Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

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S 2 :  Ep 24 Aired 6/26/12
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Show Summary

Team leader and former FBI Special Agent, Ben Hansen leads scientist Bill Murphy, journalist Jael De Pardo, photography expert Chi-Lan Lieu, stunt expert Austin Porter and effects specialist Larry Caughlin on a mission to find the truth behind some of the most high profile and unexplainable images that have been posted on the Internet. In season two, Larry is replaced by tech expert Devin Marble.

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Ben Hansen

Ben Hansen

Team Leader
Jael Depardo

Jael Depardo

Journalist
Bill Murphy (I)

Bill Murphy (I)

Lead Scientist
Austin Porter

Austin Porter

Stunt Expert
Chi-Lan Lieu

Chi-Lan Lieu

Photography Expert
Larry Caughlan

Larry Caughlan

Effects Specialist (season 1)
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  • modern men in black

    1.0
    By simonblack10, Jan 03, 2013
    i have seen your show and i think your nothing more the men in black, if you tried as hard to prove something to be real then not you may be on to something, i have never seen a bunch of idiots trying so hard to fake a video and disprove it's not real that they do a bad job at it, and what's with the bad music, i would love to see this show prove that it's real then not, what would happen then, just because you can do a video that looks the same don't mean it's fake, the only thing that's fake is the people on this show trying so hard to disprove that something is faked, well sorry modern men in black but you don't foul me, i do watch your show to see if for once you can't debunk a video, now days it's easy to do with all the software and computers anyone can do it, so for once put a way all that and see if it's real then not, can you do that, no i don't think you will, but i can tell you one thing that's fake on this show is the people doing it, and your super bad at it, i see a lot of mistakes that you do it's not funny, like the UFO over the white sheet that was badly done, the real video of that look more real then the one you did, you could see the cut out of that UFO and the sheet, in truth you suck big time nice try, i can see your mistakes and your bad shadowing, you have not yet disprove one that is a fake, well maybe one or twomoreless

  • Worst 'investigators' I've ever seen.

    1.5
    By pulsezero, Jul 31, 2012
    Being a scientist and having watched this show, the "investigators" were the worst I've seen. One thing that really erks me is how they debunk a paranormal video just because they can "replicate" the visual effects of the original video. They conclude that because they can make something similar, the whole thing is therefore a hoax. Just because you can replicate it VISUALLY does not mean the original video is fake (or real), it just means you can make a video that looks similar (even though their "replications" are pretty bad). They also seem like they're acting like they know what they're doing but their inexperience shows.moreless

  • Do We Need the "background" Music?

    3.0
    By ZoeyDixon, Apr 29, 2012
    I would like to be able to actually watch the team either prove or disprove the files, but your "background" music is so loud I can't hear a thing they are saying. I end up changing the channel because of it. VERY FRUSTRATING!

  • Slick but sloppy

    5.0
    By Happy_Hooligan, Apr 20, 2012
    Defended "Fact or Faked" against its detractors in a couple reviews of individual episodes; now, after becoming more familiar with the show, I'd like to take it all back. Well, nearly all-- still get a kick out of seeing the various video clips they play during their selection process. But as serious researchers? Oy. Hope started to fade when I realized, during the "Beast of Dartmoor" segment, that they were seriously postulating the existence of a lion/boar hybrid. Yes. The love child of a swine and a feline, roaming the moors of England. That would indeed be paranormal, I guess. But the kicker was the "Paulding Lights" episode, where they tried mightily to explain, or at least duplicate, a bright light that appears every night at the end of a dirt road somewhere in the midwest. No dice. Couldn't do it. Case unclosed! Cue the spooky music! Except the case was closed, soon afterwards. Can't blame the "Fact of Faked" crew, I suppose. After all, who but a once-in-a-century scientific genius would think of looking at the Paulding Light through a freaking telescope, where he could plainly see it's just the headlights of cars on a distant freeway??moreless

  • Yet another waste of time show.

    2.0
    By slumbergod, Feb 23, 2012
    In this show the cast feel like actors pretending to be real people. It makes me wonder if all it takes to be an "expert" in USA is to be really young and good looking. Come on, an expert is someone with decades of experience behind them. But of course, being an American show that would be unacceptable - they must be young, photogenic, and athletic. That is why there is no credibility to this show. This is another show where there is a lot of potential but the execution is terrible. Ditch the cast and replace them with real people and I would consider watching it. As it stands this is another show I will cast on to the dung heap (Chasing Mummies with Zahi "I'm a tosser" Hawass is already there).moreless
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