Chasing Spirits: The Building of the "Ghost Adventures" Crew (29 page)

www.unknownmagazine.com

The home page of psychic medium Chris Fleming. Chris joined us on the
Ghost Adventures
live episode and is a great resource for the psychic side of the paranormal.

www.paranormalpopculture.com

The site of pop culture columnist Aaron Sagers. He examines all aspects of how the paranormal influences popular culture and vice versa.

www.coasttocoastam.com

A nightly radio show that examines all aspects of the paranormal and the unusual. For decades this show has been among the first to examine what others have thought was impossible.

paranormal.about.com

Paranormal guide Stephen Wagner has a huge stockpile of information on ghosts, hauntings, and many other aspects of the paranormal.

www.skeptic.com

Founded by Dr. Michael Shermer,
Skeptic
magazine examines the other side of the paranormal debate: those who don’t believe. Well worth reading—you may find your perspective broadened, but maybe you’ll find some paranormal evidence that can hold up to the magazine’s claims.

NICK GROFF
has been fascinated with the paranormal since childhood—growing up in a haunted house will do that to you. Ever since his own near-death experience as a kid, Nick has been chasing ghosts for most of his life. As an adult, he’s made a career out of investigating the supernatural. In addition to being one of the investigators and an executive producer for
Ghost Adventures
, Groff has worked as a director and editor. After graduating from the University of Nevada with a BA in film, Groff worked his way through the production side of television, editing projects for networks like FOX, BET, MTV, and MTV-2. He was an actor and technician for the feature film
Primo
that screened at Sundance, and he cowrote, directed, produced, and edited the feature film
Malevolence
that screened at the prestigious CineVegas Film Festival.

Photo by Veronique Groff

In 2007, Groff had his big break when he cowrote, coproduced, codirected, coedited, and costarred in
Ghost Adventures:
The Original Documentary
, which aired on the SciFi Channel in 2007 and 2008. The film was a winner at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for “Best Feature Film” at the Eerie Horror Film Festival. The documentary led to the creation of
Ghost Adventures
, the television series that debuted on the Travel Channel in 2008 and is now in its sixth season; the show is now syndicated in eight countries. Groff is also the executive producer of the Travel Channel show
Vegas Stripped
.

Groff makes the rounds on the media circuit. He’s been interviewed on the
Today
show,
Maury
, CNN, Howard Stern, many network affiliates, and numerous radio programs.

Connect Online

www.WhoSay.com/NickGroff

twitter.com/NickGroff_

www.youtube.com/NickGroffVlogs

www.groffentertainment.com

nickgroff-1.tumblr.com

JEFF BELANGER
is one of the most visible and prolific paranormal researchers today. He is a series writer and researcher for the
Ghost Adventures
series on the Travel Channel.

Belanger is the author of a dozen books on the paranormal (published in six languages), including
The World’s Most Haunted Places
,
Our Haunted Lives
, and
Weird Massachusetts
. He’s the founder of Ghostvillage.com, one of the Web’s most popular paranormal destinations, and a noted lecturer on the subject of the unexplained, appearing at dozens of conferences,
colleges, universities, and events each year.

Belanger is also the host of the weekly cable/Web talk show
30 Odd Minutes
. He has written for newspapers like the
Boston Globe
and has been a guest on hundreds of radio and television programs, including the History Channel, the Travel Channel, PBS, NECN, Living TV (UK),
Maury
,
CBS Sunday Morning
, CBS’s
The Early Show
, network affiliates, National Public Radio, BBC, Australian Radio Network, and
Coast to Coast AM
.

Photo by Bleu Cotton Photography

CONNECT ONLINE

www.jeffbelanger.com

www.ghostvillage.com

twitter.com/THEJeffBelanger

My nose has a cut on it from being adventurous.

The childhood doll my aunt used to freak me out when I was five.

Me, age eighteen, and Veronique, age seventeen, at our junior prom on the Spirit of Boston boat.

The Washoe Club exterior, Virginia City, Nevada. An extremely scary location for me personally and where we captured a full-body apparition on a static night vision camera I set up in the ballroom. Where it all started for us during the documentary.

Getting ready to enter the sewer drain and look for the entrance to Bobby Mackey’s well to the basement.

Entering the sewer drain in search of the passageway to Bobby Mackey’s well in the basement of the building.

Me wearing a hospital air mask at Essex County Hospital because the air quality was so poor. Deep underground in the tunnel systems.