores a powerful force whose true nature is unknown to most of us-yet whose grasp affects us all. With each chilling episode, with every spellbinding scare even the most skeptical observer will question what lies beyond the opened door between our world and the next.

Investigates the most persistent tales of spooks and ghosts in Edinburgh, speaking with eyewitnesses and experts in the occult.

Profiles eleven supposedly haunted caves, from one where Spanish conquistadors are supposed to have hidden treasure over 350 years ago, to another where a thirteen-year-old boy discovered the largest underground lake in the United States.

Ghost reports are nearly always anecdotal and therefore unlikely to be provable. These tales from the state of Wisconsin may be real, or they may be folk tales, but some of them date back to our earliest European settlers, others reach even further back. All of them are connected with the geography and history of their Wisconsin location. Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder...