The BEST episodes of Destination Fear season 3

Every episode of Destination Fear season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Destination Fear season 3!

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.

Last Updated: 3/10/2024Network: Discovery+Status: Ended
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Ohio State Reformatory
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8.80
20 votes

#1 - 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.

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Odd Fellows Home
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8.65
20 votes

#2 - 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.

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Fort Knox
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8.42
19 votes

#3 - Fort Knox

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/7/2021

The team is left with less-than-warm feelings for Dakota when he hatches a chilling plan to communicate with the dead at an abandoned fort in Prospect, Maine. Things get even more heated when a ghostly caretaker threatens to throw them all out into the cold.

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Villisca Axe Murder House and Malvern Manor
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8.42
24 votes

#4 - 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.

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Spike Island
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8.41
22 votes

#5 - Spike Island

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/25/2021

The team's epic overseas investigation takes them to Ireland's most haunted prison. The dark forces on the island are overwhelming, and terror hits Tanner like a ton of bricks. But something else lights up Dakota with a fear he's never experienced before.

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Loftus Hall
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8.35
17 votes

#6 - Loftus Hall

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/18/2021

The team jumps out of their comfort zone and across the pond to the rugged and stormy coast of Ireland. They're prepared to come face-to-face with poltergeists, ghostly nuns and maybe the Devil himself at a cursed 14th-century mansion.

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Missouri State Penitentiary
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8.32
22 votes

#7 - Missouri State Penitentiary

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/31/2021

Dakota blindsides the team when he decides to amp up the fear at what once was the bloodiest prison in America – Missouri State Penitentiary. Chelsea can barely hold it together when the ghost of a child kidnapper won’t stop trying to communicate with her.

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Indiana State Sanatorium
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8.28
18 votes

#8 - Indiana State Sanatorium

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/11/2021

Alex pushes new fear boundaries with his pick for the next stop. Not only has the Indiana State Sanatorium never been explored, nobody in the world knows what lurks within its walls. This investigation will challenge the team unlike any other before it!

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Phelps Dodge Hospital
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8.21
14 votes

#9 - Phelps Dodge Hospital

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/2021

The team digs deep as they mine their darkest fears at an abandoned Arizona hospital. Faced with a vicious entity that hates men, they get more evidence than they dared hope for. But hope turns to horror when one of them gets a ghostly death threat.

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Edinburgh Manor
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8.18
17 votes

#10 - Edinburgh Manor

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/4/2021

Six years ago, Dakota and Alex attempted to explore Iowa’s menacing Edinburgh Manor, where it’s said that residents literally slit their own throats to escape the misery. Without a plan, they were chased away by something in the basement. Now they return with the entire team, armed with a new understanding of the paranormal. But they once again encounter something in the basement. Can Dakota turn the tables on the poltergeist known as The Joker?

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Twin Bridges Orphanage
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7.89
18 votes

#11 - Twin Bridges Orphanage

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/2021

Twin Bridges Orphanage, located in Twin Bridges, Montana, is an abandoned orphanage with a tragic and horrific history. The utter sadness and devastation of the orphanage’s children permeates every corner of the building with a deep, dark energy. Dakota finds himself communicating with someone – or something – that may not be what it seems.

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Waverly Hills Sanatorium
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7.82
33 votes

#12 - Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2021

The team is back, and their first stop is straight out of a nightmare! They’ve feared Waverly Hills Sanatorium their entire lives, and for good reason. What they catch on video lives up to the location’s reputation as the most haunted in all of America.

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Greene County Almshouse
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7.71
24 votes

#13 - Greene County Almshouse

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/21/2021

Fed up with Tanner’s and Dakota’s experiments, Chelsea picks a revenge location unlike any other. The dark, untapped energy of this Pennsylvania poorhouse is overwhelming, and it forces the team to make a stunning decision to save their sanity.

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Old Nazareth Hospital
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7.71
17 votes

#14 - Old Nazareth Hospital

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/2021

The team rolls into a Texas town to investigate one of the most haunted hospitals in America. Chelsea is unhappy to discover a haunted doll room on the premises, and the team is not prepared when a wave of pent-up paranormal energy is unleashed upon them.

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Old Adrian Hospital
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7.57
21 votes

#15 - Old Adrian Hospital

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/2021

It's Tanner's turn to pick the next stop, and his plans for revenge take a truly dark turn at a deserted Pennsylvania hospital. Dark entities, doppelgangers and poltergeists lurk around every corner, but what the team hears is the most terrifying of all.

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Nevada State Prison
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7.35
17 votes

#16 - Nevada State Prison

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/2021

Still reeling from a ghostly warning, Dakota and the team heads to one of America's deadliest prisons -- a place packed with tortured entities. True fear strikes their hearts when a spirit reaches out to the team for an unimaginable request.

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