r/Paranormal • u/dynamicsocial • 18h ago

Question Paranormal Documentaries that aren’t silly?

Filmmaker here wondering if anyone has any recs for any paranormal documentaries (not horror/fiction) that aren’t made by like TLC in an early 2000s sensationalistic way? Does that exist?

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u/BebeRegal 7h ago

Hellier on Amazon Prime is excellent - I cannot recommend it enough!!

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u/BAG1 6h ago

https://youtu.be/oxSVUibGcjg?si=D9sJkoQiPf6m6SDK

Kendall Whelpton has a few good para-docs

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u/RexImmaculate 3h ago

If 'A Haunting' isn't your type of paranormal doc you're looking for, then the world of independent filmmaking is the way to go. YouTube and other streaming hosts have far better content than Amazon, which gets its stuff from the big studios. The stories that got onto 'A Haunting' are the more extreme cases.

I recommend this for starters. South Texas Haunts. 20 years doing it. https://www.youtube.com/c/SouthTexasHaunts

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u/investinlove 1h ago

An Honest Liar.

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u/KittinBubbles 16h ago

You should really have some examples of the type of documentaries that you're looking for, as well as the types you aren't looking for... It will make it easier for people to make recommendations. What's silly to you isn't necessarily silly to other people.

What films have you made and who for?

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u/IdesofMarchBby 15h ago

i liked The Old Ways and Apostle on Netflix. idk if those are documentary style - the old ways is kind of? they’re more like…. first person videos, i guess consider similar to Paranormal Activity (but not home cameras) - did you watch the Cloverfield series? home video - esque.

hope u like my two recs :)

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u/Lopsided_Reception23 11h ago

Buzzfeed unsolved supernatural and the successor ghost files. Of course they also use some "scary" music and stuff like that, but at least they don't seem to fake anything and I like the overal idea of the show of investigating together with a believer and a sceptic. It's not like in other shows, where the hosts believe and after 20 minutes see a ghost in every shadow and hear a step in every little noise. Here Shane (the sceptic-host) mostly calms his co-host by saying stuff like: "Yeah, it's really dark, but that's not scary. And this house is x years old, of course there will be noises.". This makes the rare moments when really no one knows why something happened all the better. I mean it still doesn't have to be ghosts and for all we know the show could still be completely staged and fake, but it really doesn't seem like it and every moment of mystery in it serms like a genuine mystery, because at least some effort to debunk it is always made.

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u/sentry00123 16h ago

I thought “A haunting in Connecticut “ 2002 was scary. I was little but I remember it being terrified.