![]() ![]() Zak also shamelessly plugs his "Haunted Museum" on his show. When not engaged in the serious business of ghost hunting, each cast member markets his own T-shirt custom clothing line. After Bagans claimed to have recorded the dead voice of suicide victim David Strickland, he thoughtfully featured the track on a new album with musical partners The Lords of Acid. One fansite called that proclaims its purpose as "Exploring the Entertainment of The Unexplained" (the mind boggles) report Bagans living a sort of quasi-rockstar lifestyle, cruising Las Vegas parties with the lead singer from Mötley Crüe. Not long after the show premiered, dozens of steamy Facebook pages dedicated to the show's hunky young frontman Zak Bagans sprang up bearing titles like "ZAK CAN INVESTIGATE MY HOT SPOT ANY TIME." Savvy producers quickly recognized the mostly female audience was hot for Bagans, and soon the show began including lots of close-ups of him with his shirt off. ![]() Or perhaps the shadow was added by a computer savvy ghost. Skeptics have also spotted questionable things, such as adding computer-generated shadows and claiming they were from a ghost. They also promote the electronic voice phenomenon. The equipment used, basically the same stuff they use on other shows such as Ghost Hunters, is questionable at best. With the claims Ghost Adventures makes that the dead still walk the Earth, it came as no surprise when skeptics effortlessly eviscerated the validity of the show like piranhas. The show premiered on October 17, 2008, and it has been profiting off the credulity of the American public ever since. Episodes generally feature the stars, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin, entering a supposedly haunted area, and having "encounters" with "ghosts". Naturally, it promotes paranormal woo at every opportunity. A "reality" television series on the Travel Channel, which desperately wants to cash in on the American public's strange obsession with ghosts, and the popularity of similar shows such as Ghost Hunters. ![]()
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