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YouTube - Ghost Stalkers



After Nick Groff left Ghost Adventures, he launched Paranormal Lockdown and also served as an executive producer for another paranormal television series, Ghost Stalkers. This series only lasted for one season (end of 2914) and has six episodes, each devoted to one (supposedly) haunted location. Each episode lasts about 45 minutes.

Ghost Stalkers features two hosts, actor Chad Lindberg and author John E. L. Tenney. Both have a lot in common: not only do they believe in the paranormal, but they both also experienced an NDE (Near Death Experience). Because of this, they believe that haunted locations contain a portal (to hell), where the dead can cross over from one world to another. And it's their mission to find this portal in the locations they investigate in each of the six episodes. For this, they use a device, called a wormhole detector, built to discover gateways that connect different realities with each other.

The two men have different personalities though and this is exactly what makes this series entertaining to watch! John is calm and composed, whereas Chad is of a nervous disposition and is easily startled. This is especially clear when they each spend one night in a haunted location: John stays as calm as a cucumber, whereas Chad screams like a little girl with the smallest paranormal occurrence. The most frightening episode is without any doubt the one that takes place in Holmesburg Prison where quite surprisingly John - and not Chad - ends up with a severe panic attack.

To be honest, I don't believe in this wormhole detector or these portals to hell. Moreover, it remains a mystery throughout the six episodes of how the detector actually works! It all seems like an excuse to do some ghost hunting in spooky locations. And again, it is really entertaining and fun to see how both men react so differently when they each investigate a location during one night. In that light, this series doesn't differ that much from Ghost Adventures.

Maybe this is the reason why Ghost Stalkers lasted only one season; maybe viewers saw it as a clone of Ghost Adventures, which until now is still the most popular paranormal television series in America. I, on the other hand, was actually disappointed that Ghost Stalkers ended after only one season. I really liked the two hosts - who treat each other with a lot of respect, by the way - and they did investigate lesser-known haunted locations.

Right now it is damn hard to find complete episodes of Ghost Stalkers on YouTube. There is however always a coming and going of paranormal television series and one day, you might find the 6 episodes again on YouTube. There are lots of interesting fragments, however, usually the best bits of each episode.


As you might have seen, I have been absent for one month due to illness. During that time I discovered a lot of interesting stuff on YouTube - such as (short) horror movies, paranormal series and the like - which I will be sharing with you very soon!
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