With the help of a skeptical partner and an experienced detective, this Netflix series takes viewers on an exciting voyage into the unknown as they look into mysterious cases. They must negotiate a world where reality blends with the supernatural as they investigate cases of incomprehensible phenomena, enigmatic beings, and supernatural events. They must also uncover truths that contradict their beliefs and put their resolve to the test. In this compelling series that will have you on the edge of your seat, be ready to discover the truth hidden behind the curtain of the paranormal.
1. Lockwood & co (2023)
Joe Cornish created the British supernatural detective thriller series Lockwood & Co. for Netflix, which is based on the same-titled book series by Jonathan Stroud. Its eight-episode debut was on January 27, 2023. The storylines of The Whispering Skull and The Screaming Staircase, the first two novels, are followed. The show was canceled in May 2023 following a single season.
This series’ storyline For fifty years, ghosts that are lethal to the touch have been emerging from graves in a different version of modern-day Britain. The phenomena referred to as “The Problem” has halted technological advancement; cassette recorders are still in use and there is no internet.
Since youngsters are able to feel ghosts but adults cannot, teens have organized themselves into official ghost-hunting organizations to identify and eliminate any dangers. Teenage psychic Lucy Carlyle flees her family and travels to London in the hopes of getting noticed by an agency. With nowhere else to go, she applies for a job at Lockwood & Co., a small business owned by two lads in an ancient townhouse.
2. Dead Boy Detectives (2024)
Based on Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner’s DC Comics characters of the same name, Steve Yockey created the American supernatural horror detective comedy-drama television series Dead Boy Detectives. The show, which stars George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, Kassius Nelson, Briana Cuoco, Ruth Connell, Yuyu Kitamura, and Jenn Lyon, centers on Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland, who make the decision to stay on Earth and look into crimes involving the paranormal rather than go to the hereafter.
The show centers on the ghosts of Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland, who made the decision to remain on Earth and look into crimes involving the paranormal rather than pass into the afterlife.
TV plans started in September 2021 when HBO Max ordered a pilot for a show based on Neil Gaiman’s Dead Boy Detectives comics. The show received the go-ahead by April 2022. However, in February 2023, it was transferred to Netflix. Later on, Gaiman declared that the show will follow the same canon as The Sandman, and Kirby would play Death once more.
On April 25, 2024, Dead Boy Detectives made its Netflix debut. Critics gave the series mostly excellent reviews, praising the cast and visuals performances as well as the writing, direction, and tone.
3. The Imperfects (2022)
Dennis Heaton and Shelley Eriksen are the creators of the Canadian superhero science fiction television series The Imperfects, which debuted on Netflix on September 8, 2022. Claimed to be a “coming of rage” tale (a play on words on coming-of-age tale), it centers on three young people on their hunt for the insane doctor who altered their DNA, giving them disruptive superpowers. The show was discontinued in November 2022, following a single season.
The narrative of this series is After receiving experimental gene therapy, three individuals from Seattle—Abbi, a biologist; Juan, a comic book artist; and Tilda, a singer—become monsters. The group then makes the decision to track down Dr. Alex Sarkov, the scientist who transformed them, and demand him turn them back into humans. A scientist named Dr. Sydney Burke joins them to help them in their mission.
4. Gyeongseong Creature (2023 – Present)
Park Seo-joon, Han So-hee, and Claudia Kim are the main cast members of the South Korean historical drama suspense mystery horror television series Gyeongseong Creature (Korean: 경성크리처), which was written by Kang Eun-kyung and directed by Chung Dong-yoon and Roh Young-sub. The story, which is set in 1945 during the Japanese Army’s occupation of Gyeongseong, the former name for Seoul, shows the cruelty that the Japanese forces inflicted on civilians, including the secret biological experiments that they subjected men and women to, the rebels who rise up against them, and the monstrous creature that resulted from human experimentation. Netflix launched the first season on December 22, 2023, and it remained available until January 5, 2024. The release of the second season is scheduled for 2024.
Plot’s first season is During the Japanese occupation of Korea in the spring of 1945, in Gyeongseong, Jang Tae-sang, the owner of the most profitable pawnshop in the city, and Yoon Chae-ok, a tracker looking for her mother, come across an unusual creature that was created through covert biological experiments carried out in Ongseong Hospital.
5. Wednesday (2022 – Present)
Based on the fictional character Wednesday Addams created by Charles Addams, Wednesday is an American supernatural mystery television series about a coming-of-age. The film, which was co-written by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, stars Jenna Ortega as the lead role. Other supporting cast members include Christina Ricci, Moosa Mostafa, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, and Gwendoline Christie. Tim Burton, who also acts as executive producer, directed four of the eight episodes of the first season. Wednesday Addams is the main character, and she tries to figure out a murder mystery at her new school.
This plot’s series is Wednesday Addams gets expelled from her school for throwing live piranhas into the swimming pool as payback for her brother Pugsley being teased by the boys’ water polo team. As a result, she is enrolled in her old mater, Nevermore Academy, a private school for hideous outcasts located in the Vermont hamlet of Jericho, by her parents, Gomez and Morticia Addams. Wednesday finds it difficult to relate to her classmates because of her icy, heartless demeanor and her rebellious streak, which also gets her in trouble with Larissa Weems, the principal of the school. But when she finds out she has her mother’s psychic gifts, she uses them to solve a local murder case.
6. Stranger Things (2016 – Present)
The Duffer Brothers are the creators of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, which is available on Netflix. The first season, which was produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, debuted on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The fourth season was published in two parts in May and July 2022. The second and third seasons came out in October 2017 and July 2019, respectively. Stranger Things was picked up for a fifth and final season in February 2022; the show is scheduled to premiere in 2025.
A human research facility nearby creates a portal between Earth and the Upside Down, causing the inhabitants of the fictional tiny town of Hawkins, Indiana, to be afflicted by a malevolent alternative realm known as the Upside Down. The series is set in the 1980s. Priah Ferguson, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Eduardo Franco, Joseph Quinn, and Amybeth McNulty are among the ensemble cast members that include Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono, Matthew Modine, Noah Schnapp, and Sadie Sink.
Stranger Things, one of Netflix’s main shows, has seen record numbers of viewers on the streaming service. Positive reviews have been given to it because of its script, directing, acting, soundtrack, characters, and references to movies from the 1980s. Numerous nominations and awards have been given to it. Flying Bark Productions and Eric Robles are producing an animated spin-off series that is currently under production.
7. Preacher (2016 – 2019)
Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, and Ruth Negga appear in the American supernatural adventure television series Preacher, which was produced by Sam Catlin, Evan Goldberg, and Seth Rogen for AMC. The show is based on the DC Comics Vertigo imprint’s Preacher comic book series, which was written and illustrated by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. On September 9, 2015, the show was formally renewed for 10 episodes, which debuted on May 22, 2016. The fourth and final season of the show, which debuted on August 4, 2019, and ended on September 29, 2019, was renewed.
This series’ narrative is Preacher Jesse Custer is a heavy drinker and chain smoker who experiences a spiritual crisis and then gains incredible strength. Along with his trigger-happy ex-girlfriend Tulip and new vampire companion Cassidy, he sets off on a mission to discover the true meaning of his newfound skill and to literally find God.
8. October Faction (2020)
Damian Kindler’s October Faction is an American supernatural drama television series that is based on the same-titled comic book series by Steve Niles and Damien Worm. It debuted on January 23, 2020, on Netflix. Tamara Taylor, J. C. MacKenzie, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Gabriel Darku, Wendy Crewson, Megan Follows, and Stephen McHattie are among the cast members of the series. The show was discontinued in March 2020, following a single season.
This series’ plot is The narrative of October Faction centers on Fred and Deloris Allen, a monster-hunting couple, and their twin teenage children, Viv and Geoff. After Samuel, Fred’s father, passes away, the family chooses to plan the burial by returning to Barrington-on-Hudson, New York. Fred is disgusted by his boyhood house since he is plagued by thoughts of his brother’s death from his early years and his parents’ constant disagreements about his shortcomings and his choice of women. The kids soon start acting in a supernatural way. In the course of an unplanned séance, Viv sees images of a long-haired monster that is bound to the ocean below and is trying to get free.
In front of his pupils, her brother Geoff unintentionally divulges a teacher’s worst secret regarding his wife. The popular cliques make fun of both of them for being outsiders.
Members of Presidio, a covert group entrusted with defending mankind from diverse monster breeds, including Fred and Deloris. They have to pretend to be normal and keep their identity a secret from the villagers. This becomes challenging right on as weird events start to happen in the little, peaceful village.
9. The Irregulars (2021)
Tom Bidwell is the creator of the British mystery adventure criminal drama television series The Irregulars, which is available on Netflix. The story, which is loosely based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings, tells the story of the Baker Street Irregulars assisting Dr. Watson in defending London against otherworldly threats.
The eight-episode series, which was developed by Drama Republic, debuted on March 26, 2021. The show was discontinued in May 2021, following a single season.
The narrative of this series is The Irregulars, a gang of young people living on the streets of Victorian London, hunt for Sherlock Holmes while working for John Watson to solve ever more paranormal cases.
10. Bodies (2023)
Bodies is a limited-run science fiction criminal thriller television series that was mostly written and produced by Paul Tomalin for Netflix, with Marco Kreuzpaintner and Haolu Wang serving as directors. It is an adaptation of the same-titled 2015 DC Vertigo comic novel, written by Si Spencer and drawn by Meghan Hetrick, Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, and Phil Winslade. On October 19, 2023, the eight-episode series made its Netflix debut.
The corpse turns up dead in London’s Longharvest Lane at the beginning of the novel. This incident occurs at the same spot in four distinct years (1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053) and sparks four separate Metropolitan Police detective investigations that ultimately connect and have significant ramifications.