The WORST episodes of Destination Fear
Every episode of Destination Fear ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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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#2 - Ashmore Estates
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/30/2022
Alex has a big surprise in store for Dakota, Chelsea, and Tanner when he takes them back to a decrepit Illinois poorhouse so scary that they swore never to return. But will tragic new information about this location force the team to re-evaluate the haunting?
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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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.
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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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?
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#9 - 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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Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/13/2023
Dakota saves the darkest, bleakest location for the last stop of one twisted road trip. This infamous psychiatric hospital in rural Connecticut is so diseased with dark history and demonic energy that it may be the final nail in the coffin for the “Destination Fear” team.
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#11 - 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.
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#12 - 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.
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Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/2/2022
Dakota diabolical dive into darkness continues when he blindsides the team with a double dose of terror at an abandoned Pennsylvania sanatorium. Can they handle a night in the cell block where one of America’s most horrific serial killers was housed?
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#14 - 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.
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#15 - 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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#16 - 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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Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/25/2022
The team faces a trifecta of terror at a decaying sanatorium in rural Pennsylvania. If a ghostly mimic and child spirits aren’t enough to shake up the crew, Dakota has a dark and twisted experiment up his sleeve to amp up the fear at this foreboding facility.
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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/9/2022
The team learns the true meaning of “school spirit” at a vacant junior high school in Ohio. From jangling keys luring them to a killer custodian’s lair to a mind-boggling encounter in the gym, Dakota and crew are the victims of a non-stop haunted hazing.
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#21 - 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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#22 - 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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Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/6/2023
The team falls deeper into the darkness at a deteriorating juvenile detention center near a quiet New York village. Dakota Laden is eager to establish a close bond with the youthful spirits, but quickly discovers to be careful what you wish for in this nightmarish facility.
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#24 - 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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#25 - 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.
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