Format
Each segment would follow reenactments of events with the characters narrating. At the end of each recreation, the real witnesses involved would appear and give their account of the events, including more recent activity. These portions were usually filmed at or near the location in question. In the Episode 2 story, Terror For Rent, the actual witnesses appeared in silhouette to conceal their true identities.
The first two specials were called Haunted Lives, and the third and final special was renamed to Real Ghosts. The opening narration is slightly altered for the final episode:
| “ | Reaching out from the world that lays beyond, they glide through the portals of our imagination. They shouldn't even exist, but they've been seen appearing in the wink of an eye, and vanishing in the pound of a heartbeat. Where they come from, what they want—only they know. They are beyond life, beyond death, and to some of us, beyond belief, but you are about to meet ordinary men and women who claimed to have witnessed them, walked with them and even embraced them. Ordinary people who tell true stories of Haunted Lives. | ” |
The specials have been narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Stacy Keach.
Read more about this topic: Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories