9.8/1062 votesLoading...#1 - Mid-Orange Correctional Facility
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/6/2023
The team falls deeper into the darkness at a deteriorating juvenile detention center near a quiet New York village. Dakota Laden is eager to establish a close bond with the youthful spirits, but quickly discovers to be careful what you wish for in this nightmarish facility.
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- 9.7/1064 votesLoading...
#2 - Old Historic Harriman Hospital
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/16/2022
Tanner may have found the G.O.A.T. of all haunted locations when he picks out a deserted Tennessee hospital for the next stop. Rumors of bizarre hauntings swirl around this eerie, unexplored facility, but nobody can explain why. Can the team unlock its disturbing secrets?
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- 9.6/1060 votesLoading...
#3 - Cresson Sanatorium and Prison (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 12/2/2022
Dakota diabolical dive into darkness continues when he blindsides the team with a double dose of terror at an abandoned Pennsylvania sanatorium. Can they handle a night in the cell block where one of America’s most horrific serial killers was housed?
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- 9.6/1050 votesLoading...
#4 - Ashmore Estates
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/30/2022
Alex has a big surprise in store for Dakota, Chelsea, and Tanner when he takes them back to a decrepit Illinois poorhouse so scary that they swore never to return. But will tragic new information about this location force the team to re-evaluate the haunting?
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- 9.4/1066 votesLoading...
#5 - Cresson Sanatorium and Prison (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/25/2022
The team faces a trifecta of terror at a decaying sanatorium in rural Pennsylvania. If a ghostly mimic and child spirits aren’t enough to shake up the crew, Dakota has a dark and twisted experiment up his sleeve to amp up the fear at this foreboding facility.
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- 9.4/1062 votesLoading...
#6 - Defiance Junior High School
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 12/9/2022
The team learns the true meaning of “school spirit” at a vacant junior high school in Ohio. From jangling keys luring them to a killer custodian’s lair to a mind-boggling encounter in the gym, Dakota and crew are the victims of a non-stop haunted hazing.
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- 9.3/1055 votesLoading...
#7 - Winchester Mystery House
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/23/2022
Chelsea pulls the team out of the darkness and into the California sunshine … but only for a minute as she plunges them into the haunted madness of a legendary mansion. The crew takes a shot in the dark to see what energy is at play behind its walls.
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- 9.3/1057 votesLoading...
#8 - Norwich State Hospital
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/13/2023
Dakota saves the darkest, bleakest location for the last stop of one twisted road trip. This infamous psychiatric hospital in rural Connecticut is so diseased with dark history and demonic energy that it may be the final nail in the coffin for the “Destination Fear” team.
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- 9.1/1059 votesLoading...
#9 - Spike Island
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/25/2021
The team's epic overseas investigation takes them to Ireland's most haunted prison. The dark forces on the island are overwhelming, and terror hits Tanner like a ton of bricks. But something else lights up Dakota with a fear he's never experienced before.
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8.9/10111 votesLoading...#10 - Sweet Springs Sanitarium
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/2019
The site of a horrific Native American massacre is the team's darkest, most-terrifying location yet. They are tormented by unexplained screams, terrifying chants and a voice that almost pushes them to the edge of madness.
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- 8.9/1055 votesLoading...
#11 - Old Hospital On College Hill
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/2020
Dakota has saved the best for last as the team rolls up to an abandoned West Virginia hospital. Known for its brutal deaths and grisly amputations, the blood-stained grounds have a chilling prescription in store for them that may shatter the team forever.
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8.9/1060 votesLoading...#12 - Villisca Axe Murder House
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/11/2021
In an unprecedented move, Dakota takes the team to not one, but two locations … at the same time! Combined, it will make for an exploration of one of the most gruesome events in American history. A family was brutally murdered in the now-infamous Villisca Axe Murder House, and many believe that a dark and nefarious entity haunts the home. But it’s the seemingly paranormal connection to a hotel 40 miles away that has intrigued Dakota, and he and the team are the first to explore it.
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- 8.8/1055 votesLoading...
#13 - Phelps Dodge Hospital
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/2021
The team digs deep as they mine their darkest fears at an abandoned Arizona hospital. Faced with a vicious entity that hates men, they get more evidence than they dared hope for. But hope turns to horror when one of them gets a ghostly death threat.
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- 8.7/1064 votesLoading...
#14 - Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/2020
The team heads to West Virginia to explore the most haunted asylum in America. Dakota has doubts about their ability to combat the bloodthirsty souls lurking in the shadows of the cursed property, but Tanner believes they are up for the challenge!
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- 8.7/1056 votesLoading...
#15 - Old Nazareth Hospital
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/2021
The team rolls into a Texas town to investigate one of the most haunted hospitals in America. Chelsea is unhappy to discover a haunted doll room on the premises, and the team is not prepared when a wave of pent-up paranormal energy is unleashed upon them.
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- 8.7/1057 votesLoading...
#16 - Nevada State Prison
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/2021
Still reeling from a ghostly warning, Dakota and the team heads to one of America's deadliest prisons -- a place packed with tortured entities. True fear strikes their hearts when a spirit reaches out to the team for an unimaginable request.
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- 8.7/1055 votesLoading...
#17 - Old Adrian Hospital
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/2021
It's Tanner's turn to pick the next stop, and his plans for revenge take a truly dark turn at a deserted Pennsylvania hospital. Dark entities, doppelgangers and poltergeists lurk around every corner, but what the team hears is the most terrifying of all.
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8.6/1086 votesLoading...#18 - St. Albans Sanatorium
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/2019
The team reveals a terrifying twist when they revisit St. Albans Sanatorium in Radford, Virginia, a location so awful that Chelsea quit last time and vowed she would never return. Can the trio conquer St. Albans before it conquers them again?
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- 8.6/1067 votesLoading...
#19 - Yorktown Memorial Hospital
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/2020
The team investigates a Texas hospital with a gruesome history, including a brutal double homicide. Once under the direction of Catholic nuns, the abandoned building’s chapel may house a demonic entity with its sights set on Dakota!
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- 8.6/1070 votesLoading...
#20 - Saratoga County Homestead
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/2020
Dakota leads Chelsea, Tanner and Alex to a decaying sanitarium where some patient corpses were unclaimed due to a flu pandemic. Screams and darting shadows play mind games with the team as they struggle to pin the activity on the living or the dead.
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- 8.6/1060 votesLoading...
#21 - Joliet Prison
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/2020
It's sweet revenge for Chelsea when she takes the team to Chicago's historic and utterly terrifying Joliet Prison. Terrible things happen once they separate inside its imposing walls, and one member experiences their most sickening night ever.
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- 8.6/1057 votesLoading...
#22 - Rolling Hills Asylum
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2020
Tanner confronts his greatest fear when the team explores an upstate New York asylum said to be haunted by the spirit of a 7-foot-tall man. The unique investigation causes them to completely re-evaluate everything they've ever believed about fear.
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8.6/1066 votesLoading...#23 - Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2021
The team confront their childhood fears at the infamous Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY, reputed to be America’s most haunted location.
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8.6/1063 votesLoading...#24 - Odd Fellows Home
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/28/2021
Alex has a diabolical plan for revenge that quickly turns to regret once he realizes he has unleashed something terrifying on the team. His location, once home to a mysterious secret society that entombed skeletons in the walls of its buildings, will reveal things to the team about their fear threshold that they may wish they never knew.
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8.6/1061 votesLoading...#25 - Edinburgh Manor
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/4/2021
Six years ago, Dakota and Alex attempted to explore Iowa’s menacing Edinburgh Manor, where it’s said that residents literally slit their own throats to escape the misery. Without a plan, they were chased away by something in the basement. Now they return with the entire team, armed with a new understanding of the paranormal. But they once again encounter something in the basement. Can Dakota turn the tables on the poltergeist known as The Joker?
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The Best Episodes of Destination Fear
Every episode of Destination Fear ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Destination Fear!
You saw him on Ghost Adventures, now, Dakota Laden takes his sister and best friend on a cross-country road trip to visit the most haunted...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Mid-Orange Correctional Facility" is the best rated episode of "Destination Fear". It scored 9.8/10 based on 62 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/6/2023. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Old Historic Harriman Hospital".