FORENSIC GEOLOGIST SCOTT WOLTER RESEARCHES ALLEGED VIKING ARTIFACTS FOUND IN THE ARIZONA DESERT IN THE SEASON PREMIERE OF ‘AMERICA UNEARTHED’
Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman Investigate a Pennsylvania Estate-Turned-Haunted House Brimming with Paranormal Activity on an All-New ‘Portals to Hell’
NEW SEASON
AMERICA UNEARTHED
For decades, Scott Wolter has honed his skills in the sciences looking for historical answers within the natural world. Now, he continues his quest for the truth on Travel Channel in the new season of “America Unearthed.” Wolter explores some of America’s deepest secrets, digging up mysteries that have been hidden until now. Using his background as a forensic geologist and teaming up with eyewitnesses and other experts in their respective fields, Wolter is determined to find new evidence and ultimately the proof that’s been buried in time suggesting history isn’t what we’ve been told. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON PREMIERE: “Vikings in the Desert” – Premieres Tuesday, May 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT,
Scott Wolter receives a call about alleged Viking artifacts found in the Arizona desert. Using state-of-the-art XRF (X-ray fluorescence) identification technology and insight from a Viking historian, Wolter starts his search in the southwestern desert. From there, new leads take him to California to excavate a supposed buried Viking ship that might have once sailed America’s vast inland sea and to Mexico to examine a petroglyph depicting what could be Viking travelers. The episode produces some unexpected results and opens the door to further expeditions into where the Vikings went and why.
A HAUNTING (U.S. Premiere)
These are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Through mesmerizing first-person accounts and dramatic recreations, “A Haunting” delves into the true and horrific events that plague innocent people when spirits, determined to have a final say, invade their lives to inflict unimaginable horrors. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON PREMIERE: “Demon Whispers”– Premieres Monday, May 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT,
When Phil Pritchard’s beloved father dies, he falls into a deep depression that renders him vulnerable to an unearthly evil that begins influencing him – and will stop at nothing to render him a pawn in its relentless thirst for misery and murder.
NEW EPISODES
PARANORMAL 911
A shocking number of 911 emergencies end in paranormal encounters. “Paranormal 911” explores these events through eyewitness accounts of the first responders who lived through them – real-life stories of police, firefighters and paramedics who arrive on scene, only to find themselves in the middle of a paranormal event. As first responders, it’s their job to put themselves in the line of danger – sometimes with terrifying and unexplainable results. [Hour-long episodes]
“Demon Boss” – Premieres Monday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT (*Special time)
A police officer faces a paranormal nightmare when he responds to a 911 call from a distressed homeowner. A first responder questions his sanity after he sees the ghost of a young accident victim in his home.
SEASON FINALE: “Whispers from the Other Side” – Premieres Monday, May 20 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A security guard hears ghostly whispers while investigating a break-in at an old hospital building. A firefighter unknowingly summons an evil entity while playing around with a spirit board.
HAUNTED HOSPITALS (U.S. Premiere)
“Haunted Hospitals” tells chilling tales of paranormal activity inside hospitals, nursing homes, morgues and medical institutions. Past patients suspended between this world and the next, departed medical professionals who insist on overseeing their wards long after death, spirits roaming corridors to signal unfinished business with their presence – these terrifying stories are told by the medical professionals and patients who experienced them. These are not random encounters, but part of paranormal patterns experienced by hospital staff all over the world. [Hour-long episodes]
SEASON FINALE: “Unwanted Visitors” – Premieres Monday, May 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A nurse aide encounters diseased ghosts from the Victorian era, an EMT and her partner access an abandoned floor with a paranormal past and a nurse comes face-to-face with a horrifying entity that haunts a hospital prison wing.
IN SEARCH OF MONSTERS
Travel Channel’s new series, “In Search of Monsters,” takes viewers on a frightening hunt for the truth behind infamous and iconic monsters that brings their legends to all-too-real life. Utilizing new information, the latest evidence and investigations and featuring riveting eyewitness accounts of encounters with these nightmarish beasts, each episode reveals all-new stories about the monsters you fear most and thought you knew. From DNA evidence of Bigfoot and ancient bible clues about Mothman’s identity, to a scientific explanation of how the Loch Ness Monster may be traveling through time, these stories will haunt your dreams as never before. [Half-hour episodes]
“The Beast of Bray Road” – Premieres Wednesday, May 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Newly recorded surveillance evidence capturing a Wisconsin legend known as the Beast of Bray Road may finally prove that the centuries-old monster, more commonly known as a werewolf, is not only real, but guarding something even more sinister.
“Ozark Howler” – Premieres Wednesday, May 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Recently disclosed audio recordings and astonishing game-camera photographs provide the most conclusive evidence to date that the elusive and terrifying black beast with horns, known for centuries as the Ozark Howler, may have demonic origins.
PARANORMAL CAUGHT ON CAMERA
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 out of even the biggest skeptics out there. [Hour-long episodes]
“Pennsylvania Shadow Person and More” – Premieres Wednesday, May 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
A Pennsylvania family is terrorized in their own home by a shadowy entity, a brazen Bigfoot appears in front of a group of shocked witnesses in Oregon and two UFOs put on a show in the skies above Bath, England.
New Episode – Premieres Wednesday, May 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
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PORTALS TO HELL
Travel Channel’s new series, “Portals to Hell,” follows television personality and executive producer Jack Osbourne and paranormal researcher and investigator Katrina Weidman as they investigate sinister and haunted locations purported to be doorways to the spirit underworld. In each episode, Osbourne and Weidman dive headfirst into a different historical site, examining unusual incidents while utilizing specialized technology and a network of experts to try and document irrefutable evidence that a spirit world exists, and death is not the end. [Hour-long episodes]
“Emerald Hill Hell House” – Premieres Friday, May 24 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman travel to Monongahela, Pennsylvania, to investigate a 19th-century estate brimming with paranormal activity. Many believe the activity is fueled by the property’s shadowy history of untimely deaths, witchcraft and an ancient Native American curse.
“Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum” – Premieres Friday, May 31 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman venture inside the imposing stone walls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum – a notoriously haunted hospital in Weston, West Virginia, that housed thousands of mentally ill patients over a dark 130-year history. Their investigation uncovers mind-blowing truths that lead to an intelligent conversation with the other side.
