Syfy is ready to travel down Haunted Highway once again, ordering up a second season to consist of six episodes. Season one averaged 1.12 million viewers and was in the top 10 among adults between 25-54 years old.
The two teams of hosts – Jack Osbourne & Dana Workman and Jael de Pardo & Devin Marble – will be returning with the renewal of the series. Season two is expected to premiere on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 10pm ET.
The Plot: Fueled by eyewitness interviews and evidence collected with state-of-the-art equipment, the two teams will self-document their harrowing face-to-face encounters with the paranormal. The new season features examinations and investigations that will take the teams off the beaten path in places like the Arizona desert, the Sierra Nevada mountains and bayous of New Orleans as they seek werewolf-like creatures, the Black Angel of Death, the ghosts of the famous Donner party and other paranormal phenomena.
This season, in a first for the series, all four cast members will join together for a special investigation of Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. One of America’s largest and most remote coastal bases, Fort Jefferson is located in the Gulf of Mexico, 68 miles from Key West. Built in 1846 to protect one of the most strategic deep-water anchorages in the United States, Fort Jefferson quickly became a horrifying prison fortress.
The most famous prisoner of Fort Jefferson was Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth and was allegedly an accomplice in the assassination of President Lincoln. Many report that Dr. Mudd’s angry spirit has never forgiven those who wrongly imprisoned and tortured him. Though the island on which Fort Jefferson sits looks beautiful and tranquil, it is still known as “Death Island” for the number of fatalities among both soldiers and prisoners.
