The paranormal reality TV subgenre features people exploring supernatural, unexplained, and paranormal phenomena. These shows often feature investigators, experts, or individuals who seek to document, investigate, and sometimes interact with occurrences that defy conventional scientific explanations.

Jason Hawes, Dave Tango, and Juwan Mass in Ghost Hunters (2004)

A real life documentary about Fear. Dakota Laden takes his sister, Chelsea, and best friends Tanner and Coalin on a five night journey to test their limits of fear. This real life experiment, and what they experience is like nothing ever captured on film before. What starts out as an experiment on fear, turns into the first ever real life horror film. Dakota does not tell anyone where they are going, just that it is a documentary on fear and they will be sleeping alone in what experts say are the most haunted locations in America. Feels scary, sounds scary, looks scary, but what they experienced night after night tested not only their beliefs but will test the beliefs of everyone that watches the film. This joyful group of friends on a road trip in a RV by day and sleeping alone at night in terrifying locations turns into something that still haunts them to this day.

Ghost hunters find a hidden cemetery tied to Dr. Linda Hazzard's deadly "starvation cure" victims in Pacific Northwest woods. Their investigation reveals spirits trying to connect with the living.

Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley investigate the scariest, most notorious, haunted places in the world.

Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley, Zak Bagans, and Billy Tolley in Ghost Adventures (2008)

A team of experts and scientists undertakes exhaustive research at Skinwalker Ranch, an infamous location for paranormal activity and UFO sightings.

Evidential medium Amy Allan and former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi continue to investigate allegedly haunted locations at the request of their clients to provide proof of paranormal activity.

Steve DiSchiavi and Cindy Kaza in The Dead Files (2011)

In each episode, Jason Hawes and his team of paranormal investigators, TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) investigate paranormal activity across the country and search for answers in the nation's most haunted locations.

Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango, and Shari DeBenedetti in Ghost Hunters (2004)

Mountain Monsters is a show with professional hillbilly hunters that search for mysterious creatures that people have claimed to have seen in West Virginia.

A chilling glimpse into the first-person accounts from people who have witnessed horrifying, peculiar, extraordinary supernatural events and other unexplained phenomena that continue to haunt them.

Three teams spend 28 days in some of the most haunted locations in the United States for an experiment based on the theories of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Paranormal investigations into haunted locations, using psychic mediums and scientific equipment.

Maverick paranormal explorer Dakota Laden takes his sister, Chelsea, and best friend, Tanner, across the country in an RV to spend the night in the most haunted locations in America, testing the limits of human fear.

Dakota Laden, Tanner Wiseman, Chelsea Laden, and Alex Schroeder in Destination Fear (2019)

Amy Bruni and Adam Berry visit people who believe their homes are haunted. They attempt to contact the spirits and obtain evidence of a paranormal presence. Hoping to bring closure to them and the spirits.

Dakota, Chelsea, Tanner, and Alex rule out the option of ending their terrifying road trips and continue their paranormal investigations by uncovering some of the most haunted places in all of America and the world.

Dakota Laden, Tanner Wiseman, Chelsea Laden, and Alex Schroeder in Project Fear (2023)

Renowned Paranormal Investigators spend 72 hours locked down in haunted locations to try to capture groundbreaking evidence.

Story follows members of the famous Penn State Paranormal Research Society as they investigate strange and unusual phenomena across the country. Story also features their hectic lives as college students and faculty.

Two of some of the most famous paranormal investigators, in modern times, investigate the most haunted and most demonic places known to man for the sole purpose of understanding the paranormal and how it can affect people who try to understand it.

Sam Golbach and Colby Brock in Sam and Colby: The Paranormal (2015)

Real people's terrifying tales of the chilling, unexplained and paranormal come to life with dramatic reenactments in this reality series.

Doctors, nurses and patients give first-hand accounts of encounters with patients who have returned from the dead.

Sensing Murder is a real-life crime documentary drama series, which uses respected psychics, such as Scott Russell Hill, to try and solve real life crimes.

Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley quarantine themselves for two weeks inside Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum in Las Vegas for the most intense and in-depth investigation they've ever done.

Host Linda Blair and narrator Zelda Rubinstien explore some of the most reputedly haunted locations in the world, providing history, live camera investigation, and interviews with individuals who have experienced phenomena.

An investigative documentary series that examines unsettling discoveries and dark locations. Each episode tests rational, scientific explanations against folklore and supernatural claims, using experts, archives and reconstructions. Produced in Canada by Shark Teeth Films.

Psychic/Medium Chip Coffey and clinical psychologist/director Dr. Lisa Miller help psychic children and their families cope, validate, empower and understand psychic abilities.

Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal (2008)

The Tennessee Wraith Chasers are on a mission to capture a ghost at one of America's most haunted asylums. At each imposing location, they use tested paranormal theory and their Southern savvy to try to bag an otherworldly prize.

Centers on telling real ghost stories of hauntings that have taken place in colleges and high schools across the U.S. and will be told through first-person narratives from actual students, parents and faculty.

An amalgamation of reality TV with a gold mining aspect and night-vision ghost hunting. The mix of these two sub-genres provide a hand-in-hand approach to the gold mining industry which has traditionally been surrounded by ghost stories.

Zak Bagans, host of "Ghost Adventures," is fulfilling a lifelong dream of opening a museum in downtown Las Vegas, full of the haunted and cursed objects he has been collecting through the years. Each episode of "Deadly Possessions" features 3 haunted/iconic items and their owners.

The Ghost Brothers 'Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey' are the dopest brothers on television hunting ghosts. These candid and unorthodox paranormal investigators explore disturbed hotspots across the country, checking out and sizing up local legends and supernatural stories. They are ready to expose the haunted holdouts still hanging around these locations - and why they don't leave.

The Tennessee Wraith Chasers (TWC) expand their paranormal mission as they investigate local hauntings across America.

Zak Bagans, along with a team of paranormal experts, visits various haunted locations across the world and interacts with the locals to investigate different inexplicable activities.

Jaystation summons demons and evokes things that no one should during the Witching hour and pulls stunts no one dares to pull.

Jason Matthew Ethier in ImJayStation (2016)

Series documents an unconventional, and terrifying, paranormal and psychological experiment. Each episode features the self-recorded footage of a diverse group of every-day paranormal enthusiasts, from newlyweds and a brother-in-law to a trio of roommates. Each team of three will be stranded at one of the most haunted locations in America and record the entire experience with hand-held cameras. The footage from the subjects' cameras will be supplemented by strategically-placed security cameras at each location, creating a suspenseful, completely unscripted first-hand account of each group's stay. Over the course of the confinement, the subjects contend with increasingly pervasive feelings of fear and desolation, resulting in an experiment that represents a unique combination of psychology and the paranormal.

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