Pranks lurk around every corner on April Fool’s Day, but not on Destination America. Ghosts are no joke with a night of spine-tingling ghostly encounters. Forget about foolish scare tactics and get ready to face real fear with paranormal all-stars Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman in an APRIL GHOUL’S DAY marathon of PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN on Friday, April 1 starting at 6/5c and concluding with an all-new episode at 10/9c.
Nick and Katrina are serious about paranormal investigation and in PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN, they confine themselves inside some America’s most terrifying places for an unprecedented 72 hours straight. Pushing the limits of typical investigations, their belief that the longer they stay the more spirits will be willing to communicate with them is a strategy that has led them to capture groundbreaking and chilling evidence of the supernatural.
Destination America’s six-part series PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN, hosted by Nick Groff (formerly of Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures) and co-hosted by Katrina Weidman (formerly of A&E’s Paranormal State), follows the two as they confine themselves in America’s most terrifying places for an unprecedented 72 hours straight. Living at haunted locations, many of which have never before been seen on television, some being investigated for the first time ever, Groff and Weidman believe that the longer they stay, the more the spirits will communicate with them and the more information they can gather about the unknown.
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APRIL GHOUL’S DAY LINEUP
TRANS-ALLEGHENY LUNATIC ASYLUM
Friday, April 1 at 6/5c
For Katrina, it’s her first time inside Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, the enormous, abandoned and historically haunted facility in Weston, West Virginia. For Nick, it is a return to the place where he had one of his most profound paranormal experiences and now returning now for 72 hours will give him a chance to encounter that spirit once again. But as they say, be careful what you wish for.
ANDERSON HOTEL
Friday, April 1 at 7/6c
When the Anderson Hotel in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky closed its doors, not everyone checked out. The spirits of some of the former flophouse residents, whose tragic suicides mirrored their bleak lives, are said to haunt the rooms. But among these spirits resides a dark entity, unleashing vicious attacks on the living.
FRANKLIN CASTLE
Friday, April 1 at 8/7c
Nick and Katrina arrive in Cleveland, Ohio to investigate a Victorian mansion’s haunted secrets. Built in 1880, the Franklin Castle was home to wealthy immigrant, Hannes Teidemann, and his wife Louise. The couple had already buried three of their children before moving in. When another child dies, and then Louise, the house took on a darkness that remains to this day. Reports of a crying girl and a woman cloaked in black send the home’s future residents fleeing.
ANDOLPH COUNTY INFIRMARY
Friday, April 1 at 9/8c
A plot of farmland in rural Winchester, Indiana was once a safe haven for those unable to care for themselves. A 16-room poor house once occupied the site, sheltering the mentally and physically disabled, unwed mothers, orphans and destitute families. After a fire destroyed the original wooden home, the Randolph County Infirmary, a brick residence, was erected and took over the task until it closed in 2009. The grand building still stands, but inside, the lives of the broken residents – and their shattered dreams – are said to haunt its halls.
ALL-NEW EPISODE: HINSDALE HOUSE
Premieres Friday, April 1 at 10/9c
Hidden in the Adirondack Mountains is Hinsdale, a rural community in Northwestern New York. On the road out of town, one house stands apart in a clearing. For more than a hundred years, a dark infestation has possessed the surrounding hills and forests, while something more sinister has driven families from the home for generations. The tales, or a dangerous negative force, have drawn Nick Katrina to seek their own answers on what’s haunting Hinsdale.