Nope, Zak kind of became a star just as he was finishing his education. Zak does not have a story of struggling to make it, of not being taken seriously, of working at Netflix or as an assistant location manager before finally getting his big break. When they got home, they cobbled the footage together and submitted it to the New York International Film and Video Festival. They filmed a mist, and a ghost threw a brick at them in the basement. To make the film, they visited a creepy hotel in Tonopah and another creepy hotel in Virginia City. In Zak's autobiography ' Dark World: Into the Shadows with the Lead Investigator of the Ghost Adventures Crew,' he writes about teaming up with Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin as students to shoot a film about ghost hunting in the haunted mining towns of Nevada. So it does seem like 'believing in ghosts' has kind of been a lifelong thing for him. In another incident, a girl he didn't know used a Ouija board to tell him intimate details about his life. The house drifted in and out of reality, and then the door opened and a spooky figure appeared. And he also told the Daily Herald that when he was a teenager, he went in search of a phantom house and actually found it. In his autobiography, ' Dark World: Into the Shadows with the Lead Investigator of the Ghost Adventures Crew,' Zak recalls watching some bizarre apron-clad mouse-demon thingy trash his bedroom while he was a small child. In fact, according to his own 'about' page on the Zak Bagans Haunted Museum's website, he's been interested in the paranormal since he was 10 when he used to buy scary stuff at yard sales with his mom. If you look back into Zak's childhood, it's pretty clear he's kind of always had a thing for the paranormal. Well, it turns out that opening line might have been a bit fictionalized.

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