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*Updated January 12, 2023* There have been programming changes to the following shows:
We originally reported that Shock Docs: Michigan Hell House would premiere concurrently on discovery+ and Travel Channel on Sunday, January 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. It will now premiere on Sunday, February 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Additionally, the Shock Docs Alien Abduction: Travis Walton was originally set to premiere on Travel Channel on Sunday, January 22 at 9 p.m. It will now premiere on Travel Channel on Sunday, March 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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As far as concurrent premieres on both discovery+ and Travel Channel, there are two. Kindred Spirits returns for its seventh season. And for fans of the Shock Docs franchise, Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza star in Michigan Hell House, where they explore real-life nightmares of a farmhouse plagued by bizarre paranormal activity.
As far as Travel Channel premieres, there’s also a Shock Docs happening there too, Alien Abduction: Travis Walton, as well as new seasons of Unexplained: Caught on Camera and Help! My House Is Haunted. And there are a few season finales, including Ghost Adventures: House Calls, The Haunted Museum, Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, and Haunted Scotland.
Let’s check it all out in more detail.
CONCURRENT PREMIERES: Travel Channel and discovery+
KINDRED SPIRITS
NEW SEASON – Premieres Friday, January 20 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Paranormal investigators Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and psychic medium Chip Coffey are back with a brand-new season of Kindred Spirits. These intrepid investigators help people who are tormented by the dead by settling spirit activity, capturing evidence and bringing closure to each location they visit. Utilizing several tools to communicate with spirits, Bruni, Berry and Coffey discover shocking stories by visiting some of America’s most haunted homes and historic sites. During their emotional and terrifying investigations, this all-star paranormal team capture evidence, settle spirit activity and bring closure to each location they visit. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON PREMIERE: “Broken Spirits” – Premieres Friday, January 20 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Chip Coffey visit a former poorhouse in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where rumors of torture tarnish an already dreadful history. The facility is now a cultural center, but intense paranormal activity terrifies employees and guests. Can the team rectify the horrors of the past and bring peace to this haunted place?
“What Lies Below” – Premieres Friday, January 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Chip Coffey are called to the haunted town of Palmyra, New York, to investigate aggressive paranormal activity at a museum. Has a recent fire triggered a family of spirits? Or is the ghost of a barbaric doctor behind the haunting?
SHOCK DOCS – MICHIGAN HELL HOUSE
TWO-HOUR SPECIAL – Premieres Sunday, January 29 February 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Paranormal investigator Steve Shippy broke the case seven years ago after more than 40 years of silence. What he found was a living nightmare that rivals horror films like Amityville Horror and Poltergeist, but this house of hell is 100% real and just as terrifying. The story takes place in a farmhouse in the tiny village of Merrill, Michigan.
From the summer of 1974 to the spring of 1975, the Pomeraning family endured relentless, bizarre and violent paranormal phenomena. There were knocking, explosions, disembodied voices, even spontaneous combustion that ripped apart the home and the family living inside of it. With dozens of hours of real-time audio recordings, hundreds of police reports and dozens of eyewitnesses, this case is arguably the most well-documented paranormal case in history. Yet to this day, no one knows why this family was ravaged by an unseen, evil force. Was it a poltergeist? Demonic possession? Witchcraft? Now Shippy, along with world-renowned psychic medium Cindy Kaza, armed with new evidence, will finally uncover the source of the evil that terrorized the Michigan Hell House.
TRAVEL CHANNEL PREMIERES
SHOCK DOCS – ALIEN ABDUCTION: TRAVIS WALTON
TWO-HOUR SPECIAL – Premieres Sunday, January 22 March 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
In November 1975, six loggers in northeast Arizona witnessed their crewmate Travis Walton’s abduction by UFO. The Walton story became an international sensation and ripped apart a small town. Four decades later, shocking new evidence reveals the true story behind Fire in the Sky.
UNEXPLAINED: CAUGHT ON CAMERA (*U.S. Premiere)
NEW SEASON – Premieres Saturday, January 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Experts attempt to explain the unexplainable as they analyze some of the world’s most eye-opening and terrifying footage of paranormal phenomena. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON PREMIERE: “Secret Room and The House of Slaughter” – Premieres Saturday, January 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A father and son unlock a secret room full of deadly surprises. An urban explorer spends the night in a house of horrors. And two best friends dig up more than they bargained for when they discover a witch’s ladder containing a sinister spell.
HELP! MY HOUSE IS HAUNTED (*U.S. Premiere)
NEW SEASON – Premieres Saturday, January 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Three of the leading U.K. paranormal experts –investigator and tech expert Barri Ghai, psychic medium and exorcist Ian Lawman and historian and psychologist Jayne Harris– work together to investigate reports of frightening paranormal activity. With years of experience, cutting-edge technology and their unique abilities, the team will stop at nothing, including seances, lone vigils, cleansing rituals and much more to help families reclaim their homes from unwelcome spirits. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON PREMIERE: “Devil in Disguise” – Premieres Saturday, January 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
There’s something dark and sinister lurking in Kevin’s home that drags him out of bed and leaves him with painful scratches. In an emotional and intense investigation, the team uncovers a demon entity that wants his soul.
GHOST ADVENTURES: HOUSE CALLS (Season 1)
New Episodes: Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley respond to urgent calls for help from desperate homeowners whose lives have been thrust into turmoil from unexplained activity inside their private residences. After hearing each family’s haunted account and reviewing bizarre evidence that was captured in their home, Bagans sends the crew on a personal house call to meet the family and get to the bottom of their paranormal emergency. Armed with their equipment, the team conducts a thorough investigation to see what evidence they can capture, while Bagans oversees the activity from his headquarters, providing insight and applying experimental tactics from his unique vantage point. After analyzing the evidence, Bagans shares the findings in a one-on-one meeting with each homeowner, offering them much-needed advice and resolution. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON FINALE: “Chaos in Emmaus” – Premieres Thursday, January 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Zak Bagans sends the team to a Pennsylvania home to investigate claims that a dark aggression has overtaken a large family. The crew are stunned to discover the haunting emanates from a deceased father’s remains.
THE HAUNTED MUSEUM (Season 1)
New Episodes: Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
The creepy collection of haunted artifacts housed inside Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum are getting the spotlight in The Haunted Museum, a new horror film anthology series produced in collaboration with filmmaker Eli Roth. The series presents frightening and hellish tales inspired by the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas museum. Bagans, a devoted collector of the macabre, is opening his museum vaults and sharing the secrets and stories behind a curated selection of his most prized haunted items through scripted shorts produced by Roth and his accredited team and with featured commentary from Bagans. [Hour-long episodes]
“Demon Under the Stairs” – Premieres Thursday, January 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A single mother must fight to defend her family from a terrifying demon that has invaded her home and now threatens to possess her three children.
SEASON FINALE: “Curse of the Dybbuk Box” – Premieres Thursday, January 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A skeptical college professor must re-examine his beliefs and face his greatest fears as he struggles to unravel the mystery surrounding one of the world’s most dangerous paranormal artifacts.
GHOST BROTHERS: LIGHTS OUT (Season 2)
New Episodes: Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
The Ghost Brothers –Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey– flip the switch on paranormal lore by shining a light on its darkest secrets. In the second season of Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, the hype men of the haunted investigate iconic paranormal hot spots to find out if the legends are really true and if these places are still plagued by the horror of the events that occurred there. Using unconventional experiments, they are ready to expose the haunted holdouts hanging around these locations. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON FINALE: “The Haunting of Waverly Hills” – Premieres Saturday, January 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey check into the infamous Waverly Hills Sanatorium to confront yet another dark chapter in the building’s horrific history. The guys put themselves in a precarious situation when they use real body bags to provoke the spirits.
HAUNTED SCOTLAND
New Episodes: Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
In Haunted Scotland, renowned American medium Chris Fleming and Scotland’s Gail Porter lead an expert paranormal team to investigate the chilling crimes, supernatural sightings and terrifying stories across one of the most haunted countries on earth: Scotland. With exclusive access to places where a film crew has never been allowed before, they will try to make contact with the spirits to explain the paranormal mysteries that have haunted Scotland’s most iconic landmarks for centuries. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON FINALE: “Dundee’s Verdant Works” – Premieres Saturday, January 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Nearly 200 years ago, the Verdant Works was one of Scotland’s deadliest factories. And reports say its exploited workers never left. The team is put through the mill as spectral children give them the run around in this Victorian factory.
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Yes, I am a Kindred Spirits fan!
I’ve heard of Travis Walton and read about his case. I wonder what the new evidence is. Rather exciting!
I’m not following what you mean by “Season Finale.” These seasons are over already at the end of January? How can that be? Wouldn’t the first episode be the “Premiere”? I’m confused. Am I missing something? Can you shine some light on this please, Courtney?
Also, I am really glad that Travel Channel is adding to the franchise of their “Caught on Camera” success of Paranormal: Caught on Camera with Unexplained: Caught on Camera. I am quite sure it will be excellent, which will make for two great shows. I’m sure we can expect a Season 6 of Paranormal: Caught on Camera again not much later this year. They had 27, get that, 27, episodes of that show last year, running from March all the way to December! That’s like the early years of Ghost Adventures! So they know they have a good thing going. It is inexpensive to produce, and there is no shortage of material to choose from. I still have trouble with the Ghost Brothers; not a big fan of the goofy, immature, sappy approach. I feel it takes away from the seriousness of paranormal research altogether. But I might watch the particular episode you mention. Personally, I have always wanted to investigate Waverly Hills. But their rules are very strict and limited, and it’s not the easiest of places to get into if you don’t have a popular network behind you paying them the big bucks.
I have the Fire in the Sky book, so I’ve been interested about this “new evidence” as well…
Hey Troy, yes. First episodes are premieres, but this list tells the episodes airing during a certain span. So the ones with finales premiered back Nov or Dec 2022. Hope that helps!
I hope you get to investigate Waverly one day, Troy! They are very prohibitive, both rules and cost-wise. And glad you enjoy the caught on camera shows. Looks like you’ll have a LOT of episodes to enjoy then. lol Thanks for weighing in!
Well now I guess I’m going to have to figure that out and answer that question because I want to know. You may have just given me a new post for this week! lol
And your comment confirms what Priscilla’s sparked: I now have FOMO and want to know too! lol