The BEST episodes of Destination Fear
Every episode of Destination Fear ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Destination Fear!
Maverick paranormal explorer Dakota Laden takes his sister, Chelsea Laden, and best friend, Tanner Wiseman, on a cross-country road trip to visit the most-haunted locations in America. At each terrifying stop, the trio's unbreakable bond is put the test as they face their deepest, darkest fears.
#1 - Old South Pittsburg Hospital
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/2/2019
The team pushes itself to the edge of sanity as they explore a notoriously haunted hospital in Tennessee. Dakota and Chelsea's sibling bond is tested when she is confronted by an aggressive entity with a grudge against women on the third floor.
#2 - St. Albans Sanatorium
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/2019
The team reveals a terrifying twist when they revisit St. Albans Sanatorium in Radford, Virginia, a location so awful that Chelsea quit last time and vowed she would never return. Can the trio conquer St. Albans before it conquers them again?
#3 - Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2019
In the series premiere, Dakota surprises Chelsea and Tanner with the news that they are headed to Brushy State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, known as the "Alcatraz of the South." Bearing witness to more than 10,000 deaths and housing James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., as one of its former inmates, Brushy is rife with paranormal activity. But when Chelsea has a shocking confrontation with an entity inside Ray's cell, and Tanner is threatened by something unknown, Dakota's "fear" experiment takes a terrifying turn.
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#4 - Cambria County Jail
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/27/2020
Convinced total isolation and disorientation is the only way to push fear to its absolute limits, Dakota leads the team to Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, to investigate a dungeon deep in the bowels of the old Cambria County Jail.
#5 - Sheboygan County Asylum
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/3/2020
Dakota brings the road trip to its most chilling overnight yet, inside a shuttered Wisconsin asylum. They will be the first team ever to sleep inside its abandoned halls, where little is known about why several nurses took their own lives.
#6 - Pennhurst State School
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/28/2019
The team faces their biggest paranormal challenge yet when they roll up to an abandoned asylum in Spring City, Pennsylvania. The hissing, violent entities within leave them wondering if they'll ever return home from their terrifying road trip.
#7 - Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/2020
The team heads to West Virginia to explore the most haunted asylum in America. Dakota has doubts about their ability to combat the bloodthirsty souls lurking in the shadows of the cursed property, but Tanner believes they are up for the challenge!
#8 - Eloise Psychiatric Hospital
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/23/2019
Dakota, Chelsea and Tanner investigate one of the most-haunted locations in Michigan — Eloise Psychiatric Hospital. The team begins to lose its grip on reality as it is subjected to unexplained screams, slamming doors and rampant poltergeist activity.
#9 - Nopeming Sanatorium
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/29/2020
Dakota, Chelsea and Tanner head home to face the horror of their childhood nightmares, Minnesota's most-notorious sanatorium. The team has never had the courage to confront the terror inside -- until now!
#10 - Yorktown Memorial Hospital
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/2020
The team investigates a Texas hospital with a gruesome history, including a brutal double homicide. Once under the direction of Catholic nuns, the abandoned building’s chapel may house a demonic entity with its sights set on Dakota!
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#11 - West Virginia State Penitentiary
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/2019
The team heads to Moundsville, West Virginia, to investigate what was once one of the top ten most-violent prisons in America. Dakota fears he may have to leave some part of his soul behind after he is targeted in a horrific physical attack.
#12 - Madison Seminary
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/30/2019
Dark forces conspire against the team as they investigate the Madison Seminary, one of the most-haunted locations in Ohio. Terrifying voices, shadow figures and physical contact with a demonic entity leaves them stunned and shaken to the core.
#13 - Ohio State Reformatory
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/14/2021
All bets are off when Tanner picks one of America’s most depraved prisons to investigate – the Ohio State Reformatory, also known for its role in The Shawshank Redemption. He unveils a fear experiment so diabolical that the team is forced to decide whether to part ways or to continue on this road trip from hell together.
#14 - Villisca Axe Murder House and Malvern Manor
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/11/2021
In an unprecedented move, Dakota takes the team to not one, but two locations … at the same time! Combined, it will make for an exploration of one of the most gruesome events in American history. A family was brutally murdered in the now-infamous Villisca Axe Murder House, and many believe that a dark and nefarious entity haunts the home. But it’s the seemingly paranormal connection to a hotel 40 miles away that has intrigued Dakota, and he and the team are the first to explore it.
#15 - Fairfield County Infirmary
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/21/2019
The team's terrifying road trip takes them to a house of horrors in Lancaster, Ohio. When Dakota tasks each member to explore the property all alone, Alex encounters something so evil it wouldn’t be believed if not caught on video.
#16 - Randolph County Infirmary
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/2020
The team returns to Indiana to explore an abandoned facility that has haunted Tanner’s nightmares for the past five years. He has only now mustered up the courage to confront who -- or what -- terrorized him during their first investigation.
#17 - Old Idaho Prison
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/2020
After many nights of torment by the paranormal, Alex finally gets his chance to pick a haunted location for the team to investigate. And he is ready to get even. He has planned the most terrifying experiment for Dakota yet at an infamous Idaho prison.
#18 - Odd Fellows Home
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/28/2021
Alex has a diabolical plan for revenge that quickly turns to regret once he realizes he has unleashed something terrifying on the team. His location, once home to a mysterious secret society that entombed skeletons in the walls of its buildings, will reveal things to the team about their fear threshold that they may wish they never knew.
#19 - Old Montana Prison
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/13/2020
The team investigates a former Montana prison haunted by dark entities known for choking, shanking and even possessing visitors. Dakota must overcome his fear of violent spirits in order to survive the night behind the walls of the vile place.
#20 - Joliet Prison
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/2020
It's sweet revenge for Chelsea when she takes the team to Chicago's historic and utterly terrifying Joliet Prison. Terrible things happen once they separate inside its imposing walls, and one member experiences their most sickening night ever.
#21 - Rolling Hills Asylum
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2020
Tanner confronts his greatest fear when the team explores an upstate New York asylum said to be haunted by the spirit of a 7-foot-tall man. The unique investigation causes them to completely re-evaluate everything they've ever believed about fear.
#22 - Old Bourbon Distillery
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/2020
The team heads to Kentucky to explore one of America's oldest bourbon distilleries. Dakota has a theory that quick and violent deaths cause some of the most intense hauntings, and he believes this sprawling house of horrors is just the place to test it.
#23 - Hill View Manor
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/20/2020
The team heads to New Castle, Pennsylvania, to investigate a former home for the destitute and elderly. Dakota is determined to conquer the terror inside, but things go horribly wrong when Alex leaves the property in a dire paranormal-induced emergency.
#24 - Sweet Springs Sanitarium
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/2019
The site of a horrific Native American massacre is the team’s darkest, most-terrifying location yet. They are tormented by unexplained screams, terrifying chants and a voice that almost pushes them to the edge of madness.
#25 - Statler Hotel
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/2019
Dakota's team is pushed to their limits when they check into a historic hotel in Buffalo, NY. Disembodied voices and shadows are everywhere, but the haunted elevators prove most terrifying when communications fail and they each find themselves alone.