What started out as a web based series in Canada has turned in to a successful television program airing on the Sci-Fi network. We find that Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping from The Outer Limits, The X-Files) and a team of experts run a place called Sanctuary where they examine and work with creatures and those people who have extraordinary powers, learning from them and hiding them away from harm. However some prove to be dangerous and must be handled especially carefully. Dr. Magnus is an English scientist who just happens to be 158 years old. She and her team of scientific experts run the organization seeking out assorted people or animals with special abilities and extraordinary powers. Dr. Magnus was trained by her father at a young age to protect the unusual and study the world. Her team includes her daughter Ashley, protege Will Zimmerman, Henry Foss a lycanthrope geek, and as a security and computer expert is one they refer to as Bigfoot (a Neanderthal like assistant played by Christopher Heyerdahl. Studying the abnormal each week includes run-ins with vampires, energy bound creatures, and competition from rival organizations.

The Harmon family, including Ben, Vivien, and Violet move to a new town and find their house, a restored mansion, is apparently haunted. Dr. Benjamin Harmon (Dylan McDermott from The Practice) had an affair that may have been partly responsible for his wife having a miscarriage. Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) is Vivien, Ben's ever faithful wife and their daughter Violet, who suffers with depression, is played by newcomer Taissa Farmiga. Moving to their new home to get away from the past may not be the easiest thing because of all the strange goings on that occur there. Ben, a therapist, had an affair with a student that shook the marriage, caused his wife to miscarry, and seriously upset his daughter. So why don't they just move from the scary house? What is going on in the basement? And what about the mural that seems to polarize the entire house? Is Ben being punished for his transgressions? Then why are his wife and daughter also being scared so badly? The neighbor Constance, played by Jessica Lange (Tootsie, Cape Fear) seems to be controlling the Harmon family in some weird way also. This show reminds one of Dark Shadows and even Night Stalker, really spooky and well written!

Detective Rebecca Madsen has a family history with the prison island Alcatraz and when fingerprints discovered at a grisly homicide case are found to be those of a diseased prisoner from years ago, Jack Sylvane, she becomes very interested in solving the case. The San Francisco Police Department detective teams up with an expert on Alcatraz history as well as a fan of comic book, Dr. Diego Soto, they attempt to piece the clues together and find out how an inmate in such a secure prison could still be alive and prowling the streets after all these years. It is soon discovered that Sylvane is involved in more murders and he may not be the only one to reappear from the inescapable prison known as The Rock, Alcatraz. Det. Madsen's grandfather and her surrogate uncle were both guards at Alcatraz while it was in operation and they know the dark past of that prison. Soon Madsen and Doc are joined by government agent Emerson Hauser and Lucy Banerjee, his technician. Hauser has been aware of Alcatraz' history and seems to have been waiting for something to happen. This series revolves around evidence that comes up and delves into the history of that infamous prison. Det Rebecca Madsen is played by Sarah Jones (Ugly Betty), the murderous Jack Sylvane is played by Jeffrey Pierce (Private Practice, Knight Rider), Sam Neill (Day Breakers, Jurassic Park) plays government agent Hauser, and Hauser's technician Lucy Banerjee is played by Parminder Nagra (ER, The Whole Truth).

Ghost Whisperer TV Show centers on Melinda Gordon. After her soul mate dies she starts to be able to connect to spirits of those that died from things other than natural causes. All these spirits can't pass over to the other side without some sort of closure, so Melinda feels she must help them. As a paranormal investigator she must convince others she is not crazy and get them to believe what she says along with trying to figure out what it is the spirits need for closure. This all proves to make it hard for Melinda to live a normal life, but she feels she must do something with her new power. Watch the Ghost Whisperer TV Show to see her put her powers to use.

"Destination Truth" provides more testimony to American's insatiable taste for all things creepy and spooky. More than two million people tune-in every week to watch Josh Gates lead a crew of intrepid investigators in search of a paranormal creature come to life from myth or superstition. Airing on SyFy, "Destination Truth" appeals to an audience already well prepared to suspend disbelief, but the shows producers are masters of suspense and wizards of paranormal para-technology, so that even skeptics find themselves strangely seduced. Episodes of "Destination Truth" begin with Gates and crew members gathering at sites of creepy-thing sightings, rigging-up elaborate surveillance equipment and gathering eyewitness testimony from creepy-thing spotters. As team members complete their overnight stake-out, monsters, chimeras, and gryphons supposedly make cameo appearances via thermal imaging, enhanced audio, or a crew member's agitated testimony, "I felt it. I swear I felt it."

Sean Walker plans to propose to his girlfriend Leila while they luxuriate on a Caribbean cruise. Instead, Sean suffers severe cruise interruption when Leila mysteriously disappears, and his desperate search for her leads him into a tangled web of inter-terrestrial intrigue. Equally desperate, disoriented, and terrified, Leila is trapped in an undisclosed location. "The Event" TV show fills-in the back-story as the current drama unfolds: As World War II drew to a close, an alien craft crashed in Alaska; government scientists determined the passengers were 99% identical to humans, but that radical 1% difference has the capacity to wreak havoc on the American population, among whom several of the survivors have been hiding and thriving. The CIA, naturally, has kept this information super-top-secret until technology beyond current human capacity foils an assassination attempt on President Elias Martinez. Which of these historic developments officially qualifies as "The Event" TV series remain approximately as uncertain as the reasons why Sean and Leila must forego serious tanning for all of this intrigue.