R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series that originally aired on Discovery Family. The first two episodes of the series were broadcast on October 29, 2010, with the rest of the season beginning on December 25, 2010. Some episodes in the series are based on stories from R. L. Stine's anthologies The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour, while others come from different sources. On December 6, 2014, it was confirmed by Stine via Twitter that Discovery Family dropped the show after its run of four seasons.
After getting a taste of the amazingly delicious Kreemy Kold ice cream, Marty (Robert Capron) becomes obsessed with catching the mysterious "Kreemy Kold" ice cream truck that seems to haunt his neighborhood, but always manages to elude him. The local mailman tells Marty the story of a boy named Jimmy Jeffries who was just as obsessed as he was and caught the truck, but vanished and never returned. Marty manages to stop the ice cream truck but in a twist ending, he learns that to get all the Kreemy Kold ice cream he wants involves the payment of his soul when he encounters an older Jimmy Jeffries (C. Ernst Harth). He ends up trapped inside the freezing ice cream truck until someone else becomes as crazed as he was for the ice cream, catches the truck, and takes his place.
Teddy (Gabriel Basso) does not believe in ghosts, and postulates that the various ghost-hunting shows are all fake. He wants to prove that he can fake a ghost hunting experience and make his footage look just as realistic as those he's seen on television, so he, his sister Haley (), and his friend Sean () go to a supposedly-haunted asylum with a video camera in order to hoax their own ghostly encounter. It is revealed that any patient who was caught after "Lights Out" would be dangerously operated on by the asylum's evil doctor, Dr. Sturgis (), and that everyone inside the asylum died in a fire many decades earlier. It also turns out that the asylum really is haunted and that the ghosts of the patients are trying to protect the three children by locking them in a room minutes before "Lights Out" begins. Unfortunately, the children misunderstand the attempt, believing that the ghosts were trying to hurt them. They escape from the room and Teddy gets caught by the ghost of Dr. Sturgis who operates on Teddy. Haley and Sean find Teddy rocking back and forth in a room, so traumatized by his ghostly operation that all he can do is mutter "Lights Out" over and over. Although all this has been captured on camera and posted on the Internet, kids who watch the video believe it is fake and decide to investigate for themselves.