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Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is a paranormal investigation series produced by Base Productions that began airing July 15, 2010, on SyFy. The show follows a team of investigators, led by former FBI agent Ben Hansen, who review various photographs and viral videos of alleged paranormal activity. If a particular piece of evidence is deemed intriguing enough to warrant further investigation, they set out to recreate and explain the sighting. Beginning episode #207 in first-half of season two, the show began to feature a "You Decide" segment in the middle of the program where a video is shown of something strange and then asks the viewing audience if they think the footage is fact or faked. After a commercial break the truth behind the video is revealed.

3 Seasons
48 Episodes
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Reality Documentary Mystery
episode image Bay Area Hysteria/Jersey Shore Haunting
8.2/10 (18 votes)

#1 Bay Area Hysteria/Jersey Shore Haunting

S3:E2

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.

episode image Into The Vortex / Tavern Shapeshifter
8.1/10 (22 votes)

#2 Into The Vortex / Tavern Shapeshifter

S2:E22

The Oregon Vortex is probed. Also: An English pub is visited after a security camera captures the image of what may be a ghost.

episode image Vanishing Victim/Sky Serpent
8.1/10 (20 votes)

#3 Vanishing Victim/Sky Serpent

S3:E3

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

episode image Graveyard Lightning / Truck Stop Terror
8.0/10 (19 votes)

#4 Graveyard Lightning / Truck Stop Terror

S2:E21

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

episode image Pride House Specter/Bluegrass Bigfoot
7.9/10 (21 votes)

#5 Pride House Specter/Bluegrass Bigfoot

S3:E4

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.

episode image Reptile Rampage/Gasoline Ghoul
7.9/10 (19 votes)

#6 Reptile Rampage/Gasoline Ghoul

S3:E6

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.

episode image Battleship Ghost / Scouting UFO
7.8/10 (19 votes)

#7 Battleship Ghost / Scouting UFO

S2:E17

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

episode image Bayou Beast / River Ghost
7.6/10 (21 votes)

#8 Bayou Beast / River Ghost

S1:E12

A swamp monster is investigated by one team in a Louisiana Bayou. Meanwhile, the other team heads to Oregon's Willamette River to look into a strange light that has been witnessed by many.

episode image Glowing Gargoyle/Phantom Feline
7.6/10 (21 votes)

#9 Glowing Gargoyle/Phantom Feline

S3:E7

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.

episode image Burning Rubber / Hyperjump
0.0/10

#10 Burning Rubber / Hyperjump

S1:E1

The team investigates stories of a ghost car which was seen by a policeman driving through a chainlink fence, and apparent UFOs that were filmed flying through the Arizona desert skies.

episode image Unwanted Visitors / Strange Sightings
0.0/10

#11 Unwanted Visitors / Strange Sightings

S1:E2

The team splits up to investigate yet another group of Arizona UFO sightings (this time, near Lake Havasu); in addition to a pair of Tall Skinny Things caught on night-vision video by a Fresno, California, homeowner.

episode image Off the Deep End / Houseguest
0.0/10

#12 Off the Deep End / Houseguest

S1:E3

Ben, Jael and Austin investigate Pennsylvania's version of the Loch Ness Monster, while Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry travel to California, where a man claims that a ghost communicates with him through messages which mysteriously appear on Polaroid photographs taken within his home.

episode image Predator / Red Sky At Night
0.0/10

#13 Predator / Red Sky At Night

S1:E4

A predator is caught on video in Dartmoor, U.K.; sightings of a large triangular aircraft over El Cajon, Cal., pique the interest of the UFO community.

episode image Blazing Horizon / Rollover
0.0/10

#14 Blazing Horizon / Rollover

S1:E5

Bill, Austin and Jael travel to Michigan to look into the mysterious "Paulding Lights", while Ben, Larry and Chi-Lan head to San Antonio, Texas, where ghostly children are said to push cars over the railroad tracks where they themselves met their fatal end.

episode image The Caretaker / Cutter
0.0/10

#15 The Caretaker / Cutter

S1:E6

The team splits up, with Ben, Jael and Austin investigating an alleged ghost of a Civil War deserter videoed in an Indiana cemetery, while Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry head to Colorado where livestock are being mutilated by an unknown predator, while strange lights appear in the night sky.

episode image Haunted Mansion Mist / Starlight Intruder
0.0/10

#16 Haunted Mansion Mist / Starlight Intruder

S1:E7

Ben, Chi-Lan and Austin travel to Alton, Illinois to investigate the McPike Mansion, a well known haunted house where some local ghost hunters caught what appears to be an apparition on their cameras. Meanwhile, Jael, Bill and Larry go to Fremont, California to attempt to debunk an alleged UFO.

episode image Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids
0.0/10

#17 Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids

S1:E8

Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry head to the Valentown Museum to investigate an alleged haunting, while Ben, Jael and Austin travel to McKinney, Texas to investigate a what appears to be a humanoid figure flying through the air.

episode image Sasquatch Sprint / Alien Attacker
0.0/10

#18 Sasquatch Sprint / Alien Attacker

S1:E9

The one half of the team travels to Washington to track down Bigfoot and while the other half dissects what appears to be a classic alien encounter.

episode image Mystery Mermaid / Ghostly Guardian
0.0/10

#19 Mystery Mermaid / Ghostly Guardian

S1:E10

Ben, Jael and Austin undertake an underwater investigation of alleged mermaids at the Great Barrier Reef, while Bill, Chi-Lan and Larry go hunting for a family ghost who seems to appear as a mist in the family photos.

episode image Lunar Landing Hoax / Tropical Intruder
0.0/10

#20 Lunar Landing Hoax / Tropical Intruder

S1:E11

The Fact or Faked crew have two out of this world assignments this week. One team attempts to determine from video evidence whether or not the Apollo moon landings were really a spectacular hoax, as some would say. The other team investigates an alleged UFO caught on camera in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

episode image The Real Battle of LA / Queen Mary Menace
0.0/10

#21 The Real Battle of LA / Queen Mary Menace

S2:E1

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.

episode image Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky
0.0/10

#22 Thermal Theater Ghost / Fire In The Sky

S2:E2

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.

episode image Raining Ufo's / Ectoplasmic Pic
0.0/10

#23 Raining Ufo's / Ectoplasmic Pic

S2:E3

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.

episode image Playground Poltergeist / Alien Intruder
0.0/10

#24 Playground Poltergeist / Alien Intruder

S2:E4

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.

episode image Dashcam Chupacabra / Nightly News Alien
0.0/10

#25 Dashcam Chupacabra / Nightly News Alien

S2:E5

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.

episode image Whaley Ghost House / Muck Monster
0.0/10

#26 Whaley Ghost House / Muck Monster

S2:E6

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.

episode image UFO Crash Landing / Graveyard Ghost
0.0/10

#27 UFO Crash Landing / Graveyard Ghost

S2:E7

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

episode image Area 51 / Cajun Apparition
0.0/10

#28 Area 51 / Cajun Apparition

S2:E8

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

episode image Sinister Spirals / Flying Saucers
0.0/10

#29 Sinister Spirals / Flying Saucers

S2:E9

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

episode image Asylum Apparition / Mystery Over Mexico
0.0/10

#30 Asylum Apparition / Mystery Over Mexico

S2:E10

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

episode image Old West Haunting / Freeway Flyer
0.0/10

#31 Old West Haunting / Freeway Flyer

S2:E11

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

episode image Bar Fright; Mexico City Cave Witch
0.0/10

#32 Bar Fright; Mexico City Cave Witch

S2:E12

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

episode image The Grim Sleeper / The Real Mr. Freeze
0.0/10

#33 The Grim Sleeper / The Real Mr. Freeze

S2:E13

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.

episode image Bay Area Hysteria / Jersey Shore Haunting
0.0/10

#34 Bay Area Hysteria / Jersey Shore Haunting

S2:E14

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.

episode image Vanishing Victim / Sky Serpent
0.0/10

#35 Vanishing Victim / Sky Serpent

S2:E15

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

episode image Pride House Specter / Bluegrass Bigfoot
0.0/10

#36 Pride House Specter / Bluegrass Bigfoot

S2:E16

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.

episode image Reptile Rampage / Gasoline Ghoul
0.0/10

#37 Reptile Rampage / Gasoline Ghoul

S2:E18

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.

episode image Glowing Gargoyle / Phantom Feline
0.0/10

#38 Glowing Gargoyle / Phantom Feline

S2:E19

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.

episode image Florida Woodland UFO / Black Forrest Entity
0.0/10

#39 Florida Woodland UFO / Black Forrest Entity

S2:E20

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

episode image Surveillance Spectre / Morgue Mystery
0.0/10

#40 Surveillance Spectre / Morgue Mystery

S2:E23

Probes in England and Kentucky unfold. (First episode of a two episode season finale, with a special 8 pm start time.)

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The highest rated episode of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is "Bay Area Hysteria/Jersey Shore Haunting" (S3E2) with a rating of 8.20.

This episode received 18 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Bayou Beast / River Ghost" (S1E12) with a rating of 7.60.

This episode received 21 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Bayou Beast / River Ghost" (S1E12) with a rating of 7.60.

This episode received 21 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Bayou Beast / River Ghost" (S1E12) with a rating of 7.60.

This episode received 21 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Into The Vortex / Tavern Shapeshifter" (S2E22) with a rating of 8.10.

This episode received 22 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Battleship Ghost / Scouting UFO" (S2E17) with a rating of 7.80.

This episode received 19 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Bay Area Hysteria/Jersey Shore Haunting" (S3E2) with a rating of 8.20.

This episode received 18 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Glowing Gargoyle/Phantom Feline" (S3E7) with a rating of 7.60.

This episode received 21 votes.

Name Department Job
Johanna Vanderspool Directing Series Director
Elaine White Production Producer
Haley Press Production Producer
John Brenkus Production Executive Producer
Mickey Stern Production Executive Producer
Rupert Dobson Production Co-Executive Producer

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