Travel Channel Announces a New Paranormal History Series Titled SHOCK DOCS
Travel Channel sure does love its paranormal and supernatural shows! Some of their more popular shows include Ghost Nation, Ghost Adventures, and Hotel Paranormal. Well, they’ve got a new series coming titled Shock Doc that will dive into the history of some of the paranormal hot spots around the world.
So, instead of centering on people investigating these hot spots to uncover new evidence, this new show will look back at the history of these locations. It’s a concept that I’m totally on board with! When talking about the series, Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel, shared:
“Travel Channel fans have an insatiable appetite for the classic cases that even the paranormal investigators revere. In these ‘shockumentaries,’ we start at the beginning and explore why these places and cases remain the most famous – and the most haunted – in the country.”
Each installment of Travel Channel’s Shock Docs “goes to the heart of a true American horror story – and a peek into history. We travel across the country to uncover the best-documented paranormal encounters – tales recorded on video and audio that capture the raw terror of an encounter with evil.”
The first episode of the series will explore Ed and Lorraine Warren. The episode is called “Devil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren,” and in it “audiences will learn about how, during the 1970s and 1980s, the Warrens made numerous appearances on television talking about their cases and spreading the word about the paranormal and preternatural worlds that exist all around us. Their life’s mission: to prove the existence of good and evil; God and the devil. Along the way, they pioneered many techniques still used in the field today, including audio and visual recording devices, advanced electromagnetic devices and even produced their own television show. This two-hour special features interviews with their daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Tony Spera, who share never-before-broadcast audio of Ed conducting interviews for the Bridgeport, Connecticut, poltergeist case, and rare video of the Warrens helping a young woman coming under demonic possession. Tony also has granted the production access to his catalog of footage from his television series, ‘Seekers of the Supernatural.’ It includes many hours of Ed and Lorraine discussing their work with Tony.”
The new series launches on Monday, September 7th at 9 p.m. ET. Additional Shock Docs on the slate will delve into the true-life hauntings of the “Amityville Horror House” and “The Exorcism of Roland Doe.”