Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files' on Syfy.

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OUT THERE: In the new unscripted series “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files” investigators look into mysterious phenomena. Up first, the case of the “Georgia Ghost Car,” at 10 p.m. on Syfy.

SERIES

Biography: Heavy metal pioneer Black Sabbath is profiled in this new episode (7 p.m. Biography).

Rookie Blue: Andy (Missy Peregrym) is assigned to work undercover in a citywide prostitution sting, but when she and Dov (Gregory Smith) try to take some initiative in an effort to impress Sgt. Boyko (Aidan Devine), an informant's life is put in danger in this new episode (9 p.m. ABC).

Mary Knows Best: This offbeat new unscripted series revolves around Mary Occhino, self-proclaimed psychic, intuitive and radio host (9 p.m. Syfy).

Bethenny Getting Married? Bethenny and Jason try to enjoy their honeymoon in St. Bart's, but anxiety kicks in when the discussion turns to the upcoming arrival of the baby (10 p.m. Bravo).

Penn & Teller: The skeptical magicians take on UFO hunters searching for mysterious aircraft flying over Nevada's Area 51 (10 p.m. Showtime).

The Green Room With Paul Provenza: Panelists in the season finale include Tommy Smothers, Martin Mull and Penn Jillette (10:30 p.m. Showtime).

Pranked: The season finale offers clips from the best (or worst) of the practical joke series' second season (11 p.m. MTV).

MOVIES

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Charles Laughton has the clock-stopping looks in the title role of this 1939 adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic. Cedric Hardwicke and Maureen O'Hara also star (3 p.m. TCM).

16 Wishes: The wishes of a teenager magically come true on her 16th birthday in this 2010 TV movie starring Debby Ryan and Jean-Luc Bilodeau (8 p.m. Disney).

SPORTS

Baseball: The Dodgers visit the St. Louis Cardinals (5 p.m. KCAL); the Seattle Mariners visit the Angels (7 p.m. FSN).

Golf: British Open, from Scotland (1 and 4 a.m. ESPN).

Cycling: Tour de France: Stage 12, from Bourg-de-Peage to Mende. (5:30 a.m. VS).

Photo: Jaimie Trueblood / Syfy

Comments

[martin carvajal]

is there anyway to contact any members of the show? I have some questions and have noticed some weird things on your footage that you would like to see for example in the episode with the ghost car and the lights that jeff recorded in Arizona with the thoerys involving the lazers,balloons, and the nightime investigation with the moving object in the sky

[J Rogers]

I was really hoping this was not going to be another so called true show. I was sorely disapointed. They are saying they are going to do real investugations but with the one they did on Ghost car was just ridiculus. Do you not think any police officer would not go after a car they were chasing f they could. It was not done at the original site which is sorrounded by fencing and had junk in the parking lot not an open road on the other side. It is just another so called true show just like all the crap on tru tv.

[Heather Bernard]

I agree on the on about the ghost car, there is no cop that will see tail lights of a car and not try to find a way to catch it if they where already.
How ever I wanted to thank you for proving that a phenomena had likely happened with the lights in AZ . I was at a family reunion on white tank mountains where were were camping, when I saw them, as well as more then 50 people at my family reunion. Also before the news even set out on my way home because i couldn't stay the night myself more then 20 people had seen them as far as Scottsdale more then 20 miles away.
I would have tried to contact the show personally rather then say it on there comments page, however there lack of a shown response to someone else request on how to contact them, however they did not respond to that person question. Our family got them on multiple cameras. My family being unwilling to turn them over so That i might show the show has made it so that all I can do is send in this comment.

[rhonda]

On your night crawler try someone on stilts and keep just edit the photo to remove the top of the person

[Michelle]

I have to say that I watched your show for the first time tonight 08/05/10. The one showing the lights of El Cajon San Diego. I totally do not agree with your findings. Here is why - when I was 10 years old (1977) my family and I went out to spend some time with some friends of ours while they were camping at a local camp grounds. We spent the day with them and around 9 pm we were heading home. I was sitting in the back seat looking out the window up into the night sky. I was amazed of all the stars that were out that night. I happened to notice three red lights in a triangle form floating just above the tree line. I found it odd because there was no sound and as it got closer to us and at one point we were right under it and you can see right through it. I know what I saw and no one will ever convince me that it was nothing more than a hoaks.

[Grandma Gee]

I like this show!

[P. Ankrom-Scott]

Fact or Faked. Not enough credability in the investigators.
Ghost Hunters. Now they have guests along on an investigation? Again, this seems to me to be a drop in credability. Also, on Ghost Hunters Int., it's amazing that a ghost hundreds of years old is BILINGUAL!!!!

[Maggie Thomas]

I just watched three episodes for the first time "On Demand". While I thought some of the topics were interesting, I must admit that I was very displeased with the crew in how they conducted their research and investigations, and arriving to conclusions that people are hoaxing thier videos. Just because your crew has the time, money and manpower to devote to debunking peoples videos, doesn't mean that the rest of us are trying to scam people into believing false crap. I seriously doubt that the average person submitting the videos has in someway, attempted to con people into believing something paranormal happened when it didn't.

For instance, in one of the episodes I watched, a man reported seeing a triangle UFO and provided PF with the video. And just because PF ran some experiments showing that IT COULD be hoaxed, someone from the program actually stated that this man's video was bogus and discounted all possibility that his video might have been the real deal. I cannot understand for the life of me why PF would say such a thing in a manner that suggests that they are right and someone else was wrong, simply because they were able to show that someone could have faked the video if they wanted to.

After watching how PF determined what videos they would investigate and viewing the actual investigations, I have decided that PF is a hoax with limited knowledge bases to research and investigate anything. You guys are just amatures with a TV show. Have you personally ever seen a UFO at close range? A ghost? Or anything else out of the ordinary? Well some of us truly have seen these things before many times. And just because we can't prove it to you, doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

Remember one thing in your future endeavors, "All are not huntsmen who can blow the huntsmans horn".

[Victor]

On 11/11/10 on the alien investigation Mr. Reed did not meantion anything about the braclet that the alien was wearing when I was 8 years young he came out on a mexican late night tv show called "Otro Rollo" con Adal Ramones the host of the along with Jaime Mausan an alien and UFO investigator. Mr. Reed meantions when he put on the braclet he saw the future the end of the world not even 2012 and he also meantions that the people that knew him did not have any recolection of him. . . So the mean reason I wright this blog is what happen to that braclet.

[hector Diaz]

really not a comment more like a question for the crew.

What puzzles me is that i just recently just watched a show on 11/21/10 sunday night. It was about a young girl who has a guardian angel in her pictures asa young girl. As a result the crew decided that it was fake, when clearly you guys couldnt prove it, even had paranormal activity in the house. this wasnt the first episode you guys couldnt prove and still called it a fake.dont get me wrong the show is awesome. just wonder why the crew called it fake when the testing results were clearly not close to the images in the picture. you can clearly see that it was not a strap in front of the camera there was much more detail in the picture..thats all im curious about.. if it cant be proven its a fact.. agree? plz email me on this someone..