Happy New Year! Well, almost. This is the last Travel Channel and discovery+ paranormal programming highlight for 2022, and it propels us into the first day of 2023.
It’s pretty quiet overall. There aren’t any new shows, specials, or seasons starting, but there are new episodes of Destination Fear. There are also Travel Channel premieres for shows that previously only streamed on discovery+, such as Jack Osbourne’s Haunted Homecoming, Ghost Adventures: House Calls, Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, Haunted Scotland, The Haunted Museum, and the Shock Docs: The Devil Made Me Do It.
Let’s check out which episodes will air and when.
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DESTINATION FEAR
New Season, Now Airing on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Paranormal explorers brother and sister duo Dakota Laden and Chelsea Laden, and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder, level up their fear experiment in an all-new season of Destination Fear –and their darkest, most terrifying road trip yet. The fear-chasing foursome embraces the darkness more than ever before – physically, emotionally and psychologically – as they push the boundaries of fear and daringly spend the night inside America’s most sinister and haunted locations. This season, Dakota challenges the team with darker hauntings and locations, and shocks them with the most disturbing experiment yet: removing flashlights and forcing them to blindly face the shadows of the night in true darkness. It’s one of many twisted and unnerving new experiments that will test their paranormal theories from the most uncomfortable of situations. [Hour-long episodes]
“Winchester Mystery House” – Premieres Friday, December 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Chelsea Laden pulls the team out of the darkness and into the California sunshine…but only for a minute as she plunges them into the haunted madness of a legendary mansion. The crew takes a shot in the dark to see what energy is at play behind its walls.
“Ashmore Estates” – Premieres Friday, December 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Alex Schroeder has a big surprise in store for Dakota Laden, Chelsea Laden and Tanner Wiseman when he takes them back to a decrepit Illinois poorhouse so scary that they swore never to return. But will tragic new information about this location force the team to re-evaluate the haunting?
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SHOCK DOCS – THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT
TWO-HOUR SPECIAL – Premieres Sunday, January 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Charged with a brutal murder, a Connecticut man claims his innocence, insisting “the devil made me do it.” For the first time in U.S. history, the existence of demonic forces is used as a defense at trial. Shock Docs: The Devil Made Me Do It examines the harrowing events leading up to the murder and the astonishing court case that followed. Getting to the very heart of evil and to where the actual terror lies, the family, aided by renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, must do battle with overpowering demons. Based on the real-life inspiration for New Line Cinema’s horror film, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, this terrifying documentary dives into the true story with never-before-seen interviews with the family, the Warrens, the defendant’s lawyer and local police.
JACK OBSOURNE’S HAUNTED HOMECOMING
New Episodes: Wednesdays beginning at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Jack Osbourne returns to the United Kingdom to revisit his childhood home and past haunts in the county of Buckinghamshire –a notorious paranormal hotspot– seeking the dark truth behind terrifying, unexplained mysteries and experiences he had there as a young boy. On his journey, Osbourne makes stops at the family home where he spent his formative years, a local theater and ancient pub, and Missenden Abbey, a notoriously haunted locale that was the scene of regular childhood school trips. [Hour-long episodes]
“The Swan and Royal Standard” – Premieres Wednesday, December 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Expat ghost hunter Jack Osbourne revisits haunted U.K. hot spots from his past –the theatre where Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne took the family to see pantos as kids and the ancient local pub down the road –both rife with ghost sightings and unexplained supernatural activity.
“Missenden Abbey” – Premieres Wednesday, December 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Ghost hunter Jack Osbourne investigates Missenden Abbey in Bucks, scene of regular school trips in his childhood. The abbey is said to be a hotbed of terrifying paranormal activity, haunted by, among others, evil monks who ran riot there centuries ago.
GHOST ADVENTURES: HOUSE CALLS (Season 1)
New Episodes: Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley respond to urgent calls for help from desperate homeowners whose lives have been thrust into turmoil from unexplained activity inside their private residences. After hearing each family’s haunted account and reviewing bizarre evidence that was captured in their home, Bagans sends the crew on a personal house call to meet the family and get to the bottom of their paranormal emergency. Armed with their equipment, the team conducts a thorough investigation to see what evidence they can capture, while Bagans oversees the activity from his headquarters, providing insight and applying experimental tactics from his unique vantage point. After analyzing the evidence, Bagans shares the findings in a one-on-one meeting with each homeowner, offering them much-needed advice and resolution. [Hour-long episodes]
“Wappingers Falls of Fear” – Premieres Thursday, December 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Zak Bagans sends the team to Wappingers Falls, New York, where the owner of a historic home claims that a dark presence is harassing her boyfriend. The case takes a disturbing turn when she reveals a strong attachment to the spirits that reside there.
“Panic in Palatka” – Premieres Thursday, December 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Zak Bagans sends the crew to a horse ranch in rural Florida to help the new owner unravel claims of a manipulative presence on the property. Has a history of slavery and a potential curse on the town made the ranch a threat to all who enter?
THE HAUNTED MUSEUM (Season 1)
New Episodes: Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
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. [Hour-long episodes]
“Helter Skelter Station” – Premieres Thursday, December 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
After receiving a cursed television from Charles Manson, a criminology student slowly loses his grip on reality. Can he resist the dark pull of the TV, or will he succumb and become the latest “family member” to kill in the infamous cult leader’s name?
“Possessed by Peggy” – Premieres Thursday, December 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A British paranormal investigator faces great danger when she attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding one of the most infamous and dangerous paranormal objects on the planet – a haunted doll with the power to harm anyone who lays eyes on it.
GHOST BROTHERS: LIGHTS OUT (Season 2)
New Episodes: Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
The Ghost Brothers – Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey – flip the switch on paranormal lore by shining a light on its darkest secrets. In the second season of Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, the hype men of the haunted investigate iconic paranormal hot spots to find out if the legends are really true and if these places are still plagued by the horror of the events that occurred there. Using unconventional experiments, they are ready to expose the haunted holdouts hanging around these locations. [Hour-long episodes]
“Alone in the Asylum” – Premieres Saturday, December 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey take on one of the world’s largest and most iconic paranormal locations: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. The guys are more vulnerable than ever before when they split up to locate a mysterious black mass known as “The Creeper.”
HAUNTED SCOTLAND
New Episodes: Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
In Haunted Scotland, renowned American medium Chris Fleming and Scotland’s Gail Porter lead an expert paranormal team to investigate the chilling crimes, supernatural sightings and terrifying stories across one of the most haunted countries on earth: Scotland. With exclusive access to places where a film crew has never been allowed before, they will try to make contact with the spirits to explain the paranormal mysteries that have haunted Scotland’s most iconic landmarks for centuries. [Hour-long episodes]
“Glencoe Massacre” – Premieres Saturday, December 24 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
In one of the most dramatic landscapes in Scotland lies Glencoe, the site of a treacherous massacre. Nearby stands Barcaldine Castle, said to be plagued by a curse. The team encounters a malicious male spirit when they spend the night in this haunted abode.
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Have you ever been to England, Scotland, Vegas (specifically to Zak Bagan’s Haunted Museum), Florida, New York, Connecticut, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, the Ashmore Estates, or the Winchester Mystery House in California? (Or anywhere else that may have been mentioned in one of the above episodes that I missed.)
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.
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Gail Porter (Haunted Scotland) kind of mystifies me. She freaks out and/or ducks out of things so often. (I watched the whole series on the Discovery platform.) Why go to such places if you’re inclined to freak out and run off? I mean, if I knew such places would freak me out so badly, I wouldn’t participate. That’s why I watch so much of this programming: it satisfies the curiosity without putting me in a freaky or potentially dangerous situation. It’s why you won’t catch me intentionally going ghost hunting. I don’t want any trouble!
I love your honesty! About all of this. I’ve never watched Haunted Scotland but there are some folks on other shows (mostly the homegrown variety that post on YouTube) who freak out about everything and run off and it makes me wonder why they’re bothering…except to get views. But the routine gets old quick. And I’m with you on that’s why you watch. I have some other non-paranormal shows I enjoy because ghosts and such don’t bother me, but people do. So I can experience adventures to foreign places I wouldn’t feel comfortable visiting myself but am curious about vicariously through the brave souls who have gotten permission from the governments or what not to be there. Thank you so much again for taking the time to share your thoughts!