Zak Bagans Talks Ghost Adventures Season 11, The Demon House, and Sympathy Said the Shark
Steve Barton
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“Season 11 of ‘Ghost Adventures’ is one of our best,” said Bagans. “We tackle the Clown Motel, a place that I despise and hate and don’t ever want to go back to, and we also have a two-hour Halloween special in Deadwood. We really penetrated the Native American culture that surrounds the area. While there, I got to interview Sitting Bull’s great-grandson and so much more. We also are using a lot of new technology in this season. Jay, Billy, and Aaron and myself… we’re really super-excited about the chemistry we’ve created between the four of us. The passion and the loyalty behind the whole crew. It’s just a great workplace and a great experience, man. We’re all very lucky to have each other. I promise you a lot of creepy and scary shit has been uncovered for this go-around.”
But… that comes with a price.
“You know, you would think after 11 seasons I would be braver by now and it would be easier for me to go off into the dark and stuff, but it’s actually the exact opposite. It’s been harder for me and some of the other guys to open up as much as we used to in terms of heading into solid darkness. Maybe we have just over-exposed ourselves to it. Speaking for myself, my empath and sensitive side? I’m basically an open mic now for spirits. A magnet. I feel it more when I’m investigating, and it’s been a bit of a challenge for me. I’m starting to connect visually… actually see spirits in my mind right before they speak, or right before I feel them. I can see their faces in ways that I’ve NEVER been able to before. I can see clothing… I’m really trying to understand it more as it’s been happening now for the last couple of years. It’s crazy, man, hard to explain,” says an exasperated Bagans.
“It’s like you sculpt your soul and your sensitivity and you keep working at it. Sooner or later your body starts to calibrate itself to interact better with the spirit dimension and the astral plane. There are times when I’ll find myself slipping into visions and thoughts that are new to me. Things I cannot explain. This all leads to physical manifestations like chills and emotions. There are times when I say to myself, ‘What the hell am I doing to my body?’ Those lockdown hangovers that I’ve described before, they’re just more intense now. Like waves crashing into me.”
Bagans continues, “Me and the guys talk to each other about that now because we’re all getting them. Exposing yourself to these things, especially the negative things, it can put you in the hospital. It is what it is though. For better or worse I’m addicted to it. It’s my escape… my rush. A getaway from this materialistic and repetitious life. Sometimes when I’m on an investigation and I’m in that bubble at a location, all of a sudden I’ll see things like furniture in an abandoned location. All of a sudden I’ll see and hear a radio playing in the corner. I mean, here’s this building that I was once scared to be in, and now I don’t want to leave. I’ll be bombarded with all these images of people… but then as fast as it came on is as fast as it leaves. When it does leave, I find myself exhausted. Barely able to breathe. This feeling lasts for two, sometimes three days. These things are getting worse for me and Aaron because we’ve been doing this so long… every other week for nearly a decade. We’re just hooked into it so much… show, no show, cameras, no cameras, it doesn’t matter anymore. We can only understand each other when we talk about it. It’s deep.”
Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures,” returns for a spine-chilling new season on Saturday, August 22, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
“Ghost Adventures” is produced by MY Entertainment for Travel Channel. For MY Entertainment, the executive producers are Michael Yudin, Joe Townley, and Zak Bagans. For Travel Channel, the executive producer is Daniel A. Schwartz.
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