The BEST episodes of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files season 2

Every episode of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files season 2!

Heading up the Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files team is Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent who found that his love of the paranormal was greater than his love for the Agency. Now, he leads a young team of intrepid investigators who will convene to dissect the latest unusual images and decide whether they merit further investigation. Grainy videos will be brought to life using the latest in 3D modeling, and Ben will make the final choice which cases will require a trip into the field. Once an investigation is underway, the team will talk to witnesses, carry out experiments using the latest in high tech detection devices, collect physical samples, and determine whether a case should be debunked, or whether it's a baffling paranormal mystery that might even put the team in danger. It's all in a day's work for the dogged investigators of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files.

Last Updated: 8/11/2024Network: SYFYStatus: Ended
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Stonehenge Secrets & Iceland Worm Monster
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8.64
81 votes

#1 - Stonehenge Secrets & Iceland Worm Monster

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/3/2012

Josh 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.

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Into the Vortex & Tavern Shapeshifter
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8.20
90 votes

#2 - Into the Vortex & Tavern Shapeshifter

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/19/2012

The 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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Raining Ufo's & Ectoplasmic Pic
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8.00
90 votes

#3 - Raining Ufo's & Ectoplasmic Pic

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/6/2011

Ben, 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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7.98
97 votes

#4 - Playground Poltergeist & Alien Intruder

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/13/2011

To 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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Vanishing Victim & Sky Serpent
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7.95
87 votes

#5 - Vanishing Victim & Sky Serpent

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/1/2012

The team visits England to examine footage of an alleged alien abduction and a flaming, serpentine object in the sky.

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The Grim Sleeper & The Real Mr. Freeze
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7.95
84 votes

#6 - The Grim Sleeper & The Real Mr. Freeze

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/17/2012

Among 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. To investigate the levitating woman, Bill, Devin, and Lanisha head to Atlanta, GA to the home of JoMarie, with whom the woman in the video, Diane, was staying at the time. The bedroom has since been converted to an office, but JoMarie arranges the space so that Bill, Devin, and Lanisha can build a model bed and run some experiments with the original camera used. The first experiment is a simple lever that will lift Lanisha up from underneath, making it look like a force is suspending her by her torso. The movement is wrong, however, and Lanisha has to strain and use her muscles in order to make it look smooth. Next, they try a cantilever arm, which is the mechanism magicians use to make it look like people are levitating. The movement still looks choppy, and the direction of the force is wrong. The only choice is to build a multiple anchor point pulley system. After hours of work, Lanisha lies down in the rig as Devin and Bill work the pulleys and lift her off the bed. It's an excellent match – the movement, the positioning - the only problem is the visibility of the wires, but with a little video manipulation, they're able to make the wires disappear. Additionally, voice analysis of Diane reveals high stress levels, indicating a hoax. The next case regards superhuman abilities. Wim Hof, a Dutch man known as The Ice Man, has been setting records for years for his ability to endure extreme cold, including submerging himself in a tub of ice on a crowded New York City street, and running a half marathon near the arctic circle. Ben, Jael, and Austin all find it difficult to believe, so they set up a tank filled halfway with a material called polysorb II, a powder which, when mixed with water, looks like ice but is nowhere near as cold. But when they fill the

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Bay Area Hysteria & Jersey Shore Haunting
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7.92
88 votes

#7 - Bay Area Hysteria & Jersey Shore Haunting

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/24/2012

A 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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Battleship Ghost & Scouting UFO
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7.91
85 votes

#8 - Battleship Ghost & Scouting UFO

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/15/2012

Evidence of a ghost lurking on the USS North Carolina is examined, also A purported UFO sighting in Michigan is investigated.

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Bar Fright & Mexico City Cave Witch
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7.88
119 votes

#9 - Bar Fright & Mexico City Cave Witch

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/2011

Purported poltergeist activity in a Texas bar is probed; footage of a flying witch is scrutinized in Mexico.

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Sinister Spirals & Flying Saucers
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7.84
118 votes

#10 - Sinister Spirals & Flying Saucers

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/2011

A flying saucer case from Santa Ana, Cal., is investigated; claims attributed to "flying rods" in Joplin, Mo., are probed.

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Thermal Theater Ghost & Fire In The Sky
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7.83
147 votes

#11 - Thermal Theater Ghost & Fire In The Sky

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/30/2011

One 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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Florida Woodland UFO & Black Forest Entity
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7.76
138 votes

#12 - Florida Woodland UFO & Black Forest Entity

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/5/2012

A purported UFO sighting in Florida is investigated. Also: Evidence of a haunting in Colorado is scrutinized.

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Dashcam Chupacabra & Nightly News Alien
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7.71
172 votes

#13 - Dashcam Chupacabra & Nightly News Alien

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/20/2011

Ben, 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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Graveyard Lightning & Truck Stop Terror
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7.66
85 votes

#14 - Graveyard Lightning & Truck Stop Terror

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/12/2012

Evidence of purported paranormal activity documented at a Mississippi graveyard and an abandoned Missouri truck stop is scrutinized.

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Asylum Apparition & Mystery Over Mexico
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7.63
143 votes

#15 - Asylum Apparition & Mystery Over Mexico

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/2011

Visiting Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville to investigate a video of a purported ghost sighting; UFO sightings over Mexico are probed.

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Old West Haunting & Freeway Flyer
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7.61
119 votes

#16 - Old West Haunting & Freeway Flyer

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/2011

Footage from the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Ariz., is scrutinized; a UFO sighting over a Los Angeles freeway is probed.

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UFO Crash Landing & Graveyard Ghost
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7.60
153 votes

#17 - UFO Crash Landing & Graveyard Ghost

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2011

A purported UFO crash is investigated in New Mexico; a graveyard ghost sighting in Nevada is probed.

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Reptile Rampage & Gasoline Ghoul
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7.56
114 votes

#18 - Reptile Rampage & Gasoline Ghoul

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/22/2012

Evidence 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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Pride House Specter & Bluegrass Bigfoot
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7.46
109 votes

#19 - Pride House Specter & Bluegrass Bigfoot

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/8/2012

Photographic 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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The Real Battle of LA & Queen Mary Menace
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7.42
149 votes

#20 - The Real Battle of LA & Queen Mary Menace

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/2011

After 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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Whaley Ghost House & Muck Monster
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7.14
203 votes

#21 - Whaley Ghost House & Muck Monster

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/2011

One 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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Glowing Gargoyle & Phantom Feline
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7.00
84 votes

#22 - Glowing Gargoyle & Phantom Feline

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/29/2012

Josh 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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Area 51 & Cajun Apparition
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6.51
90 votes

#23 - Area 51 & Cajun Apparition

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/2011

The allegedly haunted Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is visited; UFO footage linked to Area 51 is scrutinized.

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Surveillance Specter & Morgue Mystery
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4.00
1 votes

#24 - Surveillance Specter & Morgue Mystery

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/26/2012

Surveillance Specter (Leicester, UK) & Morgue Mystery (Louisville, KY)

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