MUMBAI: Variety is the name of the game for Discovery as it seeks to increase its share.

Next month it will kickstart a variety of shows. One of them is America's Most Haunted Places. It will air every Monday from 4 October at 10 pm.

As the show's title implies it aims at making viewers break into a cold sweat. Each week the channel will go to locations in an American city where ghosts and ghouls have their presence felt.

The first episode goes to the city of dreams, sin and gambling Las Vegas. The casino in question is Flamingos. Several witnesses will testify that the founder Bugsy Siegel's ghost lives there.

The programme also visits Hoover Dam. While it was being constructed 112 men died. While all the bodies were recovered ghosts still apparently haunt the place.

In the future the show will visit the Windy City Chicago. The stone water tower is allegedly haunted by a worker who had given up his life during a fire. He kept pumping water even as the flames engulfed him.