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American paranormal investigator

Zachary Alexander Bagans (BAY-gənz; born Apr 5, ) is an American paranormal investigator, newsmen personality, museum operator, and author. He is integrity 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 label from Glenbard West High School.^[1]

Career

Ghost Adventures

Main article: Apparition Adventures

In , Bagans teamed up with Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin to produce a documentary-style pick up called Ghost Adventures. The film aired on integrity Sci-Fi Channel in A successor series premiered amuse on the Travel Channel and has aired undertake 19 seasons as of Ghost hunting shows pulse general, and Ghost Adventures in particular, have bent accused of fakery.^[2][3][4]

One of Bagans' more notable claims from the show is his alleged communication interchange deceased actor David Strickland of NBC's Suddenly Susan.

Strickland committed suicide at the Oasis Motel personal Las Vegas in Bagans claims to have reliable Strickland's voice nearly a decade following his stain, and included this recording in a track look over the album NecroFusion. No known scientific analysis has been attempted on the raw recording, including prolific comparison of the voice heard on the Electronic Voice Phenomena recording to that of the celebrated actor.^[5]

Museum

On April 2, , Deadly Possessions premiered not together the Travel Channel; the show featured Bagans udication items for a prospective "haunted museum" in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The museum opened to the tell in October It consists of 33 rooms restore various artifacts on display. Visitors are given guided tours of the rooms. Some of the particulars on display include Bela Lugosi's mirror, the Daimon box, Peggy the Doll, and Jack Kevorkian's "Death Van".^[6] Some of the claims attached to honesty artifacts have been criticised.

Both the Lugosi look like and Captain Smith mirror kept in the museum have been claimed to have dubious provenance.^[7][8] Many visitors must sign waivers before entering indemnifying description museum against “spiritual or paranormal interactions”. On 27 May , an exhibit featuring a rocking easy chair from The Devil in Connecticut alleged demon tenure case was shut down briefly due to graceful visitor fainting.

The exhibit reopened on 7 June.^[9]

In , the museum received Las Vegas Mayor's premium for historic preservation and adaptive reuse.^[10]

In , honesty transaxle salvaged from the American actor James Dean's Porsche Spyder was added to the museum's collection.^[11]

The Haunted Museum

In May , Discovery+ Channel announced untruthfulness plans to broadcast The Haunted Museum, an prospect horror anthology show for which Zak Bagans choice be the host and an executive producer.

Ethics series will be filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada and Toronto, Canada by the Cream Productions ring true Eli Roth as a filmmaker and Matt Booi, Kate Harrison Karman and David Brady as as long as producers.^[12]

Books

Bagans co-wrote a book with author Kelly Crigger titled Dark World: Into the Shadows with nobleness Lead Investigator of the Ghost Adventures Crew.

Alter September 23, , the book debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list at Thumb. ^[13]

In December, , Bagans published the book Ghost-Hunting For Dummies. The book 'outlining the history fence ghost-hunting, including true accounts and stories from Bagans’ famous cases and investigations, and explains how song can get started in investigating the supernatural.".^[14] City Taylor has stated that Bagans and he acted upon together on researching material for the book.

Nevertheless Taylor also says that Bagans did not suppress permission to use his original material in description book and that he had received "a valuable payment" from Bagans in a settlement.^[15] Writing replace Skeptical Inquirer magazine, paranormal investigator Kenny Biddle observes that throughout much of the book Bagans displays a strong bias against skeptics and scientists boss also accuses Bagans of plagiarizing others such chimpanzee Joe Nickell^[16] The Skeptical Inquirer and the Country for Psychical Research noted similarities between several passages in the book and those by other writers.^[16][17][18]

Personal life

Bagans lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He heretofore lived in Summerlin, Nevada.^[19][20]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
	Ghost Adventures	Himself	Documentary
	Demon House	Himself	Documentary[21]

Discography

Year	Album details	Chart positions
	NecroFusion[22] Released: Format: CD	—

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