Friday’s all new episode. Zak, Nick, and Aaron will be at Pennhurst State, a school for the developmentally disabled, which was forced to close its doors in 1987 after numerous, heart-wrenching allegations of abuse and neglect.

Catch the episode premiere Friday at 9 PM E/P on the Travel Channel. “Ghost Adventures Live Postmortem,” a recap of last week’s live event, will air at 8pm before the new episode
Pennhurst State became infamous in the 1980s when word spread about the despicable conditions in which the patients were forced to live. Pennhurst was home to more than 3,000 mentally challenged, mentally disabled, and developmentally disabled patients. There are countless claims of abuse. This partly because while the local zoo was spending $7.15 on their animals per day on their wards, Pennhurst could only afford $5.90.

When Zak asked Dr. James Conroy (Co-President of Pennhurst Memorial) if there was ever sexual abuse at the school. Dr. Conroy replied, “Absolutely. Constantly. Every night.”

While the school was opened, there was a deafening sound from thousands of patients screaming. Today the sound of those screams has been replaced with a skin tingling silence. Needless to say, there is enough dark energy in this place to make your hair stand on end.

Ghost Adventures – Pennhurst State


Ghost Adventures Live Postmortem

Halloween is known to be a great joyous holiday where we indulge in parties, dressing up and trick ot treating. This year with the bank account floundering for a lot of Americans, many of us will be spending less on costumes, and fewer of us will be going out. So rather than hitting the local Halloween party, spend Halloween as a Ghost Hunter and tune into the Ghost Adventures 7-hour live event October 30th on the Travel Channel.

This October 30th, Halloween, get a blanket and curl up to 7 LIVE hours of Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel, where Zak Bragan and his gang of Ghost Adventure-ers visit Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. The Ghost Adventures crew are best known as a three-man crew that lock themselves into many of the scariest places in the United States. Wandering around using night vision with various cameras set up. Their main way of ghost hunting and conjuring up activity is through provocation, which is sure to be interesting at the least in a onetime lunatic asylum.

At one time called the Weston State Hospital, this West Virginia facility served as a asylum for the mentally ill in the mid-1800’s. The history of the building holds fascinating accounts of Civil War raids, a gold robbery, the “curative” effects of architecture, and the efforts of determined individuals to help better the lives of the insane. But of all the ghosts to frequent the asylum it’s most famous ghost is Lily.

A little girl born into a life of insanity, having been born and left at Weston State Hospital during the Great Depression, Lilly stays on trapped behind the haunted walls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. She hums and sings, plays with people’s hair, eats boxes of cracker jacks and walks the halls as a lonely little girl. Tune-in to Travel Channel October 30th starting at 8pm eastern when Zak, Nick and Aaron broadcast live from this abandoned hospital live for 7 hours. You’ll be able to get involved with interactive web casts as well as the live broadcast. The tv audience will be able to text and comment in real time.

Travel Channel’s 7-hour Ghost Adventures on October 30th is sure to scare your pants off, and give you a chance to be a real ghost hunter, or at the very least, a chance to make fun of the camera dude that always gets freaked out too quickly.

This has got to be the funnest episode of Ghost adventures ever. Every time I think about it I can’t help but laugh.  The Ghost Adventure crew went to check out reports of haunting at the Old Idaho Penitentiary but were midway up Table Rock when it occurred to host Zak Bagans that there might be snakes snakes in the hills. He proceeded to spend the next several minutes ignoring the fact that a trail leads to the top, and instead, jumped around screaming and being worried about snakes while shouting “Dude” at regular intervals. Bagans then decided to face his fear and actually pick up a good-sized snake, then wondered if it was a rattlesnake (here’s a clue, rattlesnakes usually rattle). He was then perplexed when the snake turned in toward him proclaiming that the experience is just like Indiana Jones.

I don’t know if these guys do some of this stuff just for the comic relief effect or if they are always like this. If they are always like this I’d pay money to be able to watch them all day.

The Ghost Adventures guys Zak, Nick, and Aaron are at Scarefest in Lexington, KY and wanted to take a minute to tell you about their new season starting November 6th

Ghost Adventures will hold a Seven hour Paranormal Investigation of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV On Oct. 30th 2009. You can watch Zak, Nick and Aaron as they lock themselves in one of America’s most haunted locations ever for the most ambitious LIVE paranormal investigation ever attempted.

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (also called Weston State Hospital ) was built during the Civil War, and is the second largest, hand-cut stone building in the US, second only to the Kremlin in the world. For decades its massive walls housed the insane, the neglected and the unwanted. Patient-on-patient violence was common. Inmates were subjected to brutal medical procedures. The asylum was finally shut down for good in 1994 and stands empty today.

Even while operational, there were much reported paranormal activity in the asylum’s two and a half miles of corridors. Visitors were grabbed from behind and dragged into rooms. Mysterious figures darted through walls. Today, those brave enough to venture inside report hearing the incoherent screams of the insane.

Ghost Adventures will have unprecedented access to the entire asylum from the seclusion cells where the most violent patients were shackled to the medical center where hundreds of primitive ice-pick lobotomies were performed. Charles Manson was even once briefly a guest here

As always the team will be padlocked inside the facility, unable to escape as they record their experiences. To aid in their investigation, they will be calling on both paranormal and technical experts.

Viewers at home will have complete access to the investigation on air and online as it occurs. They can monitor webcams throughout the building, chat with the guys during the lockdown, post messages on the bulletin board and send mobile text messages.

You won’t want to miss one minute of this 7-hour LIVE event.

Many unexplained events have been witnessed in this hospital. These events are the things that led individuals to develop the theory that it was a haunted hospital. Now, based on all of the encounters that various guests and employees have experienced, this has been deemed as one of the scariest places on Earth! The following details some of the paranormal events and unexplained phenomenon experienced in the most haunted hospital of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum:
1. There have been several hundred individuals who passed away in this haunted hospital. Many people who have visited the asylum believe that the majority of the souls of these people have been left behind. Conversations, noises of people moving about, and other sounds have been heard throughout this facility in order to confirm this.

2. Many people have claimed that they have seen full and partial body apparitions within the walls of this particular most haunted hospital.

3. People who have visited this hospital have captured ghost pictures and ghost videos that indicate that there is a strong presence in the facility – possibly numerous presences.

The most haunted place in the hospital is the “Stretcher Room” because it’s inhabited by an insane ghost named Joe. Best of luck guys your going to need it.

Ghost Adventures crew is investigating the La Purisima Mission in Lompoc, California this Friday at 9 PM E/P on the Travel Channel. The La Purisima Mission is a former Spanish residence of padres, soldiers and the native Chumash. The area is beautiful, but the air around it is heavy with the tragedy of disease and war. At La Purisima, the sounds of flutes and the voices of the long-gone inhabitants are reported to still linger. Trapped within its white-washed walls, the spirits seem bound to this land, forever locked in their struggle with each other.

This week, Zak, Nick and Aaron are headed to Florida for an unforgettable investigation of the Castillo de San Marcos. Catch this all new episode Friday June 12th at 9 PM E/P. Below are some episode details and an extended sneak peak preview.

The Castillo de San Marcos was built in the 1600s by Spanish settlers in St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in America. More than 300 years later, the fort is still defended by the spirits of soldiers and haunted by the prisoners once locked inside its walls.

Ghost Adventures kicks of this Friday June 5th at 9 PM E/P on the Travel Channel. The team is back with all new lock-downs in some of the scariest, most notorious haunted locations in the world.

This week, Zak, Nick and Aaron head to Ione, Calif., for an investigation in a condemned building known as Preston Castle. The castle has a dark history as a former reformatory that housed angry juvenile offenders and abandoned children. It is the sight of an unsolved murder, countless instances of corporal punishment, and the scene of many tragic deaths due to ravaging epidemics. The crew definitely has their hands full in this episode with the aggressive ghosts that are trapped within the confines of Preston Castle.

Ghost Adventures is the best “ghost” show on TV here’s a little about the crew.

Zak Bagans

Host and Lead Investigator

Ghost Adventures heads to Preston Castle for the first episiode of season 2. This site’s most famous ghosts  are that of Samuel Goins and Anna Corbin who were murdered inside Preston Castle. 16 other people from when this was a Preston School and a few of them haunt the grounds as well.

I hope the ghost adventures crew visit the Preston cemetery because a ghost named Ike who is the strongest ghost at Preston Castle lives there. I really beleive if they go in search of Ike they may actually catch a ghost on film.