I think I can give you some serious insight on this ridiculous show. A friend of mine, a prolific author of books on ghosts, himself featured on this old show early-on (still accessible, for example, on YouTube) said he was called by producers complaining that they couldn't get anybody to return their calls. The show was very popular and they wanted to continue. He told them "no reputable ghost hunter will talk to you because you lie about everything." The show intermixed local experts with hired actors and passed them all off as authentic then twisted the facts to make it fit their agenda. The story about haunted Alton, IL, as one example, claims that limestone from the original old Confederate prison cannibalized for use throughout the community is responsible for the hauntings. No one has ever suggested such a connection! Why not stick with the facts? How about the occasional apparent dazed homeless person in rags wandering the parking lot around the prison ruins asking a passerby "where am I?" then disappearing. That's pretty cool. The agenda, of course, is the usual Hollywood agenda -- not "is it factual" but "does it make a good story for TV?" Anyway, that's why this show folded and is only seen in occasional reruns. By the way, they should have emphasized the narrator was Poltergeist's Zelda Rubernstein -- I always thought it was some kid who was trying to sound "spooky" which only made it amusing.
Review of Scariest Places on Earth
