GHOST ASYLUM CAPTURES VIEWERS WITH RECORD-BREAKING RATINGS FOR DESTINATION AMERICA
**Destination America Announces the Return of Ghost Asylum for a Brand-New Season in 2015**
(Silver Spring, MD) – Capturing ghosts may be the central mission in Destination America’s hottest new show, GHOST ASYLUM, but in its first season, it also captured the network’s top ratings claims year to-date. The series currently ranks as Destination America’s Top Series Ever among W25-54 and W18-49 among both rating and delivery. Coming off a scary-good first season, Destination America is excited to announce the terrifying return of GHOST ASYLUM in the spring of 2015.
“GHOST ASYLUM has brought viewers to the edge of their seats instilling fear and fright along the way so, we’re bringing the team back to scare up an all-new season in 2015” said Marc Etkind, general manager of Destination America. “The Tennessee Wraith Chasers are ready to tackle more of America’s most petrifying locations, prepared to risk it all in order to try to trap ghoulish spirits wreaking havoc”.
The hit series follows the most passionate paranormal team in America, the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, as they examine some of the country’s most frightening asylums, sanitariums and mental hospitals.
GHOST ASYLUM premiered September 14 as Destination America’s Best Debut Ever for an original new series among W25-54. The October 5 premiere ranked as the network’s Best Sunday Night Ever among W18-49 delivery and the 2nd Best Sunday Night Ever among W25-54 delivery.
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers’ goal isn’t just to conjure spirits and collect evidence but to physically capture restless souls with their cutting-edge ghost traps and self-trained Tennessean wit. Not only did GHOST ASYLUM reel in viewers – including a community of superfans that the ghost-hunting team has dubbed Wraith Nation – on Sunday nights, but the series also broke Destination America’s records on social media. GHOST ASYLUM received the highest number of embedded video streams ever for a network series on Destination America’s Facebook page. In addition, a video clip featuring the Ghost Asylum After Show reached five times more viewers than the average video post on Destination America’s Facebook page.
Viewers can continue getting their paranormal fix throughout Halloween season and beyond by tuning into GHOST STALKERS Sundays at 10/9c on Destination America. The all-new series follows two paranormal investigators, John E.L. Tenney and Chad Lindberg, as they explore some of America’s most haunted places in search of portals to another dimension. John and Chad have both had near-death experiences that left them with an undying passion for exploring one of life’s biggest unanswered questions: what happens after you die?
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Brian says
Cancel this show it is horrible can’t believe it was renewed has nothing but negative reviews/comments
Jeff says
Fuck this show
Alexis says
Regarding Marc Etkind’s statement regarding the renewal of the series for a second season: When I’d first watched Ghost Asylum, I admit that I’d experienced many emotional reactions; however, I say with the utmost sincerity that fear was not among that list.
I’d felt both intrigued, and yet utterly repulsed by their desire to physically capture spirits within home-made, McGyver-esque inventions they’d designed specifically to confine spiritual energy, as though the Tennessee Wraith Chasers were the television-equivalent of the Ghost Busters. I am completely astonished by the ridiculous contraptions they construct in their attempt to capture these spirits–any spirit; it matters absolutely nothing to them which spirit they entrap in these Scooby-Doo booby-traps, so long as they’ve caught something.
Not only are the instruments they build completely ridiculous–as well as the explanations they provide regarding how these absurd, preposterous traps work: such as a device which generated such a high-pitched noise that it could make anyone standing in-front of it physically ill; they then used this device to “force” the spirit toward two mirrors facing one another, believing that the spirit would become trapped in an “infinite loop” of images and become confused, unable to escape, so that they could detonate a small charge, sealing the spirit in the mirror. Never before have I heard such ridiculousness.
This article boasts the number of reviews this show has received, entirely ignoring that nearly 90% of these reviews are negative, and the other 10% only like the show because they find it more comedy than horror. It boasts how often the television show is watched, overlooking that most of its viewers are similar to those watching a train-wreck: as awful as it may be, you just can’t look away; or they watch it for the laughs.
I know that I watch it for the laugh, but I also feel that–even though I don’t believe for a single minute that they’re capable, in any way, shape, or form, of capturing a spirit in their Scooby-Doo traps–that the very concept is cruel and inhumane. They don’t try to help these spirits–to aid them in moving on–they try to put them in a box and take them home. What the hell do they plan on doing with them should they succeed? They’ve never said…
To me, that seems a fate worse than death…
Jerry says
Guys- you have GOT to be kidding! Ghost traps? “Investigations??? ” How can a TV channel produce a show that delivers nothing but a bunch of guys whose main contribution to the English language is the word “Dude?” I’ve watched a couple of these shows and the payoff is the same: crap. No ghosts, no so-called trapped ghosts, no intelligence on the part of the actors/investigators, an idiotic dependence on Radio Shack gizmos that emit light, and it was nothing but a waste of time. If your (and others’) so-called ghost investigation shows can’t produce anything better than what is seen on TV, then for Pete’s sake take them off the air. You give yourself no credibility broadcasting a show that delivers absolutely nothing. So, please, show the world REAL ghosts or go back to producing shows we can believe in. Thank you for your time and attention.