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| Created by | Zak Bagans |
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| Music by | Michael Mouracade |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 28 |
| No. of episodes | 275(list of episodes) |
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| Camera setup | Multiple |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company | MY Tupelo Entertainment |
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| Network | Travel Channel(2008–21)[a] Discovery+(2021–present) Discovery Channel(2023–present) |
| Release | October 17, 2008 (2008-10-17) – present |
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Ghost Adventures is an Americanparanormal andreality television series that premiered on October 17, 2008, on theTravel Channel before moving toDiscovery+ in 2021. An independent film of the same name originally aired on theSci-Fi Channel on July 25, 2007. The program followsghost huntersZak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, and Jay Wasley as they investigate locations that are reported to behaunted.
Ghost Adventures was preceded by anindependent film with the same title, produced in adocumentary style. It was filmed in 2004 and produced by 4Reel Productions in 2006. TheSciFi Channel premiered the film on July 25, 2007. The film centered on the trio's investigation of allegedparanormal activity in and aroundVirginia City, Nevada, including theGoldfield Hotel inGoldfield, Nevada. The crew returned there during the series' fourth, fifth, and seventh seasons.[1] The series is produced by MY-Tupelo Entertainment (amerger of MY Entertainment and Tupelo-Honey Productions).[2]
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Zak Bagans,Nick Groff (seasons 1–10), Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, and Jay Wasley investigatereportedly haunted locations, hoping to collect visual or auditory evidence ofparanormal activity. Each episode begins with the crew touring the investigation site with its owners or caretakers. These introductions typically include Bagans's voice-overs of the site's history as well as interviews with people who claim to have witnessedparanormal phenomena there. On the basis of these interviews, the crew place X's with black or gray tape at the sites of some serious alleged paranormal activity. They later return to these spots in order to set up static night-vision cameras to try and film it happening.
After completing the walk-through they discuss their strategy, then are locked in the location overnight, which they believe will prevent "audio contamination" and extraneous shadows. They use a variety of equipment, including digital thermometers,electromagnetic field (EMF)meters, handheld digital video cameras, audio recorders, the Ovilus device, point of view cameras, and infrared night-vision cameras in an effort to capture evidence of ghosts. The members sometimes place objects and shout verbal taunts they believe ghosts might move or respond to.
The video and audio collected during each investigation is analyzed after the investigation, and the whole thing is cut down to fit one hour. The most prominent pieces of evidence found are then presented at the appropriate times they happened during the investigation and each one is explained.
During the series, the crew claims to have captured and experienced variousFortean phenomena, which they say include simultaneous equipment malfunctions such as battery drain, voltage spikes, fluctuations in electromagnetic fields, sudden changes in temperature (such ascold spots), unexplained noises,electronic voice phenomena (EVP), andapparitions.
The crew also claims to have recordedspirit possessions on video. Bagans believes that he was possessed at thePreston School of Industry and atPoveglia Island in Italy. Groff claims that he was overtaken by a "dark energy" at theMoon River Brewing Company. Goodwin claims he was "under the influence of a dark spirit" atBobby Mackey's Music World andWinchester Mystery House.[3] Goodwin is often left alone in the alleged "hotspots" during lockdowns to see how the spirits will react to Goodwin being alone.[4][5]
The following people have appeared as recurring guests in the show as part of the GAC:
Ghost Adventures has involved celebrities who have participated in the investigations or appeared as eyewitnesses:
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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| First released | Last released | Network | |||
| 1 | 8 | October 17, 2008 (2008-10-17) | December 5, 2008 (2008-12-05) | Travel Channel | |
| 2 | 8 | June 5, 2009 (2009-06-05) | July 24, 2009 (2009-07-24) | ||
| 3 | 10 | November 6, 2009 (2009-11-06) | January 8, 2010 (2010-01-08) | ||
| 4 | 27 | September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17) | June 10, 2011 (2011-06-10) | ||
| 5 | 10 | September 23, 2011 (2011-09-23) | December 16, 2011 (2011-12-16) | ||
| 6 | 7 + 2 SPs | March 9, 2012 (2012-03-09) | July 20, 2012 (2012-07-20) | ||
| 7 | 18 | September 14, 2012 (2012-09-14) | April 19, 2013 (2013-04-19) | ||
| 8 | 11 | August 16, 2013 (2013-08-16) | November 15, 2013 (2013-11-15) | ||
| 9 | 13 | February 15, 2014 (2014-02-15) | July 12, 2014 (2014-07-12) | ||
| 10 | 11 | October 4, 2014 (2014-10-04) | March 7, 2015 (2015-03-07) | ||
| 11 | 11 | August 22, 2015 (2015-08-22) | November 7, 2015 (2015-11-07) | ||
| 12 | 13 | January 30, 2016 (2016-01-30) | August 6, 2016 (2016-08-06) | ||
| 13 | 11 | September 24, 2016 (2016-09-24) | December 31, 2016 (2016-12-31) | ||
| 14 | 11 | March 25, 2017 (2017-03-25) | July 15, 2017 (2017-07-15) | ||
| 15 | 11 | September 23, 2017 (2017-09-23) | January 13, 2018 (2018-01-13) | ||
| 16 | 9 | March 24, 2018 (2018-03-24) | July 14, 2018 (2018-07-14) | ||
| 17 | 6 | November 3, 2018 (2018-11-03) | December 8, 2018 (2018-12-08) | ||
| 18 | 6 | February 23, 2019 (2019-02-23) | April 26, 2019 (2019-04-26) | ||
| 19 | 7 | June 8, 2019 (2019-06-08) | July 20, 2019 (2019-07-20) | ||
| 20 | 3 | November 2, 2019 (2019-11-02) | November 16, 2019 (2019-11-16) | Travel Channel /Discovery+ | |
| 21 | 12 | February 27, 2020 (2020-02-27) | May 14, 2020 (2020-05-14) | Discovery+ | |
| 22 | 11 | November 5, 2020 (2020-11-05) | April 30, 2021 (2021-04-30) | ||
| 23 | 6 | July 22, 2021 (2021-07-22) | August 26, 2021 (2021-08-26) | ||
| 24 | 8 | March 10, 2022 (2022-03-10) | April 28, 2022 (2022-04-28) | Discovery Channel / Discovery+ | |
| 25 | 10 | September 15, 2022 (2022-09-15) | November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24) | ||
| 26 | 11 | June 7, 2023 (2023-06-07) | August 23, 2023 (2023-08-23) | ||
| 27 | 5 | October 11, 2023 (2023-10-11) | November 8, 2023 (2023-11-08) | ||
| 28 | 4 | May 15, 2024 (2024-05-15) | June 12, 2024 (2024-06-12) | ||
| 29 | 5 | April 23, 2025 (2025-04-23) | May 21, 2025 (2025-05-21) | ||
| 30 | TBA | October 22, 2025 (2025-10-22) | TBA | ||
Ghost Adventures (along withGhost Hunters)[7][8] also helped popularizeparanormal television andghost hunting during its original run on Travel Channel.[9] The show now airs onDiscovery+ as well asAmazon Prime.[10]
Ghost hunting shows andGhost Adventures in particular, have been accused of fakery.[11][12][13]In theHalloween special titledGhost Adventures Live, which was broadcast from theTrans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum on October 30, 2009, controversy arose when Robert Bess, inventor of the Parabot Containment Chamber (said to attract and empower spirits using energy, giving them form), claims to have had an EMF meter knocked violently out of his hands. However, upon investigation of the video, it was found that he had actually thrown it. In the November 6, 2009, follow-upGhost Adventures Live: Post Mortem, hosts Bagans and Groff reviewed the video and concluded that they could not claim any paranormal explanation for the incident.[14]
Ghost Adventures: Aftershocks is a series that premiered on Saturday April 26, 2014, on the Travel Channel.[15] The three season miniseries features Zak Bagans interviewing former Ghost Adventures interviewees to find out how their lives have changed since those GAC "lockdowns"/investigations from the past. Any new audio and/or video evidence that was not shown before, in previous Ghost Adventures episodes, are also revealed.
Ghost Adventures: Where Are They Now? premiered on Friday August 30, 2019, on the Travel Channel. The series aired as a 5 episode miniseries all under 10 minutes each featuring Zak revisiting 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: Serial Killer Spirits premiered on Saturday October 5, 2019, on the Travel Channel. The series aired as a 4 part miniseries featuring Zak and the crew visiting locations across the United States teeming with the dark energies of serial killers.
Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room! premiered on January 2, 2020, on the Travel Channel. There were 13 episodes announced for the first season and second season with Zak, Aaron, Jay and Billy opening up to viewers in their screening room (a.k.a. "screaming room") to watch their favorite episodes.[16]
Ghost Adventures: Quarantine premiered on June 11, 2020, on the Travel Channel. The series aired as a 4 part miniseries featuring Zak and the crew locked inside his Haunted Museum for 10 days during the 2020COVID-19 pandemic.[17] The first episode of this miniseries started filming during the start of Nevada state lockdown on March 30. It was titled "Perimeter of Fear" where GAC investigated theJack Kevorkian van room where women have fainted, theNatalie Wood room and a display of haunted dolls.
Ghost Adventures: Top 10 premiered on Saturday January 2, 2021, on Discovery+. The series aired as an 8 episode miniseries. 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: House Calls premiered on Thursday May 19, 2022, on Discovery+. Zak Bagans investigates the haunted homes of everyday people who are living in terror with nowhere else to turn; Zak and his crew enter each residence armed with equipment to document the unexplained activity.
Paranormal Challenge is a competitive paranormal reality show that premiered on June 17, 2011, on the Travel Channel, with one season aired to date. The show is hosted by 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.[18]
Deadly Possessions (also known asGhost Adventures: Artifacts) is a series that premiered on April 2, 2016, on the Travel Channel.[19] The series aired one season and features Zak Bagans as he gathers artifacts for his new museum inLas Vegas, Nevada. The show reveals the dark history of the items, as well as associated paranormal claims.
Demon House premiered on Friday March 16, 2018, with Lost Footage from the film being released on January 1, 2019 and an Uncut version airing shortly after on February 16, 2019, on the Travel Channel. After buying a haunted home in Indiana over the phone, sight unseen, paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew are unprepared for the demonic forces that await them at the location referred to as a "Portal to Hell."
The Haunted Museum premiered on Saturday October 2, 2021, on Discovery+. There were 9 episodes announced for the first season. Paranormal investigator and host of Ghost Adventures Zak Bagans joins forces with Eli Roth, noted horror movie maker, to present a film anthology inspired by pieces found in Zak’s personal collection of allegedly haunted artifacts.
Ghost Adventures is currently on air or streaming in the following countries and channels:
Australia onTLC,Foxtel Go[20]
Canada onDTour,Discovery+
United Kingdom onDiscovery+ (2020–present)
Italy onAXN Sci Fi andDMAX
Poland on FOKUS TV
France onPlanète+ A&E
Spain on Discovery andDiscovery+
Germany on A&E Germany
Netherlands on Spike andDiscovery+
Belgium on Spike
Czech Republic on Prima ZOOM
United States onTravel Channel andMax (2023–present)
India onDiscovery+
Philippines on Travel Channel –Sky Cable and Cignal PH
South Africa on Travel Channel –DStv
Thailand onTrueVisions
New Zealand onTLC
Norway on Max byDiscovery+
Brazil on Max byDiscovery+The documentary which the series was based on was released onDVD byEcho Bridge Home Entertainment on October 5, 2010. Season 1 was released on DVD on August 18, 2009, the Season 2 DVD was released on September 14, 2010, Season 3 was released on September 6, 2011, Season 4 on September 4, 2012, and Season 5 on February 24, 2014.
