"Ghost Adventures" star Zak Bagans is giving his Vegas museum a morbid update ... he's now displaying a letter Christa Pike sent to a pen pal from prison ... plus a lock of her hair.
Zak tells TMZ ... he started displaying Christa's hair and correspondence at his Haunted Museum on Sunday ... and they're inside a real jail cell outfitted with actual bars from a decommissioned prison.
He tells us ... "That is the only place that I feel is appropriate to display items like this. Pike did an absolutely brutal crime."
It sounds like Zak Bagans has another ghost adventure brewing ... this time in the Vegas bunker house he just bought, TMZ has learned.
The "Ghost Adventures" star dropped $4.5 mil on the 16,000-square-foot property, which boasts painted skies, fake landscaping, a pool, and lighting designed to replicate the different hours of the day -- the sprawling home is known as the "Underground Mansion" and has a Cold War luxury bunker hidden nearly three stories beneath an ordinary home.
Apparently, when Zak did a walk-through of the impressive estate, he learned about the bunker's dark history, which was so spooky that some staff refused to go down there alone.
"Ghost Adventures" star Aaron Goodwin learned his wife was trying to make him a ghost while shooting the show ... and the clip airs on today's episode.
It all went down while the 'GA' squad was filming a lockdown investigation for the show. That's when cops contacted Aaron to inform him his wife, Victoria, had been arrested in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot to have him killed.
Watch the video ... Aaron is in the middle of explaining how he takes photos of the room in close to complete darkness, when he checks his phone.
Forget the Ghostbusters ... the MLB should give Zak Bagans a call if the Milwaukee hotel players stay at is indeed haunted -- 'cause the "Ghost Adventures" star tells TMZ Sports he'll rid the place of any ghouls and goblins if they're there!!
Talk of the Cream City's potentially haunted B&B cropped back up again this week ... when Dodgers star Teoscar Hernandez ditched his teammates at the legendary Pfister Hotel over claims the place was jinxed.
Hernandez said his wife had heard all the horror stories of baseball players being toyed with by ghosts at the establishment -- so he had to find other lodging for L.A.'s NLCS road matchups against the Brewers.
Zak Bagans reportedly had an unwanted visitor at his Las Vegas residence ... and we're not talking about one of the paranormal kind.
The "Ghost Adventures" star tells TMZ ... he filed a report with cops claiming a woman went through two security gates and an armed security checkpoint in his neighborhood and attempted to gain access to his home in Sin City.
Weezer bass player Scott Shriner's wife is getting lots of attention for being shot by LAPD officers and getting booked for attempted murder ... but before she got famous for being shot by cops, she shot an episode for Zak Bagans' TV show.
Production sources tell TMZ ... Jillian Lauren Shriner filmed an episode of "Ghost Adventures" back in November at Zak's Haunted Museum in Las Vegas.
We're told the episode was all about serial killer Samuel Little ... Jillian's an expert on the guy because she once wrote a book about him.
Zak Bagans and Holly Madison are breaking up again ... ending their on-and-off romance after six years.
Sources close to the couple tell TMZ ... the two ended their relationship a few weeks ago -- though it's not currently clear what caused the split. The two have unfollowed each other on Instagram as well, so it doesn't seem totally amicable from the outside.
However, we reached out to Bagans, and it seems the couple ended on good terms ... 'cause ZB says, "I wont get into the details, but I’ll just say we have shared so many great memories and fun times. I’ll always have love in my heart for her and wish the very best for her. I’m dating now and moving on.”
"Ghost Adventures" star Aaron Goodwin is showing thanks for all the love and support he's getting after cops arrested his estranged wife for an alleged murder-for-hire plot.
Aaron posted about the arrest Friday for the first time since we broke news of her bust, telling his followers ... "Thank you everyone for all the love and support through this emotionally trying time. It has really helped a lot and I appreciate you all."
We broke the story ... Victoria Goodwin was arrested earlier this month and booked on solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Cops say she was messaging a Florida inmate about getting out of her marriage with Aaron when she allegedly sent the message "Am I a bad person? Because I chose to end his existence. Not divorce."
Police say Victoria and the inmate -- convicted killer Grant Amato -- earmarked a little more than $11,000 to pay for the hit ... and the alleged plot was only discovered when cops found the inmate's contraband phone, which allegedly contained messages with Victoria.
Aaron Goodwin's officially filed to divorce his wife ... not exactly a shock since cops arrested her for allegedly trying to hire someone to kill him.
The "Ghost Adventures" star filed the document Wednesday in Nevada ... asking the court not to award anyone alimony in the case while also requesting to be paid back for attorney's fees.
In light of what's going on, there's really no mystery about the divorce filing ... though it does say Aaron and his estranged wife Victoria's "views, tastes, likes and dislikes" have "become incompatible to the extent that it has become impossible for them to live together as husband and wife."
The Florida inmate who cops say was communicating with the wife of "Ghost Adventures" star Aaron Goodwin as part of her alleged murder-for-hire plot is a convicted killer himself ... TMZ has learned.
Police say Aaron's wife, Victoria Goodwin, hatched a plan to off her husband to get out of her marriage ... and she allegedly enlisted a prisoner named Grant Amato to help her see the diabolical plan through.
Well, we did some digging and discovered Amato is serving a life sentence for a triple murder involving his family. A former nurse, Amato was found guilty in 2019 of fatally shooting his father, mother and brother in their Florida home.
Zak Bagans just bagged some historical artifacts for his famous museum ... a couple of Saddam Hussein's belongings, courtesy of "The Sheriff of Baghdad."
The "Ghost Adventures" star tells TMZ ... retired U.S. Army Special Operations Sergeant Major John "Shrek" McPhee brought him Saddam's hat and sweater all the way from Iraq.
Zak Bagans is planning to take his "Ghost Adventures" team to the famous "Poltergeist" house for his next in-person investigation ... TMZ has learned.
The paranormal expert tells TMZ ... his team will be heading to the Simi Valley, California home -- which was featured heavily in the horror classic -- in mid-November, with plans to investigate some of the spookier aspects of the abode.
Zak says their preliminary research shows the new owner got badly affected by something from inside the house ... and that the homeowner specifically reached out to them in the hope of getting answers.
Zak Bagans is turning up the heat with some paranormal passion, 'cause he's been busy conjuring up the spirit of a haunted brothel's former madam, and he says he captured proof she's still plenty saucy!
TMZ's got a sneak peek of the upcoming "Ghost Adventures" episode where Zak goes to an Ogden, UT brothel and tries to lure its long-deceased madam, named Rose, with a little cold, hard cash -- but what happens next is a historic, and hilarious, first for the series.
As you can see, Zak gets comfy on the bed waiting for Rose's spirit ... but when she quite literally ghosts him, he calls in his fellow paranormal investigator Aaron Goodwin to take his place.
Stormy Daniels is getting trashed by Donald Trump's attorneys for claiming, under oath, she sees dead people, but a veteran ghost hunter says they're barking up the wrong haunted tree ... 'cause he's seen her skills, firsthand.
Here's the deal ... one of the porn star's side hustles is as a paranormal investigator, which came up in court last week as team Trump tried to use it to mock her and discredit her testimony.
David Childers has been in the paranormal field for nearly 30 years, and had a much different take as he watched the trial play out, because he's gone ghost hunting with Stormy on her show, "Spooky Babes" ... and he tells TMZ she's the real deal!
Olvídense de Chucky, Annabelle e incluso M3GAN ... El Museo Embrujado de Zak Bagans tiene una muñeca aparentemente tan poseída que un hombre se desmayó después de encontrarse cara a cara con ella.
La estrella de "Ghost Adventures" le dice a TMZ que al mirar a los ojos de la muñeca Lilly, durante una reciente visita al museo, el hombre se desmayó y se golpeó la cabeza contra el mostrador, y tenemos el escalofriante momento en video.
Zak dice que el hombre recibió atención médica después de recuperar la conciencia y estaba bien, aunque inquietantemente no quiso hablar con nadie después ni mucho menos mirar a ninguno de los empleados del museo.
El hombre rápidamente huyó del lugar y no ha regresado desde entonces.
Un comerciante de antigüedades con sede en Oregón encontró por primera vez a Lilly bajo un viejo baúl de vapor y se la llevó a su casa, donde inmediatamente comenzó a tener pesadillas sobre una niña que moría de forma violenta.
Más tarde, cuando una niña visitó la tienda, le dijo a su madre que tuvo una conversación con "la niña dentro de Lilly, que le dijo que murió de una forma aterradora".
Zak viajó a la tienda para investigar y cuando la mujer que trabajaba detrás del mostrador sacó a Lilly del estante, inmediatamente se retorció de dolor abdominal, diciendo: "Debo lavarme las manos", repetidamente.
Forget Chucky, Annabelle and even M3GAN ... Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum is home to a doll apparently so possessed, a man passed out cold after coming face to face with it.
The "Ghost Adventures" star tells TMZ that upon looking into the eyes of Lilly the doll -- during a recent visit to the museum -- the man fainted and bashed his head on the display stand -- and we've got the chilling moment on camera.
Zak says the man received medical attention after regaining consciousness and was OK -- although, disturbingly, he wouldn't speak to anyone afterward, let alone even look at any of the museum staff.
The man promptly fled the museum and has not returned since.
An Oregon-based antiques dealer first found Lilly under an old steamer trunk -- and took it back to his store where he immediately began having nightmares about a little girl dying a violent death.
Later, when a young girl visited the store, she told her mother she had a convo with "the girl inside of Lilly, who said she died in a scary way."
Zak traveled to the shop to investigate ... and when the woman working behind the counter took Lilly down from the shelf, she immediately doubled over with abdominal pain ... chanting, "I must wash my hands" repeatedly.
