Scarefest 2009 in Lexington has been a spooktacular time so far. The guy who played Pinhead from Hellraiser is here, along with Elfie from Paranormal State and my favorite paranormal experts the guys from Ghost Adventures. This has gotta start being a yearly tradition for me The Evil Dead: The Musical booth was the best one by far and everyone knows how I feel about Chip Coffey so I was kinda sad to see Chip survive that scary zombie clown at Scarefest. Just kidding Chip LOL.
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.
Host and Lead Investigator
Bagans, along with his paranormal investigation team, travels to both domestic and international locations rumored to be haunted in search of evidence proving the existence of the supernatural.
After graduating from film school in Michigan, Zak moved to Las Vegas to pursue a career in documentary filmmaking. There he met “Ghost Adventures” co-host Nick Groff and cameraman Aaron Goodwin. Their first paranormal investigations as a team took place all over Nevada, and the footage they captured led to an award-winning, nationally-televised “Ghost Adventures” documentary.
Nick Groff
Investigator
With his detecting equipment and an expertise gained through experience, Groff will be locked in some of the most sinister locations from dusk to dawn to investigate and capture evidence of the paranormal.
Bagans and Groff co-founded the paranormal organization Ghost Adventures Crew (GAC). Its members support one another’s quest to investigate possible paranormal activity first hand. Their biggest event to date was held at the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada.
Goodwin travels to both domestic and international locations alongside his paranormal investigation team in order to prove the existence of the supernatural.
An Oregon native, Aaron moved to Las Vegas where he fell in love with film and taught himself how to edit and operate a camera. Aaron gained experience by working as a cameraman on numerous TV shows over the past nine years. He has worked on projects ranging from red carpet movie premieres to sporting events. Filming is a passion for Aaron, and he’s always armed with a camera.<
The webisode chronicles the return of Zak, Nick, and Aaron to the setting for one the most intense lockdowns to date. Purported to be the portal to hell, Bobby Mackey’s Music World has a dark past that includes unrequited love, murder, and satanic rituals. Their first visit was a warning, this time the spirits mean business.
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.
Can’t wait for Season 2 of Ghost Adventures check out this footage of Ghost Adventures on Maury Povich Show. The seen where the ghost throws a brick at Zak is one of the most compelling pieces of video evidence ever filmed. I however find it rather funny that the Ghost Adventures crew would jump out a window to get away when that was what they were there to film in the first place. Ghost Adventures Rules!!
Can’t get enough of Zak, Aaron and Nick? Good news Season 2 of Ghost Adventures starts June ’09 Travel Channel! Til then check out the guy’s myspace page and make them your friend.
http://www.myspace.com/ghostadventures
