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Zak Bagans

Zak Bagans

Acting

Biography

Zachary "Zak" Bagans is an American paranormal investigator, actor, TV personality, museum operator, producer, director, and author. He is the principal host of the Travel Channel paranormal investigation series Ghost Adventures. A graduate of the Motion Picture Institute of Michigan, Bagans moved to Las Vegas to become a documentary filmmaker and explorer of the paranormal. In 2004, Bagans teamed up with Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin to produce a documentary-style film called Ghost Adventures. The film aired on the SciFi Channel in 2007. A successor series premiered in 2008 on the Travel Channel and has aired for 19 seasons as of 2019. Ghost hunting shows in general, and Ghost Adventures in particular, have been accused of fakery. From 2014 to 2016, Bagans helmed a spin-off series titled Ghost Adventures: Aftershocks, which focused on changes to people's lives after prior Ghost Adventures investigations. On April 2, 2016, Deadly Possessions premiered on the Travel Channel; the show featured Bagans finding items for a prospective "haunted museum" in Las Vegas, Nevada. The museum opened to the public in October 2017. It consists of 33 rooms with various artifacts on display. Visitors are given guided tours of the rooms. Some of the items on display include Bela Lugosi's mirror, the Dybbuk box, Peggy the Doll, and Jack Kevorkian's "Death Van". In 2018, the museum received Las Vegas Mayor's award for historic preservation and adaptive reuse. In 2021, the transaxle salvaged from the American actor James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder was added to the museum's collection. In May 2021, Discovery+ Channel announced its plans to broadcast The Haunted Museum, an upcoming horror anthology show for which Zak Bagans will be the host and an executive producer. Bagans co-wrote a book with author Kelly Crigger titled Dark World: Into the Shadows with the Lead Investigator of the Ghost Adventures Crew. On September 23, 2011, the book debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list at No. 18. In December, 2019, Bagans published the book Ghost-Hunting For Dummies.

Known For

Ghost Adventures
7.7

Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, search for haunted locations both domestically and internationally. During their investigations, Zak and crew acquaint themselves with the general area; interview locals about the hauntings; and go face-to-face with the evil spirits who reportedly haunt these locations.

Ghost Adventures

2008
Halloween Wars
6.0

Cake decorators, sugar artists and pumpkin carving experts battle it out as they create Halloween-themed edible displays. The last team to scare off the competition will take home a $50,000 grand prize.

Halloween Wars

2011
Ghost Adventures: House Calls
8.5

Disembodied voices, objects moving on their own, shadow figures and apparitions – all are often signs of paranormal activity. When they occur inside your own home, it can bring an overwhelming sense of fear. Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley, the team behind GHOST ADVENTURES, have spent decades investigating ghostly activity to gain a better understanding of the afterlife. Now, they’re helping frightened families who believe they are under paranormal attack in the all-new eight-part series.

Ghost Adventures: House Calls

2022
Help! My House Is Haunted!
5.8

A team of paranormal experts travel the UK looking into instances of paranormal activity in the homes of ordinary people.

Help! My House Is Haunted!

2018
Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room
7.5

Paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley are opening up to viewers as they’ve never done before. The guys are kicking back in their screening room to watch their favorite episodes of the hit series "Ghost Adventures" and get candid with fans – and each other – about their craziest experiences over the past decade. Away from the haunted locations we usually see them in, with no equipment or investigations, it’s just the team, some munchies and never-before-heard stories from the moments that created a legacy. Get ready for laughs, screams and surprises alongside the crew in the ultimate tell-all event.

Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room

2020
Ghost Adventures: Aftershocks
7.8

Zak helps a young filmmaker, and survivor of a brutal attack, who has become obsessed with spirits that allegedly haunt a hotel in Seguin, Texas. And later, he gathers compelling evidence of a possession at Birmingham's Sloss Furnaces

Ghost Adventures: Aftershocks

2014
The Haunted Museum
6.3

Follow the frightening and hellish tales behind the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans' Las Vegas museum, by way of scripted shorts produced by Eli Roth and his accredited team, and with featured commentary from Bagans himself.

The Haunted Museum

2021
Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans
N/A

Zak Bagans sends documentary crews to capture true tales of twisted terror, local lore and deeply disturbing paranormal activity at doomed locations across the globe.

Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans

2024
Ghost Adventures: Quarantine
8.2

The fearless four quarantine themselves for two weeks in Bagans' famed 'Haunted Museum' in Las Vegas, all by themselves.

Ghost Adventures: Quarantine

2020
Deadly Possessions
5.8

Zak Bagans is fulfilling a lifelong dream of opening a museum in downtown Las Vegas, full of the haunted, cursed objects he has been collecting through the years. Each episode features haunted, iconic items and their owners. They share stories of how these objects have terrorized them and, in some cases, even killed people. Bagans interviews the owners and works with them to get to the root of their “attachment,” so they can free themselves…or at least escape harm from these “deadly possessions.”

Deadly Possessions

2016
The Haunted Museum: 3 Ring Inferno
6.5

A boy and his father steal an old suitcase from an antique market and discover a weathered tent inside that opens a portal to a cursed circus world from the past; they encounter an entity that will stop at nothing to capture their souls.

The Haunted Museum: 3 Ring Inferno

2022
The Believers
9.0

The Believers is a documentary series exploring the research and understanding of paranormal phenomena. Follow Sandy Lakdar and Jonathan Dailler as they investigate across Europe in historically rich locations, seeking video and audio evidence of this complex and mysterious reality.

The Believers

2014
Ghost Adventures: Where Are They Now?
10.0

Zak revisits some of Ghost Adventures' most chilling paranormal investigations. He follows up with the real people featured on fan-favorite episodes to find out what happened after the crew left.

Ghost Adventures: Where Are They Now?

2019
Ghost Adventures: Serial Killer Spirits
8.6

Exploring haunted locations associated with infamous serial killers, Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures team – Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley – seek to document whether malicious energy has been left behind by sadistic killers and their evil acts.

Ghost Adventures: Serial Killer Spirits

2019
Demon House
5.3

Mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession in an Indiana home. Zak Bagans then buys the house, sight unseen, over the phone. He and his crew soon become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in US history.

Demon House

2019
Ghost Adventures: Demon House
9.5

Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans documents the most authenticated case of possession in American history.

Ghost Adventures: Demon House

2018
Ghost Adventures: Top 10
8.2

Zak Bagans counts down fans' favorite moments from Ghost Adventures. It's a fun yet terrifying walk down memory lane as Zak revisits the scariest, funniest and most insane clips from episodes past and presents some of the crew's best paranormal evidence.

Ghost Adventures: Top 10

2021
Paranormal Challenge
7.5

Paranormal Challenge is an American competitive paranormal reality television series that premiered on June 17, 2011, on the Travel Channel. A spinoff of Ghost Adventures, the series was created and is hosted by lead investigator Zak Bagans, who challenges ghost hunters from around the United States to go head-to-head in a weekly competition to gather paranormal evidence by spending a night in reportedly haunted locations in the United States. The first season of the show ended on September 16, 2011. Lead judge David Schrader announced on Darkness Radio that the show would not be renewed for a second season.

Paranormal Challenge

2011
Ghost Adventures: Lake of Death
8.8

Zak and the crew comb the receding shores of Nevada's Lake Mead for clues about its deadly past. As the reservoir dries out at a rapid pace, dark secrets are rising to the surface. Is a curse behind the tortured energy emanating from the brilliant waters?

Ghost Adventures: Lake of Death

2023
Ghost Adventures
8.0

In 2007, The Sci-Fi Channel premiered "Ghost Adventures," a raw documentary in which 3 men go to Virginia City, NV and Goldfield, NV on a ghost hunting expedition. Virginia City is rife with macabre lore and reputed to be one of the most haunted cities in America. Ghost Adventures has won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary that was given by the New York International Film & Video Festival.

Ghost Adventures

2007