Ghostober is here! There’ll be the premier of new series and specials, new episodes of returning shows, and plenty of chills –just in time for the spookiest month of the year.
Let’s take a look at exactly what you can expect to see and look forward to during Ghostober’s kickoff week:
Monday, September 30
Strange World – Season Finale
“Demon Time” – 11 p.m. ET/PT
Independent filmmaker Christopher Garetano seeks closure to his own personal nightmares as he investigates the phenomena that haunts our world in the dead of night.
Tuesday, October 1
Most Terrifying Places – Series Premiere
“Shadow Factory” – 10 p.m. ET/PT
An abandoned amusement park, a sinister grain silo and a long-shuttered subterranean factory are forever stalked by restless spirits and malevolent creatures.
Thursday, October 3
The Dead Files
“Deadly Force” – 9 p.m. ET/PT (*New Time)
Steve DiSchiavi and Amy Allan head down to the Florida Everglades to meet with a Reiki master who claims her family is being torn apart by violent paranormal attacks. She’s worried if DiSchiavi and Allan can’t help, someone is going to wind up hurt – or even dead.
The Holzer Files – Series Premiere
“Phantoms of the Fire” – 10 p.m. ET/PT
The team heads to historic Rye, New York, where over the span of 20 years, Hans Holzer made three visits to investigate the rampant paranormal activity at the Peck House. Residents have witnessed objects moving on their own, water manifesting on the ceiling without cause and the spirit of a young girl who tragically died in the home. Now, for the first time since Holzer’s last visit in 1985, paranormal investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza and equipment technician Shane Pittman – armed with insight from researcher Gabe Roth and Alexandra Holzer— revisit the case, interviewing locals, historians and frightened witnesses in an attempt to capture evidence and find out if the restless spirits haunting the Peck House have actually moved on – or simply moved.
Friday, October 4
Haunted Salem: Live – Ghostober Special Event – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
Haunted Salem: Live is a four-hour LIVE ghost hunt from one of America’s most haunted cities: Salem, Massachusetts. L
Led by a team of Travel Channel’s paranormal experts – Katrina Weidman and Jack Osbourne (Portals to Hell), Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Chip Coffey (Kindred Spirits), Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey (Ghost Brothers: Haunted Houseguests), Dave Schrader and Cindy Kaza (The Holzer Files) – the immersive, multiplatform event will investigate three of Salem’s most haunted locations tied to the infamous witch trials.
Teams will simultaneously lead separate paranormal investigations around the city as they seek to expose the hauntings that have plagued this historic city for hundreds of years. Locations include the Ipswich Gaol, where prisoners condemned to die for practicing witchcraft were held; the Proctor House – home of John Proctor, the first male accused and hanged for practicing witchcraft; and Rockafellas, the site of the original meeting house where over 150 people, including farmer Giles Corey, were accused and ordered to stand trial for practicing witchcraft. Giles Corey is believed to have cursed the entire village after he was tortured to death for his crimes.
Through an on-location, live video stream, fans can monitor all of the Haunted Salem: Live activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook Live feed and comment on any findings in real time, helping direct the team where to investigate next. Additionally, Travel Channel will be live-tweeting from the event and engaging with fans via Twitter.
Saturday, October 5
Ghost Adventures: Serial Killer Spirits – Premiere of the four-part miniseries
PART ONE: “H.H. Holmes Murder House” – 9 p.m. ET/PT
Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures crew investigate the Irvington, Indiana, home where H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer, killed a nine-year-old boy. The current owner believes dark and sinister forces have overtaken the property, leaving her vulnerable to possession.
Sunday, October 6
Witches of Salem – Premiere of the four-part miniseries
PART ONE – 10 p.m. ET/PT
An inexplicable evil torments the young girls of Reverend Samuel Parris’ household. Like a plague; it swiftly spreads through the Puritan community of Salem Village. Fearing the influence of the devil, the afflicted make accusations of witchcraft.
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.