Destination Truth is back for its third season on the SyFy (siffy?) Network. If you’ve never seen the show before (which I hadn’t before watching this pilot), it’s basically a travel show investigating the paranormal. Think X-Files meets, well, any travel show you’ve ever seen and you’ll be close.

Host Joshua Gates takes his team of researchers, technicians and cameramen around the world, as they dig into regional myths, legends and conspiracies. The pilot features their excursions to a “haunted” forest in Romania, the Hoia Baciu Forest, as well as searching for a rumored creature called the alux in the Yucatan of Mexico. The alux is basically el chupacabra on steroids.

I won’t give away any spoilers, but I will say that I was rather intrigued by the premise of the show. The skeptic in me continues to doubt some of what they investigate, especially parts of the sequence in Romania…but there’s just enough legitimate weirdness going on here to warrant curiosity.

Definitely check this out on September 9th if you are a fan of the bizarre and unexplained. While Gates and his team don’t always (or perhaps ever) obtain conclusive results, their work remains a fascinating look into the human tendency (and perhaps need) to believe in the paranormal or supernatural.