Characters
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Zak Bagans
- Gender:
- Male
- Age:
- 33
- Orientation:
- Straight
Zachary Alexander "Zak" Bagans (born on April 4, 1977, in Washington, D.C.) is the lead investigator and host of the series Ghost Adventures. Having previously worked as a wedding DJ, he is also an executive producer and editor of the show. Zak is the founder of the Ghost Adventures Crew (GAC), a worldwide community of paranormal investigators. He currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Once a former skeptic, Zak says that his passion for investigating the paranormal resulted from a face-to-face encounter with the spirit of a suicidal woman who haunted his old apartment building in Trenton, Michigan in 2002. Afterward, his life-changing experience caused him to actively pursue capturing video evidence of the afterlife.
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Nick Groff
- Gender:
- Male
- Age:
- 30
- Orientation:
- Straight
Nick Groff (born on April 19, 1980, in San Jose, California) is a co-investigator and cameraman on the series. He is also an executive producer and editor of the show. Groff is also the co-founder of the GAC. He and his wife, and baby daughter Annabelle currently reside in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nick's fascination and curiosity of the paranormal began since childhood, during which he had experienced phenomena that he could not explain. When he was 8, he saw a figure on an old cul-de-sac on Lancaster Road in Salem, New Hampshire. After graduating from Pelham High School, Nick studied film at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Following college, he became a ghost hunter. After Nick met and befriended Zak during his wedding in Las Vegas, the two partnered with mutual interests to investigate the paranormal. Recently, Nick and his wife had a baby girl named Annabelle Groff.
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Aaron Goodwin
- Gender:
- Male
- Age:
- 34
- Orientation:
- Straight
Aaron Goodwin (born on April 1, 1976, in Oregon) is an equipment technician, camera operator, and a co-investigator on the series. In need of a cameraman for their documentary, Zak and Nick first met and hired Aaron in Las Vegas to assist them with primary filming and B-roll taping. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the episode "Return to Bobby Mackey's" of season 4, Zak asked Aaron if he believes that their first investigation of the nightclub in the first season affected his personal life. Aaron answered that he was "80 percent" sure that the effects of the investigation ended his marriage. He said that he and his ex-wife had nightmares that were related to Bobby Mackey's Music World and spoke of how these nightmares affected their relationship. Aaron also had indicated that his former wife would report to him, that she was being attacked by something evil, while Aaron was on the road. According to that series of statements, Aaron indicated that while his ex-wife and he remain best friends, they did end their marriage in an effort to remove her from being affected.
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Sarah Knight
- Gender:
- Female
- Age:
- 27
- Orientation:
- Straight
Sarah grew up in Sinclair Wyoming (Born on March 28th, 1983) in an old home that her parents had moved into before she was born. It always seemed that she was never alone but always just pushed it off. Once she had become friends with Nikkie though, and had been pulled into doing their own lockdowns, she took Nikkie back to her parents house and they got quite a bit of amazing evidence there. A few times getting her name or something about her and then a few things about Nikkie as well. Just like Nikkie she works in a grocery store during the day, and goes on the hunts/lockdowns once night hits.
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Nikkie Rodriquez
- Gender:
- Female
- Age:
- 25
- Orientation:
- Straight
Nikkie lived in Rawlins, Wyoming her entire life. She's always had a fascination with the paranormal. She's had her own experiences before actually taking the initiative to go do her own investigations. She'd take some different people with her at points until she met Sarah. After that the two have been very close. They even became roommates and have always been fans of the show Ghost Adventures. All they want to do with their lives is hunt for spirits.
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Isaac Choi
- Gender:
- Male
- Age:
- 28
- Orientation:
- Straight
Isaac was born in Seoul, South Korea. He moved to the U.S. after he was four years old with his family. He got interested in the paranormal when he was around seventeen. He seen his grandparents spirits some how. They had all past far before he was even born. Then on his twenty-seventh birthday Ghost Adventures held a contest for a new team member. He had entered and some how managed to win. Since then he's been traveling with them. So far he's able to live out one of his biggest dreams.