Creepy thrills and chills await ghost enthusiasts as Travel Channel hosts the ultimate Halloween event this “Ghostober” – ‘a cauldron of spooky, creepy and terrifying programming that will take viewers on a fun, spine-tingling journey across America.’
The excitement begins on Saturday, October 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with a four-part, four-week long “Ghost Adventures” miniseries that takes the popular paranormal investigative team – Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley – to the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” a treacherous nautical region in the Pacific Northwest.
New series, specials and episodes continue all month long, culminating on Halloween night with “Ghost Adventures Live” – a special four-hour live investigation inside Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas “Haunted Museum.” With special guests, creepy objects that contain haunted histories and fan involvement, it’s bound to be the ultimate Halloween treat.
Additional premieres throughout the month include:
- “Chris Jericho: Monster Hunt” (wt), a one-hour special following WWE world champion and entertainer Chris Jericho as he searches for legendary swamp creatures in Southern Louisiana.
- “Scariest Night of My Life,” retelling chilling stories from victims of paranormal mayhem.
- “Most Terrifying Places in America,” showcasing the nation’s most horrifying haunts.
- “Haunted Live,” a weekly live and interactive ghost hunting series where viewers can help guide the investigation.
“Anchored by our mega-hit ‘Ghost Adventures,’ the entire month of October is a spooky and wild Halloween celebration with the most innovative creepy content and the biggest stars in the paranormal universe,” said Jane Latman, general manager, Travel Channel. “Between our live investigations and spine-tingling new specials, ‘Ghostober’ is not for the faint of heart. Watch only if you dare.”
“GHOSTOBER” LINEUP:
NEW SERIES
SCARIEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE
Premieres Sunday, September 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
“Scariest Night of My Life” retells chilling, true stories of victims of paranormal mayhem. Each episode features three different stories of people who lived through life-changing and spine-chilling supernatural encounters that happened during the course of one terrifying night. With powerful recreations filled with twists and turns, viewers are in for an unforgettable paranormal ride.
HAUNTED LIVE
Premieres Friday, September 14 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
Viewers are invited to join the action in “Haunted Live,” a live interactive paranormal investigation series featuring the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, a team of paranormal experts that relies on a unique combination of scientific method and spiritual faith to navigate investigations. Each week, the team members will reveal a new haunted location to the public and utilize their skills, technology and unique experiments to capture evidence of paranormal activity in a live and unfiltered paranormal investigation. Through an on-location live video stream, viewers can monitor all of the “Haunted Live” activity on Travel.
NEW SPECIALS
MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM – “Special: Zodiac Killer”
One-Hour Special
Premieres Wednesday, October 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
History enthusiast and adventurer Don Wildman investigates the most notorious unsolved crime in American history – the Zodiac murders. Diving headfirst into the case, Wildman meets with a retired inspector who worked the crimes, learns code-breaking from a Zodiac cryptographer, visits a DNA lab to understand how close authorities are to catching the killer and learns a new theory on who may be responsible.
CHRIS JERICHO: MONSTER HUNT (wt)
One-Hour Special
Premieres Wednesday, October 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
WWE champion and famed author, musician and podcaster Chris Jericho has had a lifelong fascination with the unexplained. Now, he is on a terrifying mission to uncover the truth behind the fearsome swamp creatures believed to inhabit the swamps of Southern Louisiana. Wading deep into bayou country, Jericho searches for evidence of a legendary creature known as Rougarou, and a Sasquatch-like beast that roams the Honey Island Swamp. Is there a connection between these monsters? And what of the curse put on the region by infamous voodoo priestess Julia Brown in the early 1900s? Jericho encounters compelling proof from eyewitnesses, physical evidence and a startling revelation from beyond the grave.
GHOST ADVENTURES – “Graveyard of the Pacific”
Four-Part Miniseries
Premieres Saturday, October 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
In this special four-part miniseries event, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley head to the “Graveyard of the Pacific” – a treacherous nautical region within the Pacific Northwest where the freshwater of the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Here, darkness plagues both land and sea – the ocean has claimed thousands of shipwrecks and countless lives, while unexplained deaths, diseases, fires and murders have impacted areas around the shoreline. The investigation takes the team to multiple haunted locations – from the underground tunnels weaving beneath the city of Astoria, Oregon, and the port city’s Norblad Hostel to the Fort Stevens Military Base outside of town where dangerous entities are believed to haunt various sites. The investigation culminates at the North Head Lighthouse in Washington, which bore witness to some of the most tragic shipwrecks of this watery graveyard.
GHOST ADVENTURES LIVE
Four-Hour Live Investigation
Premieres Wednesday, October 31 beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT
This Halloween, join the “Ghost Adventures” team for the ultimate Halloween night event – a four-hour, live investigation inside Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas Haunted Museum. On the one-year anniversary of its opening, Bagans and the “Ghost Adventures” crew, along with special guests, will investigate the museum that contains hundreds of haunted objects, some so frightening and powerful they can’t even be touched. It’s sure to go down as one of the most terrifying nights in paranormal history.
NEW SEASON
PARANORMAL SURVIVOR
Premieres Sunday, September 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
“Paranormal Survivor” will take you through terrifying real-life encounters with the supernatural. Hear from those who’ve faced these feared spirits – and watch dramatic recreations that lure people back to the scenes of these harrowing confrontations.
NEW EPISODES
MOST TERRIFYING PLACES IN AMERICA
Premieres Sunday, September 30 at 11 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Evil lurks in every corner of the country. “Most Terrifying Places in America” takes you on a treacherous trip across the nation’s most horrifying haunts. Take a ride on the dire side as we uncover the most bone-chilling manors and inns, and visit real life ghost towns so cursed shivers will run down your spine. Join us as we stop at the nation’s scariest attractions, which will leave you feeling like a wide-eyed, freaked-out kid again, and come along as we unearth the most frightening forests, forts and freeways.
Debe Branning has been the director of the MVD Ghostchasers–a Mesa/Bisbee, AZ based paranormal team since 1994. The team conducts investigations of haunted, historical locations throughout Arizona and has offered paranormal workshop/investigations since 2002. Debe has been a guest lecturer at Ottawa University, Central Arizona College, Arizona State University, Scottsdale Community College, and South Mountain Community College. She has been a speaker at science fiction conventions such as Phoenix ComiCon, CopperCon, FiestaCon, HauntedCon and AZParacon. Debe has been the guest speaker at many historical societies and libraries talking about historic/haunted Arizona.
She has appeared in an episode of “Streets of Fear” for FearNet.com which aired October 2009 and on an episode of TRAVEL CHANNEL’S “Ghost Stories” about haunted Jerome, Arizona in July 2010. She recently appeared as an extra in the 2017 horror movie “The Covenant”. She enjoys assisting in the research field for various Travel Channel TV shows such as ‘Ghost Stories’, ‘Haunted Highway’, and ‘Deadly Possessions’ and MTV’s ‘Fear’. She has traveled, toured and investigated at haunted locations across the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland and Mexico.
Debe is the author of “Sleeping With Ghosts-A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to AZ’s Haunted Hotels and Inns” (2004), “Grand Canyon Ghost Stories” (2012), “The Graveyard Shift–Arizona’s Historic and Haunted Cemeteries” (2012), “Dining With the Dead–Arizona’s Historic and Haunted Restaurants and Cafes” (2017) and a series of three children’s books, “The Adventures of Chickolet Pigolet: 1. “The Bribe of Frankenbeans” —-2. “Murmur on the Oink Express” —-3. “You Ought to be in Pig-tures”. For 7 years Debe penned 3 columns for Examiner.com titled: “Phoenix Travel Adventures,” “Arizona Haunted Sites” and “Haunted Places” so travelers could know where they might find a ghost or two when they visited Arizona and the United States. She was the Managing Editor of “Paranormal Investigator Magazine.” As a paranormal travel writer, Debe traveled to Europe to cover haunted castles, jails, ships, inns, cemeteries and ghost walking tours. She has been the guest of several US tourism departments such as Carlsbad, Historic Hotels of the Rockies, Salem, and Biloxi.
Debe is a preservation activist with a special interest in preserving historic cemeteries. She is on the board of directors of the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association and the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board. She is also one of the co-hosts of the Association of Gravestones Studies in Arizona.
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