*Updated Jan. 12, 2023: We originally reported different premiere dates for both of these Shock Docs Sundays shows. Michigan Hell House will now premiere on February 19, and The Devil’s Academy will premiere on February 26. They’ve been corrected to reflect their new premiere dates.
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It’s been a minute since a new installment in the Shocks Docs franchise came out, hasn’t it? Well, I guess it hasn’t been that long. The Curse of Robert the Doll and Ghosts of Flight 401 premiered during Ghostober festivities this year. So I guess it’s about the perfect time for some fresh blood. Which we’ll get a taste of when Travel Channel launches its new programming event, “Shock Docs Sundays.”
Beginning January 1, Shock Doc Sundays will showcase specials from the popular franchise. But it will also include the debut of two new installments.
Paranormal investigator Steve Shippy and psychic medium Cindy Kaza attempt to identify the evil that rocked a family and their home in Michigan Hell House. It premieres on Travel Channel on Sunday, January 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and streams the same day on discovery+.
The Devil’s Academy reveals the shocking haunting that took over Miami Aerospace Academy and its students. It premieres on Sunday, February 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel, and also streams the same day on discovery+.
Let’s take a bit of a closer peek at both.
Michigan Hell House
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 possible even more 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.
The Devil’s Academy
Premieres Sunday, February 5 February 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
On October 25, 1979, all hell broke loose at the Miami Aerospace Academy (MAA) when the school’s student body seemed to fall victim to a mass demonic possession. Terrifying reports of what occurred at the high school spread like wildfire. One girl claimed the devil was inside her and was seen levitating. A boy seemed to display superhuman strength. And a full-on riot broke out as students ripped doors off of hinges and smashed windows.
Forty years later, former MAA students, as well as law enforcement, psychologists, paranormal investigators, and demonologists, come together to explain what happened that fateful day the devil took over the school.
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Which case sounds more terrifying to you: the house or the school?
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A levitating high school girl and a bunch of students affected? The MAA episode sounds especially scary to me!
AGREED! I’m really curious to hear what that’s all about.
I’m wondering if Zak is kicking (his crew), screaming at executives and whining/crying at his mom for not having this much attention. ????