With a Sci Fi/NBC Universal contract—complete with seven air dates—set to begin June 1, Vegas-based Ghost Adventures documentarian Zak Bagans tell of his 4Reel Productions’ future ... and of the buried past.
“The production consisted of myself, Nick Groff and a guy we hired to handle camera operations, Aaron Goodwin. For the 15 months that we spent and having just us three perform these investigations, it was a lot of blood, sweat and tears. The other shows on TV, they’ll go to a location and spend, like, an hour. Every location that we go to, we stay the night. It took us a good three months to watch all of our night-vision footage. When you’re sitting there for hours and hours and nothing’s happening on the cameras and all of the sudden you see something, that’s the biggest reward.
“Virginia City, Nevada, is said to be one of the most haunted cities in the United States. The full-bodied apparition appeared at a place called the Old Washoe Club. We had set up cameras all over this building. You can see Nick walking into this ballroom, talking into the digital recorder trying to capture EVPs, or electronic voice phenomena. He’s walking back and forth in front of this night-vision camera, and he’s asking questions. He begins to walk screen right and he’s going out of the room, and when he leaves the room, five to 10 seconds later on the left side of the screen a cloud kind of manifests. You can define legs on the bottom, and it is somewhat transparent. We had it analyzed by video forensics. There’s actually a light that’s shining in through a window. When Nick’s in there he blocks that light; when this apparition walks, he walks right through the light.
“The second installment I can’t say too much about right now, but we are in pre-production. All I can say is it is going to be featuring the most haunted place in the world. It is overseas, and people have tried to do an investigation there, professionals, and they even left in the middle of the night. We are going there because I don’t fear this. If I get harmed, which I almost did in the first film, when things happen to me, it’s actually a comfort to me, because death, which I am afraid of, is not the end. The more experiences that happen to me, the more comfort I feel knowing that death is not the end.”