paranormal

At Dread Central we LOVE the unexplained. Mysteries, disappearances, you name it. Decades before three fictional campers vanished in The Blair Witch Project, an incident happened in Russia that resulted in the mysterious deaths of nine people in the northern Ural Mountains. The night was February 2, 1959. The mystery lingers to this day.

Syfy has re-upped its frightening docudrama series "Paranormal Witness" for a second season, it was announced today by Mark Stern, President Original Content, Syfy, and Co-Head, Original Content, Universal Cable Productions. Production on the twelve-episode pick-up order has commenced, and the series is currently scheduled to premiere in August 2012.

Starring Seth Drick, Brianna Healey, Chip Facka, Jody Horn Directed by Steven Gibson

Travel Channel's "Truck Stop Missouri" is moving to Thursday nights at 9:00 PM ET, and the next all new episode, "Paranormal Pit Stop", will air on Thursday, September 29th. With autumn in the air, strange things are happening!

Written by William J. Birnes and Joel Martin

Ever wanted to go on a ghost hunt with real paranormal investigators? Well, if you're creative enough, you could win the "Ghost Adventures" Music Video Mashup Challenge and investigate ghosts with Zak, Nick, and Aaron on a future episode of the show.

Here at Dread Central we're big fans of paranormal investigation shows. Sure, a lot of them suck, but those that don't are like chocolates left on your pillow at bedtime. Who can resist? The Travel Channel is getting ready to take viewers on a paranormal journey every Friday night beginning September 23 with its haunting new investigative series "The Dead Files". Read on for the details.

After the success of (VERMIN: Book One of the Stanley Cooper Chronicles (review here)), author Scott A. Johnson brings his reluctant clairvoyant back in his eighth novel, PAGES: Book Two of the Stanley Cooper Chronicles.

Were you as confused as we were by the description of Kevin Williamson's upcoming new series for The CW as "The X-Files meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer"? Apparently we're not alone as Williamson himself recently said, "That’s exactly what the show is not!" Read on for a bit more from Williamson as to what it is.

June 28th marks the one-year anniversary of the death of paranormal investigator, and my good friend, Lou Gentile. There was just nobody like him, man, and when he finally succumbed to cancer, not only did I lose one of my dearest friends, but the field of paranormal research lost one of its biggest assets. Before he died, though, Lou worked on a TV show that was shot for the UK called "Derren Brown Investigates". We now have the program for you to see in its entirety.

Nashua, New Hampshire - It sits in an unexpected place, a rustic and quaint farmhouse between a car dealership and other modern businesses. While some may look upon it with curiosity, the cars in its parking lot are very telling. Outside one can smell delicious food as it is prepared, and it is hard to imagine that anything could possibly be wrong within the restaurant's walls.

Bristol, Indiana - Rehearsal isn't going well. Actors are missing their cues, songs are not quite up to tempo, and someone keeps moving the props around. From backstage a blood-curdling scream is heard in the women's dressing room. When the actress, half-dressed and terrified, storms out the door, the director stops her and tries to explain. The man in the dressing room isn't a pervert; he just doesn't like musicals very much. And that she saw him means he likes her. Oh...And he's been dead for years.

Pea Patch Island, Delaware - Names can often be deceiving. Take, for instance, the innocuously named Pea Patch Island. Taken in name only, it sounds like the kind of place one would go to have a garden party or even a nice place to raise children. But sitting on the middle of the tiny land mass is a hulking structure, its walls of gray stone foreboding. Inside the bare walls tell tales of pain and suffering, imprisonment and death.

Saugatuck, Michigan - Inside a dimly lit hallway, a door opens. Not an unusual occurrence, but when that door stops and distinctly swings shut, people tend to notice. Especially when that door is opened and shut by invisible hands. Inside, shadows move along walls without their corresponding people, and sometimes it seems as if there's something in the high window above, looking down upon you.

Reviewed by Scott A. Johnson Written by Guido Henkel Published by Thunder Peak Publishing