By Justin Howley

Having been a longtime fan of Ghost Adventures, since the 2004 documentary that gave birth to the current number one rated reality show on The Travel Channel, I was extremely hesitant to publish this article. I could foresee the kind of online reactions that would arise, given my historically positive view of the show, but I was overcome by a natural journalistic obligation to speak the truth.

Recently, I was contacted by Leonard, a middle-aged ex-medium who now runs a respectable fishing shop in Galveston, Texas. Leonard had seen a few of my articles on Ghost Adventures, including my popular expose The Fashion of Ghost Adventures.

Given my apparent authority and intimate knowledge of the show, Leonard felt I was the best person to voice his concerns.

What he told me was eye opening:

“I haven’t done medium work in years,” Leonard said, “but the sheer amount of other-worldly communications I’ve recently received has forced me to come out and share this. I fear ridicule from my colleagues, but I also fear the spirits will not stop tormenting me, for they desire peace from the living white demon Zak Bagans.”

Zak Bagans is the self-employed ghost hunter and host of Ghost Adventures. He leads a small team through actively haunted locations across the globe. The show is currently on its 13^th season and shows no signs of slowing.

According to Leonard, the afterlife is reeling with fear, that Zak Bagans may visit their place of haunting and do the otherworldly equivalent of setting off a bomb.

“His aura is one of destruction,” Leonard says,” and his very presence sets off negative vibrations rippling through the world of the dead.”

Zak Bagans’ cruel and unusual methods of interacting with the paranormal are a far cry from that of legitimate ghost hunters, Leonard claims:

“It’s the behavior of a sick and perverted individual. His methods of intimidation has done irreversible damage to spirits all over the world.”

The show is rife with examples of his twisted behavior:

In the fourth season, when the team visits the abandoned Yorktown Memorial Hospital in Texas, Bagans attempts to communicate with the nuns who once offered their care for the sick. Bagans removes his form-fitting Ed Hardy shirt in hopes of coercing a paranormal reaction from the devout spirits.

Though I dare not decipher Bagans’ thought process, Leonard had this to say:

“This gesture unearthed dangerous and long dormant urges in the long-passed nuns. These poor spirits felt such a volatile mix of sensations that the hospital and nearby surroundings still vibrate with the violent echoes of their confused energy.”

This reckless display from Bagans, showcasing his chiseled physique and unwholesome tattoos, was bad for spirits, but a big hit with viewers, highlighting an interdimensional crises of interest between our own world and the one beyond. This discrepancy is at the heart of the conflict, mentions Leonard:

“The popularity of the show is only enabling Bagans to continue his trek of fire.”

In the Gettysburg episode in season four, the team visits the Jenny Wade House, named after a young woman who was accidentally killed by a stray bullet during the American Civil War. In an incredibly lewd gesture, Bagans pretends to lay in bed with a mannequin representing the body of Jenny Wade, hoping to bring out the spirit of her deceased father.

Moments later, Bagans jumps up from the bed, claiming something stung him in the buttocks.

Leonard claims this attack was completely fabricated by Bagans or caused by something in the environment:

The ghost of Jenny Wade’s father, who witnessed this, admits he could have personally decayed a spectrum of Bagans’ soul at that moment, but chose not to harm him.  However, the sight of Bagans laying with the mock dead body of his daughter was too much for his Civil War era sensibilities:

“This erupted such dark rage in the father’s spirit, that it ignited a ‘natural fire’ in the nearby county of Fulton, burning down 300 acres of fine land; a side effect he had no control over.”

The ghost of Jenny Wade’s father also claimed that Bagans’ team completely fabricated the EVP’s (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) in the episode. One of which they used to infer that Jenny Wade was pregnant at the time of her death.

“Arguably the worst thing Bagans does, is put his own words and gibberish into the mouths of the deceased,” Leonard says, “a libelous act in the living world and totally undefendable for a denizen of the beyond. Zak Bagans is not their voice and never will be, one distraught spirit told me.”

Apparently, the fear of a damaged reputation is enough to drain many spirits of centuries worth of positive energy.

According to Leonard, the congregation of spirits that contacted him have enlisted the help of certain famous spirits, including the ghosts of Lizzie Borden and Johnny Cash, in hopes to give their outcry more public exposure.

The Ghost Adventures team visited one of Johnny Cash’s homes in Jamaica, in episode nine of season five, where they also dealt with the White Witch of Rose Hall.

Though Johnny Cash’s ghost was reticent to speak up, he eventually claimed he’d never heard of these “Ghost Adventure punks” and wasn’t even at his Jamaican home at the time of their visit, but was instead haunting his more famous Tennessee home in Hendersonville. According to Leonard, the ghost of Johnny Cash had this to say:

“I just wish they wouldn’t bother that white witch at Rose Hall. She’s a good woman and deserves better than that.”

This destruction caused by Zack Bagans and his crew, including Aaron Goodwin and Bill Tolly, has a lasting effect, says Leonard:

“Many spirits have become ethereal husks, losing all sense of identity, as they prefer to fade into nothingness than have to face Bagans’ destructive force. They can never truly disappear, of course, only fade slightly more out of their eternal twilight.”

This damage is not just relevant to the world of the dead. This domino effect of negative energy may become so large that it spills into the living world, causing this surplus of negativity to effect the minute everyday interactions of normal living people; what most would recognize as bad luck. If we ignore these signs now, we could be in for some serious changes down the road.

Despite all of this, Leonard understands that he owns the burden of proof for his claims, though he has no intention of proving anything:

“I’m not here to probe and manipulate that world beyond ours to validate my claims. This can be very destructive, as Bagans has proven. I’m only here to relay the message and hope that Bagans is eventually stopped, so that both the dead and I may finally get some peace and rest.”

Unfortunately, with Ghost Adventures’ success on The Travel Channel, I don’t see this happening any time soon.

“We will all soon feel the repercussions of Bagans’ actions,” says Leonard.

“This is my only warning.”

 

Justin Howley is a reality show enthusiast and dog owner. That’s all you need to know about him.