TV Hot Wire: Investigating TV’s Biggest Mysteries
Whether you’re looking for gripping crime dramas or paranormal suspense, this list has something for everyone. From the spooky to the historical, here are the best mystery TV shows to watch this week 티비핫
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Kindred Spirits
A kindred spirit is someone who shares your values, interests, and sense of humor. They’re someone you can talk to easily and pick up where you left off. If you find yourself with a kindred spirit, it’s important to cherish and nurture the relationship.
Family members tormented by paranormal activity turn to two of America’s leading experts in ghost hunting to help them solve their problems. Amy Bruni and Adam Berry have been around since Syfy’s groundbreaking series Ghost Hunters, and their fearless approach to investigating haunted properties is evident in Kindred Spirits.
Often, families have an emotional tie to the spirits that reside in their homes. When the spirits in a home act aggressively, it’s often the result of unfinished business or trying to move on. The team investigates and helps guide the spirits into the light.
The team gets a call about a tiny house in Vermont that’s inhabited by a mother and daughter. The duo arrives to find the occupants living in fear. Their plight is complicated by the fact that they believe a spirit with eternal ties to the house is attacking them.
In another case, a woman has lost her husband and is haunted by an evil spirit that tries to strangle her. The home was once owned by an executioner, and the entity may be one of his murderous victims. The team enlists the help of a friend who has a gift for communicating with spirits to get to the bottom of what’s happening.
While the show isn’t as good as Ghost Hunters, it’s still pretty entertaining. The pair works well together and do a great job of researching the background of each haunted location before the investigation begins. They’re also backed by Chip Coffee who delivers a solid performance each episode.
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Demon House
In Demon House, Travel Channel host and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans attempts to investigate a home in Gary, Indiana that attracted local media attention when it was alleged to be the site of several eerie incidents. The film is a documentary, but anyone who has watched a ghost-hunting show on TV will likely feel as though they’re watching a scripted episode of Ghost Adventures. The movie tries to convince viewers that the events they see are real, but it’s difficult to make sense of them.
The story starts with Latoya Ammons and her three children who claim to be possessed by demons. After a few newspaper articles, local authorities become involved and a series of terrifying events follow. Demons supposedly follow the family from house to house and the children eventually go missing. In the wake of this, local priests attempt to exorcise the demons but are unsuccessful. Then a young man dies mysteriously in the house and more of the Ammons’ friends start to experience unexplained illnesses, injuries and misfortunes.
It’s at this point that Bagans purchases the house sight unseen to do a documentary on the haunting. His crew quickly begins to experience strange occurrences at the house, and the alleged demonic entities seem to be able to communicate through digital voices. They also start to attack members of the team. Bagans and his crew try to capture evidence by using a variety of cameras. They find slick oiliness on the window blinds, unexplained shadows and garbled EVP recordings. There are also a number of allegedly spooky coincidences such as a press-on nail being found in the ground near the basement stairs and the fact that a former occupant of the house tried to kill himself.
The cinematography and pacing of Demon House are the film’s strongest attributes, as well as its gloomy, foreboding look. The director is clearly an aficionado of gloomy industrial music videos, and this style works well for the film. Bagans and his team’s veracity, sincerity and willingness to be vulnerable and ugly on camera are also genuinely disarming. Ultimately, however, Demon House frequently leaves your bullshit detector wailing, and it’s not enough to convince the most fervent skeptic that demons really do exist.
Ghost Adventures
GHOST ADVENTURES follows paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew as they visit real-life haunted locations. The team locks themselves inside each location overnight with cameras and a variety of high-tech specter-sensing equipment in hopes of capturing visual or audio evidence of spirits. This popular Travel Channel series combines a bit of history — investigators talk about the grisly events that may have led to restless phantoms — with plenty of ghoulishness, thanks to amped-up spooky music and frequent quick cuts to creepy images.
The first part of each episode involves the team touring the site with its owners or caretakers. They then set up static night-vision cameras around the areas of most interest. In some cases, the crew will mark these spots with X’s or black or gray tape in order to better focus their equipment. The investigation starts at dusk and continues until dawn, when the crew will review their footage in order to try to discover a reason behind any paranormal activity.
In addition to Ghost Adventures, Bagans has also hosted Netherworld, Deadly Possessions and a special titled GHOST ADVENTURES: Top 10. This 10-episode miniseries featured Bagans revisiting some of his and his crew’s best moments on the show.
While there is no official word on what the future holds for the beloved show, Bagans recently sat down with ET and talked about 15 years of Ghost Adventures. While he was clearly proud of his work on the show, he did admit that it has lost some steam. Despite this, he remains hopeful that Ghost Adventures will continue to air.
Unsolved Mysteries
In the heyday of true-crime shows, Unsolved Mysteries informed and frightened a generation with its combination of spooky reenactment, expert interviews and archival footage. The show ran on NBC from 1987 to 1992, then moved to Lifetime and Spike TV until 2010, when it wrapped up with a short-lived spin-off series hosted by Dennis Farina. The Unsolved Mysteries website and cold case forums didn’t go away either. And now, the original series has been revived on Netflix as a true-crime docuseries.
The new version of the program, which debuted this week, doesn’t have a host (though there’s a nod to Robert Stack in the intro and the theme song is back). But it keeps much of the same format that the original used—interviews with witnesses and experts are interwoven with re-enactments, and during some of the more suspenseful moments, the classic Unsolved Mysteries theme plays.
Shawn Levy, co-founder of 21 Laps and executive producer on the show, says he watched the original “Unsolved Mysteries” in college, admiring how it meshed genre mystery with character-driven story. He and Josh Barry, the president of 21 Laps and one of the show’s producers, wanted to bring that same mix of storytelling to this new installment.
The result is a slick and effective take on the Unsolved Mysteries concept. The episodes, which focus on cases of murder, missing persons and unexplained events, are engaging and sometimes even shocking. And the new episode about the mysterious letters that frightened a small town Ohio woman is particularly compelling, with its emphasis on the importance of a trusted community.
But the series also has some problems. Some of the cases are a bit over the top, and others feel like they’re being exploited. The show also doesn’t always seem to understand that it shouldn’t put aliens on the same footing as a murder or missing persons case.
Still, the new Unsolved Mysteries is an excellent addition to Netflix’s expanding lineup of true-crime docuseries. And if it can find more victims and families willing to share their experiences on the series, it might even solve some of those mysteries once again.
