'Ghost Adventures' Star Zak Bagans Shares 5 Most Haunted Places in L.A.
- Julius Miller
- Oct 28, 2023
- 3 min read
Ghost Adventures first launched back in 2008 on the Travel Channel, before eventually calling Discovery+ home in 2021. The show was an instant hit, with paranormal investigation crew members Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, and, formerly, Nick Groff, captivating audiences across the globe while investigating truly haunted houses.
In its 26 seasons and 15 years on television, the crew has visited some of the most cursed sites across the country, from Bobby Mackey's Music World to the Eastern State Penitentiary. Inevitably, Bagans, Goodwin, Bill Tolley, and Jay Wasley have been all around Los Angeles—a nearly 250-year-old city—looking for ghosts and ghouls of the past.
Los Angeles magazine tapped lead investigator Bagans to share his picks of the most haunted spots in the City of Angels.
The Cecil Hotel
“The mystery surrounding Elisa Lam, and the haunting details of her death, is just terrifying. Plus, Richard Ramirez and another serial killer lived at The Cecil Hotel for a time. The number of suicides and jumping deaths - there's just an overall powerful nuclear reactor of dark, dark uncomfortable energy that just permeates that building. There are not many places like that in the entire country.
When you're inside of that building, you can feel it, even if you're not prone to having a sensitivity to any type of spirits. You can feel that there's just something there. It’s as if the dead still reside there and the spirits there cause a lot of bad things to occur to you and your mindset.”
L.A. General Hospital
“We just recently did an investigation there - it was once considered the largest hospital in the entire country. It saw hundreds of thousands of deaths. Walking through there, it's abandoned right now and it's like people just got up and left. It's a very haunting experience in and of itself to walk the halls. But you can hear the screams, the pain, the anguish of every individual person that came through there.
Because of how massive it is and how much death was within those walls, it's a terrifying experience to be in that particular building. We captured some really incredible evidence there.”
Los Feliz Murder Mansion
“A very strange murder took place there - a murder-suicide. A doctor killed his wife and then tried to kill his child. The circumstances around that don't make a lot of sense - how he would go insane, how they found a copy of Dante's Inferno opened up next to his body. Was he being affected by something in that particular house?
A very, very haunted place where we captured some incredible evidence. We used high-end technology, including a LiDAR scanner. Even the people that work for the company couldn't explain some of the visual findings that we captured within the home.”
Heritage Square Museum
“The museum has several different Victorian houses and it's a very eerie neighborhood where you go through a big, iron gate. There was a particular house in there - the Octagon House - that was the center of all of the activity there.
The person that built the house had a lot of mysterious things happen to him and his son. During our investigation, it was a very, very active place where we captured a large amount of activity.”
Hotel Barclay
“This hotel was straight out of a horror film. It was semi-abandoned, with only a handful of residents there. One of the residents that moved out because of the activity said that mysterious fires would occur and there was a spirit in her room throwing stuff all around. We captured these black, dark masses on our cameras that were left running overnight.
Again, just absolutely incredible activity. This would be Hotel Cecil's evil brother. These two hotels ran very eerie parallels with one another.”
GHOST ADVENTURES airs on Wednesdays at 9 PM on Discovery Channel.
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