There is a ton of existing content on discovery+ (138 shows!), but they’re also adding exclusive new shows and premieres regularly too. Here’s what to expect from January 18-31, including brand-new episodes of The Dead Files, UFO Witness, Expedition Bigfoot, Kindred Spirits, Ghost Nation, and more.
On The Dead Files, Amy Allan and Steve DiSchiavi investigate aggressive paranormal activity inside a California costume shop and help a family who is experiencing demonic activity.
On UFO Witness, Ben Hansen examines claims of extraterrestrial encounters in Florida and Arizona.
Let’s take a look at all of the shows and their episodes.
The Dead Files
New Season – Now Streaming on discovery+
Former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan are back on the case. In each episode of The Dead Files, DiSchiavi and Allan first investigate each case separately. Utilizing his detective skills, DiSchiavi interviews witnesses and experts, and researches the history and facts behind each location. Allan, a physical medium who sees and communicates with the dead, assesses the property to identify what underlying entities reside there. Keeping their findings hidden from each other, the team avoids all contact with one another – coming together only at the very end to reveal their shocking discoveries to the property owners, and each other. [Hour-long episodes]
“Shop of Horrors” – Begins Streaming Monday, January 18
Steve DiSchiavi and Amy Allan investigate a Modesto, California, costume shop plagued by reports of menacing shadow figures and ghostly attacks. The owner may be forced to shut down her business for good if the aggressive paranormal activity continues to go unchecked.
“The Demon’s Quest” – Begins Streaming Monday, January 25
Steve DiSchiavi and Amy Allan travel to Oakland, Oregon, where two distraught parents fear something evil is putting their children’s lives in grave danger. The explosion of demonic activity has everyone on edge, and they are desperate for answers on how to stop it.
UFO Witness
New Series – Now Streaming on discovery+
Former federal agent and paranormal investigator Ben Hansen is on a mission to uncover the truth behind the country’s most shocking and infamous UFO sightings. With unprecedented access to the archives of Dr. Alan J. Hynek, the chief scientific consultant of Project Bluebook – containing over 10,000 case files, Hansen believes the answers to UFOs in America are hidden in the cases of the past. Aiding Hansen on his quest is Jennie Zeidman, the last surviving operative of Project Bluebook, and Mark O’Connell, an accomplished UFO investigator and former confidant of Dr. Hynek. Together, they will uncover the secrets of the past to shed new light on today’s freshest UFO encounters. [Hour-long episodes]
“Close Encounters” – Begins Streaming Thursday, January 21
Ben Hansen heads down to Florida to investigate a woman’s claim that an extraterrestrial approached her in her own backyard. He wonders if this highly credible sighting is connected to a similar 1955 incident known as the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter.
“The Mothership Returns” – Begins Streaming Thursday, January 28
In 1997, over 20,000 people witnessed bright lights hovering over Phoenix, Arizona. Despite the numerous claims, the U.S. government refused to acknowledge the event. Ben Hansen launches an investigation to find out how these mass UFO sightings are covered up.
Paranormal Caught on Camera
New Season – Now Streaming on discovery+
Some of the most amazing, eye-opening and downright scary paranormal videos from around the world are featured as a panel of experts break down the footage and analyze what exactly the eyewitnesses captured. Insights from some of the most knowledgeable specialists in the field and firsthand accounts from the people lucky enough – or perhaps unlucky enough – to witness these strange phenomena for themselves just might make a believer of even the biggest skeptics out there. [Hour-long episodes]
“Arizona Dorm Room Ghost and More” – Begins Streaming Friday, January 22
A college student gets a ghostly roommate in Arizona. A paranormal investigator is antagonized by an ancient entity in Saudi Arabia. A Florida mother and her daughter are profoundly moved by a UFO sighting.
“Brazilian Werewolf and More” – Begins Streaming Friday, January 29
A shadow figure makes itself at home in a North Carolina couple’s bathroom. A werewolf stalks a man in his own backyard in Brazil. A ghostly customer trashes an adult store in Taiwan.
Ghost Nation
New Season – Now Streaming on discovery+
Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango are back for more adventures to the other side. This season’s locations have bigger mysteries, are more chilling and have never been investigated on television. And this time, they are calling in an old friend for some help – paranormal investigator Shari DeBenedetti. On all investigations, collecting evidence is just the beginning. With the help of their local contacts, they’re going to embed themselves in the community, conducting multi-day investigations in an effort to track down the true source of these hauntings and restore peace to the living. Under the United Paranormal Research Organization (UPRO) banner, local paranormal groups will join the team as they employ new devices and techniques for confronting and questioning spirits. They’ll do whatever it takes to entice the ghost into telling its story and stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the paranormal phenomena. [Hour-long episodes]
“Lady in Black” – Begins Streaming Saturday, January 23
Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Shari DeBenedetti travel to New Castle, Pennsylvania, to help a grieving couple who believe dark paranormal forces played a hand in their 14-year-old daughter’s sudden death. The team call on an old friend to eradicate the overpowering entity.
“Hell Unearthed” – Begins Streaming Saturday, January 30
Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Shari DeBenedetti investigate a 250-year-old dream home turned paranormal nightmare in New Hampton, New York. The team suspect the spike in activity is linked to recently unearthed artifacts, but the root cause may be more twisted.
Kindred Spirits
New Season – Now Streaming on discovery+
Professional paranormal investigators Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and psychic medium Chip Coffey are facing hauntings unlike anything they’ve seen yet in the new season of Kindred Spirits. Bruni, Berry and Coffey dig deep into the past to identify the restless spirits haunting America’s oldest inns, homes and estates. Utilizing a range of tools and techniques, their multilayered investigations tackle frightening tales of possession, aggressive entities and more. Together, the team elicit shocking evidence and connections with the other side that lead them closer to the truth, as they search for answers behind each haunted tale. [Hour-long episodes]
“Shadowed” – Begins Streaming Saturday, January 23
The new owners of the Toboggan Inn fear an aggressive entity that resides in the building. Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and psychic medium Chip Coffey travel to Eagle Bay, New York, where they conduct a groundbreaking experiment that bears shocking results.
“Fright Train” – Begins Streaming Saturday, January 30
A New Hampshire inn is home to apparitions so vivid they’re mistaken as living people. But are they dangerous? Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and psychic medium Chip Coffey check in to find out what powerful energy awoke this haunted house from a deep slumber.
Expedition Bigfoot
New Season – Now Streaming on discovery+
The Expedition Bigfoot team – Bryce Johnson, Dr. Mireya Mayor, Russell Acord and Ronny LeBlanc – have reassembled to respond to the uptick in Bigfoot sightings, just this year. Using an advanced data algorithm, they are honing in on a massive swath of forest in southeast Kentucky, where the mathematical odds of a Bigfoot encounter are greatly increased. This year, their analysis has uncovered something new – possible Bigfoot migratory patterns that may reveal precisely where the legendary beasts will be and when they will be there. Using the latest in advanced technologies, evidence of Bigfoot begins to pile up – including vocalizations, unexplained structures, DNA samples and massive footprints that no man could have left behind. [Hour-long episodes]
“Hand of the Beast” – Begins Streaming Sunday, January 24
The expedition takes an intriguing turn when Bryce Johnson comes across a photograph of a human-like hand with claws. Ronny LeBlanc and Dr. Mireya Mayor use never-before-seen tech to narrow down their search after a piece of potential evidence washes away in a thunderstorm.
“Time’s Running Out” – Begins Streaming Sunday, January 31
With just three days left in the Kentucky expedition, the team investigates a strange tree structure that could be key to proving the existence of Bigfoot. A bloodhound tracker leads them further up Pine Mountain to a mysterious cave entrance.
Mountain Monsters
New Season – Now Streaming on discovery+
The surviving members of the AIMS team meet up for the first time after Trapper’s passing to discuss the team’s future and embark on brand-new adventures Trapper had set up for them before he passed. Equipped with his personal journal filled with everything he ever learned about the woods, the team travels to the mountains of the Tygart Valley on a mission to prove that there are still wolves in West Virginia. A bounty was put on them, and the last wolf was said to have been killed in 1900. As the team investigates, they soon believe that not only are there wolves in the Tygart Valley, but something much more mysterious and deadly. Throughout the season, the team learns from locals of massive K9 cryptids with glowing red eyes that inhabit the land and are known by locals as Smoke Wolves. As they dig deeper, they realize that Trapper in fact knew about these creatures back in the 1970s. [Hour-long episodes]
“The Red-Eyed Beast” – Begins Streaming Sunday, January 24
As a blizzard hits the Tygart Valley, the AIMS team investigate Buck’s encounter with a massive red-eyed creature. They risk life and limb to track the mysterious beast through the snow. Just what type of mountain mystery did Trapper get them into?
“The Great Skull Wall” – Begins Streaming Sunday, January 31
The AIMS team set out in the darkness to suss out the source of a monstrous roar that shook the hills and hollers of the Tygart Valley. As they close in on the creature, they hear a strange noise that leads them to a landmark unlike any other.
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