Katrina Weidman is making the paranormal world a place for women as Portals to Hell returns for Season 2

With the help of Travel Channel’s Portals to Hell and Katrina Weidman, we are getting a look at the paranormal world in a new and fascinating way.

When it comes to the world of ghosts and the paranormal, there are not many women taking the lead. And while many of us have heard of Lorraine Warren thanks to the Conjuring movies, perhaps you haven’t heard of Katrina Weidman.

However, if you have watched Travel Channel’s Portals to Hell, then Weidman is front and center of the action alongside Jack Osbourne. And if you haven’t watched this show (and you enjoy all things paranormal), then this is definitely a program to watch.

Portals to Hell is a series that offers an exploration into some of the more haunted places around. While the exploration of the paranormal world may seem like an uncommon job, Katrina Weidman has made it her own. And after talking to her, it is clear that this is something that she not only enjoys doing, but it is something that has been a part of her life since childhood.

While Weidman calls herself an “open-minded skeptic,” it is clear that she believes in what she is doing as a paranormal investigator. And the passion she has for her work really is clear in every episode of Portals to Hell (I have watched all of the first season and really am excited to dive into season 2 which premiered on March 13).

Speaking to Katrina Weidman was truly fascinating, as she has clearly experienced paranormal phenomenon, and yet she also has no problem expressing her own doubts. In this series, she says that they are “purposely seeking out the darker, more sinister places. Because it’s interesting to me that, you know, what makes the house down the street that has a little ghost girl different from the asylum in town that reportedly has all these horrible things happening inside of it. So, you know, is that just psychology or is that just power of suggestion or is there something really negative going on there.”

Weidman also opened up about the fact that she grew up in a house that was haunted. And this experience left a mark on her. As a child, she wanted to “know more and the answers I was given weren’t good enough.” This led to reading books on everything from ghosts to aliens. “It was all just a natural progression.”

While she admits that her research comes from a place of “speculation,” that speculation is based on things such as “religious ideologies and spiritual texts” to name a few sources. At this point, she says that “we only think we know how this stuff works.”

Ultimately she says, “What if all of what we think is going on is actually what is going on, you know, then it can become a little scary, in a sense, because we don’t really know how this stuff works or if it works the way we think it does some of that stuff is very dark and negative.”

In Portals to Hell, Weidman and Osbourne continue their search for the truth and it is this search that lets us see how dark and scary the world can be, as well as how little we really know about what may be out there. And yet, thanks to Weidman, we are getting answers in some small way.

Watching this series is a lesson in fear in some ways, and a chance to be open-minded as well. And it feels like season 2 is once more giving us what we never knew we needed in the search for answers revolving around the paranormal.

Ultimately, Katrina Weidman is giving us everything we could have hoped for in a paranormal investigator, and watching her explore some of the more haunted and sinister places on Earth is the kind of entertainment that we need.

You can watch Weidman in action on the Travel Channel as season 2 of Portals to Hell airs on Friday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT.