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The Best Episodes of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

Every episode of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files!

The Best Episodes of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is a paranormal investigation series produced by Base Productions that began airing July 15, 2010, on SyFy. The show follows...

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  1. 7.8/10(25 votes)

    #1 - Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids

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    Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry head to the Valentown Museum to investigate an alleged haunting, while Ben, Jael and Austin travel to McKinney, Texas to investigate a what appears to be a humanoid figure flying through the air.

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  2. 7.6/10(21 votes)

    #2 - Bayou Beast / River Ghost

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    A swamp monster is investigated by one team in a Louisiana Bayou. Meanwhile, the other team heads to Oregon's Willamette River to look into a strange light that has been witnessed by many.

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  3. 7.4/10(26 votes)

    #3 - Mystery Mermaid / Ghostly Guardian

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    Ben, Jael and Austin undertake an underwater investigation of alleged mermaids at the Great Barrier Reef, while Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry go hunting for a family ghost who seems to appear as a mist in the family photos.

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  4. 7.3/10(40 votes)

    #4 - Unwanted Visitors / Strange Sightings

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    The team splits up to investigate yet another group of Arizona UFO sightings (this time, near Lake Havasu); in addition to a pair of Tall Skinny Things caught on night-vision video by a Fresno, California, homeowner.

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  5. 7.3/10(25 votes)

    #5 - Sasquatch Sprint / Alien Attacker

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    The one half of the team travels to Washington to track down Bigfoot and while the other half dissects what appears to be a classic alien encounter.

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  6. 7.1/10(34 votes)

    #6 - Blazing Horizon / Rollover

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    Bill, Austin and Jael travel to Michigan to look into the mysterious "Paulding Lights", while Ben, Larry and Chi-Lan head to San Antonio, Texas, where ghostly children are said to push cars over the railroad tracks where they themselves met their fatal end.

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  8. 6.8/10(44 votes)

    #7 - Burning Rubber / Hyperjump

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    The team investigates stories of a ghost car which was seen by a policeman driving through a chainlink fence, and apparent UFOs that were filmed flying through the Arizona desert skies.

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  9. 6.8/10(33 votes)

    #8 - Predator / Red Sky At Night

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    A predator is caught on video in Dartmoor, U.K.; sightings of a large triangular aircraft over El Cajon, Cal., pique the interest of the UFO community.

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  10. 6.8/10(25 votes)

    #9 - Haunted Mansion Mist / Starlight Intruder

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    Ben, Chi-Lan and Austin travel to Alton, Illinois to investigate the McPike Mansion, a well known haunted house where some local ghost hunters caught what appears to be an apparition on their cameras. Meanwhile, Jael, Bill and Larry go to Fremont, California to attempt to debunk an alleged UFO.

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  11. 6.6/10(31 votes)

    #10 - Off the Deep End / Houseguest

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    Ben, Jael and Austin investigate Pennsylvania's version of the Loch Ness Monster, while Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry travel to California, where a man claims that a ghost communicates with him through messages which mysteriously appear on Polaroid photographs taken within his home.

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  12. 6.4/10(28 votes)

    #11 - The Caretaker / Cutter

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    The team splits up, with Ben, Jael and Austin investigating an alleged ghost of a Civil War deserter videoed in an Indiana cemetery, while Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry head to Colorado where livestock are being mutilated by an unknown predator, while strange lights appear in the night sky.

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  13. 2.9/10(25 votes)

    #12 - Lunar Landing Hoax / Tropical Intruder

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    The Fact or Faked crew have two out of this world assignments this week. One team attempts to determine from video evidence whether or not the Apollo moon landings were really a spectacular hoax, as some would say. The other team investigates an alleged UFO caught on camera in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

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    #13 - The Real Battle of LA / Queen Mary Menace

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    After reviewing the week's finds, Devin goes with Ben and Jael to attempt to unearth the truth behind a famous photo taken by an LA Times photographer in 1942, just after the Pearl Harbor attack and five years before the Roswell incident, of an object flying through the night sky. Chi-Lan, Bill and Austin, meanwhile, investigate the Queen Mary Ghost in Long Beach, where the famous ship has been moored since the '60s.

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    #14 - Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky

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    One of the hottest cases this week comes from Jacksonville, Florida, from the historic Florida Theatre. Bill, Austin and Chi-Lan head to this reported hotbed of paranormal activity to get to the bottom of an amazing video: A local expert, Steve Christian, was conducting a paranormal investigation in the theater when he caught, on camera, a figure seated in the balcony - waving. Ben, Devin and Jael, meanwhile, have also been down south, searching for the truth behind a reported UFO sighting. What's special about this one is that there's video of a flare descending toward Earth, splitting into three lights, and then hovering for a period.

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    #15 - Raining Ufo's / Ectoplasmic Pic

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    Ben, Jael and Austin head to Long Beach, CA, where the video of an unidentified object flying over the harbor, seeming to drop glowing seeds into the water, was recorded. Chi-Lan, Bill and Devin, meanwhile, have been digging into a decades-old mystery of a Winnipeg man who claimed to have captured ectoplasm - a ghostly substance said to be produced by a medium during a séance - on camera at the turn of the last century.

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    #16 - Playground Poltergeist / Alien Intruder

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    To get the truth, sometimes you have to travel halfway around the world. That's why this week, Jael, Austin and Bill fly to the small town of Firmat, Argentina to uncover the explanation of a swing that, for four years, has appeared to be moving on its own. Ben, Chi-Lan and Devin, meanwhile, have been speaking with a Florida man, David Eckhart, and his wife, Jean, about their frequent experiences with unknowable forces. The couple say they've been visited by aliens for years, citing loss of time and mass migrations of worms in their driveway. They have two videos to back up their claims, and Ben and his team intend to discover their authenticity.

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    #17 - Dashcam Chupacabra / Nightly News Alien

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    Ben, Chi-Lan and Devin head to Texas on a hunt for the blood-sucking cryptid known as the chupacabra. The local sherrif saw a strange, unidentifiable animal running down a country road, and murmurs of the chupacabra swelled up around the video she shot from her vehicle. Jael, Austin and Bill, meanwhile, are looking into what seems to be an alien walking plainly through a shot from a local news segment in Patagonia, Argentina, where UFO and alien sightings are frequent.

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    #18 - Whaley Ghost House / Muck Monster

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    One team travels to San Diego to investigate claims of paranormal activity in the Whaley House, which some say is the most haunted home in the US. Meanwhile, the other team looks into footage captured by a local family of an unknown creature which is said to inhabit Florida's Loxahatchee River.

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    #19 - UFO Crash Landing / Graveyard Ghost

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    A purported UFO crash is investigated in New Mexico; a graveyard ghost sighting in Nevada is probed.

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    #20 - Area 51 / Cajun Apparition

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    The allegedly haunted Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is visited; UFO footage linked to Area 51 is scrutinized.

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    #21 - Sinister Spirals / Flying Saucers

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    A flying saucer case from Santa Ana, Cal., is investigated; claims attributed to "flying rods" in Joplin, Mo., are probed.

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    #22 - Asylum Apparition / Mystery Over Mexico

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    Visiting Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville to investigate a video of a purported ghost sighting; UFO sightings over Mexico are probed.

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    #23 - Old West Haunting / Freeway Flyer

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    Footage from the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Ariz., is scrutinized; a UFO sighting over a Los Angeles freeway is probed.

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    #24 - Bar Fright; Mexico City Cave Witch

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    Purported poltergeist activity in a Texas bar is probed; footage of a flying witch is scrutinized in Mexico.

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    #25 - The Grim Sleeper / The Real Mr. Freeze

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    Among the cases brought in by the team this week are two Fact or Faked firsts: A video of a paranormal force causing a woman to levitate from her bed, and a case of a human performing paranormal feats.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids" is the best rated episode of "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files". It scored 7.8/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/4/2010. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bayou Beast / River Ghost".