Ghost Asylum

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Ghost Ayslum
Genre Paranormal
Reality TV
Composer(s) Opus 1 Music Library
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 10
Production
Executive producer(s) Matthew Hobin
Erin L. Ryder
Tim Hamilton
Colleen Needles Steward
Shannon Keenon Demers
Production location(s) Gallatin, Tennessee
Cinematography Brain Hodge
Alex Poppas
Editor(s) Joseph Evans
Casey Mandel
Alpesh Patel
Running time 45 minutes
Production company(s) Tremendous! Entertainment
Distributor Discovery Communications, LLC
Release
Original network Destination America
Original release September 7, 2014 (2014-09-07) –
present
External links
Website

Ghost Asylum is an American paranormal television series that premiered on September 7, 2014 in the United States on Destination America. The series features a group of professional ghost hunters that try to "trap ghosts" in the country's most haunted abandoned asylums, sanitariums and mental hospitals. The show airs on Fridays at 9/8C.[1] The show was renewed for a second season of 14 episodes, which premiered on April 5, 2015. The second season will air in two waves of 8 episodes, with the second wave coming later on in 2015.[2]

The series follows the paranormal team known as the Tennessee Wraith Chasers; the pilot of the series was originally named Ghostland Tennessee before it was renamed for the Destination America network.[3]

Premise

The series features a group of fearless ghost hunters with their paranormal team called the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, who try to use their Southern charm, back-water ingenuity, and engineering knowledge to create supernatural inventions during their investigations in America's most haunted locations, which just happen to be abandoned asylums. Their specialty is investigating the many decaying and derelict mental institutions littered across the United States.

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We're the Tennessee Wraith Chasers. We're kicking down the doors in the most haunted places in America to trap the spirits that lurk inside. The key to catching a ghost is to combine modern scientific method...with some serious backwoods, Southern know-how. Because these things don't care if you get scared. We're a band of brothers, and we don't just hunt ghosts, we're out to become the first team to ever trap one.

The show starts off with a warning to viewers:

WARNING: "Our boys are professional ghost hunters who have permission to enter the most haunted buildings in America. Trespassing on private property is dangerous and illegal. Chasing ghosts without proper training will get you killed."

Cast

Tennessee Wraith Chasers:

  • Chris Smith - TWC Founder
  • Scott Porter - TWC Historian
  • Brannon Smith - TWC Inventor
  • Chasey Ray McKnight - TWC Engineer
  • Steven "Doogie" McDougal - TWC Co-Founder

Series Overview

Season Episodes Originally aired DVD and Blu-ray release date
Season premiere Season finale Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
1 6 September 7, 2014 (2014-09-07) October 12, 2014 (2014-10-12) TBA N/A N/A
2 12 April 5, 2015 (2015-04-05) November 22, 2015 (2015-11-22) TBA N/A N/A
3 TBA April 3, 2016 (2016-04-03) TBA TBA N/A N/A

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

Ep.# Title Location Original Airdate
1.1 "Old War Memorial" Old War Memorial Hospital, Scottsville, Kentucky September 7, 2014 (2014-09-07)
In the series premiere, a group of ghost hunters called the Tennessee Waith Chasers (TWC) hunt for ghosts at Kentucky's Old War Memorial Hospital, where they search for the spirit of a doctor rumored to be haunting the halls of the facility.
1.2 "Kuhn State Hospital" Kuhn State Hospital, Vicksburg, Mississippi September 14, 2014 (2014-09-14)
The team investigates Mississippi's massive Kuhn State Memorial Hospital, built in 1835 because of a smallpox outbreak; and it also treated wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. They invent a Faraday cage-like box to trap a spirit while ghost hunting.
1.3 "Hayswood Infirmary" Hayswood Infirmary, Maysville, Kentucky September 21, 2014 (2014-09-21)
TWC investigate the Hayswood Infirmary, which once served as a home for servicemen suffering from PTSD (known then as shell shock) after surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor. The guys also review a disputed raw unedited video capturing a supposed apparition in the hospital's window known as the "Hayswood Ghost".
1.4 "St. Vincent's Home" St. Vincent's Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma September 28, 2014 (2014-09-28)
The team investigates the abandoned St. Vincent's Home, once operated by the Brothers of Mercy. They discover the home had its share of tragedy, including an incident in 1962 when a male nurse went insane and suffocated two patients, and the murder of a priest years later. They build a vacuum trap with crystals to capture an evil entity they sense.
1.5 "Old Ironton Psychiatric" Old Ironton Psychiatric, Ironton, Missouri October 5, 2014 (2014-10-05)
TWC investigate the dark history of Missouri's Old Ironton Psychiatric, an abandoned asylum that harbors the local legend that tells of a deranged patient in the 1950s killing three nurses on the premises and now allegedly haunts the halls. To trap this ghost, the guys build a big battery shaped like a pyramid that covers a Telsa coil.
1.6 "Cannon Memorial Banner" Cannon Memorial Hospital, Banner Elk, North Carolina October 12, 2014 (2014-10-12)
The team investigates North Carolina's Cannon Memorial Hospital with a psych ward that drove its patients insane. One such patient held a doctor and some nurses at gunpoint in the 1960s before he was apprehened by the police. To trap a spirit, they build an infrasound generator to boost the sound that pushes the entitiy towards an infinity mirror.

Season 2 (2015)

Ep.# Title Location Original Airdate
2.1 "U.S. Marine Hospital" U.S. Marine Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee April 5, 2015 (2015-04-05)
In the season 2 opener, the Tennessee Wraith Chasers (TWC) stay in their home state where they investigate an American Marine Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. To trap the ghost of a Civil War soldier named Henry Wood, they build a "Water Wall Cone" trap, an elaborate fountain that will keep the entity from crossing the curtain of running water.
2.2 "Sloss Furnace" Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12)
Known as the "Southern Gates of Hell" TWC is on the hunt at Sloss Furnaces in Alabama. While on the job, this ghastly metal foundry claimed the lives of countless workers by either burning or gassing them to death.
2.3 "Rolling Hills Asylum" Rolling Hills Asylum, East Bethany, New York April 19, 2015 (2015-04-19)
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers are on the hunt in one of the Northeast's deadliest locations, Rolling Hills Asylum, where tragedy and mistreatment transformed a place that was supposed to help the needy into a hell house of despair. It's home to the spirits of Nurse Emma who tortured her patients, Roy the gentle giant and Raymond, a sexual deviant. In order to trap these entities, they build an "Inferno Box" that works like a Faraday Cage which doesn't let any EMF's in or out.
2.4 "Mansfield Reformatory" Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26)
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers travel to Ohio to investigate Mansfield Reformatory and explore the prison's history of torture, assault and suicides.
2.5 "St. Albans Sanatorium" St. Albans Sanatorium, Radford, Virginia May 3, 2015 (2015-05-03)
TWC investigate Albans Sanatorium, a former boys' school and experimental hospital. They try to make contact with the spirit of a murdered girl and rid the basement of a demonic entity.
2.6 "Waverly Sanatorium" Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky May 10, 2015 (2015-05-10)
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers investigate Kentucky's Waverly Hills Sanatorium, where the spirits of tuberculosis patients who died during their stay still haunt the place. It's also haunted by the ghost of Nurse Betty who hanged herself after having an abortion in the 1920s. They prepare to trap a dark entity nicknamed "The Creeper" with what they call a "Phantom Voltage Inducer", a device with magnetic panels that helps amplify a spirit's own energy.
2.7 "Moundsville Penitentiary" West Virginia State Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia May 17, 2015 (2015-05-17)
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers set out to trap the feuding spirits of a white supremacist and the head of a biker gang during the investigation of a penitentiary located in Moundsville, West Virginia.
2.8 "Cannon Memorial Hospital" Cannon Memorial Hospital, Banner Elk, North Carolina May 24, 2015 (2015-05-24)
TWC return to handle unfinished business at Cannon Memorial Hospital. This time, the guys arrive with information on a forsaken spirit of a Native American and new equipment, an explosive trap they invented in order to trap an entity.
2.9 "Fenwick Plantation" Fenwick Hall, Johns Island, South Carolina October 16, 2015 (2015-10-16)
TWC investigate Fenwick Hall on Fenwick Plantation, a 300-year old brick house that was the home of John Fenwick who filled it with secret rooms, hidden passageways and a tunnel filled with treasure. They learn the story of young lovers Ann and Tony who met a tragic end at Fenwick's hands. During their investigation, the guys search for the spirits of spies, pirates and a headless horsemen. In order to trap a ghost horse, they build an "Electrostatic Shape-Shifter" device that uses a Van de Graaff generator to produce energy.
2.10 "Pennhurst Asylum" Pennhurst Asylum, Spring City, Pennsylvania October 23, 2015 (2015-10-23)
TWC head to the legendary Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania, an institution infamous for its abusive treatment towards its patients, suicides and other horrors. They investigate in hopes of freeing any abused child spirits from their imprisonment in the nightmarish buildings by trapping them in their "Wraith Toy Box" filled with fun and safe trigger objects.
2.11 "Hill View Manor" Hill View Manor, New Castle, Pennsylvania November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)
TWC investigate Hill View Manor, a former poor farm believed to be one of the most-haunted buildings in Western Pennsylvania. The guys make a "Power Pyramid" made out of granite and quartz with a copper cap, creating kinetic energy to trap the spirits of two patients who committed suicide, as well as a gargoyle-like entity that hides in the shadows.
2.12 "Sibley Mill" Sibley Mill, Augusta, Georgia November 22, 2015 (2015-11-22)
TWC travel to Augusta to be the first paranormal team to investigate the Sibley Mill, which was once a cotton mill, a fabric factory and a gunpowder works used by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. They create a "Phantom Writer", a case filled with iron powder, making a magnetic field in order to trap the spirits of loom worker Maude Williamson, who was murdered by her lover in the weave room and assembly worker Clark Williams who's skull was crushed by a steam cylinder in the slasher room.

Season 3 (2016)

Ep.# Title Location Original Airdate
3.1 "U.S.S. Edson" USS Edson, Bay City, Michigan April 3, 2016 (2016-04-03)
In the season 3 opener, the Tennessee Wraith Chasers investigate the U.S.S. Edson, a haunted destroyer that served in the Vietnam War currently docked at the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum in Michigan. In order to communicate with a sailor who committed suicide and a caretaker who died of a heart attack on board, instead of building their usual trap, they conduct an experiment. They design a "cryogenic cloak", a rack with troughs of water with dry ice to form a cascading mist so spirits can manifest.
3.2 "Old South Pittsburg Hospital" Old South Pittsburg Hospital, South Pittsburg, Tennessee April 10, 2016 (2016-04-10)
3.3 "Peoria State Hospital" Peoria State Hospital, Bartonville, Illinois April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)
3.4 "Missouri State Penitentiary" Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri April 24, 2016 (2016-04-24)
3.5 "Castillo de San Marcos" Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida May 1, 2016 (2016-05-01)
3.6 "Pauly Jail" Pauly Jail, Noblesville, Indiana May 8, 2016 (2016-05-08)
3.7 "Preston Castle" Preston Castle, Ione, California May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15)
3.8 "Coco Palms Resort" Coco Palms Resort, Kauai, Hawaii May 22, 2016 (2016-05-22)

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