Travel Channel has announced the return of “Destination Fear,” which is set to premiere on Friday, November 25 at 9 PM on Travel Channel and stream the same day on discovery+. In the upcoming season, paranormal explorers Dakota Laden, Chelsea Laden, Tanner Wiseman, and Alex Schroeder level up their fear experiment in their darkest, most terrifying road trip yet. The fear-chasing foursome embrace the darkness more than ever before – physically, emotionally, and psychologically – as they push the boundaries of fear and daringly spend the night inside America’s most sinister and haunted locations.
After experiencing hauntings in Europe last season, the likes of which they’ve never seen at home, Dakota is now taking things to an even darker level – literally. Not only is he challenging the team with darker hauntings and locations, but he shocks them with the most disturbing experiment yet: removing flashlights from their armor and forcing them to blindly face the shadows of the night in true darkness. It’s the first of many twisted and unnerving new experiments that will test their paranormal theories from the most uncomfortable of situations. This season’s eight hour-long episodes and latest tour de terror take Dakota, Chelsea, Alex, and Tanner to the infamous Winchester Mystery House, the “swear they’d never return” Ashmore Estate, a mysteriously deserted Tennessee hospital, a haunted abandoned junior high school, the sprawling Cresson Sanatorium and Prison and more.
The season opens with a one-two punch: the massive Cresson Sanatorium in rural Cresson, Pennsylvania, the largest location the team has ever explored. A trifecta of terror, the decaying 20-building property was once a sanatorium, mental hospital, and prison, marked by death in every corner. In a place this large, Dakota, Chelsea, Tanner, and Alex will each have to explore their own building … alone and, in their most terrifying experiment, without flashlights. But when they encounter an entity known to mimic the voices and sounds of people exploring the building, the crew is left shaken beyond belief.
The Cresson Sanatorium and Prison episode will air in two parts, with part two premiering on Friday, December 2. Check out the rest of the season’s lineup below:
“Defiance Jr. High School” – Premieres Friday, December 9 at 9 PM ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
The team learns the true meaning of “school spirit” at a vacant junior high school in Ohio. From jangling keys luring them to a killer custodian’s lair to a mind-boggling encounter in the gym, Dakota Laden and crew are the victims of a non-stop haunted hazing.
“Old Historic Harriman Hospital” – Premieres Friday, December 16 at 9 PM ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
When he picks out a deserted Tennessee hospital for the next stop, Tanner Wiseman may have found the G.O.A.T. of all haunted locations. Rumors of bizarre hauntings swirl around this eerie, unexplored facility, but nobody can explain why. Can the team unlock its disturbing secrets?
“Winchester Mystery House” – Premieres Friday, December 23 at 9 PM ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Chelsea Laden pulls the team out of the darkness and into the California sunshine … but only for a minute as she plunges them into the haunted madness of a legendary mansion. The crew takes a shot in the dark to see what energy is at play behind its walls.
“Ashmore Estates” – Premieres Friday, December 30 at 9 PM ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Alex Schroeder has a big surprise in store for Dakota Laden, Chelsea Laden, and Tanner Wiseman when he takes them back to a decrepit Illinois poorhouse so scary that they swore never to return. But will tragic new information about this location force the team to re-evaluate the haunting?
“Mid-Orange Correctional Facility” – Premieres Friday, January 6 at 9 PM ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
The team falls deeper into the darkness at a deteriorating juvenile detention center near a quiet New York village. Dakota Laden is eager to establish a close bond with the youthful spirits, but quickly discovers to be careful what you wish for in this nightmarish facility.
“Norwich State Hospital” – Premieres Friday, January 13 at 9 PM ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Dakota Laden saves the darkest, bleakest location for the last stop of one twisted road trip. This infamous psychiatric hospital in rural Connecticut is so diseased with dark history and demonic energy that it may be the final nail in the coffin for the “Destination Fear” team.
