Quotes from Zak Bagans

I am not a psychic medium. I am a sensitive.

We humans absorb a lot of negativity in this world, but dogs are pure joy.

The best part of my job is being able to travel to places to investigate powerful stories, many of which contains unsolved mysteries and deaths. To me as a documentarian and paranormal investigator, this puts the adventure in my life and meaning to my job.

Before you begin a paranormal investigation, the most important criteria you need to gather is the back history of the location.

People aren't quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.

When you feel a ghost, most people will feel chills - you're feeling the energy.

I love a good ghost story, and I love to just get in there and really just find the truth behind these stories.

I used to live in an old historic shipyard town called Trenton, Michigan, and a month after I moved in, I started hearing this woman screaming my full name at three in the morning, every night. Finally, on the seventh or eighth night, she screamed it again, and I woke up.

I'm a collector of carvings. I love old, wooden, grotesque Gothic pieces, anything that has cherubs on it, satyrs and carved angels.

I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.

I think that everybody should go out there and test their curiosity, find a haunted place.

When you ghost hunt, you kind of time travel: you get that residue of the past.

I have realized that when you rescue your pet from a shelter, it is the most amazing feeling in the world how this animal changes your life by giving it a better one.

For me, Halloween is year-round. But my Halloween is the real Halloween - dealing with the real dead.

Whenever I traveled abroad and went into these old cathedrals and churches, I would feel so peaceful.

I believe if you believe in something or, let's take for instance you go into a demonic location and you have a lot of fear: that fear within your body, within your mind, is like chum in water attracting a shark. They feed off our emotions. These demons also will influence and inflict malice into a living person because that's how they feed.

Something happened to me at the precise moment that my grandmother died. She was three time zones away, but that didn't matter. I believe that I felt something at that moment she passed... some bit of her mortality slipping away.

I've had some very close encounters with the other side. They chose me to do this - I was doing this all before a TV show. They chose me to communicate with them; they chose my path as a paranormal.

Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.

I have a possessive female spirit. I was also told I have a demonic attachment. They make me sick. They make me agitated.

Spirits want to be heard. That's why they're not at rest.

I've been overexposed to so much energy - not just ghosts and spirits but residual energy - overexposing myself to locations where bad things have happened and to levels of electro-geometric energy.

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.

I'm helping the living by letting them know the spirits are here talking to us. And helping the dead by giving them a platform.