8.2/1017 votesLoading...#1 - Bay Area Hysteria / Jersey Shore Haunting
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/24/2012
A mystery over California's Bodega Bay is probed. Also: a purported ghost encounter captured on a thermal camera at New Jersey's Paramount Theatre is scrutinized.
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8.1/1023 votesLoading...#2 - Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/30/2011
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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8.1/1029 votesLoading...#3 - Area 51 / Cajun Apparition
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/2011
The allegedly haunted Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is visited; UFO footage linked to Area 51 is scrutinized.
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8.1/1020 votesLoading...#4 - Asylum Apparition / Mystery Over Mexico
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/2011
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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8.1/1019 votesLoading...#5 - Vanishing Victim / Sky Serpent
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 5/1/2012
The team visits England to examine footage of an alleged alien abduction and a flaming, serpentine object in the sky.
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8.1/1020 votesLoading...#6 - Florida Woodland UFO / Black Forrest Entity
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 6/5/2012
A purported UFO sighting in Florida is investigated. Also: Evidence of a haunting in Colorado is scrutinized.
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8.1/1021 votesLoading...#7 - Into The Vortex / Tavern Shapeshifter
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 6/19/2012
The Oregon Vortex is probed. Also: An English pub is visited after a security camera captures the image of what may be a ghost.
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8.0/1022 votesLoading...#8 - Whaley Ghost House / Muck Monster
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/2011
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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7.9/1020 votesLoading...#9 - Old West Haunting / Freeway Flyer
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/2011
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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7.9/1018 votesLoading...#10 - Reptile Rampage / Gasoline Ghoul
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/22/2012
Evidence to support sightings of a reptilian creature in South Carolina is sought. Also: Footage of alleged paranormal activity captured at a gas station in Ohio is scrutinized.
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7.9/1018 votesLoading...#11 - Graveyard Lightning / Truck Stop Terror
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 6/12/2012
Evidence of purported paranormal activity documented at a Mississippi graveyard and an abandoned Missouri truck stop is scrutinized.
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7.8/1025 votesLoading...#12 - Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2010
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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7.8/1019 votesLoading...#13 - UFO Crash Landing / Graveyard Ghost
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2011
A purported UFO crash is investigated in New Mexico; a graveyard ghost sighting in Nevada is probed.
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7.8/1021 votesLoading...#14 - Bar Fright; Mexico City Cave Witch
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/2011
Purported poltergeist activity in a Texas bar is probed; footage of a flying witch is scrutinized in Mexico.
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7.8/1020 votesLoading...#15 - Pride House Specter / Bluegrass Bigfoot
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 5/8/2012
Photographic evidence of paranormal activity at the Pride House in Jefferson, Texas, is scrutinized. Also: Tests are conducted in Kentucky concerning the state's purported Bigfoot sightings.
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7.8/1018 votesLoading...#16 - Battleship Ghost / Scouting UFO
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 5/15/2012
Evidence of a ghost lurking on the USS North Carolina is examined, also A purported UFO sighting in Michigan is investigated.
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7.8/1019 votesLoading...#17 - Surveillance Spectre / Morgue Mystery
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 6/26/2012
Probes in England and Kentucky unfold. (First episode of a two episode season finale, with a special 8 pm start time.)
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7.8/1020 votesLoading...#18 - Stonehenge Secrets / Iceland Worm Monster
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/26/2012
Josh Gates joins the team in Iceland to examine footage of what may be an aquatic creature. Also: Pro wrestler Kofi Kingston helps with a Stonehenge investigation in the Season 2 finale.
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7.7/1023 votesLoading...#19 - Playground Poltergeist / Alien Intruder
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/13/2011
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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7.7/1020 votesLoading...#20 - The Grim Sleeper / The Real Mr. Freeze
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/17/2012
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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7.6/1021 votesLoading...#21 - Bayou Beast / River Ghost
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/2010
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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7.6/1018 votesLoading...#22 - Sinister Spirals / Flying Saucers
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/2011
A flying saucer case from Santa Ana, Cal., is investigated; claims attributed to "flying rods" in Joplin, Mo., are probed.
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7.5/1023 votesLoading...#23 - The Real Battle of LA / Queen Mary Menace
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/2011
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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7.5/1019 votesLoading...#24 - Raining Ufo's / Ectoplasmic Pic
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/6/2011
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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7.5/1020 votesLoading...#25 - Glowing Gargoyle / Phantom Feline
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/29/2012
Josh Gates helps the team examine evidence of a gargoyle sighting in the U.K. Also: Claims concerning a spectral cat are investigated in Kentucky.
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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!
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...
Genres:RealityDocumentaryMystery
Network:Syfy
Best Episodes Summary
"Bay Area Hysteria / Jersey Shore Haunting" is the best rated episode of "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files". It scored 8.2/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/24/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky".