The WORST episodes of Paranormal State
Every episode of Paranormal State ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Paranormal State!
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 Basement
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/2009
The crew heads to Jefferson County, Ohio to investigate the home of Heidi and her daughter Stacy, who claim their basement is haunted and that there are sounds of rattling chains and doors closing on their own.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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!
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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?
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Ghosts Of Gettysburg
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/2009
Case File 2009.03F: The PRS are called to a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania bed and breakfast whose owners, Leslie and Keith, believe they have stirred up some Civil War spirit activity during their renovation. They report seeing shadows, hearing footsteps and a loud boom that seems to sound every night at 3:02 AM.
#13 - Devil's Nest
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/18/2009
Patrick, his wife Margaret and their kids are living in terror since they moved into a cabin in southwestern Virginia. Patrick fears the scratches on his arms may be connected to alleged sightings of a wolf-like creature near the cabin. As Ryan discovers the tragic and bizarre history of the cabin, Patrick reveals a secret that may explain the haunting. Psychic/medium Chip Coffey helps solve the mystery.
#14 - Suicide Possession
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/15/2009
Joan and her boyfriend Tony are seeing apparitions and hearing hushed conversations in their central New Jersey home. Both are concerned that the spirits are influencing their behavior: a non-drinker, Tony has turned to the bottle while Joan has thoughts of harming herself. PRS uncovers deaths inside the home with eerie connections to their alleged haunting.
#15 - Dead Legends
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/22/2009
Guests have been fleeing the famed Hotel Conneaut in Lake, Pennsylvania, amid reports of paranormal activity. Heavy doors opening on their own, sightings of a boy, a bride and a menacing butcher, have the hotel's staff on edge. Psychic/Medium Chip Coffey joins PRS as they record their own eye-opening evidence and discover a surprising twist about the phenomena.
#16 - Lost Souls
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/2/2010
The PRS answers a call from a Levittown, Pennsylvania, woman, Cathy, who claims she and her son, Michael, have encountered the ghost of little boy in their home who calls for his mommy. Psychic Michelle Belanger arrives and detects a child's presence and a possible connection to a local murder.
#17 - Devil in Jersey
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/2010
The PRS joins UFO investigator William J. Birnes and delves into the Pine Barrens of southeast New Jersey on the hunt for the legendary Jersey Devil. Their investigation turns up a curios thermal camera footage of a deer-like figure that appears to have wings which matches some eyewitness descriptions of the creature.
#18 - Haunting Connection
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/11/2011
The PRS team is called in to help a young mother, Kimberly, tormented by an otherworldly connection to a teenage girl murdered in her Pittsburg, Pennsylvania neighborhood years ago. Could she have psychic ability or is there a more sinister force at work? PRS dives headlong into a harrowing investigation to determine the true source of the haunting.
#19 - Permission To Do Harm
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/2011
The PRS helps a Needmore, Pennsylvania, family allegedly plagued by poltergeist activity involving a mirror that levitated and shatters on its own. Tracey and Crystal initially thought the house might just be settling, but as their experiences continued and became worse, they knew they needed help. Ryan must track down the spirit and contain it before it does irreparable damage.
#20 - Lady Vampire
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2009
PRS investigates a case in Kyle, Texas involving single mom, Dawn, and her five year-old daughter, Lola, both tormented by the appearance of a hag they call `Lady Vampire.' Lola's turmoil strikes a cord with Ryan, sending him back to his own childhood experience. And with the help of a controversial new technical device, Ryan makes a different kind of connection with the client.
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#21 - Ghost on the Tracks
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2010
PRS is called to a Berlin, New Jersey, to investigate David Michael's Salon. They soon learn that the building's proximity to deadly train tracks might be the true cause of spirit activity. The urban legend of a young mother's murder/suicide on the very same tracks blurs the line between fact and fiction, and it's up to PRS to "track" down the truth.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Do Bad Things
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/2010
After receiving a letter from Heather requesting PRS' help, Ryan and the team head to the city of Miamisubrg, Ohio, to help a grieving family and determine if the family's house contributed to the untimely death of a daughter. As the case continues, Ryan makes a discovery which threatens to cut the investigation short, but he doesn't want to leave a certain family member without providing disturbing answers.
#24 - Southern Discomfort at Sweetwater Mansion
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/25/2011
PRS heads to the Deep South to investigate a haunted Antebellum Mansion in Florence, Alabama. The caretaker and volunteers at the property have many a tale to tell of paranormal activity. A dark past is discovered, possibly revealing the roots of the haunting and identifying the alleged spirits still lingering there today.
#25 - Shadow Caster
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/19/2010
PRS investigates a Fultondale, Alabama, home where clients, Georgiana and her two daughters are so terrified they moved out after only 18 months. They have seen shadow figures, been touched and have a recorded EVP stating, "Look at me, get out of here." Psychic/medium John Oliver and friends from the Alabama Paranormal Society, join Ryan and his team on the case.