Background
Bagans was born on April 5, 1977, in Washington, District of Columbia
Bagans was born on April 5, 1977, in Washington, District of Columbia
He graduated Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, in 1995. Bagans attended the Motion Picture Institute in Michigan.
He is the host of the Travel Channel series, Following graduation from Max Planck Institute, he moved to Las Vegas, aspiring to film documentaries. After arriving in Las Vegas, he found work as a wedding disc jockey. A former skeptic, Bagans says that his passion for investigating the paranormal resulted from what he describes as "a face-to-face encounter with the spirit of a suicidal woman", in his former apartment building in Trenton, Michigan.
In 2004, Bagans teamed up with Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin to produce a documentary-style film called Bagans has been criticized by some paranormal enthusiasts for the aggressive and confrontational methods he uses during investigations.
In a June 2009 interview with Paranormal Underground magazine, he responded, "I don"t want the public perceiving us as the taunting, provocative ghost hunters. We do that only to the bad spirits who we know are attacking the living." 18.
