8.4 /10 1 Votes
8.8/10 TV Country of origin United States No. of seasons 5 First episode date 7 September 2011 | 7.9/10 IMDb Genre Paranormal
Mystery Original language(s) English No. of episodes 64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Composer(s) Joel Beckerman
Ty Unwin Theme song Paranormal Witness Theme Song Main characters Laurel Poremski, Dave Stautzenbach Writers Crispin Reece, Neil Rawles, Russell England, James Bryce, Will Bridges Executive producers Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis Similar Ghost Hunters, Fact or Faked: Paranorm, Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters Academy, Ghost Hunters International Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paranormal Witness is an American paranormal documentary television series made by a British production company described as featuring "eyewitness accounts" from "everyday people" who claim to have experienced paranormal activity. The series premiered on September 7, 2011, on Syfy. It is also shown on Really and Watch in the United Kingdom.
Ranked as one of the top 10 new original series, it was renewed for a 12-episode second season which premiered on August 8, 2012. Based on the high ratings of the first three episodes of season two, Paranormal Witness was renewed for a 20-episode third season which premiered on June 5, 2013.
Although Syfy did not announce the series' renewal following its third-season finale, it was reported that a fourth season had begun filming. On October 29, 2014, the series was officially renewed for a 13-episode fourth season, which premiered on August 26, 2015 under the new title Paranormal Witness: True Terror.
On November 18, 2015, Syfy renewed the series for a 13-episode fifth season, which premiered on August 3, 2016.