'Ghost Adventures: Quarantine' Episode 1: Zak Bagans encounters Kevorkian's patients and a dead Hollywood star
After the World Health Organization officially declared Covid-19 a pandemic, Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum, located in Las Vegas, was shut down in adherence to the guidelines implemented by the state. However, just before it was closed to the public, the management at the museum reported a slew of activity occurring among the patrons that dropped by for a guided tour.
On March 30, Bagans, along with crewmates Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley from his famed Travel Channel television show ' Ghost Adventures', decided to take one new adventure. While the rest of the world quarantined themselves at home and switched to working remotely, the foursome decided to do the same but with a little twist. They quarantined themselves in the Haunted Museum for 10 days, all by themselves and fully equipped with the necessary tech for their paranormal investigation, to film a four-part special while looking into the hauntings that had occurred prior to its closing.
With panic, stress and fear from the pandemic spreading through the country setting in, Bagans wanted to see how this could potentially affect their paranormal investigations. The crew comes to grips with fear and isolation, as they quarantine themselves behind the locked doors of the most haunted building they have ever stepped foot in. Titled 'Quarantine: Perimeter of Fear', in the first episode of the special coronavirus edition the crew will focus on the investigation of the Jack Kevorkian Van Room and the Jack Kevorkian Office. Furthermore, in a real-life 'The Conjuring'-esque scenario, the team will gather all the haunted dolls that they house in the museum — Peggy, Lily, Gretchen and Cynthia — in a room and attempt to summon the spirits that haunt them.
Dr Jack Kevorkian
Dr Jack Kervokian was a medical pathologist who carried out about 130 assisted suicides of his terminally-ill patients between 1990 and 1998. He came to national recognition amid his trial and conviction and the drama he had stirred surrounding euthanasia. He was nicknamed "Dr Death" and assembled a suicide machine to help administer euthanasia which he called the Mercitron or Thanatron.
His 1968 rusting Volkswagen or the Death Mobile was also used to end the suffering of his patients. In 1995, the American Medical Association deemed him "a reckless instrument of death" who "poses a great threat to the public". He was charged with second-degree murder and sentenced to 10-25 years in a maximum-security prison in 1999 but was released only eight years later, after assuring authorities that he would never conduct another assisted suicide.
In 2010, his story was adapted into an HBO feature movie 'You Don't Know Jack' which starred Al Pacino as Kevorkian. Pacino became the recipient of an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance. Kervokian's office and 1968 Volkswagen are a part of the exhibits at the Haunted Museum. Several video footages from the Kervokian office during guided tours show museum-goers, particularly women, being affected by some sort of haze that immediately knocks them out, and they wake-up either terrified or screaming.
The Dolls
Gretchen
She was made in the 1920s and was brought to the museum when her previous owners experienced her crying loudly, throwing things at the wall, and moving by herself. Since she's been at the museum she has affected and terrorized the museum staff.
Cynthia
Cynthia has previously responded to Bagans during a prior investigation, in 2016 and was also involved in a chilling ritual with Blood Mary, in the museum basement. Cynthia reportedly kept calling out to her, addressing her as "Mama".
Lily
Lily was made in the 1800s and has actual human hair for her mane. It is speculated that her hair came from a little girl who had been a subject of abuse.
Peggy
Documentations show that anyone who has come across or seen Peggy face-to-face has been affected by medical conditions and heart attacks. She has affected several museum-goers, and they believe that the more mass attention she gets, the more powerful she becomes.
Investigation
Before the crew went on full lockdown, they went about setting up equipment to aid in their investigation. Bagans moved a mannequin from one of the exhibit rooms that he decided to use for surveillance into the Natalie Wood exhibit in the yacht room. It has a bunch of relics from Splendour, the yacht that Wood was about on the fateful night of her death by drowning off the coast of California.
Just as he had dropped the mannequin off in the room, he received an email from Dennis Davern, the man that captained the yacht the night of Wood's death. Davern's panic-stricken email said, stuff randomly started flying out of his wardrobe, in his home in the Philippines and he was sure that Wood was doing this. Bagans himself claimed to have felt Wood's presence around him, as there was heavy feeling lingering in the air.
While setting up equipment by himself on one of the top floors, Bagans heard a loud bang that went undocumented on camera, and immediately began investigating the source. Both Bagans and Goodman experience things that they never have and also record footage that shows misty anomalies captured on tape. Bagans tried to communicate with the spirit that has been tormenting visitors in the Kervokian office as well as in the room that houses the Death Mobile.
Goodman encounters a male and female spirit while he incorporates the spirit box to communicate with them. The conversations are bone-chilling. While they continued investigating, they also tried to comprehend if the global fear aroused by the pandemic was causing manifestations at the museum to have a ripple effect across the world. 'Ghost Adventures: Quarantine' premieres four consecutive Thursdays starting June 11 at 9/8c on Travel Channel.