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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 [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|may]] [[Based on a True Story|or]] [[Blatant Lies|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 Seance]] |
''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 [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|may]] [[Based on a True Story|or]] [[Blatant Lies|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 Seance|Spooky Seances]] and [[Spirit Advisor|Spirit Advisers.]] |
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Revision as of 14:18, 13 July 2021
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.
- Spooky Photographs: used to tell what is present in the house.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Several have been shown, usually demonic.