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The Best Episodes of Ghost Stories

Every episode of Ghost Stories ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ghost Stories!

Ghost Stories is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1997 to 1998 on the cable channel FOX Family. The show was narrated by...
Genres:MysteryDrama
Network:ABC Family

Best Episodes Summary

"The New Nanny" is the best rated episode of "Ghost Stories". It scored 7.7/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/9/1998. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "All Night Diner".

  • The New Nanny
    7.7/1017 votes
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    #1 - The New Nanny

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/9/1998

    A nanny spends a terrifying first night with her strange new charge.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All Night Diner
    7.6/1028 votes
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    #2 - All Night Diner

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/3/1997

    Abandoning her family, a woman drives out of town and stops at an all night diner. Inside, she is harassed by strange customers who know too much of her past, causing her to flee to another diner. But to her horror, she discovers that it's the same diner with the same tormentors. Turns out she was killed in a car crash and is trapped in her own purgatory of guilt.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fatal Distraction
    7.2/1014 votes
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    #3 - Fatal Distraction

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/2/1998

    A frustrated writer is tempted to cheat on his wife by a mysterious woman he sees through his apartment window. But when he discovers that she is a ghost, it's too late -- and intends to get her revenge.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • You'll Wake the Dead
    7.1/1018 votes
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    #4 - You'll Wake the Dead

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 4/27/1998

    A cruel young couple wage a campaign of noisy terror to evict an old lady from their duplex. The old lady dies, only to return to exact retribution from her tormentors.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Flight Out
    6.8/1028 votes
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    #5 - Last Flight Out

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1997

    A year after the plane crash that claimed her husband and child, a guilt ridden woman takes a night flight. Amid the storm-tossed flight, the woman is haunted by ghosts of her past.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Personal Demons
    6.8/1021 votes
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    #6 - Personal Demons

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/27/1997

    A social worker pursuing a mentally unbalanced man who escaped from a halfway house discovers that her client is prodded to murderous actions by a malevolent demon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It's Only a Movie
    6.7/1012 votes
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    #7 - It's Only a Movie

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 2/23/1998

    Joey Howell, jaded horror film fan, wins being a role of an extra in a horror film. But when he arrives on the set, Joey finds that things are not as they seem. The movie is being played out for real - and he's the star victim.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sleep No More
    6.5/1013 votes
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    #8 - Sleep No More

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1998

    A dream psychologist who takes on her patients' nightmares yearns to escape her work and insensitive husband. But when her nightmares start to invade her waking hours, she seeks refuge - into a peaceful dreamscape.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Consumers
    6.5/1027 votes
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    #9 - Consumers

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 2/23/1998

    A young guy gets a job working the night shift at a supermarket frequented by the neighborhood elderly. Much to his horror, he discovers that they are shopping for young bodies to take over and inhabit.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Step-Sister
    6.4/1030 votes
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    #10 - Step-Sister

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1997

    When a young girl's mother remarries, she moves into her step-father's house, only to find herself haunted by the ghost of her jealous step-brother. But soon she discovers he's trying to warn her - about his own death and the danger she now finds herself in.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Landscape of Lost Dreams
    6.4/1026 votes
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    #11 - Landscape of Lost Dreams

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1997

    A couple returns to their honeymoon hotel in a last ditch effort to save their crumbling marriage. When the wife vanishes, the husband is suspected of killing her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cold in the Grave
    6.4/10108 votes
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    #12 - Cold in the Grave

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/20/1997

    A divorced, embittered repairman murders a woman he picked up in the bar, stashes her body in an industrial refrigerator, and dumps it into the river.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stainless Blade
    6.4/1015 votes
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    #13 - The Stainless Blade

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/26/1998

    The famous magician Vance Delbert passes on the secret of his magic sword.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Point Hope
    6.3/1019 votes
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    #14 - Point Hope

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/1998

    A woman is saved from suicide by a mysterious lighthouse keeper with more on his mind than her salvation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sara's Friends
    6.2/1016 votes
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    #15 - Sara's Friends

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/17/1997

    Sara works in a morgue, but she has lots of friends - on the gurney. But when a grifter tries to con her out of the morgue patient's valuables, he learns that Sara's friends will go above and beyond - the grave.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Underground
    6.2/1013 votes
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    #16 - Underground

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 2/16/1998

    An attendant, working in a subterranean garage, finds himself trapped in a nightmarish underworld.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mirror, Mirror
    6.2/1014 votes
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    #17 - Mirror, Mirror

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/4/1998

    A haggish old dowager is murdered by her put-upon niece and young boyfriend, only to return to haunt them in mirrors.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cold Dark Space
    6.1/1020 votes
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    #18 - Cold Dark Space

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/10/1997

    A frenzied man finds himself trapped in a nightmarish hospital room. Surrounded by the dead from his past, it appears he's lost in a limbo world between life and death. We discover this is all the delusion of an astronaut adrift in space with his dead co-pilots as company.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cloistered
    6.0/1015 votes
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    #19 - Cloistered

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/27/1997

    A lonely care-giver to the elderly falls for a man whom she believes is kept in his house by his domineering mother. But as their secret relationship grows, she is horrified to learn that the young man is not what he seems.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The State of Grace
    6.0/1015 votes
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    #20 - The State of Grace

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/2/1998

    A lonely hospital orderly falls in love with a beautiful woman who just happens to be comatose. A la Sleeping Beauty she is reawakened by his feelings for her - yet only he alone can see her in a wakened state.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bless Me Father
    6.0/1013 votes
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    #21 - Bless Me Father

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 5/18/1998

    A young disillusioned priest is sent to take over a dying parish, but finds his presence is resented by the older priest. The young priest soon finds himself haunted by the ghost of a girl he left behind to join the clergy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Parting Shot
    6.0/1016 votes
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    #22 - Parting Shot

    Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 6/1/1998

    A paparazza seeks the ultimate shot - of the now dead celebrity at a funeral home. But after finally getting the picture, she finds that the ghost of the celebrity starts to relentlessly hound her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wake in Fear
    5.9/1022 votes
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    #23 - Wake in Fear

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1997

    An overworked intern is plagued by dreams in which he sees corpses being wheeled to the hospital morgue. They turn out to be premonitions of patients about to die the next day on the operating table.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Beat the Reaper
    5.9/1016 votes
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    #24 - Beat the Reaper

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/24/1997

    A man on death row prays for a governor's pardon. One night he has a ghostly visitation from his dead partner, who shows him how to escape. But trapped in the bowels of the prison, the man is terrified to learn that the ghost is the Angel of Death, intent upon keeping his prize, and not being cheated.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Going Down
    5.9/1010 votes
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    #25 - Going Down

    Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 5/25/1998

    The experience of having been trapped and held hostage in an elevator has left Kate Bradshaw claustrophobic and mute. In the end, Kate triumphs over her fears as well as her captor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A