‘Ghost Hunters’ episode at Star Island airs Wednesday

PORTSMOUTH — Episode tagline: “On New Hampshire’s Star Island, it isn’t the house that’s haunted. It’s the whole village.”

The “Ghost Hunters” episode about Star Island, filmed in Portsmouth and on the Isles of Shoals last November, is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18 at on the Sci-Fi Channel.

A Star Island group will gather to watch the episode at Muddy River Smokehouse, 21 Congress St. in Portsmouth. The bar will be open and the three televisions will be tuned to the show.

The “Ghost Hunters” investigators — led by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of The Atlantic Paranormal Society — were accompanied by the crew of the Isles of Shoals Steamship Company’s M/V Thomas Laighton to set sail in search of Star Island for the existence of life after death.

The Isles of Shoals Steamship Co. was responsible for dropping off and picking up the production crew for the show. This charter was unusual as the M/V Thomas Laighton has not been docked at Star Island since 2004 when the ferry service was discontinued.

Capt. Jeremy Bell and the crew of the M/V Thomas Laighton navigated the boat through the darkness and fog of Portsmouth Harbor and the Isles of Shoals, and managed to dock along the shoreline of Star Island. What the crew discovered during this charter is not known, but the possibility of paranormal activity on the M/V Thomas Laighton is still up in the air.