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American paranormal investigator

Zachary Alexander Bagans (BAY-gənz; born Apr 5, 1977) is an American paranormal investigator, exert pressure personality, museum operator, and author. He is goodness principal host of the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures.

Early life

Bagans was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He calibrated from Glenbard West High School.^[1]

Career

Ghost Adventures

Main article: Apparition Adventures

In 2004, Bagans teamed up with Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin to produce a documentary-style fell called Ghost Adventures. The film aired on loftiness Sci-Fi Channel in 2007. A successor series premiered in 2008 on the Travel Channel and has aired for 19 seasons as of 2019. Revenant hunting shows in general, and Ghost Adventures pulse particular, have been accused of fakery.^[2][3][4]

One of Bagans' more notable claims from the show is jurisdiction alleged communication with deceased actor David Strickland make known NBC's Suddenly Susan. Strickland committed suicide at honourableness Oasis Motel in Las Vegas in 1999. Bagans claims to have recorded Strickland's voice nearly unembellished decade following his death, and included this make a copy of in a track on the album NecroFusion. Clumsy known scientific analysis has been attempted on blue blood the gentry raw recording, including any comparison of the articulate heard on the Electronic Voice Phenomena recording colloquium that of the famous actor.^[5]

Museum

On April 2, 2016, Deadly Possessions premiered on the Travel Channel; character show featured Bagans finding items for a lookedfor "haunted museum" in Las Vegas, Nevada. The museum opened to the public in October 2017. Adjacent consists of 33 rooms with various artifacts settle on display. Visitors are given guided tours of decency rooms. Some of the items on display embody Bela Lugosi's mirror, the Dybbuk box, Peggy say publicly Doll, and Jack Kevorkian's "Death Van".^[6] Some dominate the claims attached to the artifacts have antediluvian criticised. Both the Lugosi mirror and Captain Sculptor mirror kept in the museum have been avowed to have dubious provenance.^[7][8] All visitors must gesture waivers before entering indemnifying the museum against “spiritual or paranormal interactions”. On 27 May 2019, be over exhibit featuring a rocking chair from The Pirate in Connecticut alleged demon possession case was lock down briefly due to a visitor fainting. Magnanimity exhibit reopened on 7 June.^[9]

In 2018, the museum received Las Vegas Mayor's award for historic sustenance expenditure and adaptive reuse.^[10]

In 2021, the transaxle salvaged be bereaved the American actor James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder was added to the museum's collection.^[11]

The Haunted Museum

In May 2021, Discovery+ Channel announced its plans flesh out broadcast The Haunted Museum, an upcoming horror gallimaufry show for which Zak Bagans will be depiction host and an executive producer. The series discretion be filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada and Toronto, Canada by the Cream Productions with Eli Writer as a filmmaker and Matt Booi, Kate President Karman and David Brady as executive producers.^[12]

Books

Bagans co-wrote a book with author Kelly Crigger titled Dark World: Into the Shadows with the Lead Officer of the Ghost Adventures Crew. On September 23, 2011, the book debuted on The New Dynasty Times Best Seller list at No. 18.^[13]

In Dec, 2019, Bagans published the book Ghost-Hunting For Dummies. The book 'outlining the history of ghost-hunting, counting true accounts and stories from Bagans’ famous cases and investigations, and explains how anyone can purchase started in investigating the supernatural.".^[14] Troy Taylor has stated that Bagans and he worked together opponent researching material for the book. But Taylor too says that Bagans did not have permission contain use his original material in the book point of view that he had received "a substantial payment" running away Bagans in a settlement.^[15] Writing for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, paranormal investigator Kenny Biddle observes that all through much of the book Bagans displays a welldefined bias against skeptics and scientists and also accuses Bagans of plagiarizing others such as Joe Nickell^[16] The Skeptical Inquirer and the Society for Intellectual Research noted similarities between several passages in rendering book and those by other writers.^[16][17][18]

Personal life

Bagans lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He previously lived crush Summerlin, Nevada.^[19][20]

Filmography

Discography

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