Just in time for the Halloween season, Discovery Channel has announced a new series staring paranormal investigator Zak Bagans where he’ll take viewers to the farthest corners of the globe to explore the world’s eeriest and most cursed locations in “Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans.” The all-new series will premiere on Wednesday, October 2 at 11 PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel and will stream on discovery+ with a same-day binge-drop.
In this chilling series, viewers are transported on a mysterious journey where haunts and horrors reign at every destination. Driven by the macabre history and hair-raising unexplained activity that surrounds each nefarious site, Bagans sends his documentary film crew around the globe to explore what are said to be some of the world’s darkest and most evil locations.
Connecting with resident eyewitnesses and paranormal practitioners, the crew navigates local legends, historical mysteries, diverse cultural beliefs, and real-life horrors to document claims of hauntings, possessions, and curses. What terror inhabits these sites and condemns the communities that live within them? Bagans narrates as cameras cross into each deeply troubled location’s forbidden and foreboding zones.
In the premiere episode, Zak Bagans sends his team to Armero, Colombia, where thousands perished after a volcanic eruption in 1985. Was it a horrific natural occurrence, or did a murdered priest’s last words cause this unprecedented disaster? Does his vengeful curse still echo through the jungle?
Other locations featured include a sinister Malaysian mansion said to have dangerous, otherworldly portals, an Italian asylum inundated with allegedly demonic activity, a former hotel in the Philippines with an evil past, a Czech Republic castle with dark secrets, a mystical island in Singapore where sinister forces drive off the population, and more.
