5.5/10112 votes#1 - Back Ward
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1997
The new chief psychiatrist at an old mental institution is haunted by Images from the hospital's cruel past.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1028 votes
#2 - 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
- 6.4/1030 votes
#3 - 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
- 5.5/1025 votes
#4 - You'll Always Be Mine
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1997
A young woman is stalked by the ghost of an obsessive suitor. After she's found murdered, the cop who failed to protect her is haunted by her cries for help from beyond the grave.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1022 votes
#5 - 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
- 5.1/1014 votes
#6 - Blood Money
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1997
A crooked lawman hounds an ex-con bank robber to determine the whereabouts of his buried loot. Upon retrieving the ill-gotten booty, the dirty cop discovers to his horror that the money's even dirtier - it's haunted by the spirits of those who were killed during the heist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1026 votes
#7 - 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
- 6.3/10108 votes
#8 - 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
- 6.8/1021 votes
#9 - 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
- 6.0/1015 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.6/1028 votes
#11 - 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
- 5.7/1017 votes
#12 - Beware the Muse
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/3/1997
A tabloid reporter concocts a story about a long-dead serial killer, and unwittingly resurrects the killer's ghost.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.5/1016 votes
#13 - Blazes
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/10/1997
A hero fireman, who is actually a compulsive arsonist, forges an unholy alliance with a mysterious homeless man with more than a passing interest in blazes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1020 votes
#14 - 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
- 4.9/1019 votes
#15 - Green-Eyed Monster
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/17/1997
A jealous husband becomes a green-eyed monster when he finds his wife giving undue attention to their backyard tree -- the very tree from which her ex-boyfriend committed suicide.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1016 votes
#16 - 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
- 5.9/1016 votes
#17 - 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
- 5.6/1015 votes
#18 - Conscience
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1998
A good man who has done some terrible things finds that his conscience has a unique way of giving himself away - whether he wants it or not.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1013 votes
#19 - 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
- 6.3/1019 votes
#20 - 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
- 6.4/1015 votes
#21 - 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
- 6.0/1015 votes
#22 - 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
- 7.2/1014 votes
#23 - 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
- 7.7/1017 votes
#24 - 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
- 5.8/1017 votes
#25 - Heartsick
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 2/9/1998
The recipient of a heart transplant finds herself attracted to a stranger she sees on a train. Turns out she's being controlled by the ghost of the donor - the erstwhile lover of the man on the train.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Ghost Stories Season 1
Every episode of Ghost Stories Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Ghost Stories Season 1!
Ghost Stories is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1997 to 1998 on the cable channel FOX Family.
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Network:ABC Family
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Back Ward" is the best rated episode of "Ghost Stories" season 1. It scored 5.5/10 based on 112 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/28/1997. This episode is rated 1.3 points higher than the second-best, "Last Flight Out".