Destination Truth
Overview
 
Destination Truth is a weekly American paranormal reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 series that premiered on June 6, 2007 on Syfy
Syfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...

. Produced by Mandt Bros. Productions
Mandt Bros. Productions
Mandt Bros. Productions is a Los Angeles-based production companyfounded by brothers Neil and Michael Mandt. The company is primarily known for producing the television programs Jim Rome Is Burning on ESPN/ESPN2 which is the longest running talk show on the network and is currently in its 7th...

 and Ping Pong Productions, the program follows paranormal
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...

 researcher Josh Gates around the world to investigate claims of the supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...

, mainly in the field of cryptozoology
Cryptozoology
Cryptozoology refers to the search for animals whose existence has not been proven...

. In the United Kingdom, the show is known as The Monster Hunter and airs on Living TV, The Syfy
Syfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...

 UK channel has recently started to air the show under its original name Destination Truth.Season three concluded on April 21, 2010 and currently holds the highest ratings ever for the series, which continued with a fourth season, beginning on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 9PM ET/PT.
Each episode runs for about 45 minutes without commercials and features usually two investigations into the reports of paranormal creatures that are said to exist only in myth and superstition
Superstition
Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any process in the physical world linking the two events....

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