Shock Docs: New Umbrella Series Coming to Travel Channel

Travel Channel will journey back to the most infamous horror cases our country has ever known with Shock Docs. This new umbrella series is scheduled to air throughout the fall and will take a fresh look at true and terrifying tales of paranormal encounters.

The announcement was made at Travel Channel’s “Wonder Women: Superstars of Paranormal” panel during San Diego Comic-Con’s virtual Comic-Con@Home. Here’s a peek at more about Shock Docs.

Shock Docs Release Date

Labor Day, Monday, September 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. (a.k.a. the unofficial start to Spooky Season?)

Shock Docs Premiere Episode

The first episode begins with a look at the history of the nation’s first modern-day paranormal investigators: “Devil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren.”

Over the course of their 50-year career, Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated thousands of hauntings. They documented some of the most famous cases ever recorded, including the Amityville Horror house, the real-life Rhode Island home behind The Conjuring films and the Bridgeport Poltergeist.

Ed, a demonologist, and Lorraine, a clairvoyant, were an unassuming couple who devoted their lives to battling demonic forces terrorizing families and inhabiting homes.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Warrens made numerous appearances on television talking about their cases and spreading the word about the paranormal and preternatural worlds that exist all around us. Their life’s mission: to prove the existence of good and evil; God and the devil.

Along the way, they pioneered many techniques still used in the field today, including audio and visual recording devices and advanced electromagnetic devices. They even produced their own television show.

This two-hour special features interviews with their daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Tony Spera, who share never-before-broadcast audio of Ed conducting interviews for the Bridgeport, Connecticut, poltergeist case, and rare video of the Warrens helping a young woman coming under demonic possession.

Tony also has granted the production access to his catalog of footage from his television series, Seekers of the Supernatural. It includes many hours of Ed and Lorraine discussing their work with Tony.

“Travel Channel fans have an insatiable appetite for the classic cases that even the paranormal investigators revere,” said Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel. “In these ‘shockumentaries,’ we start at the beginning and explore why these places and cases remain the most famous – and the most haunted – in the country.”

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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.

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