It turns out you're not alone in wondering about the answer to this question, which was recently posed to the man himself by dreadcentral.com, while Bagens and the rest of the "Ghost Adventures" crew were on location in Las Vegas filming the next season of Travel Channel's hit paranormal show, set to debut September 24.
However, much like the paranormal activity that the TV host and author seeks to capture for reality television, we found the facts surrounding Mr Bagens' own activities and lifestyle to be somewhat elusive and tricky to pin down.
We do know that in May 2014, the proclaimed skeptic-turned-ghosthunter paid $2.1 million for a secluded two-story, five-bedroom home in the exclusive Boulder Ridge community, with views of the "spiritual" Red Rock Conservation Area. Eighteen months later, the property was back on the market for $2.5 million, with Bagens citing his "nomadic" personality and constant need for change as the reason behind the seemingly rapid change of heart. It's unclear whether it sold or if the property's still on the market.
As to a possible museum, we confess that your question was the first we'd heard about the project, which Zak Bagens apparently first introduced in the debut episode of "Deadly Possessions," one of the many "Ghost Adventures" spinoffs. It premiered on Travel Channel April 2 and featured the stories behind various "haunted" or "possessed" items, taken from the host's growing personal collection and with which he planned to fill a museum somewhere in downtown Las Vegas. However, only four episodes of Deadly Possessions appear to have aired and the future of the show, or any possible second season, seems highly questionable.
Whether the museum has any substance remains to be seen, but in a story reminiscent of the "haunted" Nile River attraction originally at the Luxor, in his April "DreadCentral" interview, Bagens revealed that the unidentified building that was to house it, and which dates from 1938, evidently is itself haunted and was the scene of some occurrence that caused the specialist construction team he'd imported from Los Angeles to flee the building on foot, never to return.
In the morass of current construction delays around town, we'll at least give Bagens credit for coming up with the most novel excuse for the reason why any work on his own project "has slowed a bit...resulting in a delay in opening the museum to the public." The teams behind Alon and Resorts World should be relieved that their problems seem to reside in the practical world of finance and do not involve wrestling with supernatural forces.
For now, that's about all we can tell you on the museum front; if anyone out there has any additional information they can share, we encourage them to do so!
