Scariest Places on Earth

Scariest Places on Earth is an American paranormal documentary reality television series that originally aired from October 23, 2000 to October 29, 2006. The program was produced by Triage Entertainment for the Fox Family Channel, which is now ABC Family and owns the rights to the show. The show featured reported cases of the paranormal by sending an ordinary family to visit the location in a reality TV-style vigil.

Synopsis

The series is hosted by Exorcist star Linda Blair, and narrated by Zelda Rubinstein, who is most famous for her role as the clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. Alan Robson, a well known UK radio DJ and writer, acts as an on-site correspondent.

The main controversy with the show was that it was accused of fabricating some of the aired events.

Featured locations

France

• Catacombs of Paris

Ireland

• Charleville Castle
• Leap Castle

Italy

• Lucedio Abbey
• Poveglia
• Abbey of Thelema, in Cefalù
• Catacombe dei Cappuccini, in Palermo

Jamaica

• Rose Hall in Montego Bay

Mexico

• Guanajuato

Romania

• Bran Castle
• Hunyad Castle

Slovakia

• Cachtice Castle

United Kingdom

• Chillingham Castle
• Dalhousie Castle
• Greyfriars Kirkyard
• Woodchester Mansion

United States

Venezuela

• Petare in Caracas

South Central

• Los Angeles in Vernon

Syndication

Reruns were aired on Syfy, which is a part of NBC Universal. It currently airs on NBC Universal's horror- and suspense-themed cable channel Chiller.

Episodes

Season 1

• Ep 1. "Satan's Dormitory" (23.10.2000), Chillingham Castle dare (part 1), Villisca Axe Murder House, Hayden Bridge Exorcism
• Ep 2. "Eastern State Penitentiary" (24.10.2000), Chillingham Castle dare (part 2), The Jersey Devil, Paris Catacombs: City of Death, Eastern State Penitentiary
• Ep 3. "Italy's Fortress of Blood" (25.10.2000), Chillingham Castle dare (part 3), Blood Red Lighthouse, Death Valley, New England mental hospital
• Ep 4. "Ghost Ship" (26.10.2000), Chillingham Castle dare (part 4), secret dungeons of Alcatraz, Satan's underground, RMS Queen Mary, Savannah Frankenstein
• Ep 5. "Chillingham" (27.10.2000), Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, England

Season 2

• Ep 1. "Curse of the Roman Gladitors" (26.3.2001), Roman Colosseum, Oranmore Castle in Ireland, Bunnyman's Bridge in Virginia, Magnolia Lane Plantation (part 1)
• Ep 2. "Village of the Damned" (27.3.2001), Village of Alton, Illinois, Fort Doom: Fort Pulaski in Georgia, Secret Mummies of Italy: Capuchin Catacombs, Magnolia Lane Plantation (part 2)
• Ep 3. "White Witch" (28.3.2001), Rose Hall Great House in Montego Bay, Jamaica, poltergeist house, Ohio prison of lost souls: Mansfield Reformatory, Magnolia Lane Plantation (part 3)
• Ep 4. "Cemetery of the Angry Undead" (29.3.2001), House of Sin: Dorsey Mansion in New Mexico, living with the dead, Magnolia Lane Plantation (part 4)
• Ep 5. "Magnolia Lane Plantation" (30.3.2001) Magnolia Lane Plantation (part 5)
• Ep 6. "A House Possessed" (6.4.2001), haunted farmhouse, Charleville Castle in Ireland, Nevermore In Baltimore: Westminster Cemetery, The Devils of Derby
• Ep 7. "Charleville: Haunted Irish Castle Dare" (13.4.2001), Charleville Castle, Ireland
• Ep 8. "Lair of the Wickedest Man on Earth" (20.4.2001), Lair of Aleister Crowley, La Purisma, Thelema Abby Lucedio Monsatery, In the Belly of the Beast: Steel Mill of Sloss Furnace
• Ep 9. "Lucedio: Cursed Italian Monastery Dare" (27.4.2001), Themela Abby Lucedio Monsatery, Italy
• Ep 10. "Exorcism" (4.5.2001), Hayden Bridge, Dorsey Mansion, Greyfriars Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland, Leap Castle
• (Episodes 11 through 16 are re-edits of the originals)
• Ep 17. "Lost Souls" (6.7.2001), Capuchin Catacombs, Palermo, Sicily
• (Episodes 18 through 22 are returns to previous locations)
• Ep 23. "Contagion of Fear" (23.10.2001), Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Kentucky, Seul Choix Lighthouse in Michigan, haunted resort in Oregon, 14th-century castle in Scotland
• Ep 24. "Return to Charleville Castle" (24.10.2001), Charleville Castle, Ireland
• Ep 25. "Goldfield Ghost Hunt" (25.10.2001), Goldfield Hotel in Nevada, Irish Lodge: Hellfire Club, Mummies of Mexico: Mexican Cypt, Hot Lake Resort
• Ep 26. "A Night In Dracula's Castle: The Transylvania Dare" (26.10.2001), Vlad The Impaler: Dracula's Castle in Romania

Season 3

• Ep 1. "Return to Romania Dare" (21.4.2002), Dracula's Castle in Romania
• Ep 2. "Woodchester Mansion" (20.10.2001), 19th century manor house: Woodchester Mansion, Cotswald, England
• Ep 3. "Return to Transylvania" (21.10.2002), Vlad Dracula's Castle: Hunedoara Castle in Romania
• Ep 4. "Return to Magnolia Lane" (22.10.2002), Magnolia Lane Plantation in Louisiana
• Ep 5. "Fear Force" (23.10.2002), Thunderbird Lodge, Lake Tahoe, Arizona
• (Episode 6 is a best of...locations)
• Ep 7. "Urban Legends 2" (24.10.2002), Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts, Indian Burial Ground Amusement Park in West Virginia, Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado
• Ep 8. "Castle of the Bloodcountess" (29.10.2002), Cachtice Castle
• Ep 9. "Legendary Haunts" (29.10.2002), Moundsville Prison in West Virginia, Dixmont State Hospital in Pennsylvania
• Ep 10. "Waverly Hills Sanatorium" (30.10.2002), Loney Lighthouse: Seul Chiox Lighthouse in Michigan, Scottish Castle Nightmare: Balgonie Castle in Scotland, Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky

See also

• List of ghost films

References

External links

• Official website at Triage Entertainment website
• Scariest Places on Earth at the Internet Movie Database
• Scariest Places on Earth at TV.com
• Scariest place on earth