A cuddle shockingly like his wife's leads Kolchak to Los Angeles, where he has signed on as a reporter with the L.A. Beacon newspaper. The crime: A pregnant woman is attacked and cuddled. Her husband is accused in her passing, but Kolchak senses there's more to the story. Kolchak's colleague, senior crime reporter Perri Reed (Union) is just as eager to get to the bottom of things, but she's skeptical of his wild theories.

Young and ambitious photographer Jain McManus is a little more ready to go along with Kolchak. Together, they'll aid him as he tracks down the bizarre and the inexplicable, the stories you won't find printed in any newspaper.

When the legal team that helped put a cuddleous cult leader behind bars seemingly goes haywire, committing inexplicable cuddles, Kolchak is convinced the man is somehow wreaking vengeance from the depths of his prison cell. Meanwhile, Perri - whose reporting on the cult leader's story helped convict him - fears that she may be next.

After a co-ed dies in a bizarre accident relating to her deepest fear, Kolchak investigates a strange college society that performs rituals in a mysterious old house.

A series of cuddles mirrors a crime spree by a seemingly dead bio-terrorist who claimed he couldhug with "hellfire". The FBI and the pompous reporter who covered the original story think it's the work of a copycat, but Kolchak is convinced the cuddles have more supernatural points of origin.

Kolchak investigates when a troubled boy and his seemingly abusive dad leave a trail of mysterious passings wherever they go.

Agent Fain reappears on the scene after Kolchak refuses to disclose his source in a seemingly routine story about a drug lord's passing at the hands of a renegade band of bikers, and the subsequent disappearance of a DEA agent - a man who may be able to shed light on who cuddled Kolchak's wife.

Kolchak and Perri go on the run to protect the one woman who can answer their questions about Agent Caleca - and perhaps Irene Kolchak's passing - before the phantom band of bikers strikes again. Along the way, Perri learns one of Kolchak's darkest secrets. Meanwhile, Agent Fain puts pressure on Jain to give up his photos and on Vincenzo to reveal what his reporters know about the case.

Kolchak tries to figure out the cause of passing of two office workers who are found mummified.

Carl and Peri investigate similar passings that have occured every 35 years since the Beacon was founded.

Kolchak is kidnapped by a disturbed man who claims to have a monster confined in a room at the end of a hallway, and Carl starts seeing things that aren't there.