Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files (2010)
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 Hansen, who review various photographs and viral videos of alleged paranormal activity. If a particular piece of evidence is deemed intriguing enough to warrant further investigation, they set out to recreate and explain the sighting. Beginning episode #207 in first-half of season two, the show began to feature a "You Decide" segment in the middle of the program where a video is shown of something strange and then asks the viewing audience if they think the footage is fact or faked. After a commercial break the truth behind the video is revealed.
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Episode 1 - The Real Battle of LA / Queen Mary Menace
Release Date: 2011-03-23After 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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Episode 2 - Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky
Release Date: 2011-03-30One 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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Episode 3 - Raining Ufo's / Ectoplasmic Pic
Release Date: 2011-04-06Ben, 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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Episode 4 - Playground Poltergeist / Alien Intruder
Release Date: 2011-04-13To 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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Episode 5 - Dashcam Chupacabra / Nightly News Alien
Release Date: 2011-04-20Ben, 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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Episode 6 - Whaley Ghost House / Muck Monster
Release Date: 2011-04-27One 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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Episode 7 - UFO Crash Landing / Graveyard Ghost
Release Date: 2011-10-19A purported UFO crash is investigated in New Mexico; a graveyard ghost sighting in Nevada is probed.
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Episode 8 - Area 51 / Cajun Apparition
Release Date: 2011-10-26The allegedly haunted Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is visited; UFO footage linked to Area 51 is scrutinized.
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Episode 9 - Sinister Spirals / Flying Saucers
Release Date: 2011-11-02A flying saucer case from Santa Ana, Cal., is investigated; claims attributed to "flying rods" in Joplin, Mo., are probed.
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Episode 10 - Asylum Apparition / Mystery Over Mexico
Release Date: 2011-11-09Visiting Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville to investigate a video of a purported ghost sighting; UFO sightings over Mexico are probed.
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Episode 11 - Old West Haunting / Freeway Flyer
Release Date: 2011-11-16Footage from the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Ariz., is scrutinized; a UFO sighting over a Los Angeles freeway is probed.
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Episode 12 - Bar Fright; Mexico City Cave Witch
Release Date: 2011-11-30Purported poltergeist activity in a Texas bar is probed; footage of a flying witch is scrutinized in Mexico.
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Episode 13 - The Grim Sleeper / The Real Mr. Freeze
Release Date: 2012-04-17Among 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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Episode 14 - Bay Area Hysteria / Jersey Shore Haunting
Release Date: 2012-04-24A 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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Episode 15 - Vanishing Victim / Sky Serpent
Release Date: 2012-05-01The team visits England to examine footage of an alleged alien abduction and a flaming, serpentine object in the sky.
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Episode 16 - Pride House Specter / Bluegrass Bigfoot
Release Date: 2012-05-08Photographic 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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Episode 17 - Battleship Ghost / Scouting UFO
Release Date: 2012-05-15Evidence of a ghost lurking on the USS North Carolina is examined, also A purported UFO sighting in Michigan is investigated.
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Episode 18 - Reptile Rampage / Gasoline Ghoul
Release Date: 2012-05-22Evidence 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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Episode 19 - Glowing Gargoyle / Phantom Feline
Release Date: 2012-05-29Josh 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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Episode 20 - Florida Woodland UFO / Black Forrest Entity
Release Date: 2012-06-05A purported UFO sighting in Florida is investigated. Also: Evidence of a haunting in Colorado is scrutinized.
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Episode 21 - Graveyard Lightning / Truck Stop Terror
Release Date: 2012-06-12Evidence of purported paranormal activity documented at a Mississippi graveyard and an abandoned Missouri truck stop is scrutinized.
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Episode 22 - Into The Vortex / Tavern Shapeshifter
Release Date: 2012-06-19The 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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Episode 23 - Surveillance Spectre / Morgue Mystery
Release Date: 2012-06-26Probes in England and Kentucky unfold. (First episode of a two episode season finale, with a special 8 pm start time.)
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Episode 24 - Stonehenge Secrets / Iceland Worm Monster
Release Date: 2012-06-26Josh 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.