“Ghost Adventures” star Zak Gardens begins 20 years ago with visions of a little boy who finds a miniature diorama circus tent that enters another dimension, where the terrifying clowns and the spirits of the departed live. When it came time for the Travel Channel to brainstorm ideas about doing something cool for Halloween and search+ Including his haunted museum in Las Vegas, he felt it was the right time to cast his eyes on the film. And, thus, the “3 Ring Inferno” was born.
“I don’t know where this idea came from. In my life, weird things happen that I can’t explain,” he laughed. “You know, the cards are dealt to me and the people who deal those cards are not of flesh and blood – they are spirits.”
Visions began to appear in the gardens in 2002, when he was in film school and when he began having paranormal experiences. He used to talk with people about what he was seeing in his head, not knowing what the scenes meant, where they were coming from or what to do with them. What he did know, however, was that someday, somehow he had to make a movie.
Fifteen years later, he opened the Haunted Museum. When he bought the building and walked through it for the first time, he already knew what each room was going to be like, just like he had this museum before. “And then these five rooms are going to be for an old circus,” he told TheWrap. A short time later, he came across an old circus diorama and then a costume worn by a famous clown who was performing with the Ringling Brothers and the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1944, when a fire broke out that killed 167 people and 700 people. more injured.
“Then I had this vision as if this clown was talking to me to put the clown’s costume under the diorama, where there is a red tent, like my previous sightings, so the spirit of this clown performing in the circus fire would do. May live in this miniature world of diorama with all these other people,” said Bagan.
The gardens read over the fire and thought, “It’s a little subtle to them. That’s it, they can exist in the portal of this diorama. The clown is there. Everything’s fine. And as soon as I put that clown’s costume under him.” Weird things started happening in the funny house I built. And it all came together.”
He’s gone. “Like this was a movie that was put together a long time ago. I had to get this Joker costume. I had to get this diorama — and then I got a call with Ellie and Cream Productions,” Bagans told horror film maestro Eli Roth. About, with whom he has collaborated on several projects for the Travel Channel and Discovery+ and is executive producer on “The Haunted Museum.”
“I was like, ‘Guys, I have a really powerful story I need to tell you about.’ And I talked to him about the beginning of this idea, how I got these items, how this clown feeling was really like, ‘Put my clown costume under the diorama, and when I did that, I felt this rush. , just calm down like, ‘Okay. There’s more work that had to be done.'”
After doing some research, Bagan learned that the man who allegedly started the fire was being asked to do so by some sort of “dark demonic entity with flames coming out of his head.”
“It’s just one more puzzle piece to my crazy paranormal puzzle,” Bagan said. “I don’t know what happens when I complete the puzzle or if it ever ends.”
“The Haunted Museum: 3 Ring Inferno” premieres October 31 at 9 pm on Travel Channel and will be streaming on Discovery+. Watch the exclusive clip of the film above.
