Zak Bagans

“We humans absorb a lot of negativity in this world, but dogs are pure joy.”

“It's not my job to force people to believe things.”

“I want to be taken out of our material world and experience something that is in another dimension.”

“Yeah, I do enjoy having chaos in my life.”

“I absorb and sense energies around me at a very high level. Whether it's from living people, residual energy, objects or from spirits. I've been like this my entire life.”

“Some of these spirits that are intelligent can harm you.”

“When you feel a ghost, most people will feel chills - you're feeling the energy.”

“I am intrigued by the darkness.”

“When you ghost hunt, you kind of time travel: you get that residue of the past.”

“I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.”

“The idea behind 'NecroFusion' came about when Praga Khan of Lords of Acid contacted me after I started making a bunch of Twitter posts about how big a fan I was. Lords of Acid was my favorite band in high school, and Praga is a true pioneer of that style of electronic music.”

“I've been on investigations where a spirit is channeling through me, and I have extreme changes in my emotions - anger, sadness, confusion. Then I begin seeing visions that are not mine. They are theirs. There is no trace of time. My body goes stiff, numb, cold. Then, when the spirit leaves, I can barely stand and speak.”

“People don't understand that Las Vegas is such a small community, beyond the tourists who visit here. If you've lived here for a long time, you know everybody.”

“Spirits want to be heard. That's why they're not at rest.”

“I had a full exorcism performed on me from an archbishop.”

“I'm not the most normal type of person there is.”

“The Internet has become a breeding ground for the paranormal and being able to share evidence. I mean, there are ghost-hunting apps for your iPhone.”

“People aren't quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.”

“I collect a lot of cursed objects. That's probably why I have a lot of problems.”

“I believe if you believe in something or, let's take for instance you go into a demonic location and you have a lot of fear: that fear within your body, within your mind, is like chum in water attracting a shark. They feed off our emotions. These demons also will influence and inflict malice into a living person because that's how they feed.”