In a 2001 interview with
Larry King, host Blair explained the series:
When we were kids, we used to tell ghost stories, but as we've gotten older -- I have friends who are scientific researchers, and I ask them questions. My mother has passed on. I choose to think she is in a wonderful, other place that we all will go. But I think that some people are trapped here... Well, these are the places that people have talked about for years, and years, that they go in, and you physically feel something is wrong. Some people do see things. Whether it's in a mind, we don't know.[2]
Syndication
Reruns were aired on Syfy, which is a part of
NBC Universal. It then aired on NBC Universal's now defunct horror- and suspense-themed cable channel
Chiller.
The main controversy with the show was that it was accused of fabricating some of the aired events. According to the documentary crew for a film on the
Villisca axe murders, the segment which profiled the murder site—the
Josiah B. and Sara Moore House—contained numerous falsities; among the allegations were that it featured a fake newspaper reproduction, photos of an unknown family presented as the murder victims, and an actress posing as a town resident.[30]
Additionally, the "Devil Hunters" crew featured in the segment on the
Jersey Devil claimed that the segment which ran thirteen minutes in length, had been edited from two days' worth of footage, and that numerous details were sensationalized and/or added in post-production.[31]
^Gray, Rich (2004). Click or Treat!: The Best of Halloween and Horror on the Internet. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 72.
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