Zak Bagans

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 documentarystyle 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 spinoff series titled Ghost Adventures Aftershocks which focused on changes to peoples 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 Lugosis mirror the Dybbuk box Peggy the Doll and Jack Kevorkians Death Van In 2018 the museum received Las Vegas Mayors award for historic preservation and adaptive reuse In 2021 the transaxle salvaged from the American actor James Deans Porsche 550 Spyder was added to the museums 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 cowrote 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 GhostHunting For Dummies