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Red Rose follows a disparate group of teenagers, adrift in the long hot summer following GCSEs, hanging out on the Bolton moors with little sense of direction or purpose now that school is over. Rumours circulate of the Red Rose app, an urban legend that blooms on the smartphones of teenagers, encouraging them to undertake a series of challenges increasingly dangerous in its demands. On the fringes of her group of friends, Rochelle Jackson downloads the mysterious app, naively inviting darkness into her life. What she sets in motion is a series of events that take the town by storm, and bring the friends together to battle the unseen forces of a seemingly supernatural entity.

Worldwide, 300 million surveillance cameras are watching us, on our streets, at work, and in our homes. At times, they capture images that don't seem to follow the normal laws of physics. A new Science Channel series investigates mysteries caught on tape and uncovers the science behind some of the most bizarre occurrences ever recorded. With a team of experts analyzing footage that seems to defy explanation, including levitating cars on a freeway, a statue that appears to move on its own, and a spontaneous burst of flames.

A horror anthology series based on urban legends that takes viewers deeper into the horrors that lurk just beneath the surface of America.

Some urban legends are best left untested! Yuuto Suou gets more than he bargained for when he joins his childhood friend Mitsuki Shimoya in testing out an urban legend. When he uses his phone to take a picture of himself with the local shrine's divine mirror, he is whisked off into another world-one heavily steeped in the lore of the old Norse myths. Using his knowledge gained from school and from his solar-powered smartphone, he has the chance to bring the Wolf Clan, the same people who cared for him, to prominence, all while earning the adoration of a group of magic-wielding warrior maidens known as the Einherjar.

The Ghost Brothers (Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey) are the dopest brothers on television hunting ghosts. These candid and unorthodox paranormal investigators explore disturbed hotspots across the country, checking out and sizing up local legends and supernatural stories. They are ready to expose the haunted holdouts still hanging around these locations ... and why they don't leave.

A mystery is buried beneath the streets of Butte, Montana. With the town intent on rebuilding its image and conducting renovation projects, residents and businesses are reporting terrifying ghostly encounters. Mayor J.P. Gallagher and Sheriff Ed Lester have called in an elite team of paranormal investigators to help. When investigator Dave Schrader, tech expert K.D. Stafford and psychic medium Cindy Kaza arrive in Butte, they find paranormal activity that startles even them.

"Hidden away in the dark shadows of our nation's history are tales so terrifying, they must be true," according to the press statement. The series will dismantle a mechanical marvel which torments its owner; follow a shadowy serial killer known as 'The Axeman,' who writes a letter that ignites panic. The series will also follow a farmer as he battles a devilish curse, and a greedy undertaker who defiles the dead and then faces their wrath.

When darkness overcomes the heart, Lil' Slugger appears... An elementary school boy on Rollerblades dubbed Lil' Slugger is said to be responsible for a series of mysterious hit-and-run assaults in Tokyo.

Some urban legends are best left untested! Yuuto Suou gets more than he bargained for when he joins his childhood friend Mitsuki Shimoya in testing out an urban legend. When he uses his phone to take a picture of himself with the local shrine's divine mirror, he is whisked off into another world-one heavily steeped in the lore of the old Norse myths. Using his knowledge gained from school and from his solar-powered smartphone, he has the chance to bring the Wolf Clan, the same people who cared for him, to prominence, all while earning the adoration of a group of magic-wielding warrior maidens known as the Einherjar.

When the Divine Gate opened, the living world, the heavens, and the underworld became connected, ushering an era of chaos where desires and conflict intersect. To restore order, the World Council is formed. As peace is restored, the Divine Gate becomes an urban legend. In that world, boys and girls deemed fit by the World Council are gathered. They are ones who aim to reach the gate for their personal objectives. Those who reach the gate can remake the world. What lies beyond the gate? When they reach the door, will the world change? Will it be the past that changes, or will it be the future?

"Haunted Towns is about so much more than ghost stories. It's about places of deep historical significance, where stories of hauntings are passed down over generations. Is it simply folklore, or is it true? We want to find out what is really going on in these towns," said Jane Latman, general manager of Destination America. "With extensive experience investigating both legendary asylums and - in their pre-TV days - private homes, no team is more prepared for the challenge of confirming the ghostly lore of an entire town than our beloved Tennessee Wraith Chasers."

Satsuki Manshita and her younger brother Keiichirou move from Tokyo to their mother's hometown. Not long after they move in, they discovered that the old abandoned school building near their new school is haunted by demons and evil spirits. At first, they don't seem want to get involved with it, not until their family cat, Kaya, is taken by a demon. In order to save the town, Satsuki and Keiichirou along with their new friends, Momoko, Leo and Hajime form a team to fight the demons.

Each episode is one full hour in length, and contains five short stories within them. Some are paranormal, others are simply creepy tales or astounding coincidences. The twist- some of the five stroies of each episode actually happened, or is based on a true story. Some of the five tales are fiction, and never occured. The challenge? Figure out which of these unbelievable stories are fact, and which are fiction, before the end of the show.

Mysterious shadows. Screams in the night. A hair-raising sense that something is watching. Stories of the unknown capture our imagination and curiosity in this tv series.

In Los Angeles, young Canadian student Elisa Lam's body is found in the water-supply cistern on the roof of the Cecil Hotel, which is known for its rich history of murders, suicides and unexplained deaths.

There is an urban legend that tells of a shinigami that can release people from the pain they are suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name-Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of disappearances involving female students breaks out at Shinyo Academy, the police and faculty assume they just have a bunch of runaways on their hands. Yet some students know better. Something mysterious and foul is afoot. Is it Boogiepop or something even more sinister...?

In a city known as Fukuoka, crime exists in the underworld from a seemingly peaceful surface. In the Hakata ward of the city, there are various individuals with special talent that consists of professional killers, detectives, informants, and professional revenge seekers. Furthermore, according to an urban legend, an individual known as "killer of professional killers" has shown up in the city.

Akin to TV Tokyo's Folktales from Japan, YAMISHIBAI: JAPANESE GHOST STORIES takes a narrative format to explore the rich occult history from Japan, moreover, the storytelling techniques in this brand new series will mimic kamishibai - a traditional storytelling technique inspired by the artistic usage of paper figures and scrolls. "Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan."

Unassuming American communities are haunted by tales of mysterious, homegrown nightmares. Hometown Horror unravels the origins of these frightening stories of the undead, ghouls and monsters lurking in the shadows through eyewitness accounts and historical records.

A scream in the night, and in that instant the world changed ... or at least, it appeared to. The story evolves around a creature called Boogiepop. Boogiepop, also called 'death', hangs out in the city, and whenever you encounter it, she'll take you with her. Nagi Kirima, a highschool student, seems to be fighting Boogiepop - or at least, she tries to. But then there are disappearances everywhere, and strange happenings occur. And nobody sees the link between them. In a mixture of chaos and thrilling horror Nagi tries to find out what happened ... and why it still hasn't happened to her.

An unscripted series that follows a small Alabama town trying to complete their own independent zombie movie - which has been six years in the making. The colorful folks of Jasper, Alabama are determined, once and for all, to complete their zombie movie, Thr33 Days Dead… now six long years in the making. Based on a town urban legend, their film centers on a group of friends trying to survive a zombie apocalypse in rural Alabama. The series will follow the intrepid and motley crew of amateur filmmakers as they struggle against every obstacle imaginable to get to a final cut of their film…which could someday become a movie!

Warszawianka tells the story of the tragicomic adventures of a forty-year-old playboy, everyone's favorite and urban legend, who constantly fights with reality, trying to grasp the meaning of his own existence in the contemporary world.