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I give this a 6 out of 10 only because they advertise the show as being a true story. After watching a few of the episodes and going online to find news of the events, I could not find the story anywhere. I love paranormal and ghost shows and I also enjoy shows on ID of murders and crimes. I can always cross-reference to the real events that took place. Have not been able to find a single one for My Haunted House. If anyone has found any for any of the so called real stories please point them out to me. In any case, the stories in this show are pretty good and if it weren't for the false advertisement of the stories being true I'd give it a 10 rating.

Now I know it. They just did a story on my hometown that involved a serial killer. No such serial killer existed anywhere in the U.S. let alone in my hometown. The serial killer was made up, his nickname was made up, his method of killing and m.o. were made up - I searched on everything they said on My Haunted House - and the entire story seems to be made up. Not even one iota of the story was true. Done watching this stuff. Like someone else commented, I like other ghost/paranormal stories that use real people instead of paid actors - and true stories. It's not like there aren't enough of them to go around. I studied acting, and did my fair share back in the day, and I can tell when someone is acting...especially if they aren't that good.

I've read some of the comments here, and they don't know what they are talking about.

My haunted house is THE best directed haunted show.

At first, I used to think that A HAUNTING was the best, but after a while A HAUNTING turned into Hollywood style, having too many over the top theatrics that makes the whole thing seem not realistic.

But when I began watching MY HAUNTED HOUSE, ghostly manifestations was much more subtle, which is how true haunting occur, which is much more believable.

Instead the directing emphasizes on surprised reaction to occurrences using sound scoring at the right place.

I wish they would make more MY HAUNTED HOUSE shows, without changing any of the directing techniques.

Since it's cancelation, other haunting shows have popped up, that are similar in directing but still not as good as MY HAUNTED HOUSE.

Who cares if its fake dang people, what is the big deal. dont watch it then, The purpose is to entertain your mean ungrateful asses.

The people who tell the story are actors and the locations are also made up and events changed in order to protect the identity of the people it happened to. Now I don't believe in ghosts in the first place, so I would say it's all made up, however I felt it necessary to explain the shows premise as so many of you do not seem to understand. This show is as authentic as any of the others out there once you understand the premise. Which once again....is that actors are hired to play the people telling the story in order to protect that persons identity. Wow. ( and also the reanactments are by actors too, just so we are clear) I like these kinds of shows, it's like getting to watch little horror shorts. Fun show, great story telling. Enjoy!

At first glance, this program appears to be similar to My Ghost Story and Paranormal Witness (two programs I quite enjoy). However, after watching a few episodes of My Haunted House, it dawned on me that the "eyewitnesses" are paid actors (and not very good ones, at that) telling a story which is 100% scripted.

Obviously, the re-enactments would use actors, just like other shows in this genre. However, I strongly suspect that the "eyewitness accounts" have all been dreamed up by scriptwriters. The "eyewitnesses" telling the stories are mostly very unconvincing. The acting is so wooden, I'm surprised I didn't realise it was fake much sooner than I did.

Realising that the program is fake simply sucked all of the enjoyment out of it for me.

A clue to the show being completely fake is given during the credit sequences. At the start of the program it states "The following two stories are inspired by documented paranormal encounters". Reading between the lines, "inspired by" translates to "completely made up".

I believe it should be openly disclosed that this program features works of fiction rather than "eyewitness accounts" of paranormal encounters.

Come on people, really? If you allow yourself to suspend disbelief now and again, life can be fun.

firstly the actors are extremely contrived, if this was authentic they wouldn't all speak in the same scripted voice. At first i thought they might just be coached but after several episodes its like the same narration by 'real people' over and over again.

Some stories seemed a bit too.....yep Im a good investigator and even with name changes i am usually able to get details of incidents, some which would have been reported on. I searched high and low and could not validate them.

I am definitely a believer in the paranormal so its not like i am skeptical. Its really annoying because its being touted as truth. This show is fake in my opinion. Its disappointing, I've stopped watching it.

If you like fiction this is the show for you. "Witness accounts," extremely bad actors. If you research the claims in the episodes you will see it is pure fiction.

first of all, i want to add another genre to this series, it's horror and documentary. because, people are telling their stories, this is the most horror part of the series, overall, it's a nice series, worth a watch. second, the videoing is very nice, the effects plays an important role in horror making, the directing is great and acting is very fantastic. finally, I gave it 8/10 just because first, it's a documentary series, although, actually, it made me love the documentaries, second, because the sense that "you know that the house is haunted, why didn't you leave", the first scenario, which is "The Nursery" was because her husband was refusing to move and she was hiding the truth on him, but in the second scenario, which is "The Closet" there was no reason for not leaving the house, feels like they knew that they were acting, third, i don't know if the next episodes will be such like the first episode or they are going to change their overall style and criteria, fourth, i didn't like the double scenarios in the same episode, this might be only for the first episode, but it's going to be better if each episode get a single scenario.

I don't care if the shows are real or fake. They are great stories and grip you from the beginning. My complaint is that you constantly advertise "All New Shows" and they are reruns. Week after week of disappointments. Since you have had such incredible success with the acting and directing, what is the problem? Have you run out of stories? I'd send you mine, but it only lasted for less than 5 seconds and never replayed. If it is creative writing, you should be good to go. There are thousands of writers who would love to see their work on the screen. And new writers who would contribute for no more than screen credits.

It's one thing to debate whether people's testimonials on these types of shows are believable or not, at least they seem to believe their experiences, which makes it interesting to ponder, but this show is intellectually dishonest by faking the testimonials altogether and won't even notify viewers, it's disrespectful.

There's absolutely no point in watching this if there isn't even an ounce of credibility, don't waste your time, there are plenty of other shows who make minimal efforts in finding real stories with real people. I give it some points for production value, I guess. But don't encourage people like this, they're just following trends and money.

These stories are great, they really make a paranormally inclined person such as myself question, which is what I like, but many of these stories don't seem so far fetched (but there are a lots of segments I have my doubts they didn't "spice up" -1 star). I know some people that have very similar stories to these.

There's lots on demons and poltergeists, so in that respect, the title "My Haunted House" doesn't really make sense. Your house can't be haunted by demons, it's inhabited. And poltergeist occurs at a house, it doesn't haunt. Ghosts haunt by definition. For that, it gets a .5 a star off. The title should have been something to do with paranormal, not "haunted". Misleading, but the show makes up for it.

Thirdly, on some occasions, they only have one person telling the story, for both segments. They also state later that "...identities...have been changed". Why show this message if there is 2 people telling two people telling two stories? Seems to me they hired actors to tell the experiences of people, hence the "wooden" performance. I suppose they could hire better actors to tell the actual stories of what was documented by people who were willing to come forward but not give their name nor their presence. Knocking off .5 a star for that because the show is mostly re-enactments anyway.

To the reviewers, use a bit of logic. The show clearly states that they are "inspired by paranormal events". It's basically the experience minus all the suspenseful parts (which I live for, but if you have a problem with it, I guess you're not a horror film fan).

EDIT: The shows quality has gone down dramatically because they've started making up paranormal claims. Prior to the third season, there was no "all persons fictitious" disclaimer in the beginning. Now there is, and I've stopped watching. The show could get away with embellishing before, since they were actually based on paranormal encounters. Henceforth, I will not be watching the show.

For the past 3 years, I have watched every show I could on the T. C. that isn't "ghost hunting". I have to say, this is top of the line of the offered fare. It has strong production values, the acting is very good, at least every one knows how to act unlike in LifeTime "movies" (Heh ...I don't receive that many channels, folks!)

I think this is one of the first such series I tuned into, and I've been mainly disappointed with subsequent shows that don't have the production values they do here. I mean the camera angles, the directing, the editing, everything is pretty good. Not to mention the scares: they're done just right, with minimum amount of "blood & guts" and no gore. Just the way I like it.

It took a while to get used to the cut to commercial every 5 min and then repeat of the last 2 min before commercial break, but this is par for the course at the Travel Channel. Now, early on, I started doing research on some of these stories. It doesn't take long to figure out that, yes, some of the people telling "their" story are actually actors playing real people, and other actors are recreating their alleged stories. That doesn't faze me.

Now, if you've never lived through something like this, good for you. While some would give anything to have such an "adventure", I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum where I'd like my life back, back when I "knew" all this to be fake. Sadly, it isn't so. Although, granted, I haven't met all these entities, apparitions, ghosts and monsters, my unwitting experiences have been such that I seek such shows to "feel normal". And deep down, I dread the next time such an encounter will occur, but somehow I do know it's brewing.

For the rest, don't be too hard on the folks scoffing and rating it low: back before I knew this stuff was for real, my attitude was "are they taking us for imbeciles?" and "these people are mentally ill!" but now I know differently.

I just wish they would get to it and produce more episodes. I also wish the other T. C. shows (Haunted Hospitals, Haunted Hotels, Paranormal Witness These Woods are Haunted etc. Etc.) would hire whoever is responsible for the high quality shows here (D. P.? Director? Editor? Writers?) and get to it and create better content for those shows. Not only that, I wish the T. Ch. Would quit renaming shows and splicing segments into new titles. Now THAT is taking us for imbeciles! (See the Robert Englund show, which has 3 different titles, showing the same exact episodes in such "cut & paste" fashion.)

As I said, some of these stories are made up. That will be entertainment. I think one of the stories that was the most gripping was "Home, Sweet Hell" that of Lori Settle. I was shocked when I researched it, to find out the lady had indeed met her demise, most likely at the "hands" of the entity, just like she predicted. Chilling!

As for why I won't watch "ghost hunting" shows: post-prod added EVP and stick figures dancing in a darkened room are boring: you've seen one, you've pretty much seen them all! (And don't get me started on their dumb hosts!)

I'd rate this at 8/10, being that there's much room for improvement, but this isn't the 80s when they made fantastic television productions so, for what it is, and to bump its rating on here a bit, I'm giving it a 9/10.

Don't be so emotional over a show a five year old could understand Its fake. This one does it right. You get the chills from these stories a good amount of jump scares and great sgi ghosts to add to the terror. The story lines are like mini movies. What could be better? I mean ghost hunters "omg did you hear that" camera pans to nothing "I feel a ghost" come on stop acting like those shows are based on anything more than a tool in love with himself capturing nothing on camera and having way to many seasons and this shows getting all the hate. Ghosts aren't real it's called television it's fake at least this show scares and shows scary images way better than a dork looking at a wall.