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Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan

Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan is a Canadian unscripted comedy series in which two actors known for horror work, Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan, visit reportedly haunted places across Canada with celebrity guests and try to reach a verdict of "haunted" or "not". It premiered on CBC Gem on January 26, 2024, and has run for two seasons of sixteen episodes in total.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Unscripted paranormal comedy; each episode sends the hosts and a celebrity guest to a reportedly haunted site, ending in a verdict of "haunted" or "not"²
Premiere	January 26, 2024, on CBC Gem¹
Run to date	2 seasons, 16 episodes; most recent episode March 21, 2025, with no return date announced¹
Episode length	8 episodes x 30 minutes per the CBC listing²
Production	Blue Ant Studios in association with Luke Hutchie Productions²
Creators	Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan, who are also executive producers and stars²
Hosts' backgrounds	Hutchie known for EZRA; Finlan for Orphan: First Kill and EZRA²

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Seasons

Season one focused on Ontario haunts. Hutchie has said the pair wanted to create a show that celebrates Canadian talent and represents Canada as it is today, exploring parts of the country most people never see.³

Season two expanded the scope to sites across the country, which Hutchie called a huge milestone. Locations included the Bell Island Mines and the Caribou Hotel in the Yukon.³ The season also introduced a segment called "First Impressions", in which guests find out their location for the first time on camera; in season one guests also did not know the location in advance, but the moment was not filmed.³

The most recent episode aired on March 21, 2025, on CBC Gem, and no return date has been announced for the next season.¹

Format

Each episode follows the same structure. Hutchie and Finlan, joined by a celebrity guest, meet locals who say they have experienced a real haunting, investigate the site, and see whether it lives up to the local ghost lore before working toward a verdict of "haunted" or "not" alongside the guest.² The guests are chosen for a thematic connection: each has played a character in a horror, thriller, or reality series that ties loosely to the location.³

The hosts describe the tone as a deliberate break from paranormal television that takes itself seriously. Finlan has compared the show to "The Simple Life meets Buzzfeed Unsolved in a beautiful hybrid mashup", and Hutchie has said the series is not a parody because they are genuinely trying to determine whether the ghost stories tied to these places are true.⁴^•³ The two bring opposing starting positions: Finlan describes himself as a firm believer in the paranormal, while Hutchie comes from a skeptic's angle, saying "seeing is believing".⁴

Origins and production

The series was conceived on the boat trip from San Francisco to Alcatraz, where the pair came up with the idea of going ghost hunting at Alcatraz despite, in Hutchie's words, having "no reason to be doing that". A week later they booked a haunted Airbnb and shot a proof of concept to see how they would actually ghost hunt, concluding that their version of ghost hunting differed from every other version that had existed.⁴

Ghosting is a Blue Ant Studios production produced in association with Luke Hutchie Productions. Hutchie and Finlan serve as creators, executive producers, and stars; the executive producers for Blue Ant Studios are Jennifer Harkness, Laura Michalchyshyn, and Zachary Frank, and two-time Canadian Screen Award winner Maureen Riley (Still Standing, I Have Nothing) serves as series producer. On the CBC side, the General Manager of Entertainment, Factual & Sports is Sally Catto, Unscripted Content falls under Executive Director Jennifer Dettman, and Susan Taylor serves as the Executive in Charge of Production.²

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026