Zak Bagans: Full Biography Plus The Latest News & Gossip On The 'Ghost Adventures' Star
Television ghost hunter Zak Bagans' full biography plus the latest news on his paranormal achievements and the latest gossip and updates on 'Ghost Adventures'.
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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October 03, 2023Travel Channel's 'The Haunted Museum' returns this Halloween with eight new scripted horror stories from 'Ghost Adventures' star Zak Bagans and filmmaker Eli Roth.
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September 21, 2023Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley explore new haunted locations when 'Ghost Adventures' returns to Discovery Channel with a two-hour special.
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May 13, 2023Zak Bagans and his team channel hop as the new season of 'Ghost Adventures' gets a special showcase on the US Discovery Channel beginning Wednesday, May 31.
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October 22, 2022This year's 'Ghost Adventures' Halloween special, 'Devil's Den' will air on the Really Channel on October 28 and stream on Discovery+.
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September 16, 2022
Coming to the Travel Channel and Discovery+ this October, the lineup includes a new season of 'Ghost Adventures' and brand new Ghostober specials.
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May 19, 2022Streaming services Discovery+ and the US Travel Channel have reaffirmed their role as the premiere destination for paranormal and true horror with a whole host of supernatural shows launching throughout 2022.
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April 21, 2022Zak Bagans and the 'Ghost Adventures' team help homeowners in crisis in a new spinoff series landing on Discovery+ on May 19.
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April 16, 2022Zak Bagans will produce and star in multiple new supernatural projects for Discovery+ until 2025, plus create new episodes of hit series, 'Ghost Adventures'.
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December 25, 2021Zak Bagans has had a busy and exciting 12 months bringing fans new episode of 'Ghost Adventures', plenty of exciting side projects, and one very busy Halloween.
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November 20, 2021Travel Channel and Discovery+ have green lit a second season of the Ghostober hits, 'The Haunted Museum' from Zak Bagans and 'Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life'.
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September 28, 2021A new nine-part series on Discovery+ presents a terrifying anthology of short horror films inspired by the haunted artefacts in Zak Bagans' Las Vegas Museum.
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September 24, 2021
Zak Bagans and filmmaker Eli Roth's horror anthology series based on cursed items from Zak's Haunted Museum in Las Vegas lands on Discovery+ this October.
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May 21, 2021
Zak Bagans joins forces with director Eli Roth in for a horror anthology based on the frightening stories behind the haunted relics on display at Zak's Haunted Museum.
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March 22, 2021Watch the moment a car crashes through the gates of Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum in Las Vegas before smashing into a parked security guard's car.
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February 10, 2021US singer, Post Malone, has opened up to Seth Meyers about his string of bad luck following an encounter with TV ghost hunter Zak Bagans' cursed dybbuk box.
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February 03, 2021A Ghost Adventures fan from New Zealand has been conned out of her lifesavings and landed criminal charges after a scammer impersonating the hunter Zak Bagans contacted her.
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January 03, 2021In a chilling new 'Ghost Adventures' investigation, Zak Bagans claims a "compelling spirit response" could be evidence the team were communicating with Elisa Lam.
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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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