Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files — Season 1
About this season
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.
Episodes (12)
1. Burning Rubber / Hyperjump
Aired 15 July 2010 • 43 min
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.
2. Unwanted Visitors / Strange Sightings
Aired 22 July 2010 • 43 min
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.
3. Off the Deep End / Houseguest
Aired 29 July 2010 • 43 min
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.
4. Predator / Red Sky At Night
Aired 5 August 2010 • 43 min
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.
5. Blazing Horizon / Rollover
Aired 12 August 2010 • 43 min
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.
6. The Caretaker / Cutter
Aired 19 August 2010 • 43 min
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.
7. Haunted Mansion Mist / Starlight Intruder
Aired 28 October 2010 • 43 min
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.
8. Symphonic Spirits / Hovering Humanoids
Aired 4 November 2010 • 43 min
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.
9. Sasquatch Sprint / Alien Attacker
Aired 11 November 2010 • 43 min
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.
10. Mystery Mermaid / Ghostly Guardian
Aired 18 November 2010 • 43 min
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.
11. Lunar Landing Hoax / Tropical Intruder
Aired 2 December 2010 • 43 min
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.
12. Bayou Beast / River Ghost
Aired 9 December 2010 • 43 min
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.