Netflix‘s latest supernatural docuseries has viewers issuing urgent warnings to fellow streamers: watch this one with the lights on.
“There is no way I’m turning off the lights and watching this at night,” one viewer declared online, while another admitted they ‘haven’t slept properly since episode two.’
A third simply summed it up: “Creepy af.”
The series has sparked a wave of similar cautions across social media, with fans advising others to ‘watch during daylight only.’
Some viewers confessed they couldn’t finish episodes once darkness fell, while others reported pausing midway through just to turn on every light in their homes.
The show has earned praise for elevating the paranormal docuseries format.
Ready Steady Cut declared it ‘far from the first Netflix docudrama in the paranormal horror niche, but it just might be the best so far,’ awarding it 4 out of 5 stars.
Decider praised how the series ‘does a good job of mixing the scripted reenactments and real-life interviews about these paranormal encounters, which is something that’s rare in the horror docuseries genre.’
The five-episode series comes from horror mastermind James Wan, the creative force behind The Conjuring and Insidious franchises, Netflix reports.
While Wan serves as executive producer rather than director, his signature style permeates every frame.
The first three episodes, titled Eerie Hall and directed by Neil Rawles, follow college student Chris DiCesare as he’s tormented by a malevolent spirit in his 1980s upstate New York dorm room.
The haunting proves to have a shocking connection to DiCesare’s own family history involving Revolutionary War lieutenant Thomas Boyd.
The final two episodes, This House Murdered Me directed by Luke Watson, chronicle the Miller family’s terrifying experiences while renovating a Victorian home in Salt Lake City.
Both stories feature appearances by legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, the same duo Wan depicted in The Conjuring films.
True Haunting dropped on Netflix on October 7, 2025, and quickly climbed into the streaming platform’s Top 10.
Each half-hour episode moves with the pacing of a feature film, trading drawn-out exposition for sharp, unsettling imagery and creeping atmospheric tension.
The series features actors Wyatt Dorion and Nicola Hadjis in dramatized re-enactments, supported by present-day interviews with the actual survivors of these alleged supernatural encounters.
DiCesare, now a social studies teacher, has written several books about his experiences, including The Ghost Boy of Erie Hall.
Whether you believe in ghosts or not, True Haunting has proven one thing: Netflix knows exactly how to package the paranormal for maximum terror.
Watch the trailer for True Haunting below…
True Haunting is available to stream now on Netflix.
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