Ho ho ho! It’s not quite Christmas but we’re transitioning into the holiday season with this batch of discovery+ and Travel Channel paranormal programming highlights. So what sort of presents are in store for us?
There’s an all-new Shock Docs, Demon in the White House, that reveals the historic origin of paranormal activity at one of the world’s most famous residences. And true terror strikes the Destination Fear team when they visit the Nevada State Prison.
Let’s check out what else will be airing.
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Shock Docs: Demon In The White House
Two Hour Special – Begins Streaming Friday, November 26 on discovery+
Demon in the White House reveals the historic origin of paranormal activity at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This new Shock Doc uncloaks the historic origins of the horror of two grieving First Ladies. Did they unwittingly invite an evil presence with a malevolent agenda that may still torment America’s presidents, as well as their families, visitors and closest advisors? The Shock Doc thriller opens archival papers, correspondence and diaries to document a timeline of supernatural events that unfolded after these grieving families sought solace in the fashionable new spiritualism and seance movement – and the potential catastrophic consequences that followed.
Concurrent Premieres: discovery+ and Travel Channel
Destination Fear
New Episodes, Now Streaming on discovery+ and Airing on Travel Channel
Destination Fear returns with all-new episodes from its latest season. Fear-chasing foursome – brother and sister duo Dakota Laden and Chelsea Laden and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder – hit the haunted highways, byways and back roads of America once again, spending the night inside the nation’s scariest places. Exploring under the harshest conditions they’ve ever faced and using sensory deprivation tactics to augment their paranormal experiment, this trip will test their mental, emotional and physical strength to the extreme. Venturing inside notoriously haunted locations, the team confront intense supernatural forces – and quickly learn these entities do more than go bump in the night. [Hour-long episodes]
“Nevada State Prison” – Begins Streaming Saturday, November 27 on discovery+
New Episode Also Premieres Same Day Saturday, November 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Still reeling from a ghostly warning, Dakota and the team heads to one of America’s deadliest prisons – a place packed with tortured entities. True fear strikes their hearts when a spirit reaches out to the team for an unimaginable request.
“Old Adrian Hospital” – Begins Streaming Saturday, December 4 on discovery+
New Episode Also Premieres Same Day Saturday, December 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
It’s Tanner’s turn to pick the next stop, and his plans for revenge take a truly dark turn at a deserted Pennsylvania hospital. Dark entities, doppelgangers and poltergeists lurk around every corner, but what the team hears is the most terrifying of all.
Paranormal Caught on Camera
New Episodes, Now Streaming on discovery+ and Airing on Travel Channel
Some of the most amazing, eye-opening and downright scary paranormal videos from around the world are featured as a panel of experts breaks down the footage and analyzes what exactly the eyewitnesses captured. Insights from some of the most knowledgeable specialists in the field and firsthand accounts from the people lucky enough – or perhaps unlucky enough – to witness these strange phenomena for themselves just might make a believer of even the biggest skeptics out there. [Hour-long episodes]
“Rabid Bobcat Attack in North Carolina and More” – Begins Streaming Thursday, November 25 on discovery+
New Episode Also Premieres Same Day Thursday, November 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
A North Carolina man fights off a rabid bobcat in his front yard. An experienced caver finds himself trapped in rising waters. A hang glider holds on for dear life hundreds of feet above Switzerland. Two dogs are rescued from a frigid reservoir.
Season Finale: “Mississippi Car Explosion and More” – Begins Streaming Thursday, December 2 on discovery+
New Episode Also Premieres Same Day Thursday, December 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
A truck driver rushes headlong into danger when a car bursts into flames on the road in Mississippi. A Florida man wrestles an alligator to save his puppy. Parents all over the world dive into action to save their children from certain death.
The Dead Files
New Season, Now Streaming on discovery+ and Airing on Travel Channel
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. [Hour-long episodes]
“Darkness Calls” – Begins Streaming Saturday, November 27 on discovery+
New Episode Also Premieres Same Day Saturday, November 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Amy Allan and Steve DiSchiavi return to Wilmington, North Carolina, to help a distraught couple trapped in a vortex of sinister supernatural activity. The dark energy that’s overtaken the home must be defeated before it steals their sanity and maybe even their lives.
Travel Channel Premieres
The programs below will premiere on Travel Channel as follows:
UFO Witness
New Episodes: Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
“Alien Crash Secrets” – Monday, November 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Over the past year, numerous UFO sightings have taken place in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, home to an infamous UFO crash and supposed military cover-up. Ben Hansen heads to the tiny town to find out if the current sightings are linked to the 1965 incident.
“Alien High Tech” – Monday, November 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A startling, new report claims a prominent astrophysicist worked on an aircraft reverse-engineered from the parts of downed UFOs. Ben Hansen aims to find out how the U.S. government got its hands on alien technology and where it might be hiding it.
Haunted Hospitals (Season 3)
New Episodes: Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
“It Followed Me Home, The Closed Ward and Paranormal Possession” – Tuesday, November 23 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A woman is stalked by an aggressive male entity she met on the other side after a near-death experience. Ghostly nuns terrorize a housekeeper at a Catholic hospital. An EMT comes face-to-face with demonic possession as he rushes a patient to the hospital.
Season Finale: “Pure Evil and The Guilt That Haunts Us” – Tuesday, November 30 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A hospital cook’s excitement about her new job turns to terror when she encounters pure evil in the basement. A caseworker is frightened as a guilt-ridden ghost’s dark energy engulfs a group home for youth.
Portals to Hell (Season 3, New Episodes Return)
New Episodes: Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
“Captain Grant’s Inn” – Wednesday, November 24 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman head to Poquetanuck, Connecticut, to investigate the historic Captain Grant’s Inn, believed to be Connecticut’s most haunted home. The current owner, Carol, claims that shortly after she purchased the property, she was taken over by an evil spirit and took matters into her own hands, conducting an exorcism to eliminate the angry spirit. Following the exorcism, the paranormal experiences were mild, but soon Carol and her guests started to experience an uptick in ghostly activity. Now, Osbourne and Weidman seek to discover if these are historical hauntings or if there is something more sinister at play. The duo asks Carol to join the night investigation for an unprecedented experiment that leaves the entire team speechless.
“Pennhurst Asylum” – Wednesday, December 1 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman investigate Pennhurst Asylum, an infamous paranormal hotspot in Spring City, Pennsylvania. With its long and dark history of inhumane treatment of its patients, this sprawling campus is well-known for both powerful and diverse spirit activity. The pair enlist the help of guest investigator Heather Taddy and psychic Michelle Belanger to tackle the massive complex and its rampant hauntings.
Paranormal Caught on Camera (Season 4, New Episodes Return)
New Episodes: Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
*New episodes will launch same day on discovery+
*See above section for episodic descriptions
“Rabid Bobcat Attack in North Carolina and More” – Thursday, November 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A North Carolina man fights off a rabid bobcat in his front yard. An experienced caver finds himself trapped in rising waters. A hang glider holds on for dear life hundreds of feet above Switzerland. Two dogs are rescued from a frigid reservoir.
Season Finale: “Mississippi Car Explosion and More” – Thursday, December 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A truck driver rushes headlong into danger when a car bursts into flames on the road in Mississippi. A Florida man wrestles an alligator to save his puppy. Parents all over the world dive into action to save their children from certain death.
Fright Club
New Episodes: Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
“Phantom Photobomb” – Thursday, November 25 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Juwan Mass reveals pier-camera footage of a legendary harbinger roaming the Carolinas and a possible demonic spirit captured on camera by a woman camping in the Rockies. Jack Osbourne talks to a man who says he has been filming mini-UFO drones from his balcony and then terrifies the guys with shocking footage of what appears to be a knife-hurling poltergeist. Dalen Spratt unearths clips of an evil clown doll that supposedly breaks up relationships and brings on a guitar shop manager unnerved by unexplained activity throughout the store. Marcus Harvey believes he has found proof of Bigfoot’s existence.
“Astral Vampire Weekend” – Thursday, December 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jack Osbourne sets the Fright Club bar high with surveillance video of New York bartenders being attacked by a drunken ghost and talks to a woman who claims she can summon UFOs with the video footage to prove it! Dalen Spratt strikes back with official government footage of a fabled Alaskan river monster as well as the haunting recordings of a possible Sasquatch mating call. Juwan Mass puts forth a potential astral vampire caught on camera, and Marcus Harvey shows how dangerous it can be when you provoke a spirit during an investigation.
Destination Fear (Season 3, New Episodes Return)
New Episodes: Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
*New episodes will launch same day on discovery+
“Nevada State Prison” – Saturday, November 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Still reeling from a ghostly warning, Dakota and the team heads to one of America’s deadliest prisons – a place packed with tortured entities. True fear strikes their hearts when a spirit reaches out to the team for an unimaginable request.
“Old Adrian Hospital” – Saturday, December 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
It’s Tanner’s turn to pick the next stop, and his plans for revenge take a truly dark turn at a deserted Pennsylvania hospital. Dark entities, doppelgangers and poltergeists lurk around every corner, but what the team hears is the most terrifying of all.
The Dead Files (Season 14)
New Episodes: Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
*New episodes will launch same day on discovery+
“Darkness Calls” – Saturday, November 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Amy Allan and Steve DiSchiavi return to Wilmington, North Carolina, to help a distraught couple trapped in a vortex of sinister supernatural activity. The dark energy that’s overtaken the home must be defeated before it steals their sanity and maybe even their lives.
The Osbournes Want to Believe (Season 2)
New Episodes: Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel
Jack Osbourne is determined to convert his skeptical parents, Ozzy and Sharon, into full-fledged believers. The seasoned paranormal investigator sits down with the Prince and Princess of Darkness to watch jaw-dropping videos of supernatural activity. [Hour-long episodes]
“Bigfoot or Bust” – Sunday, November 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jack Osbourne takes Ozzy and Sharon on a virtual Bigfoot hunt to make them full believers. He also schools his parents on demonic possession and shares incredible footage of a crop circle that seems too good to be true.
“Running Out of Time” – Sunday, December 5 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The Osbournes hop into their DeLorean for a game of Celebrity Time Traveler. They also try to pronounce a Swedish cryptid’s name with poor success and witness a real witch hunt. Plus, Ozzy gets closer to becoming a believer in UFOs.
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The early sunsets of winter do make for better viewing of spooky shows!
Oh gosh…in case I haven’t told you lately, I so admire the poetry of your writing…”the early sunsets of winter.” SO beautifully expressed!