Spooky Summer Viewing: Strange and Unexplained Phenomenon Abound on These Nine Travel Channel Shows

It used to be you had to wait until Fall to catch spooky programming on Travel Channel. Not anymore. Their summer months are now packed with shows about strange and unexplained phenomenon too.

For instance, check out these nine shows. Some have already been on for a few week, but the list also includes new series as well as returning ones with episodes premiering this month.

1. A HAUNTING

These are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Through mesmerizing first-person accounts and dramatic re-creations, A Haunting delves into the true and horrific events that plague innocent people when spirits, determined to have a final say, invade their lives to inflict unimaginable horrors.

2. ALIEN HIGHWAY

Chuck Zukowski, a former Colorado law enforcement officer, has been researching and investigating UFO-related incidents for over 30 years. Now, together with his son Daniel Zukowski and investigator Heather Taddy, he is pursuing the cases that authorities ignore, finding evidence that others have missed, listening to witnesses that are otherwise afraid to come forward, searching for definitive proof of UFOs along America’s Alien Highway.

3. AMERICA UNEARTHED

For decades, Scott Wolter has honed his skills in the sciences looking for historical answers within the natural world. Now, he continues his quest for the truth on Travel Channel in the new season of America Unearthed. Wolter explores some of America’s deepest secrets, digging up mysteries that have been hidden until now. Using his background as a forensic geologist and teaming up with eyewitnesses and other experts in their respective fields, Wolter is determined to find new evidence and ultimately the proof that’s been buried in time suggesting history isn’t what we’ve been told.

4. GHOST ADVENTURES

In each episode of Ghost Adventures, Zak Bagans and Aaron Goodwin, along with A/V techs Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley, travel to a different haunted destination where they meet with locals, eyewitnesses and experts in an attempt to piece together the haunted history of each site. They then begin their “lockdown” investigation, using the latest scientific gadgets and technology in an effort to obtain physical evidence of the paranormal and uncover the truth behind each haunted mystery.

5. GHOSTS OF MORGAN CITY

A Louisiana mayor and his chief of police recruit a team of paranormal investigators to solve their town’s hauntings in new spinoff series, Ghosts of Morgan City. Morgan City’s police chief, James “Bo” Blair, learns that paranormal activity in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, has quieted down since Police Chief Mike King worked with a specialty team to solve a rash of hauntings last year. Chief Blair contacted Chief King asking for advice – and eventually follows his lead and recruits a local paranormal investigator named Jereme Leonard, who teams up with former FBI agent Ben Hansen and psychic medium Sarah Lemos.

6. HAUNTED TOWNS

The Tennessee Wraith Chasers made television history last year with the epic weekly live ghost hunt, “Haunted Live.” Now the TWC team – Chris Smith, Steven “Doogie” McDougal, Scott Porter, Brannon Smith and Mike Goncalves – returns for Season Two of the hit series, Haunted Towns. They’ll explore American towns so haunted they’ve spooked the locals for generations. The TWC combine historical research, local lore and dangerous investigative techniques to find the truth at the heart of each legend.

7. LEGENDARY LOCATIONS

Adventurer and explorer Josh Gates (Expedition Unknown) pursues the unexpected stories behind fabled places around the globe in the return of Travel Channel’s Legendary Locations. In each episode – expanded into an hour-long format for the show’s second season – Gates showcases the surprising stories behind places brimming with mythic histories, surprising backstories and newly uncovered secrets. With the help of historians and local experts, he illuminates new findings from the places you thought you knew, and sheds light on those you never knew existed.

8. RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

Awe-inspiring talents, unusual objects, strange phenomena and mind-boggling feats are explored in Travel Channel’s reboot of the iconic series, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Hosted and executive produced by actor Bruce Campbell, the series is inspired by Robert Ripley’s obsession with the awesome and his keen eye for what keeps viewers mesmerized. Seventy years after Ripley hosted the first eponymous series, we still can’t resist his challenge to, “Believe it, or not!”

9. UFOs: THE LOST EVIDENCE

In the new season of UFOs: The Lost Evidence, every episode uncovers the latest, never-before-revealed audio, video and documentary evidence of extraterrestrial contact from the most credible sources: government officials, the military and police, scientists and professors, along with eyewitness encounters.