Paranormal State - Season 1 (2007)

Ryan and his PRS crew are called to an isolated country farmhouse to help a grieving mother who suspects her son may have fallen victim to a mysterious entity called "The Dark Man". Our team sets about making things right - employing a psychic, a grief counselor, and a moonlight pagan cleansing on the ominous pond that could be the source of the mystery.

PRS travels to Sin City to investigate a 14-year old medium who claims to be visited by the spirit of a dead girl she calls "Emily". When Ryan discovers that "Emily" is in fact a real-life murder victim from San Antonio, he dispatches Katrina to the scene of the crime and recruits psychic Chip Coffey to mentor the budding teenage medium.

Ryan and his team investigate the bizarre haunting of a woman and her dog in isolated Waterboro, Maine. The Labrador was chewing at her own fur and standing on guard on the bed, growling at unseen figures. Her master, Sybil, began hearing strange noises. As PRS discovers, Lucy may not be the first canine to experience the phenomena - at least four other animals died violently on the property.

PRS visits a gothic graveyard, where a jealous spirit seems to be preying on the newlywed wife of the cemetery's caretaker. Ryan traces the haunting to a mysterious, unclaimed cremation urn on the grounds. Are the key clues buried among these human remains? There's only one way to find out, and that's by opening it up!

Ryan's team is called to help a grandmother and her frightened grandson when renovations on her 19th century house stir up the pipe-smoking specter of a former tenant named Alfred. PRS locates a long-lost relative of Alfred's and attempt to make contact with the menacing man of the house.

Brian's bar has a cranky customer who's got a bad habit of breaking wine glasses. His name's Charlie, and he's been dead since prohibition. Ryan turns this case over to trainees Katrina & Heather until... the casualness of the case is shattered and Charlie returns to pay his bar tab.

PRS travels to Shapleigh, Maine, where a woman and her daughter are reporting attacks from a winged "creature" with sharp teeth. Psychic Chip Coffey arrives and senses a half-human, half animal presence - and local Native American shamen warn that a shape-shifting spirit has escaped from a vortex on the woman's property. Ryan and crew sort the myth from the mystery.

Retiree Carol Ann stays awake every night taping the voices of the dead. Is she simply documenting - or providing a portal for dark forces eager to cross over? PRS cuts their winter break short, and teams up with legendary investigator Lorraine Warren to help Carol Ann curtail her obsession and close this doorway to the dead - for good.

PRS travels to Massachusetts to investigate a converted old schoolhouse where disembodied voices of children disturb the couple who lives there now. In a chilling EVP session, PRS hears a voice calling out the name "Katie." The mystery takes a turn when Ryan tracks down the former tenant - and her name... is Katie.

Ryan and the PRS team are called in when unlucky antique collectors unwittingly bring a paranormally-infested piano into their home. A symphony of terror plays out as Lorraine Warren lends her haunted object expertise to our crew as they attempt to dismantle and destroy the offending instrument.

Ryan and his team lend paranormal assistance a family who lives in a historic home that was once a part of the Underground Railroad. Does the answer to their haunting lie in the mysterious tunnels beneath the house, or is an old fashioned ghost behind this old fashioned ghost story?

A young woman named Kristy in Allentown, Pennsylvania has been haunted in her own bedroom since she can remember. She's felt freezing air at the foot of her bed and awoke to a hand brushing across her neck. What's more, both Kristy and her mom have experienced odd sounds and a frightening black mist in their 19-th century barn out back.

PRS explores the belly of the beast: a New York State Prison that was once a mental asylum. Ryan and his team go behind bars to uncover the institution's paranormal past and present - current inmates and guards are reporting mysterious new sightings!

Ryan takes his team to Point Pleasant, West Virginia to investigate his own personal holy grail of paranormal lore: the mysterious Mothman. Is this winged creature an alien intent on our destruction, or a harbinger sent to warn us of impending doom?

A young female student claims to see a ghost in her dorm room. But is she simply responding to the anxiety of college life? Ryan scours through urban legend, mysterious campus deaths, and an ancient Japanese candle game to find the core cause of the case.

PRS checks into the Knickerbocker Hotel in Linesville, Pennsylvania where the owners are reporting strange noises and the appearance of phantom children in some of the rooms. Additionally, several attendees of a recent anniversary party at the 100-year-old hotel either died or experienced illnesses in the weeks following the party.

PRS investigates a teenage girl who is being haunted by black mists and showing signs of possible demonic influence. Ryan questions whether it's possession, or just depression that's to blame. Or is it something else entirely? Chip Coffey joins the case and makes a psychic connection.