Most Terrifying Places in America explained

Genre:	Paranormal Documentary
Director:	Anthony Kraus
Narrated:	Mason Pettit
Editor:	Mark C. Burns Keith Krimbel Sherman Lau Daniel Lerner Barney J. Schmidt
Composer:	Audio Network
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Num Episodes:	seven parts
Executive Producer:	Matt Sharp
Producer:	Alison Mouledoux Rebecca Bruno Deena Lysadt Greiner Katie Iger Glenn Waldman
Camera:	Multiple-camera
Runtime:	60 minutes
Channel:	Travel Channel

Most Terrifying Places in America was an American paranormal documentary television series that premiered on October 9, 2009 on the Travel Channel as a stand-alone special. The special was subsequently broken down into an episodic series. Each episode featured the legends and stories of several reportedly haunted locations throughout America.

In October 2018, a five-episode special series aired on the Travel Channel which gave the show episode titles instead of numbered volumes.^[1]

Synopsis

The series was narrated by Mason Pettit. Each episode started off showing haunted "hotspots" on a map of the United States.A particular haunted location was then selected by each of the series' "ghost hunters," and investigated by them and their team. Paranormal investigators, historians, psychics, and mediums all presented commentary on these sites. Historical footage was often shown, and any eyewitnesses interviewed. The show reported on the paranormal as told from purported personal encounters with the supernatural. At the beginning of each episode a parental advisory was shown: "Warning: What you are about to see may be too extreme for the young, the impressionable, and the faint of heart. Parental discretion is advised."^[2]

Series overview

No.	Part	Title	Airdate
	1	Most Terrifying Places in America 1
	2	Most Terrifying Places in America 2
	3	Most Terrifying Places in America 3
	4	Most Terrifying Places in America 4
	5	Most Terrifying Places in America 5
	6	Most Terrifying Places in America 6
	7	Most Terrifying Places in America 7

Specials

Each episode tells the tales of haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural

Part 1 (Special)

Part	Title
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1	Most Terrifying Places in America 1
Locations	Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio Lincoln Theater, Decatur, Illinois Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana Waverly Hills Sanitorium, Louisville, Kentucky St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana Axe Murder House, Villisca, Iowa
Overview	In this one-hour special premiere, the episode tells the tales of seven haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural.
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Part 2 (Special)

Part	Title
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2	Most Terrifying Places in America 2
Locations	Shanghai Tunnels, Portland, Oregon Old Town Tatu (haunted tattoo parlor), Chicago, Illinois Lemp Mansion, St Louis, Missouri Bobby Mackey's Music World, Wilder, Kentucky Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California The Whaley House, San Diego, California Clinton Road, West Milford, New Jersey
Overview	In the second one-hour special, the episode tells the tales of seven more haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural.
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Part 3 (Special)

Part	Title
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3	Most Terrifying Places in America 3
Locations	Cheesman Park, Denver, Colorado Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Devil's Tree, Bernards Township, New Jersey Manresa Castle, Port Townsend, Washington Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Rhode Island Archer Avenue, Justice, Illinois Stone's Public House, Ashland, Massachusetts Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, Fall River, Massachusetts
Overview	In the third one-hour special, the episode tells the tales of eight haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural.
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Part 4 (Special)

Part	Title
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4	Most Terrifying Places in America 4
Locations	Liar's Club, Chicago, Illinois Watseka Wonder (Roff Family Homestead), Watseka, Illinois Manteno State Hospital, Manteno, Illinois Miss Molly's Bed & Breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas Georgetown Castle, Seattle, Washington USS Lexington Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes, New York
Overview	In the fourth one-hour special, the episode tells the tales of eight more haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural.
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Part 5 (Special)

Part	Title
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5	Most Terrifying Places in America 5
Locations	Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, Lake Shawnee, West Virginia Sorrel Weed House, Savannah, Georgia Mount Misery, Long Island, Huntington, New York Whispers Estate Bed & Breakfast, Mitchell, Indiana Stepney Cemetery, Monroe, Connecticut St. Augustine Lighthouse, St. Augustine, Florida Willard Library, Evansville, Indiana Jerome Grand Hotel, Jerome, Arizona Presidio La Bahia, Goliad, Texas
Overview	In the fifth one-hour special, the episode tells the tales of nine haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural.
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Part 6 (Special)

Part	Title
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6	Most Terrifying Places in America 6
Locations	Mineral Springs Hotel, Alton, Illinois Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, New York Morse Mill Hotel, Morse Mill, Missouri Lotz House, Franklin, Tennessee The Holly Hotel, Holly, Michigan Burlington County Prison, Mount Holly, New Jersey St. Paul's Church, Key West, Florida Hull House, Chicago, Illinois
Overview	In the sixth one-hour special, the episode tells the tales of eight haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural.
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Part 7 (Special)

Part	Title
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7	Most Terrifying Places in America 7
Locations	Route 44, Rehoboth, Massachusetts Octagon Hall, Franklin, Kentucky Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Midlothian, Illinois Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio Marjim Manor, Appleton, New York Captain Grant's Inn, Preston, Connecticut White Eagle Saloon & Hotel, Portland, Oregon One If By Land, Two If By Sea Restaurant, New York City, New York
Overview	In the seventh one-hour special, the episode tells the tales of nine haunted locations, which are reportedly haunted by the supernatural.
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Special

A Halloween special named Most Terrifying Places in America: Top 13 aired on Friday October 29, 2010. This special episode counted-down the 13 most terrifying places from past episodes.

Title	Original Air Date
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Most Terrifying Places in America: Top 13	October 29, 2010
Haunted Locations	13 The Devil's Tree, Bernards Township, New Jersey 12 Manteno State Hospital, Manteno, Illinois 11 Slater Mill Pawtucket, Rhode Island 10 Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, Lake Shawnee, West Virginia 9 Georgetown Castle, Seattle, Washington 8 Orpheum Theater, Memphis, Tennessee 7 Cheesman Park, Denver, Colorado 6 Morse Mill Hotel, Morse Mill, Missouri 5 Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 4 Whispers Estate Bed & Breakfast, Mitchell, Indiana 3 Liar's Club, Chicago, Illinois 2 Lotz House, Franklin, Tennessee 1 Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, New York

Episodes

Ep. #	Episode Title	Original Airdate
1.1	Haunted Roadtrips
Locations	Ernestine & Hazel's Bar, Memphis, Tennessee Old Man Stuckey's Bridge, Meridian, Mississippi Marshall House, Savannah, Georgia Donner Lake, Donner Memorial State Park, Truckee, California "The Dead Zone", Interstate 4, Lake Monroe, Florida Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Overview	This episode tells the tales of the open road by exploring terrifying roadside attractions and the haunted roads less traveled that will make drivers want to lock their doors and roll up their windows. A Memphis juke joint that featured blues and a brothel, an old bridge in Mississippi where a murderer was hanged for his crimes, Savannah's oldest operating hotel built before to the Civil War that was used as a hospital for amputations, a ghostly lake that tells the tale of what really happened to the Donner party, Florida's highway to hell locals call the 'Dead Zone' and an Arkansas hotel that was operated as a cancer hospital run by a charlatan.

1.2	Cursed Towns
Locations	New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana The Black Veil Tattoo Studio, (former Odd Fellows lodge), Beverly, Massachusetts The Christmas Shootout of 1927, (Cedar Avenue and 3rd Street) South Pittsburg, Tennessee Emily's Bridge, Stowe, Vermont West Virginia State Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia Fort Knox, Prospect, Maine
Overview	The episode ventures into towns across America that are reportedly haunted by their dark pasts. A museum dedicated to experimental medicine located in America's first apothecary is haunted by the spirit of a sadistic doctor, a tattoo parlor that was formally home to a secretly odd organization, a dangerous intersection in Tennessee which was the site of a deadly shoot out, an infamous bridge in Vermont where a heart-broken teenage girl leaped to her death, a prison near an ancient burial ground that its inmates believed cursed them to stay there for all eternity, and a Revolutionary War fort where visitors report the ghosts of long-dead soldiers still march on the grounds.

1.3	Devil's Playground
Locations	The Clown Motel, Tonopah Cemetery, Tonopah, Nevada "Annabelle", Warrens' Occult Museum, Monroe, Connecticut Bonnie Springs Ranch, Blue Diamond, Nevada Glenwood Cemetery, True Addiction Tattoo Studio, Yazoo, Mississippi The Strand Cinema, Skowhegan, Maine Fear Factory SLC (former Portland Cement Co. factory), Salt Lake City, Utah
Overview	This episode explores scary attractions across the nation: a motel next to a cemetery that's a Coulrophobia's worst nightmare, a morbid museum that houses haunted artifacts like a demonic Raggedy Ann doll, an old western ranch with a 19th-century schoolhouse that's reportedly haunted by a schoolmarm and her students, a historic Mississippi town that locals claim is cursed by a witch who killed its citizens, a movie theater in Maine where a sorrowful woman starred in her own horror film when she leaped off the theater's balcony to her death, and a sinister cement factory-turned-haunted attraction that scares its patrons with real ghosts.

1.4	Restless Dead
Locations	St. Augustine Lighthouse, St. Augustine, Florida Madison Seminary, Madison, Ohio Squirrel Cage Jail, Council Bluffs, Iowa David Whitney Mansion, Detroit, Michigan The Speakeasy (former General Store), Sacramento, Nebraska Smallwood Store, Chokoloskee, Florida
Overview	This episode features locations where the restless souls of the dead never sleep. A Florida lighthouse that's filled with darkness of those who died there, a former Victorian-era asylum for women where the insane were experimented on, one of the few remaining Rotary Jails where inmates tried to escape by severing their limbs, a majestic mansion in Detroit built by a lumber baron is claimed to be haunted by his two wives, a restaurant that was once a remote outpost in Nebraska where a scorned woman killed her unfaithful husband is reportedly haunted by a ghost called "Faceless Fred", and a small country store in the Florida Everglades is the site of a deadly shootout of a bloody outlaw who hid his victims in the swampy waters.

1.5	Unnatural World
Locations	Seven Sisters Road, Nebraska City, Nebraska Bennington Triangle, Glastenbury, Bennington County, Vermont Hinsdale House, Hinsdale, New York Colorado Grande Hotel and Casino, Cripple Creek, Colorado Pierce Mansion, Gardner, Massachusetts Wildwood Sanitarium, Salamanca, New York
Overview	This episode explores supernatural locations linked to terrifying tales. A ghostly road in Nebraska where local legend suggests a farmer hanged his entire family that included seven daughters and his wife, a mysterious forest where hikers reportedly vanish without a trace, an Upstate New York farmhouse where it's claimed a demon resides, a creepy mining town in Colorado that was once called 'the wickedest town' in America, a New England Victorian-style mansion where its former owners possesses the living tenants, and a former sanitarium that performed medical experiments with electricity to cure its patients' ailments.