Conf Call Transcript: GHOST ADVENTURES – Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, Aaron Goodwin

I love my day job but it sometimes prevents me from participating in awesome conference call like this one with the guys from Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures — Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin. Thankfully, I got a copy of the transcript to share with all of you.

I’m a huge fan of the show but I’m an avid believer in the paranormal. I’ve had my own personal experiences and hope to do more investigations in the future.

I’m excited to see the 100th episode – Exorcist House and of course the Halloween Special that takes our GAC boys to Transylvania.

Without further ado – the transcript.

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Ghost Adventures – Conference call Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, Aaron Goodwin

September 24, 2013

 

 

Stephanie DePietro:Hello everybody. I’m Stephanie DePietro from Travel Channel. And it is my pleasure to introduce the paranormal investigators in Travel Channel’s hit series Ghost Adventures, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin. Ghost Adventures is currently in its Eighth Season with new episodes airing Friday nights at 9:00 pm Eastern and Pacific. On Friday, October 4 the series will air its milestone 100th Episode with a special investigation of the infamous Exorcist House in St. Louis.

The home where the actual events depicted in the popular film, The Exorcist took place. Leading up to this on Friday September 27 is an one hour retrospective special, Up Close and Personnel in which the guys reveal their most memorable lock down moments throughout the series history. And no October would be complete without a special Ghost Adventures Halloween Investigation in historical haunted Transylvania. And now I’ll turn it over to Zak, Nick and Aaron who can highlight some of this season’s unforgettable lockdowns. Zak.

 

Zak Bagans:       Hello this is Zak Bagans. Hello, everyone. Happy you all could join us today. We’re really excited. It’s been a long journey, so many ghost adventures doing our investigations. And in that whole process of investigations, we have really matured as paranormal investigators because we have seen and felt and heard just how real and dangerous this field can be.

 

And the 100th episode at the Exorcist house deals with something that we’ve all been through before, possessions. And so this was about learning more about the experiences we went through. And experiences that Nick, Aaron and myself you know as brothers, as friends helped each other. And we were there for each other in those moments. And it’s something that the three of us will really only understand because we were there to feel it and to witness it.

And to be at such an iconic home that housed the world’s most famous possession and exorcism and to learn the truth about it and to actually speak with an ancestor, a great niece of the chief exorcist, Father William Bowdern to interview her and hear her side of the story. To actually hear her you know witness her uncle at a Christmas party talking about the actual exorcism was a true honor for us. But to hear her tell us and look inside our eyes and say that “I will not go to that house to interview” you know to do this interview.

“I will not even go down the street to do this interview with you all.” That erased my skepticism that this house is not haunted. You know I’m a firm believer that a haunting takes place where somebody dies a tragic death or a suicide. You know the supercharged emotional event attributed to a death that creates a portal, a doorway to a haunting and a residual energy that houses a nest for that entity. But I was unaware that an exorcism that housed supercharged emotional energy dealing with a spiritual event of Satan himself is just as powerful as the deaths or anything like that.

So we went there to investigate a man who claims that he was recently attacked in the home in 2009. A man who’s credibility was really, really strong through the words of the great niece of Father William Bowdern. She validated his credibility. And ultimately this is what attracted us to the house and to investigate with the questions of did the demon reemerge itself from the exorcism in the 1940s, was him simply experiencing this psychic scars re-manifesting from the residual energy of the stone and wood surfaces of the home.

And that is truly what attracted us to the investigation.

 

Stephanie DePietro:Nick, do you want talk a little bit about Transylvania?

 

Nick Groff:         Yes. Hello, everyone. It’s Nick. I – we have been to very interesting and unique locations all over the world. Throughout our journey through Ghost Adventures, Zak, Aaron and myself and it’s been crazy – a crazy rollercoaster ride. But there’s nothing like going overseas back in time, back into the history very rich in that fashion. And we did that when we went to Romania to Transylvania to investigate Dracula’s capsules.

It was amazing – just amazing experience to step foot on the ground and be some of the first investigators ever to investigate where Dracula ruled and his father, Dracu and actually go to where he was born too. It was just interesting. And to see that, to feel it and we actually captured some amazing evidence in the process of being able to investigate his former castle that he ruled. Aaron and myself while Zak was in this forbidden forest that was absolutely insane too, some of the greatest parallel footage that I’ve seen captured by Zak got it when he was alone with (Billy Tolley) in the woods of this very scary forest.

And then Aaron and myself back at Dracula’s castle and we got (unintelligible) flag that came through on one of our devices the Ovalis 3 that Aaron was holding. And that just blew our minds away that we communicated with not only some sort of spiritual communication but something that you know relates to the former castle, the former owner, the ruler of Romania, Transylvania. And it was just absolutely amazing this experience to be a part of that.

 

Aaron Goodwin: And not only that but we got to see the beginning – It’s Aaron Goodwin. But we got to see where he born all the way to where he was ruled to where he was captured. Then he died, like his whole family history. It was awesome. Sorry.

 

Zak Bagans:       And some of the evidence that Nick was just talking was just talking about, Aaron and Nick were investigating his castle in (unintelligible). God I hope I said that right. And they captured 2 voices, Vlad and then flowers. They had no idea what those 2 voices meant. I mean they knew Vlad. But they didn’t know what flowers meant. Three days later somehow someway we were trying to interview the princess – Princess Brianna Caradja and the princess is Vlad Depes’ last known ancestor through blood.

And she wasn’t going to interview with us. Well a couple of days after the investigation that Nick and Aaron in (unintelligible), they received flowers in Vlad. They had no idea what flowers meant. And the Vlad was really good – really clear. And all of sudden Princess Brianna Caradja agrees to do our interview. And it’s very last minute. She arrives and we are hurrying up to do the interview. And we just interview her in this patch of flowers.

And then while we’re interviewing her, she tells us that her ancestor Vlad Depes came through. We were not expecting this because Romanian people are not open to talking about ghost let alone the ancestor of Vlad Depes. She comes out and tells us during in a Ouija board session about you know 15-20 years ago, her ancestor, Vlad Depes comes though and spells out V-L-A-D on the Ouija board and starts giving her information and premonitions about her upcoming life.

And so she connected the dots with these synchronicities that we interview her in the flowers. And it was Vlad that communicated with Nick and Aaron predicting that we were going to interview his ancestor. It was really interesting.

 

Stephanie DePeitro:Thanks, Zak. Aaron, do you have anything else that you want us to tease about the upcoming investigations this season?

 

Aaron Goodwin: They’re crazy. They’re awesome. We got – I don’t – so we finally got to go Alcatraz. And that was an experience. We’ve been trying to do that for a while. That finally happened. But I mean these Halloween specials, the Exorcist and going to Transylvania are just off the hook. And then we just did a cool reenactment scene in Prairieville. And we did kind of different than normal and got some amazing evidence. I don’t know what I can say.

I don’t know what to tell. But we have some pretty awesome evidence. We go to a – we actually go to a mustang ranch where it’s really haunted out there in Reno. And that’s one pretty cool too.

 

Stephanie DePietro:  Okay, great. I think we can open up for questions now.

 

Coordinator:        We have a question from Alley.

 

Alley:                  Hey guys, can you hear me?

 

Man:                   Yes.

 

Man:                   Yes, go ahead.

 

Alley:                  Okay. I would like you guys to each touch on how this milestone of getting to 100 episodes has changed your life. Zak, you mentioned that you know you guys have really matured over the course of all these seasons. And then if you could also talk on the difference of intensity for each of you when you investigate area that had residual haunting, spirit haunting versus a demonic possession or reports of demon activities. Thanks.

 

Zak Bagans:       Okay, I’ll try and remember all. Well investigating up to 100 episodes has definitely matured us. And it’s matured us on a level of knowledge within this paranormal field. And the way that we have learned and gained our knowledge is through our various investigations and the professionals in the – different professionals and scientists and demonologists and what not that we have interviewed.

Like on the 100th episode of the Exorcist, we brought in one of the most educated demonologists in the world, Dr. Bradshaw. And he’s from Scotland. And he and others like him are the people that we ultimately gain our knowledge from in this field. We will never be able – nobody, nobody on this planet will ever be able to answer the question what happens when you die? Nobody. Nobody. But what we can answer are the questions that we have about you know how are we able to capture these voices. And how are we able to experience these compelling events and what not. You know these spirits are speaking.

They’re answering questions. And we still don’t know how they’re able to do that. But all we can do now is just capture this evidence. And it just keeps getting more and more compelling it seems the longer and deeper we are in this field.

 

Alley:                  I’m really interested from Nick on that too.

 

Nick Groff:         Yes. I mean Zak is absolutely right. So over the years of you know a lot of learning just in general comes from experience with anything that you do. And with Zak, Aaron and myself as paranormal investigates, we go to a new location week after week. And we are learning so much about life, about death, about all the things that goes through everybody’s mind no matter what their background is.

And that’s so compelling to us because we just feel like we skated on thin ice for so long on that other side. Like we’re almost in between 2 places, 2 dimensions with what we’re doing sometimes. And to me that’s scary because most of the time, you don’t know who you’re communicating with or what dimension or what – you know it gets really. You can theorize and you can sit here all day and we can talk about different you know pathways that happens after you die.

And what we’ve learned through capturing evidence with intelligence spirits, with residuals, with demonic (unintelligible), with even negative energies which is the most scariest for me is the positive and negative you know out lashes of energies that were running and communicating with – at different locations. And I think that’s what I’ve learned. Personally if these energies – and the scariest thing for me is coming into contact with something that’s negative where it can actually attach itself to you personally and really have an out lash on your health, your physical wellbeing, your mental state.

And it can linger with you for a long time unless you put yourself in that positive surrounding where you don’t let it win and destroy your life and everything around it. And the 3 of us have gone through that. We’re still going through it. And it’s very scary. It’s dangerous. And we didn’t realize that when we first started, did we Zak?

 

Zak Bagans:       No. And you know Nick made a good point. And you know I guess it’s something that is personnel but we’ll tell you guys. You know we are dealing with attachments. And I’m dealing with them right now. And I don’t know what they’re doing. I am seeking various people to help me with it. They’re very real, the things that they do in my home. The things that they do to people that I get close to.

Every girl that I ever tried to have a relationship will have an experience. I have a possessive female spirit. You know I was also told I have a demonic attachment. And they make me sick. They make me agitated. And it’s a side that nobody sees. And it’s something that Nick Aaron, I can turn to these guys and Bill and Jay, our other guys. And these are guys that I can talk to now. So it’s brought us closer together even though we’ll still have our stupid little you know friendly fights and stuff.

These are guys that now these 100 episodes have brought us closer together because they’ve been through it and they understand it. So you know we are dealing with it now. And it – sometimes it’s great and sometime it comes back. And it’s just – it’s crazy. And you know going to the Exorcist house and seeing what can happen to a little boy in a worst case scenario you know a diabolical possession, that’s when it gets bad. That’s when it goes from just having an attachment to having a full on diabolical possession where you’re not even in control of your own body anymore.

You know your body is not your body anymore. It’s the body of Satan. And even just saying that out loud right now in this hotel room makes me – it’s scary. It’s scary to know that I don’t know what else is listening to it around me. And that’s how deep we are involved in these investigations, guys. And this is why we get the help of the most educated demonologists in the world. We talk to the family members of the you know exorcists from the exorcism portrayed by the movie, the Exorcist.

And this is the level that we’re at. And while we were at that house, we communicated with something. We communicated with an entity. And we shared that evidence with a priest, an exorcist, Father Jack Ashcraft who is supposed to join us on this investigation. And on the way to the investigation with his brother, he had a medical emergency, a freak medical emergency in his car that he had to go from meeting us to go to the hospital.

And during the filming of that episode, I also had a medical thing happen that was just like his. And the voices that came through that have actually asked ourselves how far do we want to keep going with this. Do we really want to keep doing demonic investigations? What have we gotten ourselves into? Is it – you know it’s crazy. But we’re involved in it and this is what we do.

 

Alley:                  Thank you so much.

 

Zak Bagans:       Sure. Thank you.

 

Coordinator:        We have a question from Chad.

 

Chad:                  Yes. Thank you. I’ve – I’m in St. Louis and I’ve written a bit about the house here, the Exorcist house. And I was curious with this incident where you say a person was attacked. Can you provide a little bit of a detail about that? And I was curious when you did your investigation and if you can give us a little bit more of a teaser. I know you just mentioned about kind of the medical emergency that happened with the demonologist. But if you could – for us St. Louis readers just kind of who want to know a little bit more kind of give us a bit of tease here.

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes, he – Nick, what was his first name, Greg or Garry.

 

Nick Groff:         It was Greg.

 

Zak Bagans:       Greg – Greg was a real nice guy. And I guess in 2009, he was doing an investigation there. And a lot doesn’t bother this guy. He’s a big guy and a tough guy. And he didn’t believe the home was haunted. And that’s what he told us. And he’s a real skeptical that the home was haunted. But he went there, did this investigation. He was in the little boy’s room and the left side of his face started getting extremely, extremely hot. And he started getting in what he said, “disoriented”. And the next thing that he knows is that another woman that was with him as part of the investigation who was a nurse noticed the left side of his neck started forming white blisters all over his neck and within the blisters formed a white cross with the blisters. And there’s photographs of it. And we have some of the footage from the investigation.

And just because Nick, Aaron and myself are extremely credible investigators, we will debunk things. We will separate facts from fiction in terms of urban legends and what’s true. History, we’re very big sticklers on credibility whether it’s the history or evidence. So we wanted to get a better sense of who this guy is because we don’t know him, you know. So that’s why before we investigated him, we talked with the great niece of Father William Bowdern and asked her if she was aware of this guy. And she really validated to us his credibility as an investigator. So we listened to him. And we listened very serious. You know we heard him out. And when he took us up there and we interviewed him in the room, he was visibly shaking. He was visibly shaking. And that’s it. And that’s what he told us.

 

Chad:                  Is he with a paranormal task force here in St. Louis do you know or?

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes he is. I think it’s actually called the Paranormal Task Force.

 

Chad:                  Okay, yes. I believe so.

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes.

 

Nick Groff:         And to sum up what Zak was saying, when we went into the investigation. And I’ll give you a little tease here about what we captured because I think personally it’s one of the scariest things that we’ve encountered or captured for a couple of different reasons. But we were using our spear box, our SP7 spear box, one of our devices that communicates within the frequencies to capture spirit voices that come through.

And Zak and I were – we had a Ouija board. Zak, you know we decided to bring that in and see what could come through. That was the greatest.

 

Zak Bagans:       Can I tell it real quick, Nick.

 

Nick Groff:         Yes.

 

Zak Bagans:       Can you tell him that for first 3 hours, we didn’t experience it.

 

Nick Groff:         Yes. And that is right. And for the first – I mean we were in there for a couple of hours. We went to the basement. We went up and down that house and nothing happened. And then you’ll see this in the episode. We know we time off so that you see us 3 hours going by. We’re trying everything. Nothing’s going on. So we go back to our base camp. And you know Zak says, “hey let’s bring in Greg’s Ouija board that Greg gave to us that we can use in the house.”

We bring that in to the second floor right to the room where you know this boy was possessed when they were exercising him back – back when that occurred. And Zak put the Ouija board down. Aaron tried warning us before we went in not to use it. But you know we tried to push the limit sometimes and do whatever it takes. Try to get evidence and capture thing.

Zak had the spirit box. He put on the Ouija board. And there was a weird moment for a second where I asked myself and Zak. And you see me say it out loud. Do you want to do this? And I pause. And I was scared. And you know right now I get kind of chills thinking about what happened to us in that moment reliving it right now. And there’s nothing coming through. And then suddenly we get some voices that come through.

But to get right to the point that I’m talking about, the voices that scarred the crap out of me was this two difference voices came through. One said, “devil” and the other said “Diablo.” And it scarred us. It scarred us so bad that I was like, wow. I looked at Zak and for that split second, Zak’s face looked so different, like it shifted in the dark. Like his eyes went back. His eyes went black like something was there with us.

But I learned later when I presented this evidence to Jack Ashcraft when he was finally – I was able to meet up with him two weeks later after he couldn’t make it to house to talk with us because he fell ill in that moment. And Zak wasn’t feeling good either. So I had to go interview Jack Ashcraft. And I really wanted to show him these voices that came through, devil and Diablo. That’s huge. That’s crazy to capture this.

And his face just dropped. As a priest, as an exorcist, his face and this is a guy who has witnessed real exorcisms before. And he talks very deep on them. And he’s a very nice guy. And very credible and has good factual information that he always tells me to be cautious and everything. His face, I’ll never forget it just drops when he heard those 2 voices, devil and Diablo that came though on our device. And he was like, “you guys need to be very, very careful of what you’re doing because not only is that one spirit” because I thought it was just one spirit.

And he’s like, “no.” He’s like “ there was probably multiple – multiple demonic entities that came though.” Usually the first one disguises itself is the weaker demonic entity. The second and third and fourth and sometimes seven…

 

Chad:                  The strongest.

 

Nick Groff:         Are the strongest. And I was blown away. He’s like, “just don’t do it anymore. You guys need to seek help. Go seek help. Zak needs to get help.” He actually had me bring – you know I had to go bring Jack Ashcraft to his – they give us blessings and stuff and a lot of stuff. I mean I was shaken up from that investigation.

 

Chad:                  And when was that investigation? Do you – was it earlier this summer? Do you recall?

 

Zak Bagans:       That…

 

Nick Groff:         I think it was this month. It was earlier this month.

 

Zak Bagans:       It was really recent.

 

Nick Groff:         It was August. It was in August.

 

Zak Bagans:       That’s why we’re shaken up. We’re still shaken up from it and we’re at a new location right now. And it’s just – this is what we do week after week. It’s you know it’s draining after a while not because of the traveling but because of what we encounter sometimes, the energies. Like the energies is what it blows my mind. They drag everything out of you, sometimes your own soul you know.

And you really have to mentally be stable or else you’ll lose it.

 

Chad:                  Well, hey. Thanks so much guys.

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes.

 

Nick Groff:         Thank you.

 

Coordinator:        Our next question comes from Abby.

 

Abby:                  Hello, guys.

 

Man:                   Hello.

 

Man:                   Hello.

 

Abby:                  Hey, if you could take just one investigative tool with you, what would it be?

 

Zak Bagans:       My SP7 spirit box. I was probably?

 

Abby:                  How about Nick and Aaron?

 

Aaron Goodwin: I would take…

 

Nick Groff:         I would take – go ahead Aaron, you go.

 

Aaron Goodwin: Myself just because you can sense certain things when it happens, but for proof I bring the PX.

 

Nick Groff:         For me it would probably be myself too just because experience and I know what the feel and sense and everything. But also a digital recorder that way I can hear what the spirits are saying to me.

 

Abby:                  What advice would give to a homeowner that lives on laylines, has a vortex on what was once considered sacred Indian grounds that are having unwanted paranormal activity?

 

Zak Bagans:       Move.

 

Man:                   Sell me the house.

 

Zak Bagans:       Move. This is Zak Bagans. Move. You’re not going to be able – you know – if you chose to live in a home that is you know living on intersecting laylines and to add to that layer of cake, you’re living on an Indian burial ground and you’re having paranormal experiences that are bothersome, you’re not going to get rid of them. You know it’s – they’ve you know they’ve taken ownership of that home and that area. I mean you’re laying on nest, you know an intersecting energies. And you’re not going to erase those energies. You know other homes where there’s a problematic spirit or an entity, you can go the route of trying to get the home cleansed or what not and helping that spirit move on from there. But when you’re living in a geographical especially a geomagnetic location that the home is actually placed on top of a geomagnetic intersection of energy on top of this burial ground, it doesn’t matter what you do.

You know I don’t believe that you’ll ever be able to get rid of that. So it’s either you put up with it or you get out.

 

Abby:                  Aaron, how do you feel about usually being the one that gets so low duty in the creepiest places?

 

Aaron Goodwin: It’s the only way I know how. I used to like this dread it. And I still do. But something in me now just wants to go and see what can happen because I get scared. I can’t help it. No matter how much you know I know the spirit in there, it comes out. It spooks you. And it’s good because my – you know me getting spooked and all that really fuels like energy I believe.

So it’s been working so keep doing you know.

 

Abby:                  Yes. Well thank you kindly. I appreciate the answers.

 

Zak Bagans:       Thank you.

 

Aaron Goodwin: You’re welcome.

 

Coordinator:        Our next question comes from Sam.

 

Sam:                   Hey guys, how are you doing?

 

Man:                   Good.

 

Sam:                   Alright. You know what I’ve seen every episode of your show. And it has never been clear to me how you – three of you originally came together. How did you guys meet and you know start doing what you do?

 

Zak Bagans:       Nick, Aaron?

 

Aaron Goodwin: This is Aaron. I used – me and Nick met back when he was in college. And we helped each other in some projects. And then I met Nick and Zak – I met Zak through Nick and then joined the show. I never even though about ghosts so I was like if I did the show, “what, alright I’ll help you out.” You know then all of sudden I was like what the heck just happened. I love you guys.

 

Sam:                   And Zak, when did you guys meet?

 

Nick Groff:         This is Nick. We – you know Zak and I met through – he actually DJed my wedding which was cool.

 

Sam:                   Oh, really.

 

Nick Groff:         And yes, and Aaron (unintelligible).

 

Zak Bagans:       I screwed up his first dance song.

 

Nick Groff:         It was funny how the three of us came together. I think our paths crossed for this reason right here why we’re here today. And you know the three of us definitely had an interest in paranormal – all things paranormal. And one night, you know sitting around and said I was talking to Zak and “let’s go out and get some gear with money we don’t have and try to you know go to some of the haunted locations in Nevada, some of the haunted mining towns and see what happens.”

And that’s exactly what we did. The three of us hopped in Zak’s car and we drove up on Virginia City. But on the way we stopped at all the haunted mine towns like Tonopah and (Violet) and all these like cool little you know off beaten paths location. It wasn’t until we got to the Whashoe club where you know just stuff hit the fan…

 

Sam:                   Yes.

 

Nick Groff:         With what we captured. And after we had all this footage, we were like, “wow this is amazing. We’ve got to do something with this. We have to show the world what we captured.” And what we did is we said put a narrative to a documentary and that’s what kind of Ghost Adventures kind of spawned from. And then Zak and I were able to get locked down by ourselves in Gold Field the Hotel.

And that was the epic night that we will never forget. That just you know topped it all of that made us want to pursue this even deeper and deeper and more and more and you know after, the rest is history.

 

Sam:                   One of my favorite haunted locations you’ve never, ever, you haven’t covered yet is the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Have you ever tried going in there and are there locations that you guys would love to go there they haven’t let you in yet? And what would be some of your top dream places to go?

 

Nick Groff:         This is Nick. I’m actually staying at the Roosevelt Hotel right now.

 

Sam:                   Now that’s freaky.

 

Nick Groff:         That was weird you just mentioned that.

 

Sam:                   Love that place. And it’s very eerie. You can feel a presence when you’re in there.

 

Nick Groff:         Yes. It’s definitely. It has rich history. And it’s unique. You walk through the lobby and you can just almost sense that you know the spirits are the people that once were here, all the famous people and stuff that walked this path you know and stayed here. It’s just really unique. And it’s cool. It’s definitely awesome. We’re not investigating it.

We’re just staying here for the first couple of nights until we do our investigation at the location we’re going to.

 

Sam:                   Okay.

 

Nick Groff:         But – there’s so many places all over the world I want go to especially overseas. There’s a lot of like really, really awesome places in Ireland and some really just insane places even further like Australia or some freaky places. But I mean there’s some still outside of New York like this huge mental hospital I’ve been dying to go to forever. But you know it’s so hard to get permission sometimes.

 

Sam:                   Yes.

 

Nick Groff:         I mean governments own you know the whole complexes or whatever. But I don’t know, there’s a lot of places. But we’ve been hitting a lot of the topics that I’ve wanted to go to for a long time like the Exorcist house. I’ve always wanted to do that one. And you know that dream came true. And I don’t know if it was a good decision, but we did it because it’s scarred me.

 

Sam:                   Yes and real quick, favorite horror films, what you guys favorite horror films?

 

Nick Groff:         Go ahead, Zak.

 

Zak Bagans:       Favorite horror films. I really don’t watch too many horror films. I like Bram Stoker’s Dracula. That’s my favorite.

 

Sam:                   Well has doing this kind of work sort of sensitized you too you know kind of fantasy horror?

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes. I laugh at it.

 

Sam:                   Okay.

 

Zak Bagans:       I laugh at these new paranormal movies and stuff like that. You know I mean they’re cool. They’re raising awareness. But you know when I watch clips of them, they give me chills. You know they really do. I know that they’re just made in studios and stuff like that. But you know when I watch them I think me and Aaron were saying this once. Like I caught a clip of one the other night. I don’t go to the movie theaters.

I really don’t watch movies. But every now and again I’ll catch a little clip of one or something like that and watch it for 10 minutes. And it gives me chills. It really does because I’m that guy that it really has happened to. You know but these are actors and shit and I watch them on TV. But you know it’s like I watch it and I’m like, “wow, I’ve really experience that” you know.

 

Sam:                   Well, yes. Well, look thanks guys. And thanks for doing what you guys do.

 

Zak Bagans:       Thank you.

 

Sam:                   Because it’s I mean it’s a great hour every week.

 

Zak Bagans:       Thank you very much. Appreciate that.

 

Coordinator:        We have a question from Christina.

 

Christina:            Hello guys. It’s nice to talk to you again.

 

Man:                   Hello.

 

Man:                   Hello.

 

Christina:            I can’t believe it’s 100 episodes. I’ve watched them all. I’ve been a fan since the beginning, the documentary. So since you – that was – you filmed that back in 2004, is that correct.

 

Man:                   Yes.

 

Christina:            Is there any place along the way here that you liked not because of necessarily the evidence that you captured but the history of the location, if each of you could share that location.

 

Zak Bagans:        The question is what location do we want to investigate because of the history?

 

Christina:            No. What location did you like because of the history and not necessarily you know.

 

Zak Bagans:       Okay. Okay. I really – this is Zak. I really enjoyed the La Purisima Mission and that’s in Lompoc, California. And for some reason, you know that location as well as Gettysburg. You asked me to pick so I’ll say La Purisima. But La Purisima really – really got me because of the history. And I felt something there that was truly powerful. And you know I felt a real deepness of the sadness that the Chumash Indians went through because of the Spanish.

And I don’t know what that experience was all about. I can’t – I can’t answer it you know exactly how or why I felt so strongly about the Chumash Indians and the pain that was inflicted on them. But it’s something that always stays with me. And you know every now and then out of nowhere I’ll just get those feelings again. It will re-manifest itself inside of me of the Chumash Indians. It’s really strange. It’s crazy. But we captured some flute music there too.

And it’s just an investigation that always stays with me.

 

Aaron Goodwin: Hello, this is Aaron. I definitely say Romania, the whole history of Vlad and how he’s just you know the ruler. And he’s killing like with 30,000 people killing 200,000 that was pretty awesome. And then the Hellfire Caves. Those are my two.

 

Christina:            Nick.

 

Nick Groff:         This is Nick. You know we’ve been to 100 locations, still going strong to different locations. I mean to me it’s almost like all of them because so many of them…

 

Man:                   She said one dude.

 

Man:                   I know but I picking my all of them.

 

Nick Groff:         Take one man, just take one. All of them have different experiences. I want them all. I mean we learned something different at each location we go through to research the background that we do. And they all have some sort of different history that I learn from that I didn’t know prior to you know going there. It’s almost like being in history class. But if I had to I think the pivotal would be Poveglia Island was kind of epic for me because of just the layers and layers of history that occurred there on that island just surrounding the water right there.

You had battle ships, mental hospitals, plaque victims burned there and all these mysterious deaths revolving around just this small patch of island off of Poveglia in Italy. So I guess that would be one and plus we researched that for like I would say 10 years before we even went there.

 

Christina:            Great. Those are great answers. I want to know the upcoming show the new guest investigators, I’m just going to throw in my favorite’s Chad so.

 

Man:                   Love Chad (unintelligible). Cool.

 

Christina:            No guest investigators coming up.

 

Zak Bagans:       We have some guest investigators coming up in the new season. But these guest investigators are not like celebrity investigators or you know in that area. They’re more investigators that are connected to the locations itself. So we’re kind of giving them firsthand investigations to help dealing with their either problem or help getting them clear answers. We just did an investigation at the Perryville Battlefield.

And we were joined by 15 re-enactors of the civil war who are connected to the location. And we had them witness probably the most powerful spirit communication session that we have ever documented because we were able to match a spirit’s first and last name to a soldier that died on that battlefield to records that we had not had access to.

 

Man:                   And the same voice through that spirit box too, that was crazy.

 

Zak Bagans:       Right, right. And we had a park ranger in his story validate this as well as having 15 eye witnesses. It’s probably one of the most pinnacle moments in our career.

 

Christina:            That’s awesome. I know you guys are involved in a lot of side projects. Anything that you do that’s not like involved in the paranormal.

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes. I mean we do little things here and there. But you know paranormal’s our main focus and Ghost Adventures is our main focus and we put all of our time and energy into Ghost Adventures. So outside of that, yes, I mean I like cars and hobbies, lifting weights, stuff like that. But paranormal’s my number 1.

 

Christina:            Thanks so much guys.

 

Man:                   Yes.

 

Man:                   Thank you.

 

Coordinator:        We have a question from Steve Barton.

 

Steve:                 Hello guys, how are you?

 

Man:                   What’s up, Steve.

 

Steve:                 So listen, 100 episodes, first of all, congratulations. That’s – it’s a true milestone and God bless you for it. I don’t know how you’ve lasted so long with Aaron being tortured in tiny little places. And Nick jumping into morgues. But I’m glad you did. But my question is for each of you actually if you could go into it. Being that 100 episodes is such a incredible milestone, I was wondering what each of you feel was your defining moment of your careers since you’ve started doing this.

 

Zak Bagans:       This is Zak. And first off thank you to Dread Central for always promoting us all the time and stuff, we appreciate that in covering us. What I would say the defining moment for me was when I went from a boy to a man in terms of the paranormal world at Bobby Mackey’s music world where I had an exorcism performed on me. I wasn’t expecting that. So Bobby Mackey changed everything for me.

It went from the kind of more mature Zak Bagans if I were to go back and talk to that Zak in 2008-2007. I would tell him, “dude you need to chill out a little bit. What you’re doing right now is you’re screaming and yelling at something that is very powerful and something that you cannot fight with those muscles. And soon you are going to get a wakeup call. And you are going to see just how powerful these forces that you cannot always see and hear truly are.”

And once we investigated Mackey’s and what happened to us in the first investigation, than we did an event there and brought 100 people there to witness what a lot of people thought was maybe rigged or whatever. We’re a TV show. “Oh, this is really happening, blah, blah, blah.” So we decided to bring 100 people there. And for the 2 days that that event happened, if that 2 day event could be a horror movie, you know a real life horror movie for all the things that happened to all the people there.

It was nonstop. And to sum this up, to see myself, the director of security, the bouncer actually be taken away by one of the priests there and for him to put medallions and holy waters on our foreheads and we couldn’t even bare the pain of how bad it was burning or you know keeping these medals on our chests, that eventually lead into another investigation with us to return to Mackey’s. And bad things started happening, personal things started happening to all of us.

But when I fell under this possession and had to be exorcised and things that will never been shown on camera and will never be told to anybody except Nick, Aaron and myself and the priest that was there. That was a defining moment for me.

 

Steve:                 Well please don’t ever go to Mackey’s ever again.

 

Zak Bagans:       I’m done with it. We’re not going there ever again.

 

Aaron Goodwin: Hello this Aaron. Mine was the Winchester mystery house because during that moment, something snapped in me. And like since then, I’ve been more aggressive/you know I’ll do whatever it takes to get the evidence instead of so no way kind of. That was weird. And then – but it kind of goes into the Hellfire Cave so, the Hellfire Cave was like a turning point in my moment also. So you combine those 2 it kind of changed me in a weird way.

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes, because you were always in the beginning, you were a bit more of the shyer one that…

 

Aaron Goodwin: Well I was scared half to death. I never thought about ghosts. I was never into ghosts or anything so it’s kind of like this was a whole shock wave thrown at me like what. Like as soon as we went into that documentary, and when it’s just – you can’t – once your chosen for the paranormal it kind of like keeps you in it. And so I just kept doing it. And now I’ve learned so much over the last 100 episodes that I’m completely different but still the same. It’s really weird.

 

Steve:                 Yes. I mean it’s almost as if – I mean you’re obviously not a character but you had just an ark from the beginning of Ghost Adventures to where you are now. And God bless you man, it’s tough work.

 

Aaron Goodwin: It’s a whole different way of life.

 

Nick Groff:         Hey, this is Nick.

 

Steve:                 Nick, what defines you?

 

Nick Groff:         Yes, I mean every time I say “wow, that was the one that defines me like (Winda Vista) when I saw that lady standing there two feet in front of my face, I’m like “wow, that’s the moment I’ve been waiting for.” But then something else occurs at another location like Savannah, Georgia. We were (unintelligible) company and this energy just you know this negative energy just overtook my own mental state. You know I’m like that – I’ve got to wake up.

I can’t you know I can’t do this anymore. But I get to (Central Una Prison) and I come ill in the moment of having this high fever and we capture all this evidence revolving around this. And I think the defining, defining moment after the years of doing this, after experiencing all of this horrific things that you know took a toll on my body, I think it would be honestly to be completely honest, the Exorcist house.

And the only reason I say that is because all these moments, all this experiences lead up to right now where I’m at in my life right now because it opened my eyes and it made me think that something more evil, something more sinister lies out there that we don’t fully understand that can actually linger on your own mental state and really destroy your well being, your own inner soul, your own spirit that’s waling in this body that we’re living right now. And I think that woke me up at the Exorcist house, hearing those voices come through, Diablo, devil.

And then talking to the priest and really opening up my mind because I wasn’t such a religious dude. I was raised as a catholic but you know I think spirituality I’m more spiritual. In that sense, I’m open minded with talking to everybody from all types, all backgrounds. But that defined me to wake me up and say, “I need to calm down with what we’re doing and be more cautious.” And you know put a threshold on where I’m at in my life right now with the way we investigate and stuff.

 

Coordinator:        Our next question is from Tony.

 

Tony:                  Hello guys, it’s good to talk to you again. We’ve talked a few times during the years. I came in a little late so forgive me if somebody’s asked this already. But I know both especially Nick and Zak have kind of had experiences of near possessions and possessions. Did that cause you any you know trepidation in going into the Exorcist house at all because of your own personal experiences?

 

Zak Bagans:       Yes, I think we – this is Zak. You know we were able to relate better to the story. And I think being able to relate better to the story kind of put a more personal touch on the investigation. And in doing that, we wanted to take this investigation as deep as we can go rather than people that just don’t really you know they don’t really connect well with what happened there. And the three of us have.

So like Nick said, a lot of things that we’ve been doing it seems like other forces or even spirits or what not have been kind of guiding us a long to certain locations. And you know these coincidences that we experience and what not it’s almost like these higher powers. But these spirits have been at work to you know create this path for us and lead us to where we’re at.

 

Tony:                  And Nick what about you?

 

Nick Groff:         Yes, I mean possession it’s such a – it’s a weird word that you know has come up with where people say, “oh, he’s possessed.” Sometimes you know when you see us in the moment like you know (unintelligible) Savannah, Georgia and (unintelligible) I was more or less overtaken but something that I didn’t fully understand and my mental state I wasn’t there. I was blacking out. You know but I heard this voice in my head saying, “kill him, kill him.” And then Zak snaps out of it by flashing a light in my face.

There’s moments when you’re overtaken by energies. And then there’s oppression which I think the three of us, Aaron, Zak and myself have gone through. Then there’s you know you get to depression and all this other mental state. And then the severe, the worst one is possession which you know is the case of the boy who was possessed. And you know 40 something priest exercised this boy and stuff. But the story, the case that took place.

And that I think is scary because you’re getting into a state where you just lose yourself period where your soul is gone and you have this demonic entity in you. And that scares me more than anything when we talk about possession and negative energies and this other demonic forces at work here trying to destroy you know positivity in this world that we’re living in.

 

Tony:                  And Aaron, is there any new equipment you’ll be using this year?

 

Aaron Goodwin: Wait, what was exactly the question?

 

Tony:                  Will you be using any new equipment this year?

 

Aaron Goodwin: Oh yes. Oh yes, we got some new equipment. Bill Chapel will be bringing in (unintelligible) and stuff. You’ll see it. This exorcism house, like we’ve been using the Kinect a lot which is an awesome piece of gear because people have it at their home already and they just got to use it. You know and so Bill kind of has something similar and it does all kinds of stuff like you know temperature in the room changes, it’ll show.

Trust me, it’s pretty cool. So we’ve got some good stuff you’ll see.

 

Tony:                  Sounds great, guys. Congratulations on 100 episodes. That’s awesome for any show.

 

Aaron Goodwin: Thank you.

 

Coordinator:        Last question comes from Jonathan.

 

Jonathan:            Hell guys, thanks for taking the time to talk to us.

 

Man:                   Yes, thank you.

 

Jonathan:            You know I had a chance to catch the exorcism house episode right before this press conference. And you know I thought it was really great. In particular what I’ve enjoyed is that over time, you guys have gotten more technologically advanced.

 

Man:                   Right.

 

Jonathan:            And so we’re seeing that not only you know maybe skeptics could say you know (unintelligible) you know audio signal or something like that. But now you have the audio, you have the spirit box, you have the Kinect. So I was just wondering you know with the way technological advances are going and the way you guys keep advancing what you’re using, do you think that you’re going to get to a point soon where you’ll be able to definitively say, “well you know here’s what we found. Here’s you four or five different pieces of proof.”

 

You know finally find something that skeptics can’t you know pick apart.

 

Nick Groff:         You know I think we’re already at that level and you know we live in the digital age. And the advances in technology, I mean you know cell phones and all that kind of stuff. All these updates from the iPhone and all this, it’s just it’s moving so fast it’s almost like us human beings are – are – we can’t keep up with it. But the one thing that the digital age is doing to the paranormal world and especially for us exclusively it’s enabling us to work with inventors and electrical engineers like Bill Chapel and Gary Galka who are so enthused about the world of the paranormal.

And they’re putting their knowledge and education to building and designing this new equipment and modifications to existing equipment. That is really enabling us to take a personal experience and validate scientific data to suggest that there is fluctuations within the environment that are you know in unison to these experiences that are unexplained. And it’s so important for us to separate ourselves from just a television show. We do Ghost Adventures because we love dissecting history.

We love presenting the history of locations. We love to travel. We love to show our personalities and to have fun with each other as friends. And – but the most important there here is is, yes, we are getting more serious about this because we know it’s real. So how can we update and actually further you know put ourselves in a higher pedestal to show our credibility. And that is by using all of these new different scientific pieces of equipment and working with engineers like Bill.

So we appreciate your comments with that. And we feel that the audio that we’re getting now through the SP7 spirit box we have done experiments to you know eradicate the skepticism of radio feedback or things like that by using 2 at one in synchronization simultaneously by showing the wave form and show spirit voices coming through one and not the other. We will let the spirit box just sit there for 3 hours. We’ll not even have a single blip of speck of voice or anything come through.

Then ask a single question, get a response right away. Having environmental data measured while we do these experiments and these voice transmissions to spirits. And it is really, really getting to the level now to where we don’t know what to do. You know it’s like we’re showing this on television but you know should we really be having some more organizations come and witness this stuff. Can we call NASA, can we call the biggest of biggest scientific organizations and just have them sit with us because it’s getting to that level.

The Travel Channel even knows. I send them emails and I’m like, “guys, this just happened what should we do. Should we call NASA? Should we call…” I mean this is getting really, really crazy because the people we’re working with too. And you can hear I’m rambling because I’m excited.

 

Jonathan:            Well, it’s great. Well thank you very much. Congratulations guys on 100 episodes. It’s fantastic.

 

Nick Groff:         Thank you very much.

 

Stephanie DePietro:  Alright, thank you to Zak, Aaron and Nick. And thanks everybody for joining today. Once again, Ghost Adventures airs Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern and Pacific on Travel Channel with a special 2-hour Halloween episode airing on Thursday, October 31 at 9:00 pm Eastern and Pacific. Thanks again.

 

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