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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 a team of investigators, led by former FBI agent Ben

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    Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 1 - Burning Rubber / Hyperjump
    0.0/10(45 votes)

    #1 - Burning Rubber / Hyperjump

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 2 - Unwanted Visitors / Strange Sightings
    0.0/10(40 votes)

    #2 - Unwanted Visitors / Strange Sightings

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 3 - Off the Deep End / Houseguest
    0.0/10(31 votes)

    #3 - Off the Deep End / Houseguest

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 4 - Predator / Red Sky At Night
    0.0/10(34 votes)

    #4 - Predator / Red Sky At Night

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 5 - Blazing Horizon / Rollover
    0.0/10(34 votes)

    #5 - Blazing Horizon / Rollover

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 6 - The Caretaker / Cutter
    0.0/10(28 votes)

    #6 - The Caretaker / Cutter

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 7 - Haunted Mansion Mist / Starlight Intruder
    0.0/10(25 votes)

    #7 - Haunted Mansion Mist / Starlight Intruder

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 8 - Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids
    0.0/10(25 votes)

    #8 - Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 9 - Sasquatch Sprint / Alien Attacker
    0.0/10(25 votes)

    #9 - Sasquatch Sprint / Alien Attacker

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 10 - Mystery Mermaid / Ghostly Guardian
    0.0/10(26 votes)

    #10 - Mystery Mermaid / Ghostly Guardian

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 11 - Lunar Landing Hoax / Tropical Intruder
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    #11 - Lunar Landing Hoax / Tropical Intruder

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 1 Episode 12 - Bayou Beast / River Ghost
    0.0/10(22 votes)

    #12 - Bayou Beast / River Ghost

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 1 - The Real Battle of LA / Queen Mary Menace
    0.0/10(24 votes)

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

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 2 - Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky
    0.0/10(24 votes)

    #14 - Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 3 - Raining Ufo's / Ectoplasmic Pic
    0.0/10(20 votes)

    #15 - Raining Ufo's / Ectoplasmic Pic

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 4 - Playground Poltergeist / Alien Intruder
    0.0/10(24 votes)

    #16 - Playground Poltergeist / Alien Intruder

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 5 - Dashcam Chupacabra / Nightly News Alien
    0.0/10(30 votes)

    #17 - Dashcam Chupacabra / Nightly News Alien

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 6 - Whaley Ghost House / Muck Monster
    0.0/10(24 votes)

    #18 - Whaley Ghost House / Muck Monster

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 7 - UFO Crash Landing / Graveyard Ghost
    0.0/10(21 votes)

    #19 - UFO Crash Landing / Graveyard Ghost

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 8 - Area 51 / Cajun Apparition
    0.0/10(31 votes)

    #20 - Area 51 / Cajun Apparition

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 9 - Sinister Spirals / Flying Saucers
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    #21 - Sinister Spirals / Flying Saucers

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 10 - Asylum Apparition / Mystery Over Mexico
    0.0/10(22 votes)

    #22 - Asylum Apparition / Mystery Over Mexico

    S2:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 11 - Old West Haunting / Freeway Flyer
    0.0/10(22 votes)

    #23 - Old West Haunting / Freeway Flyer

    S2:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 12 - Bar Fright; Mexico City Cave Witch
    0.0/10(23 votes)

    #24 - Bar Fright; Mexico City Cave Witch

    S2:E12

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

    Director:Unknown
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  26. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Season 2 Episode 13 - The Grim Sleeper / The Real Mr. Freeze
    0.0/10(22 votes)

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

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Burning Rubber / Hyperjump" is the best rated episode of "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files". It scored /10 based on 45 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/15/2010. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Unwanted Visitors / Strange Sightings".