Scariest Places on Earth

1. 1. Satan's Dormitory

   Oct 23, 2000

   Visiting a haunted dormitory in Athens, Ohio; the Olson family spends a night in Chillingham Castle; entering a home in Villisca, Iowa, where an axe murderer killed eight people; exploring the site of an exorcism in Haydon Bridge, England.

2. 2. Eastern State Penitentiary

   Oct 24, 2000

   A family stays in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary; visiting the Pine Barrens of New Jersey; exploring the Catacombs of Paris.

3. 3. Fortress of Blood

   Oct 25, 2000

   Visiting the Walls of Genoa in Italy; the New London Ledge Lighthouse in New London, Conn.; the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley, Calif.; a mental hospital in New England.

4. 4. Ghost Ship

   Oct 26, 2000

5. 5. Chillingham Castle (The Olson Family) (2 Hours)

   Oct 27, 2000

6. 6. Curse of the Roman Gladiators

   Mar 26, 2001

   A young American explores a haunted Irish castle; an escaped mental patient known as the "Bunnyman"; a family agrees to spend a night at a haunted plantation.

7. 7. Village of the Damned

   Mar 27, 2001

   The Catacombs of Palermo in Italy; Fort Pulaski; the history of a voodoo-cursed plantation.

8. 8. The White Witch

   Mar 28, 2001

   "Poltergeist House"; "White Witch of Rose Hall"; "Ohio's Prison of Lost Souls"; "Plantation Dare Part 3."

9. 9. Cemetery of the Angry Undead

   Mar 29, 2001

10. 10. Magnolia Lane Plantation

    Mar 30, 2001

    Two families spend the night in a haunted New Orleans plantation.

11. 11. A House Posessed

    Apr 6, 2001

    A family returns to a haunted farmhouse; the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe; the ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots, allegedly haunts the Old Bell Inn in Derby, England.

12. 12. Charleville: Haunted Irish Castle Dare

    Apr 13, 2001

    The Ulriches attempt to spend a night in Charleville Castle.

13. 13. Lair of the Wickedest Man on Earth

    Apr 20, 2001

    Visiting Italy and the lair of an evil genius known as the "wickedest man in the world"; paranormal activity at a Spanish mission; the tragic history of a ghost factory.

14. 14. Lucedio: Cursed Italian Monastery Dare (The Ordonez Family)

    Apr 27, 2001

    A Los Angeles family attempts to spend an entire night at a monastery haunted by excommunicated monks and the victims they tortured.

15. 15. Exorcisms

    May 4, 2001

    "Cemetery of the Angry Undead"; "Poltergeist House"; "Hayden Bridge"; "Living With the Dead."

16. 16. Oranmore Castle

    May 11, 2001

    Visiting Oranmore Castle in Ireland.

17. 17. Haunted Voodoo Plantation (The Eaton Family)

    May 18, 2001

    The Eaton family must spend the night rubbing elbows with the ghosts at a tumble-down plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans.

18. 18. Chillingham (The Olson Family)

    May 19, 2001

    The Olson family enter Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, home to dozens of restless spirits.

19. 19. Haunting the Heartland

    May 25, 2001

    A Missouri family returns to a haunted farmhouse; an investigator searches for the spirits of a killer and his victims.

20. 20. Urban Legends

    Jun 16, 2001

    "Terror on Bunnyman's Bridge"; "Satan's Dormitory"; "The Jersey Devil"; "Blood Red Lighthouse."

21. 21. Rituals of Evil

    Jun 23, 2001

    A Voodoo priestess seeks to cleanse evil from a Jamaican plantation; occultist Aleister Crowley founds the Abbey of Thelema in Sicily.

22. 22. Return to Chillingham (The Lastrapes Family) (2 Hours)

    Jun 29, 2001

23. 23. Lost Souls

    Jul 6, 2001

    A young American explores a haunted Irish castle; brutal events at a reformatory; paranormal activity at a Spanish mission; Italian mummies.

24. 24. Castle of Cursed Souls (The Ulrich Family)

    Jul 20, 2001

    Visiting Dalhousie Castle in Midlothian, Scotland.

25. 25. Island of No Return: The Venice Dare (The Wilson Family) (2 Hours)

    Aug 10, 2001

    A family from Los Angeles becomes the first people in more than 100 years to spend the night alone on a spooky Italian island.

26. 26. Return to Chillingham

    Oct 21, 2001

    A California family explores an ancient castle with a long history of murder, cannibalism and ghostly activity.

27. 27. Return to Lucedio: The Cursed Italian Monastery Dare Part II (The Hall Family)

    Oct 22, 2001

    The Hall family accepts the challenge to spend a night in an Italian monastery cursed by mad monks.

28. 28. Contagaton of Fear: Waverly Hills Sanitarium (Re-Edit)

    Oct 23, 2001

    A sanatorium reputedly haunted by former patients; a lighthouse on Lake Michigan; an abandoned hotel and bathhouse; a Scottish castle.

29. 29. Return to Charleville: The Haunted Irish Castle Dare Part II (Benes Family)

    Oct 24, 2001

    A Los Angeles family hopes to succeed where another family failed -- to spend a night at an Irish castle built by a madman.

30. 30. Goldfield Ghost Hunt

    Oct 25, 2001

    Hunting for ghosts in Goldfield, Nev.; the mummies of Mexico; the Hellfire Club; Hot Lake Resort.

31. 31. A Night in Dracula's Castle: The Transylvania Dare (The Menegaux Family) (2 Hours)

    Oct 26, 2001

    A family voyages to Transylvania to spend a night in a 14th-century Romanian castle where Vlad the Impaler was reputedly trained as a ruthless warrior.

32. 32. Best of Scariest Places

    Jun 30, 2001

33. 33. A House Possessed

    Jul 13, 2001

34. 34. The Untold Stories (The Wilson Family) (2 Hours)

About

Scariest Places on Earth is an American paranormal documentary reality television series that originally aired from October 23, 2000 to October 29, 2006. The program was produced by Triage Entertainment for the Fox Family Channel, which is now ABC Family and owns the rights to the show. The show featured reported cases of the paranormal by sending an ordinary family to visit the location in a reality TV-style vigil.

First aired

2000-10-23

Era

Early 2000s

Length

2 seasons · 45 episodes

Genres

Documentary

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