If you were a fan of Destination America’s Ghosts of Shepherdstown, you might like a new show coming to Travel Channel: Ghosts of Morgan City. It’s basically the same concept.
Apparently Morgan City, Louisiana, is experiencing a troubling spike of unusual emergency calls – unexplained encounters. The ghosts of the bayou city’s turbulent past are frightening its citizens –and taxing the city’s small police force.
In the all-new Travel Channel series, Ghosts of Morgan City, premiering on Friday, June 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Police Chief James “Bo” Blair is now looking to his colleague from another jurisdiction for assistance.
Who Ya Gonna Call
When Chief Blair learns that paranormal activity in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, has quieted down since that town’s police chief, Mike King, worked with a specialty team to solve a rash of hauntings last year, he contacts Chief King.
Chief Blair follows Chief King’s lead and recruits local paranormal investigator Jereme Leonard. Leonard then recruits former FBI agent Ben Hansen and psychic medium Sarah Lemos to help him look into the incidents.
When they learn from Morgan City Mayor Frank “Boo” Grizzaffi that the hauntings have spread throughout the parish, the team begins working with the police departments of Patterson, Berwick and Franklin to uncover the truth behind the ghostly infestation of St. Mary Parish.
Sidenote: If Ben Hansen’s name rings a bell, you may remember him from the former SyFy series, Fact or Faked.
The Episodes
There are eight one-hour episodes. In each of them, the paranormal team attempts to figure out what’s causing the recent uptick of bizarre activity. They look for patterns and clues in the new cases they investigate.
With help from local historian Diane Wiltz, the team digs up disturbing history associated with the area. They then begin helping some of the area’s restless spirits to stop wreaking havoc on the small community and to cross-over.
“We knew we had a whole new series when we heard about all the unnerving hauntings in the bayou,” said Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel. “Morgan City and surrounding St. Mary Parish are filled with rich history, deep-rooted superstitions and larger-than-life characters, and it’s all set against the beautiful, yet eerie backdrop of Cajun Country.”
Shapeshifting Mist
In the premiere episode, Jereme Leonard, Ben Hansen and Sarah Lemos receive an emergency call from the Morgan City Police Department about a shapeshifting mist in the area. The puzzling details take on new meaning when they discover the mist has ties to the first female executed in Louisiana.
As the case wraps up, the team receives more distressing calls from law enforcement outside Morgan City, sending them to every corner of the parish looking for answers.
From a plantation with a history of voodoo and a violent Civil War battle, to a family home haunted by the spirit of a young girl and the team’s own headquarters within the city’s historic archives, each clue brings the group one step closer to ending a haunted tug of war.
Ghosts of Morgan City premieres June 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Follow the Show and Its Cast
Check out Ghosts of Morgan City on TravelChannel.com for show extras including photos, videos and more.
Follow @TravelChannel and #GhostsOfMC on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more exclusive content and updates.
Follow Ben Hansen on Twitter: @BenHansen00.
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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I will have to check it out. Thank you! (BTW, on mobile, the picture of the cast lists four people but there are only three in the picture.)
It sounds like a great show. I do remember Ben Hansen and Fact or Faked. I learned a lot from that show.
GREAT CATCH, Bast! It was an auto fill in description that came with the photo in the Travel Channel press release. Didn’t even catch that!! Thanks for pointing that out. I know which one is Ben Hansen, but will have to see the other to see which name to remove because there are only 3 peeps in the pic. Love your eye for detail. You’re not available for hire as an editor are you? lol
Aww, thanks, Court! I’m ALWAYS available for editing jobs (I’m a freelancer). Sorry I didn’t reply sooner – my mom is in the hospital.
I can’t wait for this show to start. I already have it book marked for June 21st.
Bast, I’m so sorry. I got behind on comments and didn’t even realize you’d left this one. Is your mom okay?
Also, this is AWESOME to know. I didn’t know you really were an editor! I need one for real! Can I send you an email inquiring about your services?
Sure hope your mom is okay.
Hi Court! You can email me ANYTIME! And no worries!