SYFY'S NEW HIT SERIES "PARANORMAL WITNESS" SPOOKS 1.63 MILLION TOTAL VIEWERS, UP 29% VERSUS LAST WEEK'S PREMIERE

PARANORMAL WITNESS ALSO JUMPS 20% AMONG ADULTS 25-54 AND 11% AMONG ADULTS 18-49

NEW YORK - September 15, 2011 - Syfy's new hit series Paranormal Witness significantly expanded its audience in its second week, leaping 29% among total viewers (1.63 million), 20% in Adults 25-54 (869,000) and 11% in Adults 18-49 (792,000), while averaging a 1.20 HH rating -- up 20% -- during its telecast on Wednesday, September 14 from 10-11PM (ET/PT)

At 9PM, Ghost Hunters uncovered 1.55 million total viewers, up 8% versus last week's episode.

Syfy's potent new paranormal programming block propelled the channel to #4 among Adults 25-54 in cable primetime.

Using a mixture of intimate first-hand testimony, actual home video and gritty realistic drama, Paranormal Witness transports viewers into a world turned upside-down by extraordinary, terrifying and sometimes life-threatening paranormal events.

The September 14 episode presented two real life paranormal tales. The first was "Haunted Highway." Dave Stautzenbach's 21-year-old daughter and his 3-year-old grandson mysteriously disappeared on a car journey to southern California. But then disturbing premonitions and the ghostly sighting of a naked woman drew different family members and the police to the exact same spot down a ravine at the side of Highway 50 - and the shocking fate of mother and son was revealed. In the second story, "Kentucky UFO Chase," two cops are drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse when their police helicopter was chased across the night time skies of Kentucky by a glowing orange orb that fired fireballs at them.

Paranormal Witness is produced by Raw TV (Locked Up Abroad and Gold Rush Alaska). Executive producers are Dimitri Doganis and Bart Layton.

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