A PA producer is on board with the show. Courtesy Paramount
We got a hot tip in the ol' electronic mail about a new paranormal show for a major cable network seeking teams willing to be stranded in a haunted house for a week. And they are seeking them immediately to begin shooting Sept. 4 through Oct. 15.
Created by the producer behind Paranormal Activity (presumably Oren Peli) and Ping Pong Productions (the production company behind paranormal series Destination Truth, Finding Bigfoot, Chasing UFOs, The Othersiders and The Supernaturalist), the show is seeking groups of three believers in the paranormal for the haunted week. To be considered, trios must send a photo of the three of you, your names, ages, location, and relation to one another to GhostTVshow@gmail.com
The official word is that the show is looking for non-believers, skeptics and believers, but our sources say it's better to have more of a believer approach within the group. In your email, say where you stand. Also, a co-ed group is highly recommended.
Oh, and as an added incentive, the cast gets paid for the show.
If the truth is out there, a team from the National Geographic Channel might be the best shot there is of finding it. But the network’s new docu-series, Chasing UFOs, ups the ante in the search for answers from The X-Files believer/skeptic duo of Mulder and Scully, and adds a third character – the “skeliever.”
Enter Erin Ryder. Haling upstate New York, Ryder has an extensive resume of producing shows that range from topics such as parkour to Pussycat Dolls to, most recently, the paranormal. She is a skeptic who wants to believe – and might have enough reasons to do so after the first season of the NatGeo show, which premieres with a two back-to-back episodes tonight at 9 p.m.
Ryder is already known to fans of the unexplained by her work as co-executive producer and on-camera adventurer on the Syfy monster-hunting show Destination Truth (which debuts its fifth season on July 10 at 10 p.m.). But in Chasing UFOs – also from Truth production company Ping Pong Productions – Ryder takes the lead as her team looks to the skies and into the shadows.
Along with UFOlogist James Fox and skeptical scientist Ben McGee, Ryder serves as co-executive producer and field researcher in a pursuit that often takes them into a dark territory of extraterrestrial sightings, alien abductions and government conspiracies. In the first episodes alone, the team heads to Texas and encounters a town where more than 30 residents claim they saw mysterious lights flying above them. Then there are is the retired military brass who warns that a large-scale cover-up is in place – a warning that hits close to home when the team believes they’re being followed. And yes, there is a lot of investigating and running around in the dark - which is a fun draw of the show.
But instead of only pursuing theories and eyewitness accounts - and playing with lots of cool gadgets - Chasing UFOs also attempts to pursue the science behind E.T. experiences. For instance, the show is working with SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) to send an outer space, crowdsourced reply to the "Wow! Signal" of 1977.
Erin Ryder joined us to discuss her leap from monsters to aliens, and open up about the science, skepticism - and lots of bleeped-out swear words - of Chasing UFOs, along with some inside info on the new season (and future) ofDestination Truth. (After the jump...)
On Aug. 15, 1977, scientists from SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) picked up an unexplained transmission from outer space that was 30 times strong than any received before or since. Named "The Wow! Signal," it remains a mysterious message from the stars.
And National Geographic Channel's new show, Chasing UFOs wants to send a reply on the 35th anniversary.
On June 29, from 8 p.m. ET to midnight PT, National Geographic will collect tweets tagged with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs. Then, on Aug. 15th they'll include the tweets (along with videos recorded by celebrities and VIPs) and transmit them into space from Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest ground-based telescope (as seen in Contact). The tweets will also be streamed during showings of Chasing UFOs.
The Wow Reply is an interesting move for the new series Chasing UFOs, which premieres June 29. The show - executive produced and starring Destination Truth's Erin Ryder - follows a team of investigators who research reports of alien abduction, UFO sightings and military cover-ups. The team comprises one believer (UFOlogist James Fox), one skeptic (field scientist Ben McGee) and Ryder, who is the undecided "Skeliever." Over the course of the eight episodes, the networks says the team will "collect video footage of unusual-shaped lights over Arizona, meets with an alleged alien abduction survivor in Colorado and even tracks glowing orbs near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center."
After the jump, check out videos about The Wow Reply and see Lost's Jorge Garcia's message for the space aliens. Now, let's just hope those messages to the stars don't include Twitter rumors about E.T.'s death, or anything having to do with a Kardashian.
