We know that this year’s Ghostober Halloween programming crosses over between brands and platforms. The best place to scream everything —er, stream everything— is discovery+. Because some of Ghostober 2021’s programming is exclusive to the streamer. We’re talking haunted houses and ghoulish ghost stories to poltergeist-laden paranormal investigations —and a lot more in between!
Let’s take a look at the “wraith-tastic roster” of all-new premieres streaming all month long on discovery+ for Ghostober 2021, starting with the trailer.
Ghostober on discovery+ 2021 Trailer
Ghostober 2021 discovery+ Highlights
BEGINS STREAMING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1
Ghost Adventures: Goldfield Hotel – Two-Hour Special
In a highly personal and emotionally charged investigation, the Ghost Adventures crew – Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley – return to where their journey began to settle the score with sinister spirits at Nevada’s infamous Goldfield Hotel, a landmark with a bloodied past. Frightening new paranormal incidents call the team back in their final attempt to unmask a vengeful presence that only grows stronger – and more menacing – by the day. Disturbing new evidence reveals a dark and deadly presence on the premises, and it has a personal vendetta against Bagans.
Watch Ghost Adventures: Goldfield Hotel Trailer
BEGINS STREAMING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2
The Haunted Museum – New Series
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. The series launches with two episodes.
Watch The Haunted Museum Trailer
BEGINS STREAMING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3
Outrageous Pumpkins – New Season
Outrageous Pumpkins with host Alyson Hannigan takes the traditional Halloween pastime to the next level. Seven extraordinarily talented pumpkin carvers duke it out in an outdoor pumpkin competition that defies imagination. Each week, the carvers dive headfirst into the most insane, eerie and outrageous challenges executing their intricate Halloween designs to impress judges Terri Hardin and Marc Evan. Only one will earn the coveted title of Outrageous Pumpkin Champion and take home $25,000.
BEGINS STREAMING THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7
House Haunters – New Series
Emmy® nominated actor and producer Anthony Anderson, star of the ABC sitcom Black-ish, along with his mom and co-host of ABC’s To Tell the Truth, Doris Bowman, will combine their love of all things home — and mischief — to host the new discovery+ series House Haunters. During this hidden camera real estate and home renovation prank series from the producers of Impractical Jokers, Anthony and Doris will take over properties and devise hilarious gags for unsuspecting house hunters, real estate agents, handymen and even a few HGTV stars including Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent (The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project) and Brian and Mika Kleinschmidt (100 Day Dream Home). Throughout House Haunters, with dozens of hidden cameras in place and working from a nearby unmarked van, Anthony and Doris will scheme to scare, startle and surprise visitors to the homes – executing humorous high jinks with creepy dolls come to life, mysterious pests on the loose, home decor that has a mind of its own or seemingly haunted spaces.
BEGINS STREAMING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8
Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life – New Series
From master of horror Eli Roth, A Ghost Ruined My Life shares the shocking stories of hauntings that have left emotional (and sometimes physical) scars on those unlucky enough to have experienced them. Equal parts terrifying and evocative, every hour-long episode will expose viewers to the real-life stories of survivors who have been dragged through hell and back and now struggle to rebuild their shattered lives. The series launches with two episodes.
Watch A Ghost Ruined My Life Trailer
BEGINS STREAMING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23
The Dead Files – New Season
Former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan are back on the case. Utilizing his detective skills, DiSchiavi interviews witnesses and experts, and researches the history and facts behind each haunted 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.
Watch The Dead Files Trailer
BEGINS STREAMING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24
Jack and Kelly Osbourne: Night of Terror – “The Queen Mary” – Two-Hour Special
Jack Osbourne introduced his sister, Kelly, to the paranormal last year and turned her skepticism into a curiosity of the unknown. Now, he’s bringing her onboard to the infamously haunted RMS Queen Mary for a terrifying three-day investigation. For decades, people have ventured onto the ship, docked in Long Beach, California, for a glimpse at the other side. This once-elegant ocean liner has been closed to the public since early 2020, but it is hardly empty. The skeleton crew of security and maintenance workers have experienced unsettlingly aggressive paranormal activity including scratches, threatening footsteps thundering down the hall and vivid apparitions. And it gets worse by the day. Now, Jack and Kelly will come aboard to investigate the infamous ghost ship alone.
BEGINS STREAMING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
The Curse of the Highgate Vampire – One-Hour Special
A Victorian cemetery turns into a vampire-hunting ground in 1970s London after visitors report bodies rising from graves, strange bite marks and sightings of a tall, dark figure with red eyes lurking amongst the gravestones. Even more chilling, anyone who dares to investigate is cursed.
BEGINS STREAMING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 – HALLOWEEN
Ghost Hunters – New Season Sneak Peek
The revival of the series that started it all is here! Ghost Hunters comes exclusively to discovery+ with a brand-new season featuring original team leader Jason Hawes, joined by Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Shari DeBenedetti. A special Halloween event kicks off the new run as the TAPS team take back the paranormal reins in epic haunted locations. Joining the hunt inside one of America’s scariest prisons are a few familiar faces and special guests including Amy Bruni and Adam Berry (Kindred Spirits, Ghost Hunters).
Watch the Ghost Hunters Sneak Peek Trailer
STREAMING THROUGHOUT OCTOBER 2021
Halloween Wars (featuring Zak Bagans) – New Episodes Drop Sundays
Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans has spent the last 15 years experiencing the scariest supernatural encounters ever recorded, and for the first time he shares those experiences with the eight Halloween Wars teams of expert cake and sugar artists in the new season. Over the course of the season, Zak takes inspiration from his collection of dangerous and mysterious artifacts from his Haunted Museum in Las Vegas to challenge the teams to create intricate cakes that are as frightening as they are tasty. One team will be eliminated in each episode by a panel of judges featuring award-winning cake decorator Shinmin Li and chefs and cookbook authors Aarti Sequeira and Eddie Jackson, and the last team standing will earn $25,000.
Additional Shows
Additionally, new episodes of Paranormal Caught on Camera, These Woods Are Haunted, The Alaska Triangle and Halloween Baking Championship continue to drop weekly on discovery+ throughout the month.
You can also binge all of your favorite paranormal programs anytime on the app. The “Paranormal & Unexplained” genre hub offers a cauldron of thrilling and chilling supernatural shows streaming 24/7.
For More Info
Visit discoveryplus.com.
Check-In
If you didn’t have discovery+ prior to Ghostober’s offerings, did you break down and add it to your streaming services so you could watch any of these shows?
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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I didn’t break down and get Discovery plus, but it’s tough to resist!!!
But you have a super good reason. It would cut into your reading time, which I think you may benefit more from anyway! (And then so do those of us who get to read your one-sentence reviews!)