"The Lowe Files" follows Rob Lowe and his two sons as they travel through the country to explore infamous unsolved mysteries, a curiosity that Rob has had since his early childhood days and has now been passed down to his boys.
Genre: Reality-TV
Cast:John Owen Lowe , Rob Lowe , Edward Matthew Lowe , Melissa Tittl , Paul H. Smith , Jon Rasmussen
The guys travel to Ione, California and spend an eerie night in Preston Castle, a former reformatory school for boys.
The Lowe Team along with a representative from MUFON investigate the legendary tales of tunnels beneath Los Angeles and seek to answer exactly what the recent Google Earth images of the waters off California's coast are actually showing. But expectations are quickly challenged when everything goes awry.
Rob, Matthew, and John Owen travel up to the Redwood Forest and visit the Hoopa Indian Reservation--a hotspot for Sasquatch sightings--with legendary Bigfoot hunter, Matt Moneymaker. Matt has offered to show the boys his favorite spots and how to use calls and wood knocks to attract one of the many "Squatch" that he claims inhabit the area. Recent flooding and mass landslides make for a harrowing adventure as they traverse the narrow backwoods roads searching for the mythical creature.
Crop circles, abductions, saucers in the sky - Rob and the boys travel to Phoenix. AZ, noted UFO hotspot, to see if the truth REALLY is out there. Before venturing off the grid in Arizona, they meet with famed alien abductee, Travis Walton.
Rob and John Owen trek up to Boise, Idaho to visit the haunted Old State Penitentiary - a grim site, notorious for its history of executions by hanging - where they meet an expert in the psychology of fear.
Rob, Matthew, and John Owen take a trip to the Dugway Proving Ground--a military testing base in the Utah countryside, considered by many to be the new Area 51. A history of strange sightings and incidents tied to the base have people speculating that the government is working on some unusual things out there. After Skyping with military historian Michael Schratt, The Lowe's embark on an off-road journey out to the remote Dugway surroundings to meet with UFO expert Melissa Tittl and get a closer look at the secretive base under the cover of darkness.
Rob and the boys learn remote viewing from a military psychic spy. Will they be able to "see" each other at distant locations from inside a closed room? See them develop their own extrasensory perception abilities and put them to the test.
Rob, Matthew, and John Owen take their pursuit of Bigfoot to the Midwest, specifically the backwoods of Oklahoma where locals refer to the mythical creature by another name--the Wood Ape.
After eight incredible weekends, Rob and the boys reflect on the adventure of a lifetime. As the adventure comes to a close, Rob and the boys celebrate their time together and memories that will last a lifetime.