The BEST episodes of Paranormal State season 1
Every episode of Paranormal State season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Paranormal State season 1!
PARANORMAL STATE is a half-hour series chronicling the extraordinary life of Ryan Buell and other members of the Penn State University's "Paranormal Research Society" Club (PRS) as they seek to find the truth behind terrifying real life mysteries, hauntings and ghosts. In some ways, the members of PRS are your basic college kids - dealing with the problems of school, dating, and finding their way in the world. The difference is that these students are drawn to examining "other" worlds as well -- working on cases that include ghosts, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena. Each week, they are contacted for help by outside parties ranging from the Catholic Church to ordinary families who are terrified by unusual events in their homes.
#1 - The Haunted Piano
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2008
Case File 2007.02.35F: Ryan and the PRS team are called in when unlucky antique collectors Nadine and John unwittingly bring a paranormally-infested piano into their home in Whitehall, Pennsylvania. A symphony of terror plays out as Lorraine Warren lends her haunted object expertise to our crew as they attempt to dismantle and destroy the offending instrument.
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#2 - Pet Cemetary
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/7/2008
Case File 2007.09.38F: Ryan and his team investigate the bizarre haunting of a woman, Sybil Howell, and her dog Lucy in isolated Waterboro, Maine. The Labrador was chewing at her own fur and standing on guard on the bed, growling at unseen figures. Her master, Sybil, began hearing strange noises. As PRS discovers, Lucy may not be the first canine to experience the phenomena - at least four other animals died violently on the property.
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#3 - Man of the House
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/14/2008
Ryan's team is called to help Cheryl, Bill and their grandson, Adam, when renovations on their 19th century house in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, stir up the pipe-smoking specter of a former tenant named Alfred. PRS locates a long-lost relative of Alfred's and attempt to make contact with the menacing man of the house.
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#4 - Beer, Wine and Spirits
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/2008
The team travels to Katie's Bar in Smithtown, New York, to help Brian with his cranky customer who's got a bad habit of breaking wine glasses... His name's Charlie, and he's been dead since prohibition. Ryan turns this case over to trainees Katrina & Heather until... the casualness of the case is shattered and Charlie returns to pay his bar tab.
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#5 - The Devil in Syracuse
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/2007
Case File 2007.01.34F: The clients are new, but the spirit is all too familiar as Ryan prepares himself to battle the taunting demon that has been following him. He assembles his top investigators, a priest, a psychic and a demonologist couple to assist Tina and her husband Raymond outside Syracuse, New York.
#6 - Mothman
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/3/2008
The Paranormal State team heads to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to seek out the Mothman. Is he a winged alien creature who wants us all destroyed, or was he sent here to warn us of possible doom? Find out whether the legendary Mothman is fact or fiction.
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#7 - Dark Man
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/17/2007
Case File 2006.11.25F: Ryan and his PRS crew are called to an isolated country farmhouse outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to help Helen, a grieving mother, who suspects her son Chris may have fallen victim to a mysterious entity called "The Dark Man". Our team sets about making things right - employing a psychic, a grief counselor, and a moonlight pagan cleansing on the ominous pond that could be the source of the mystery.
#8 - The Woman in the Window
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2008
Case File 2006.12.28F: Ryan and his team lend paranormal assistance to Ally Sokolowski and her family that live in a historic Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, home that was once a part of the Underground Railroad. Interestingly, only two people have seen the apparition: Larry and Brandon, both African Americans. Does the answer to their haunting lie in the mysterious tunnels beneath the house, or is an old fashioned ghost behind this old fashioned ghost story?
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#9 - The Sensitive
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/24/2008
The PRS team head to Allentown, Pennsylvania, to assist Janice & Joe Altieri's teenage daughter who is being haunted by black mists and showing signs of possible demonic influence. Ryan questions whether it's possession, or just depression that's to blame. Or is it something else entirely? Chip Coffey joins the case and makes a psychic connection.
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#10 - The Asylum
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2008
PRS explores the belly of the beast: a New York State Prison that was once a mental asylum. Ryan and his team go behind bars to uncover the institution's paranormal past and present - current inmates and guards are reporting mysterious new sightings!
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#11 - Vegas
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/31/2007
PRS travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, to investigate Savannah, a 14-year old medium who claims to be visited by the spirit of a dead girl she calls "Emily". Her mother, Stephanie, wants to understand how to help her daughter cope. When Ryan discovers that "Emily" is in fact a real-life murder victim from San Antonio, he dispatches Katrina to the scene of the crime and recruits psychic Chip Coffey to mentor the budding teenage medium.
#12 - Paranormal Intervention
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/21/2008
Retiree Carol Ann stays awake every night taping the voices of the dead. Is she simply documenting - or providing a portal for dark forces eager to cross over? PRS cuts their winter break short and travels to Queens, New York, and teams up with legendary investigator Lorraine Warren to help Carol Ann curtail her obsession and close this doorway to the dead - for good.
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#13 - The Cemetery
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/7/2008
Case File 2006.11.26F: PRS visits a Hillcrest Cemetery in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, where a jealous spirit seems to be preying on the newlywed wife of the cemetery's caretaker, Matt. Ryan traces the haunting to a mysterious, unclaimed cremation urn on the grounds. Are the key clues buried among these human remains? There's only one way to find out, and that's by opening it up!
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#14 - Requiem
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2008
Case File 2007.10.40F: The PRS team head to Morris, Pennsylvania to assist a woman named Kristy Warren who has barn behind her home that is haunted. The team learn Kristy's home is host to a a series of tragedies including a lost child and the death of a prior resident from a degenerative disease.
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#15 - The Name
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/2007
Ryan and company enlist the assistance of psychic Chip Coffey to help a single Mom, Jody, who is experiencing paranormal activity in a home that was once the site of brutal murders in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. But the case is turned upside down when it's discovered that Ryan himself is the target of a taunting demon whose name spells pure evil.
#16 - Shape Shifter
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/2008
PRS travels to Shapleigh, Maine, where Georgia Poole and her daughter, Katie, are reporting attacks from a winged "creature" with sharp teeth. Psychic Chip Coffey arrives and senses a half-human, half animal presence - and local Native American shaman warn that a shape-shifting spirit has escaped from a vortex on the woman's property. Ryan and crew sort the myth from the mystery.
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#17 - The Knickerbocker
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/2008
PRS checks into the Knickerbocker Hotel in Linesville, Pennsylvania where the owners, Peg and Myrle Knickerbocker, are reporting strange noises and the appearance of phantom children in some of the rooms. Additionally, several attendees of a recent anniversary party at the 100-year-old hotel either died or experienced illnesses in the weeks following the party. Ryan and the crew invite psychic CJ Sellers to help them sort out the paranormal from the coincidental.
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#18 - School House Haunting
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/28/2008
Case File 2007.01.32F: PRS travels to Leominster, Massachusetts, to investigate a converted old schoolhouse where disembodied voices of children disturb are disturbing Shannon Sylvia and her husband, Jeff. In a chilling EVP session, PRS hears a voice calling out the name "Katie." The mystery takes a turn when Ryan tracks down the former tenant - and her name... is Katie.
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#19 - Freshman Fear
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/2008
Lauren, a young female student, claims to see a ghost in her dorm room at Penn State. But is she simply responding to the anxiety of college life? Ryan scours through urban legend, mysterious campus deaths, and an ancient Japanese candle game to find the core cause of the case.
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#20 - Sixth Sense
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/10/2007
Shelly Seighman, a worried mother, calls PRS to help her son Matthew, a boy who sees dead people. Matthew's story strikes a chord with Ryan - who also experienced paranormal activity as a child. Ryan investigates, and discovers that "Timmy", the spirit Matthew sees most often, could actually be the spirit of a neighbor who died on the property years before the family moved there.