A new paranormal show debuts for the summer travel season on SyFy
Syfy‘s newest paranormal reality series, Haunted Highway (formerly known as Paranormal Highway) will premiere Tuesday, July 3 at 10 PM.
The hour-long series follows two teams, Jack Osbourne & Dana Workman and Jael de Pardo & Devin Marble, as they do their own first-person investigations of the most frightening claims of paranormal activity along America’s remote back roads.
Fueled by eyewitness interviews and evidence collected with state-of-the-art equipment, the two teams will self-document their harrowing face-to-face encounters with the paranormal.
In the premiere episode “Bear Lake Beast / Vergas Hairyman,” Jack and Dana venture to Bear Lake, Utah, in search of the elusive Bear Lake Beast. A reptilian monster over 20 feet long, this creature has been sighted by many but never captured on tape. Their investigation reveals some startling anomalies out there on the dark waters, and culminates in a risky night dive where Jack heads to the depths of the lake in search of the creature’s hunting grounds.
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Sounds interesting, actually. I have not heard of this supposed cryptid. I’ll probably watch to see how they treat the subject and to see how the show handles these paranormal topics. I have yet to see more than a scant few paranormal-themed shows do justice to the true story. Instead, they hype the mystery and play fast and loose with the drama and recreations. That’s a bit sad because the psychology of eyewitness sightings is complicated and can teach us a lot about ourselves. Also, they rarely seem to REALLY examine viable alternatives to the scary monster explanation. Skirting the interesting twists in how humans perceive something strange and scary, such sensationalist programming typically misses the mark completely in terms of critical examination.