The stage lights have dimmed for now at Asbury Park's historic venues and the city's boardwalk is shutting down as everyday life comes to a standstill amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

But this Friday night, the Travel Channel's "Kindred Spirits" is taking you back inside the Paramount Theatre on the Asbury Park Boardwalk.

The paranormal investigation series finds hosts Amy Bruni and Adam Berry joined by psychic Chip Coffey as the delve into the past of the storied venue, which opened in 1930.

Premiering 9 p.m. Friday as part of the series' fourth season, it's the first time the "Kindred Spirits" team has investigated a theater space, Berry said.

"Theaters in general harbor so much energy in terms of creative energy and spiritual energy as well," Berry said. "When someone goes to a theater, they're going to have an experience. The audience exchanges some sort of energy with the actors on stage or the band and the band in turn, or the actors, give it right back to the audience.

"I feel that it creates this kind of magnetic experience for everyone — and people know what I'm talking about if you've ever had an experience like that — and I think that energy stays in that space."

The likes of Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, the Marx Brothers and Johnny Cash have all performed at the Paramount over the years. But "Kindred Spirits" examines the connection between the theater and the 1934 deaths of 137 people in the disaster of the Morro Castle ocean liner.

En route from Havana to New York City, a fire broke out on the ship and it ran aground on the Asbury Park beach a stone's throw from the Paramount and Convention Hall.

Drawing on the expertise and experience of locals like Paranormal Books and Curiosities proprietor, author and podcaster Kathy Kelly and soundman extraordinaire Jason Dermer of Asbury Audio, the Paramount Theatre episode of "Kindred Spirits," titled "Stage Fight," is both a ghost hunt and an insightful local history lesson for the show's hosts as well as viewers.

"Historical research, learning the history and true facts about a space, is extremely important," said Berry. "If you watch our episodes and we're in a historical location, you're secretly learning about the history of the space without someone being like, 'Hey, we're going to give you history.' You just learn it inherently because we have to go in and know all the facts, right?

"We have to know all the research, all the facts, because if we don't have have the proper facts we're not going to be able to connect with who may be in that space. Our goal is to try to figure out who it is and why they're there so if we start saying things that are factual, that are connected to these individuals, the idea is that they're going to react to that kind of thing."

Tensions may have been heightened by the fact that Berry, Bruni and Coffey visited the Paramount in September 2019, the "Kindred Spirits" filming coinciding with the 85th anniversary of the Morro Castle disaster.

"I knew that the anniversary was coming, but obviously schedule-wise we had no idea (the shoot) was actually going to fall on and lo and behold, it did," said Berry. "That was just synchronicity at its finest. We always say where we end up is where we're meant to be."

"Stage Fright," the episode of "Kindred Spirits" featuring the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, premieres 9 p.m. Friday, March 27, on the Travel Channel. For more information, visit www.travelchannel.com/shows/kindred-spirits.