Expedition X - Dem Unheimlichen auf der Spur

Somehow this show returned for a second season, and somehow it's even worse. This show has nothing to do with it's parent show, Expedition Unknown, where you are constantly given history and interesting facts/culture about said location from likable host Josh Gates. This show rather decides to rip off fake-ass ghost shows with every single trope those shows have, but done 10x worse and obviously more fake. I gave the show a second chance after its hiatus, and yet somehow they learned nothing from the first season and have doubled down on horribly made fake setups. The two hosts still consist of a girl most famous for licking a PSP and a guy that's an Instagram bug fanatic, both of which seem to absolutely hate eachother. The girl seems to think even the slightest cricket sound is a supernatural homunculus waiting to pounce from the underbrush, and the guy just seems to want to go home and down a glass of hard liquor to forget about the episode he just had to film. Both of them pretend to be scared of stock sound effects that they edit in post production, talk to crazy people/actors about their experiences with the creature of the week, fumble around in uninteresting dark places for 15 minutes, and then just give up after finding a prop they put on-site and calling it so-called "evidence", opting instead to call up and bother Josh to give him an "update" when it's clear he could care less and just wants to go back to sleep. It's paint-by-numbers ghost show and an incredibly boring slog to get through, and if Josh didn't appear you'd have no idea that this was connected in any way to Expedition Unknown. The only sheer amount of enjoyment I get out of watching this show is the commercial in-between where a lonely man buys his seemingly paralyzed guinea pig a new hat for Christmas whilst proceeding to take a picture of him. After that commercial is taken off the air, I will have no reason to watch this show.

If you want entertaining fake ghost shows, please for the love of god watch anything else.

I just finished the first season and I am appalled at the claim the Jessica Chobot is an "experienced" paranormal investigator! She freaks out at any potential contact and then she doesn't seem to have any ability to problem solve and look for logical cause for an experience. She automatically goes right to "it's haunted!". As someone who watched the series Ghost Hunters I find it hard to believe that she has any real experience as a paranormal investigator. This show would be much better if they would replace Jessica with a "real" paranormal investigator.

Does anyone believe that any of these shows like these are actual pure science? If you don't want something that is at least 50% entertainment then watch PBS. Shows like this are scripted and the drama is obviously staged, but who cares? I love this show because it's cheesy and fun. A number of reviewers on here give Jess a hard time for being so sure everything is paranormal. What I find stranger is how Phil could still be skeptical after all of the things they encounter. If all the things that happen to them while "investigating" were real then any rational human would be terrified. This is good fun entertainment. Enjoy it for what it is, not for what you want it to be.

My wife and I have watched this show from the very beginning and we absolutely love it! That is, until Heather joined the show. I'm sure that she is a very nice and sweet person, however, she cannot say anything without it coming out sounding like a lie, even the things that you know are absolute fact!

My wife and I both think that she is trying to act so hard, without any talent for it, that she sounds like an absolute phoney!.

The chemistry between Phil and Jessica was absolutely perfect and the show was seamless especially when Josh joined the show, I mean, who doesn't love Josh? Back then we would have given the show 10 out of 10 Stars every single episode and every single year!

As far as the chemistry between Phil and Heather, well, there is none! You could tell Phil is trying so very hard but just can't make it work! When Heather first joined the show, it almost sounded as though she did know a little bit about paranormal investigation, but as the show went on and she would jump like a terrified mouse at every single noise and grab it phil's arm, because she was frightened senseless, that gave us all the facts that we needed to conclude, she had no idea what she was doing and had no business pretending to be an expert paranormal investigator, because the real ones, (the professional ones), don't scream every 5 seconds!

And I hate to say this, because as I said, we have watched this show from the very beginning, but we don't know how much longer we will be able to continue watching this! It almost feels as though we're being forced to watch it, if that makes any sense.

They really need to bring Jessica back, or they need to find somebody who is a well seasoned and talented paranormal investigator and has at least a modicum of talent as an actress!

And again, like I said, I have nothing against heather, I'm sure she is a very nice person, she just brings the quality of the show down so far, that it is disappointing.

My husband and I enjoy this show very much. The only problem is that we can never hear what Jessica and Phil hear because the music is too loud! Can we do without the music so the environmental sounds are the same that Jessica and Phil hear? It would make it so much more realistic and believable and exciting.