Zak Bagan and his “Ghost Adventures” crew are used to being intimidated by shadow figures, apparitions, disjointed voices and things that shouldn’t move but do. But his latest investigation at Los Padrinos Juvenile in Downey, Calif., left him traumatized for weeks afterward and fears the place was driving him insane.
“Was it the playground of the mad, or was the devil invited into it?” Gardeners asked about the location of the new 2-hour special Discovery+, “Whatever is here has built a nest that is harboring evil spirits, demons, inhuman entities. This place was known as Devil’s Den.”
Watch the teaser for “Ghost Adventures: Devil’s Den” in the video above.
As Bagan and his team – Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolly and Jay Wasley – approached the detention center with barbed wire fences around them, they said they felt violence, pain and torture shooting from the ground and into their bodies. can do. “Brace yourself,” he said as the locks of the abandoned prison were broken.
As the investigation began, there was a drastic change in his and Tolly’s personality. The gardeners got a look of anger in his eyes, he rested his back on a wall and rubbed it hard with one hand. The crew became concerned about him and Tolly, worried that something was driving them crazy there.
“There was a point when I was really upset; I lost time I don’t remember going from point A to point B and it scared me,” Bagans told TheWrap. “And it was weird — when I was fighting by myself and fighting with Jay, I didn’t know that Aaron and Billy, they both never fight, you know, they’re both getting ready to be thrown down.” Were. Billy is the best man in the world, and he was getting ready to take Aaron out. We just wanted to kill each other. It was incredibly upsetting.”
Where other investigations always uncovered physical evidence of the existence of the paranormal (and that too happened in Devil’s Den), it was the psychological toll it took on everyone involved that made this bar different. Whatever was on his mind, it was not only disturbing for him, but also a disturbing experience for the audience to watch.
A former prisoner was brought in to talk about his time in the lockup. But her memories of the cruelty were not what frightened her so much – it was the evil she felt seeping through the walls and how it got into her head that traumatized her. Every moment she, Ned, is on camera sharing, her emotional and psychological pain can literally be felt.
“Once we started talking with the former prisoner and we saw the emotion on this guy’s face, I was in shock, you know?” Bagan said. “And I kept asking him, ‘Look, are you just crying because of your time in prison, like it was a bad time in your life, or are these feelings from the things that happen to you from the spiritual side of things? Were you?” And a lot of it was the spiritual side of things. We really weren’t ready for it. It was powerful. And I don’t think there was a more disturbing psychological investigation than this place.”
The team often visits the same place several times to find more evidence of the ghosting. This will not happen with Devil’s Den. “A lot of times people ask me, is there a place you will never go back to? Well, Bobby McKay is one of them,” Bagan said. “I have to add this to the list because it really weighed on me. When I came home very violent thoughts were running through my mind. very bad thoughts. And I knew that was not me. And it stayed with me for a long time. This one weighed on me. And it took a toll on me later, for a few weeks, maybe even longer. ,
“This place will leave a mark on all of us forever. It is one of the most powerful energies we have ever dealt with on any investigation. There are inhuman entities that have affected this place, they are still here,” said Bagan.
“I don’t want to go back.”
“Ghost Adventures: Devil’s Den” premieres Thursday, September 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the Travel Channel and will be streaming on Discovery+.