

I have the sense as though I'm supposed to do this, not just for television, but also for just my own self.” 4. "It's not necessarily that I've chosen this. “When I come home from investigating, I'm around it all the time," Bagans says of his paranormal adventures. Zak Bagans's paranormal experiences continue after the cameras stop rolling. It just felt right, and led to the Ghost Adventures documentary.” 3. “It kind of inspired me to initially explore these mining towns in Nevada, and once we got there things just started clicking. “I believe spirits that are around me ever since I was little guide me and protect me,” Bagans tells Mental Floss. Zak Bagans has been having paranormal adventures since he was a kid.Ĭan you hunt ghosts even if you didn’t know ghost hunting was a thing? For Bagans, the answer is a resounding yes.

The GAC eventually returned to these spooked-out locations during the series' fourth, fifth, and seventh seasons. Then that kind of put my mindset into exploring the paranormal and trying to get answers for what I experienced.”
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The documentary featured Bagans, Goodwin, and former investigator Nick Groff tracking paranormal activity in Virginia City and Goldfield, Nevada, locations such as The Washoe Club and the Goldfield Hotel.īagans tells Mental Floss that the original idea for the movie and series “came from me having an experience back in about 2002, when I was living in Detroit, Michigan. The series actually began as a feature-length documentary on the then-named Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) in 2007.
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Ghost Adventures's first adventure wasn’t the first episode of the TV show. We caught up with Bagans to get some behind-the-scenes secrets about what it takes to capture full-bodied apparitions and some of the creepiest moments throughout the show’s storied history of paranormal exploration. With the show’s recent leap to the brand-new streaming service discovery+, lead Ghost Adventures Crew (GAC) investigator Zak Bagans and his fellow investigators Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, and Jay Wasley hope to keep capturing ghosts and ghouls, and uncovering more truths behind each haunted mystery, for another decade and beyond. For more than a decade, Ghost Adventures has been spooking up the airwaves of the Travel Channel, " capturing groundbreaking proof of the paranormal" on camera in different haunted destinations across the globe and using the latest scientific gadgets and technology to obtain physical evidence of spirits.
