A Haunting
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In this world, there is real evil in the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places. These are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Between the world we see and the things we fear, there are doors. When they are opened, nightmares become reality.
—Opening narration.
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A Haunting is a ghost-related Docu Drama series airing on the Discovery Channel from October 2005 to November 2007. Each episode features a story that may or may not be grounded in reality. The story is reenacted by actors on camera and interviews with the eyewitnesses are featured in the hour-long program. The locations and intensity of any given haunting varies from episode to episode. Sometimes features Spooky Seances and Spirit Advisers.
Tropes used in A Haunting include:
- Abandoned Laboratory
- Big Fancy House: Usually at low, low prices.
- Cat Scare
- Christianity Is Catholic: Averted. Catholic priests do appear to perform exorcisms, but other types of ministers also help combat the hauntings.
- Creepy Basement
- Creepy Cemetery
- Crossover: One of the episodes, "Gateway to Hell," features the location of Bobby Mackey's Music World. This location has been shown in multiple other paranormal investigative features, including Ghost Adventures.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Used as back story.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Or young at least.
- Don't Go in The Woods
- Electromagnetic Ghosts: In most of the episodes, ghosts mess with amplifiers, televisions, radios, drills, cars, and toys.
- Extremely Dusty Home: Or dirty house, whichever.
- Footprints of Muck
- Ghostly Chill: Occasionally.
- Ghost Story: The premise of the show.
- Haunted Heroine: Or Hero
- Haunted House: Well, yeah. About half the episodes are set in houses, including both of the pilot episodes.
- Haunted House Historian: They pop up in a lot of the episodes.
- Indian Burial Ground
- I See Dead People: Four or five of the episodes feature children who are shown conversing with the Ghost of the Week.
- Several episodes also deal with people coming to accept their ability to see dead people.
- Karma Houdini: While most episodes end with the ghost or demonic entity being driven out and banished back to Hell, some end with some people forced to leave their homes with the evil spirit victorious.
- Spooky Photographs: used to tell what is present in the house.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Several have been shown, usually demonic.