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You start crying, I’m probably going to start crying too. I’m a magnet for energies and I can’t turn that off. “I am sick and tired of people calling me overly dramatic,” says Bagans, who in person is a gentle soul, if not awkward and slightly nerdy. It’s real, he says, and accusations to the contrary sting. He’s become physically ill from the encounters, or shuts down completely. He’s often startled, terrified, sad or overwhelmed “by the energy” he feels. Bagans is a human meter tuned to occult vibes. With each investigation he addresses spirits in a booming voice, coaxing them to come forward, and half of the thrill is witnessing his reactions. The tall, dark and bespectacled ghost detective now has millions of followers and fans who gravitate toward his earnestness and intensity. The iconic comedy venue celebrates 50 years as a home for the world’s best comics and pledges to evolve with the times while keeping its old-school flair. “People keep complaining about how weird I am, and I’m like, ‘Wouldn’t you be if you did this every other week, at the darkest places you can find?’” Bagans says.Įntertainment & Arts The Comedy Store looks to tradition to keep the future funny

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Bagans has lost count of how many episodes the series has aired, between more than 20 seasons and a raft of specials, but he knows it’s well into the hundreds. “Ghost Adventures,” which is also available on the streaming service Discovery+, leads the pack in the spooky realm of paranormal programming. If you haven’t seen one of these shows before, imagine the “Scooby-Doo” crew poking around a haunted hotel, except these are real folks armed with high-tech equipment and the culprit is never the innkeeper. Creepy investigations, from multipart series to bite-size social media posts, have proliferated on cable TV, YouTube, TikTok and other platforms in recent years. But that doesn’t stop us from talking about the orb incident for the next two hours as we scour the rest of the club.įaith is everything in the paranormal business, and these guys are true believers.

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Often lampooned, shows like ‘Ghost Adventures’ - full of investigators, mediums, intuitives - helped bring closure in TV critic Lorraine Ali’s own life in 2020.īagans and I look for spikes on the electromagnetic meter he’s placed between us on the sticky cocktail table. Television In a year of loss, I found comfort and connection in an unlikely place: paranormal TV Legend has it that the place was used to extort, torture and kill those who crossed the mob, and the spirits of those unlucky victims still haunt the place today. Celebrities and mafia bigwigs like Bugsy Siegel and Mickey Cohen frequented the venue throughout the 1940s and ’50s.

Demonic growls in the basement, flickering lights on stage and manifestations of a man dressed in a World War II-era military uniform are accredited to the building’s former life, when the cavernous structure was home to Ciro’s nightclub. Today we’re at the Comedy Store, the Sunset Strip club known for two things: launching the careers of such comedians as Richard Pryor, Jay Leno and Roseanne Barr and scaring the bejesus out of countless performers and patrons during its half-century run.

“It’s a smorgasbord of pure, haunted dreams.”

“We focus on Los Angeles because the locations here offer so much in the form of hauntings and mysterious history,” Bagans says. Among the haunted places they’ve explored are the dreaded Cecil Hotel, the Black Dahlia house, Hollywood’s American Legion Post 43 building, downtown L.A.’s Roxie Theatre, Pasadena’s Ritual House and the Los Angeles Police Museum. The host of the Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures” and his crew of spirit sleuths have roamed the city, capturing all manner of unexplained phenomena on camera. Los Angeles is rife with ghosts, and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans is on the hunt.

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