Personality

Zak is a gentle, calm and mysterious guy who likes to make jokes and can sometimes be a big flirt. Zak doesn't have a girlfriend. Zak likes to train in the gym and the majority of the time you will find him wearing dark black clothes. 

Although Zak is a gentle guy, he can be very aggressive towards bad spirits during his investigations. He's very tall and muscular with a heavy voice where you shouldn't mess with.He keeps his house very dark because he likes that. 

Zak is a huge animal lover and has a dog that he rescued called Gracie. He claims that a dog is a pure soul and that the soul of his dog will cleanse his own soul after an investigation. Zak also creates his own songs about the paranormal and he was once a former DJ.

Background

Zak is the host and lead investigator for a TV shows called Ghost Adventures, He is also the founder of the Ghost Adventures Crew (GAC).

Zak began his quest into the paranormal after he came face-to-face with the spirit of a suicidal woman who haunted his old apartment building in Trenton, Michigan. This life-changing encounter was the reason that he started gathering evidence of the paranormal to create a documentary. This award-winning documentary began Zaks success in television.

Hunting ghosts is the passion for Zak as he shows true emotions in his investigations and he also has taken a great interest in a scientific-approach to obtain evidence. In the beginning, he often let other investigators or analyzers analyse their evidence, but as the show grew, they developed their own technology to analyze the evidence they got.

Zak also set together with his friend (ex?) Nick Groff the foundation for the Ghost Adventures Crew, one of the largest Paranormal Organizations in the world with approximately 500 other paranormal societies as their official members or even more.

Using a self-described religious, scientific, and emotional approach, Zak is known and criticized for his aggressive and confrontational methods used during investigations, however, he respects the afterlife and only provokes evil entities in order to elicit responses. He doesn't want the public perceiving him as the taunting, provocative ghost hunter. He does that only to the bad spirits who he knows are attacking the living. 

After his documentary Demon House, Zak gained a serious eye condition which made him see double and he was forced to wear special glasses. He sometimes still sees double, even with his glasses, but not as bad as before. He has been to several doctors and they all couldn't explain what was the cause of his double vision. He had the choice to do surgery and he was going to do it, but after hearing that there was a 50% chance of becoming totally blind, he refused to do surgery.

Trivia

• Zak has seven tattoos- Dracula's Cross on his right wrist, a Celtic cross on his left arm, a winged skull on his back, and unknown others. He also wears a black ring with a cross on his right forefinger and he often wears a necklace.
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• In 2017, Zak opened a museum called Zak Bagans The Haunted Museum. He placed all kinds of haunted objects in there that he collected over the years while he filmed Ghost Adventures. Fans can see these objects during a tour.
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• Zak created a documentary called Demon House. It took him 3 years to film there and complete the documentary because the energy of the house that he was filming was so demonic and overwhelming that he couldn't go there every day to collect evidence. This house affected his whole crew, including himself, leaving him with a serious eye condition that made him see in double vision.
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• Zak underwent an exorcism during a paranormal investigation at Bobby Mackey's Music World.
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• Zak stopped one of his investigations at the Winchester Mystery House due to feelings of grief and sadness, which later tied to the death of his grandmother. These feelings occurred at the same time his grandmother passed away.

Likes and Dislikes

Aaron

Best Friend

Aaron is Zaks best friend! He has such a goofy soul, which allows him and Zak to have so much fun together. Aaron is Zak's right hand man, especially in their paranormal investigations. He was once just the camera man for the show but has moved up and is a big investigator. Zak loves to push Aaron to his highest standards. Undesired by Aaron, Zak will make him go into haunted rooms first. The big well known thing is that Zak enjoys locking Aaron into dark scary rooms himself to investigate. Aaron and Zak definitely butt heads!

Gracie

Beloved Pet Dog

Zak adopted Gracie as a pup from the Las Vegas Humane Society! She is absolutely love this girl and he adores her with every part of his being. Gracie is totally spoiled by Zak and would love to be by his side every second as possible. She has accompanied Zak on some of his ghost investigations and will sometimes go with him to his haunted museum. Gracie is Zaks heart and soul and he couldn't ask for a better dog

Posty

Good Friend