Ghost Asylum was an American paranormal television series that aired from September 7, 2014, to June 5, 2016, in the United States on Destination America. The series features a group of professional ghost hunters that try to "trap ghosts" in the country's most haunted abandoned asylums, sanitariums, and mental hospitals. The show was renewed for a second season of 15 episodes, which premiered on April 5, 2015, and aired in two halves with the second half airing in late-2014.The series follows the paranormal team known as the "Tennessee Wraith Chasers"; the pilot of the series was originally named "Ghostland Tennessee" before it was renamed for the Destination America network.