Has there even been a show like The Ghost Town Terror before?

Has there ever been a show like The Ghost Town Terror before? After screening the first three ahead of my interview with Tim Wood and Sapphire Sandalo, that’s what I asked myself.

I mean, it has many of the same elements as every other paranormal show. We’re introduced to the owners of the property and their haunting. They explain how they found a paranormal team. The team comes to investigate, which always starts with a walk-thru of the location and a tour of the hot spots. Then the ghost hunt begins and we watch as they collect evidence.

But even though The Ghost Town Terror contains those familiar ingredients, it also felt new and fresh. It feels bigger and more in-depth than the customary shows we’ve grown used to that follow a team on their investigations from one haunted place to another.

An Arc

Before Tim and Sapphire joined the Zoom call for the interview, I was speaking with the PR rep who hooked us all up. Her name also happens to be Courtney. (If you watch the interview, you’ll hear me ask her if it’s okay to dive in once Sapphire dials in.)

Anyway, I told Courtney how interesting the series was and how it felt different than others. How it’s one that’d be totally bingeble if the episodes were released all at once. It’s one of those you want to hurry up and see what happens next. Or at least I did.

However, the six episodes in the docuseries release weekly, so no can do on the binge-a-roo.

Anyway, Courtney phrased it best when she said The Ghost Town Terror is the first time they’ve had a series with a story arc like this.

Ah ha! That was it.

It’s not just a spend-an-hour-in-a-location kind of a show like all of the others. Tim and Sapphire, joined by other team members Sarah Lemos and Scott Di Lalla, are called to Gunslinger Gulch, a sprawling ranch on the outskirts of Anaconda, Montana. The ranch’s owner, Karen Broussard, needs help with the disturbing paranormal activity she and her family are experiencing.

Their sole focus is the ranch and its ties with the supernatural. But along the way they uncover some other unexpected mysteries and synchronicities that might help explain what’s haunting the buildings, land, and even the Broussards themselves.

But is it true that there’s never really been a series like it before?

Well…not exactly.

2 Other Shows Like The Ghost Town Terror

You may remember Ghosts of Shepherdstown, another Discovery Inc. production that premiered on Destination America in 2016 and ran for two seasons.

Then a few years later, Travel Channel launched a show similar to that called Ghosts of Morgan City. (Which, incidentally, featured Ghost Town Terror cast member Sarah Lemos.)

In a way, those shows also concentrated on one location, at least in terms of focusing their investigations on hauntings in one city.

But they weren’t quite like what we see in The Ghost Town Terror, which has everything diehard paranormal TV fans want these days, including dark history, dark energy, and demonic forces. Oh and a ghost cat that may or may not be an ancient evil spirit.

Check-In

Were you a fan of either Ghosts of Shepherdstown or Ghosts of Morgan City or both?

Courtney Mroch

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.