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Celebrity Paranormal Project

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Season 1, Episode 1, Aired Oct 22, 2006

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Gary Busey, Donna D'Errico, Toccara Jones, Jenna Morasca, and Hal Sparks visit the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, to investigate ghost sightings. The abandoned hospital, built to house tuberculosis patients and reportedly the site of thousands of deaths, is considered to be one of the most haunted hospitals in the United States.moreless

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This episode is just classic. I would consider this a reality comedy more than a reality. Ha Ha Ha!

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By hotchicken324, Jan 11, 2007

This episode is just classic. I would consider this a reality comedy more than a reality. Ha Ha Ha! I find it funny that this episode looks scary. What is really scary is that Gary Buesy is on here. What I really think is funny is that they're using celebrities. It's like pay back for the non succesful people, getting the crap scared out of them. This episode is actually scary because you could actually see ghosts in the backround, either that or it's special effects, either way, it kind of freaks me out. Bottem line, I hope there's scarier and funnier ones.moreless
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5 celebrities, Hal Sparks, Gary Busey, Toccara Jones, Donna D'Errico and Jenna Morasca are made to spend the night at the 'haunted' Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky and take down readings of supernatural activity.moreless

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By loverslost, Nov 10, 2006

I actually enjoyed this episode more than I thought I would. I really didn't know what to expect before I saw it, and didn't have any expectations, so it did surprise me. Hal Sparks was great, Gary Busey was just creepy and annoying, Toccara Jones was boring and didn't add any emotion to the episode, and Jenna and Donna were fun to watch. Although I felt that some of it was real, I still feel that some of it is fake. I felt that the part where Hal does the spirit writing was fake, but I think that the footsteps that Donna heard were real, but we can't be too sure. Anyway, real or unreal, it did scare me half the time, which means that the episode was convincing enough.

All in all, it is a good episode which makes you want to see future episodes of the show.moreless
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Debut episode of the Celebrity Paranormal Project pits celebrities against their fears.

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By mkiserd, Oct 29, 2006

If the rest of this series is anything like the first episode, we're definitely in for some laughs. I've long been a fan of Celebreality shows, and this one does not disappoint. In terms of overall artistic quality, it's certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel. But is that really why we watch celebrity reality shows anyway?

Gary Busey's nutty comments throughout the night are golden, and Hal Sparks plays the part of Busey's comedic foil brilliantly. I loved Sparks' snarky stabs at Busey's bizarre behavior. They should have put Busey in next week's episode, which takes place in an asylum for the criminally insane. I definitely think he could have easily communed with the stark-raving mad ghosts haunting that place.

While Busey and Sparks provide comic relief, Donna D'Errico and Jenna Morasca inject the show with the thrill-evoking screams that cater to the horror side of the equation. Admittedly, though, this aspect of CPP doesn't seem to be all that stimulating. I was too busy laughing at Gary Busey to be truly scared. The dynamics of the show will benefit from a fresh 5-person cast of low-level celebrities in each episode. Even if he doesn't participate in the investigations, though, I think they should let Hal Sparks stay on to be a talking head for the rest of the series.

This show has promise. Not as a classic of television, but certainly as an entertaining addition to the world of Celebreality. And I think that's really all the show strives for.moreless
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- Also Appearing:
  Clayton Finley, Jr MD - Surgeon
  Branden Thomas - Waverly Hills Security
  Kimberly Johnstone - Waverly Hills Historical Society
  Byron George - Waverly Hills Security
  Tiffany Stewart - Local Resident
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- Gary Busey and Toccara Jones have also starred together in Season 2 of Celebrity Fit Club.
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- Donna D'Errico tells the cameras that she wasn't aware that she would be sent to a haunted site, or that other celebrities would be on the show.
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- When Hal Sparks was five years old, he was in a coma and had a near-death, out of body experience.
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- Gary Busey claims to have come into contact with the other side when he had a near fatal motorcycle accident, as well as when he died after having brain surgery.
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- Jenna Morasca names the group of celebrities "Team Crazy."
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- Hal Sparks grew up in Peaks Mill, KY, which is about 65 miles East of Louisville, the site of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
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- Hal Sparks: (about to go out on his first mission) I expect that there's a lot of sorrowful energy in this place. So, as much as it's kind of an adventure that you're looking forward to, on the other hand, a lot of bad stuff happened in this place, and I don't know if you could go in there and not feel it.
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- Hal Sparks: (seeing Waverly Hills for the first time) Oh, my God! It looks like my high school, the scariest thing of all!
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- Toccara: I definitely would love to walk out of this experience with an experience. I don't want to be like, 'Oh, I wasted my time, I came here and it was stupid, I knew it would be stupid. It was stupid.' I'd really like this to be worth my while.
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- Gary Busey: Everyone out there in TV land, by watching this show, you're gonna discover things about yourself you did not even know. That's why this show is imperative to watch.
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- Hal Sparks: I stand by my statement that Gary is the scariest thing in this whole place.
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- Gary Busey: It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it...from a zone that I don't live in on this Earth. Everyone should be required to do this.
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- Gary Busey: I wanna give you a blessing of my energy, my focus, and my ambition, and my love.
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- Gary Busey: If you go in there with the grace of God and have plenty of faith and know that Jesus is your Savior, you'll be fine.
  Hal Sparks: Then I am screwed.
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- Hal Sparks: If the ghosts aren't there, believe me, Gary will be plenty weird enough.
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NOTES (3)
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- This episode is also listed under the alternate title of "In Sanatorium" on many websites.
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- The Waverly Hills Sanitarium has been investigated a number of times on other paranormal TV shows. It was visited three times by TAPS on the second season Ghost Hunters "Haunted Sanatorium", the third season special "Live From The Waverly Hills Sanitorium", and the seventh season's "Voices of Pain". It was also investigated by the second set of recruits on Ghost Hunters Academy, and by the British Most Haunted crew in their eleventh season episode "Waverly Hills Sanatorium". The Ghost Adventures Crew also investigated the location in their fourth season episode "Waverly Hills". In 2011, the site would also be used for the first season episode of the Travel Channel's show Zak Bagan's Paranormal Challenge "Waverly Hills". Also in 2011, the location was visited by the show Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files in the second season episode "Asylum Apparition/Mystery Over Mexico".
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- Waverly Hills Sanatorium was featured on the shows Scariest Places On Earth on July 19, 2001 in the second season episode "Contagion Of Fear: Waverly Hills Sanatorium".
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- Fear: This show is pretty much the same as MTV's Fear, except it's celebrities who perform the tasks. One reason for this similarity is probably that CPP's Executive Producer Cris Abrego was a Producer for Fear.
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