Some freaky goings-on in A&E's ghostly 'State'

December 17, 2007 A&E's spooky new reality series "Paranormal State" could make believers out of the staunchest skeptic. "State," which debuted last week as A&E's most-watched series premiere in three years, follows the Paranormal Research Society, a group founded in 2001 by Ryan Buell consisting of Penn State University students who balance college life while investigating cases involving ghosts, hauntings, demonic possession and other paranormal phenomena. "Almost everybody on the production team experienced something -- from being pushed or feeling cold to other really weird things that happened," says Gary Auerbach of Go Go Luckey Prods.

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