Zak Bagans: Full Biography Plus The Latest News & Gossip On The 'Ghost Adventures' Star
Zak Bagans is the host, lead investigator and an executive producer of Travel Channel’s popular long-running series, 'Ghost Adventures'. With his paranormal investigation team, including Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley, Bagans travels to locations rumoured to be haunted in search of evidence proving the existence of the supernatural.
After graduating from film school in Michigan, Bagans moved to Nevada to pursue a career in documentary filmmaking. There, he met fellow 'Ghost Adventures' investigator Aaron Goodwin. Their first paranormal investigations as a team took place all over Nevada, and the footage led to an award-winning, nationally televised documentary, Ghost Adventures, which aired in 2009. The concept was picked up by Travel Channel and commissioned as a series. The team has filmed over 200 episodes, and counting, in the most haunted locations.
In 2004, Bagans founded the world’s largest paranormal organisation, The Ghost Adventures Crew, which consists of over 10,000 members. He has also served as host and executive producer of 'Ghost Adventures: Aftershocks', 'Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room', 'Netherworld' and 'Deadly Possessions', as well as an executive producer on various other projects including 'Destination Fear', 'Paranormal Paparazzi' and 'Paranormal Challenge'.
Along with his television credits, Bagans has directed, produced and starred in the documentary Demon House, where he investigates one of the most well-documented case of demonic possession in America. The film had a theatrical release and hit #1 on iTunes’ documentary and horror charts. He has also served as an executive producer on the feature film, Sympathy, Said the Shark.
In 2017 Bagans opened The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, an award-winning attraction. The Museum contains thousands of haunted artefacts inside a 14,000-square-foot historic mansion with more than 30 themed rooms and exhibits. It has been touted as "a truly amazing attraction" by Las Vegas Weekly and has received multiple accolades, including the Las Vegas Mayor’s Urban Design Award, Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Best Museum winner three years in a row and it was voted as the #1 Best Haunted Destination in America by USA Today. The museum attracts more than 7,000 visitors per month.
In 2012, Bagans joined efforts with Lords of Acid’s Praga Khan on an 11-track album titled NecroFusion (reached #1 on iTunes) that incorporates audio captured from Bagans’ own paranormal investigations. Additionally, he’s penned two books with Kelly Crigger: I am Haunted: Living Life Through the Dead (Victory Belt, 2015) and Dark World: Into the Shadows with the Lead Investigator of the Ghost Adventures Crew (Victory Belt, 2011), which debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list at #18.
Bagans currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Latest Zak Bagans News
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December 23, 2020Zak Bagans has had a busy year despite the pandemic. He brought fans a quarantine investigation during lockdown and added more fascinating items to his collection.
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December 15, 2020Zak Bagans leads the first paranormal investigation of the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, a paranormal hotspot that has long been on Zak's bucket list.
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December 13, 2020Zak Bagans has reached the dizzying heights of one million followers on Twitter, maintaining his lead as the most followed star from the paranormal world.
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December 11, 2020'Ghost Adventures' star Zak Bagans has added a new eerie item to his haunted collection, one of the original Chucky doll props from the classic horror.
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November 30, 2020Television ghost hunter and star of 'Ghost Adventures', Zak Bagans, is well known for his love of collection haunted and macabre artefacts, most of which are on display in his haunted museum in Las Vegas.
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October 17, 2020The Really channel have confirmed that 'Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room' will air as part of the channel's 13-day-long offering of ghostly Halloween-themed programming.
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October 14, 2020The UK's Really channel has announced that their 13-night-long Halloween television schedule will include Zak Bagans' 'Curse Of The Harrisville' Farmhouse special.
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September 19, 2020The dramatic saga of Joe Exotic and his Wynnewood, Oklahoma zoo continues thanks to Zak Bagans in a two-hour Halloween special of 'Ghost Adventures' this October.
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September 11, 2020'Ghost Adventures' star Zak Bagans has added a new macabre item to his haunted collection, the prison artwork of mass killer, John Wayne Gacy.
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July 20, 2020'Ghost Adventures' star Zak Bagans has acquired some of Joe Exotic's personal possession seen in Netflix's 'Tiger King' to display in his museum.
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July 07, 2020Zak Bagans was warned that opening his cursed box could result in serious consequences, possibly even death, so was he being irresponsible opening it for a television show?
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July 03, 2020After teasing television audiences about opening his haunted demon box for the last few years, Zak Bagans finally opened his dybbuk box in a four-part spin-off series filmed during the coronavirus lockdown.
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June 13, 2020Really channel have announced that Zak Bagans' new 'Ghost Adventures' spin-off series that's been filmed at his Haunted Museum during lockdown will air in June.
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May 22, 2020
How much can you remember about the four fascinating locations that feature in 'Ghost Adventures: Serial Killer Spirits' and the team's investigations in them?
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May 15, 2020Zak Bagans and the GAC head to Bountiful, Utah, to investigate an abandoned house. Locals claim serial killer Ted Bundy murdered one of his victims here.
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May 10, 2020Zak Bagans has taken to Twitter to announce a new 'Ghost Adventures' spin-off series that's been filmed at his Haunted Museum during the global coronavirus lockdown.
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May 08, 2020Zak Bagans and the crew examine the Iowa jail that held Jake Bird, who may have killed 46 people. He allegedly put a deadly curse on those who convicted him.
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May 01, 2020Zak Bagans and the GAC go to Illinois in search of the spirit of infamous serial killer John Gacy. At the Old Joliet Prison, they hope to see the killer clown himself.
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April 24, 2020Zak Bagans and the 'Ghost Adventures' crew try to uncover the lingering evil left behind, as they investigate US serial killer H. H. Holmes' murder house.
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April 19, 2020The UK's Really channel have announced that Zak Bagans and the GAC team's new four-part series based around America's most notorious killers will air in April.
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