In the series premiere tales of ghosts in a Greenwich Village brownstone, on board a World War II ship, a Mohawk Valley castle, and a Revolutionary War house on Staten Island. Also featuring "The Lavender Story" about a mysterious lady in a lavender dress as retold by folkorist Chuck Stead.
The ghost of Sallie White, gunned down in 1876, supposedly wanders hotel hallways while the ghost of an actress haunts the Alamo Theater.
Called "The Most Beautiful City in North America", each year tourists descend upon this city of antebellum mansions and serene parks. Yet unquiet spirits lurk behind the peaceful facade. We explore the many historical hauntings and review recent ghostly encounters revealed in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Narrated by John Glover.
Many were famous, most died in obscurity. Now they all inhabit an incorporeal world known as Haunted Hollywood. In this spine-tingling program fro Haunted History, explore the secret stories behind some of the big screen's most famous specters. Discover how the lights in one movie studio swing unaided from the rafters, and how in the bar of the famous Knickerbocker Hotel, objects move on their own and images of long-deceased stars appear and disappear at random. While some speculate that the siren song of fame that brought these stars to the city of dreams makes it hard for them to abandon it, others contend that the tragic way in which some of these celebrities died means they are doomed to repeat their final days ad infinitum.
The southern-most U.S. city, Key West, Florida is a picture-postcard tropical playground. But travel agents won't tell you about the haunted souls who prowl this island after dark. Frightened guests have seen Ernest Hemingway's ghost in the leading hotel. Restless spirits of Civil War soldiers lurk in the shadows of nearby Fort Zachary Taylor. And the ghost of a young woman wanders Key West Cemetery, where her lover stole her body, then kept the corpse at home for seven years.
A tour of the scary sites in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Paranormal incidents in Hawaii are investigated.
The Pacific Northwest--the last unexplored corner of the continental U.S. that lured soldiers, seafarers, and women of the night--where the spirits of some still linger. In Washington, a gold miner's ghost prowls long forgotten streets, sealed under downtown Seattle. Port Townsend boasts the region's most haunted hotel, and a restless Jesuit priest, still searching for eternal peace. And in a Portland, Oregon, tavern a young woman called Rose lurks in the shadows, the victim of an unsolved murder.
Despite continual renovation in the capital of the "New South", Atlanta boasts many buildings dating back to the Civil War. On a spirited tour of central Georgia, we visit five such venues, including the Kennesaw House and an 1848 house in Marietta, which served as hospitals in the Civil War. The first owners of former plantation houses Lockerly Hall and Barnsley Gardens drop by for visits. And at Andersonville, where 29,000 Union soldiers died in horrifying conditions, many ghosts roam the grounds.
Also known as: Haunted San Francisco