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The Best Episodes of Ghost Stories

Every episode of Ghost Stories ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ghost Stories!

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Ghost Stories is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1997 to 1998 on the cable channel The Family Channel. The show was narrated by Rip Torn and originally two episodes were presented back

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 24 - The New Nanny
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    #1 - The New Nanny

    S1:E24

    A nanny spends a terrifying first night with her strange new charge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 11 - All Night Diner
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #2 - All Night Diner

    S1:E11

    Abandoning her family, a woman drives out of town and stops at an all night diner. Inside, she is harassed by strange customers who know too much of her past, causing her to flee to another diner. But to her horror, she discovers that it's the same diner with the same tormentors. Turns out she was killed in a car crash and is trapped in her own purgatory of guilt.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 23 - Fatal Distraction
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #3 - Fatal Distraction

    S1:E23

    A frustrated writer is tempted to cheat on his wife by a mysterious woman he sees through his apartment window. But when he discovers that she is a ghost, it's too late -- and intends to get her revenge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 32 - You'll Wake the Dead
    6.9/10(20 votes)

    #4 - You'll Wake the Dead

    S1:E32

    A cruel young couple wage a campaign of noisy terror to evict an old lady from their duplex. The old lady dies, only to return to exact retribution from her tormentors.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 9 - Personal Demons
    6.7/10(22 votes)

    #5 - Personal Demons

    S1:E9

    A social worker pursuing a mentally unbalanced man who escaped from a halfway house discovers that her client is prodded to murderous actions by a malevolent demon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 28 - It's Only a Movie
    6.7/10(14 votes)

    #6 - It's Only a Movie

    S1:E28

    Joey Howell, jaded horror film fan, wins being a role of an extra in a horror film. But when he arrives on the set, Joey finds that things are not as they seem. The movie is being played out for real - and he's the star victim.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 29 - Consumers
    6.7/10(29 votes)

    #7 - Consumers

    S1:E29

    A young guy gets a job working the night shift at a supermarket frequented by the neighborhood elderly. Much to his horror, he discovers that they are shopping for young bodies to take over and inhabit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 2 - Last Flight Out
    6.5/10(31 votes)

    #8 - Last Flight Out

    S1:E2

    A year after the plane crash that claimed her husband and child, a guilt ridden woman takes a night flight. Amid the storm-tossed flight, the woman is haunted by ghosts of her past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 19 - Sleep No More
    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #9 - Sleep No More

    S1:E19

    A dream psychologist who takes on her patients' nightmares yearns to escape her work and insensitive husband. But when her nightmares start to invade her waking hours, she seeks refuge - into a peaceful dreamscape.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 7 - Landscape of Lost Dreams
    6.4/10(28 votes)

    #10 - Landscape of Lost Dreams

    S1:E7

    A couple returns to their honeymoon hotel in a last ditch effort to save their crumbling marriage. When the wife vanishes, the husband is suspected of killing her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 3 - Step-Sister
    6.2/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Step-Sister

    S1:E3

    When a young girl's mother remarries, she moves into her step-father's house, only to find herself haunted by the ghost of her jealous step-brother. But soon she discovers he's trying to warn her - about his own death and the danger she now finds herself in.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 8 - Cold in the Grave
    6.2/10(110 votes)

    #12 - Cold in the Grave

    S1:E8

    A divorced, embittered repairman murders a woman he picked up in the bar, stashes her body in an industrial refrigerator, and dumps it into the river.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 14 - Cold Dark Space
    6.2/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Cold Dark Space

    S1:E14

    A frenzied man finds himself trapped in a nightmarish hospital room. Surrounded by the dead from his past, it appears he's lost in a limbo world between life and death. We discover this is all the delusion of an astronaut adrift in space with his dead co-pilots as company.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 20 - Point Hope
    6.2/10(21 votes)

    #14 - Point Hope

    S1:E20

    A woman is saved from suicide by a mysterious lighthouse keeper with more on his mind than her salvation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 21 - The Stainless Blade
    6.2/10(17 votes)

    #15 - The Stainless Blade

    S1:E21

    The famous magician Vance Delbert passes on the secret of his magic sword.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 35 - Mirror, Mirror
    6.2/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Mirror, Mirror

    S1:E35

    A haggish old dowager is murdered by her put-upon niece and young boyfriend, only to return to haunt them in mirrors.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 16 - Sara's Friends
    6.1/10(17 votes)

    #17 - Sara's Friends

    S1:E16

    Sara works in a morgue, but she has lots of friends - on the gurney. But when a grifter tries to con her out of the morgue patient's valuables, he learns that Sara's friends will go above and beyond - the grave.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 27 - Underground
    6.0/10(14 votes)

    #18 - Underground

    S1:E27

    An attendant, working in a subterranean garage, finds himself trapped in a nightmarish underworld.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 39 - Bless Me Father
    6.0/10(15 votes)

    #19 - Bless Me Father

    S1:E39

    A young disillusioned priest is sent to take over a dying parish, but finds his presence is resented by the older priest. The young priest soon finds himself haunted by the ghost of a girl he left behind to join the clergy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 10 - Cloistered
    5.9/10(18 votes)

    #20 - Cloistered

    S1:E10

    A lonely care-giver to the elderly falls for a man whom she believes is kept in his house by his domineering mother. But as their secret relationship grows, she is horrified to learn that the young man is not what he seems.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 17 - Beat the Reaper
    5.9/10(18 votes)

    #21 - Beat the Reaper

    S1:E17

    A man on death row prays for a governor's pardon. One night he has a ghostly visitation from his dead partner, who shows him how to escape. But trapped in the bowels of the prison, the man is terrified to learn that the ghost is the Angel of Death, intent upon keeping his prize, and not being cheated.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 41 - Going Down
    5.9/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Going Down

    S1:E41

    The experience of having been trapped and held hostage in an elevator has left Kate Bradshaw claustrophobic and mute. In the end, Kate triumphs over her fears as well as her captor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 43 - Parting Shot
    5.9/10(17 votes)

    #23 - Parting Shot

    S1:E43

    A paparazza seeks the ultimate shot - of the now dead celebrity at a funeral home. But after finally getting the picture, she finds that the ghost of the celebrity starts to relentlessly hound her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 33 - Resting Place
    5.8/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Resting Place

    S1:E33

    A grieving father refuses to accept the loss of his son, presumed dead from the bombing of a clinic in Africa. When the son miraculously returns home, his mother slowly begins to suspect the truth - his father's undying love has resurrected the living dead.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Ghost Stories Season 1 Episode 36 - The House That Spilled Tears
    5.8/10(15 votes)

    #25 - The House That Spilled Tears

    S1:E36

    A slumlord, condemned to house arrest in her own decrepit property, is haunted by the specters of tenants who suffered and died in the building.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The New Nanny" is the best rated episode of "Ghost Stories". It scored 7.7/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/9/1998. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "All Night Diner".