Ghost Adventures is an American television series about the paranormal created by Zak Bagans and Nick Groff, airing on the Travel Channel. The series follows ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff (seasons 1-10), and Aaron Goodwin as they investigate locations that are reported to be haunted. The show is introduced and narrated by Bagans. As of January 14, 2017[update], 160 episodes of Ghost Adventures have aired, including 30 specials, concluding the thirteenth season.
The crew investigated the abandoned psychiatric hospital, which is officially called the Essex County Hospital Center.
The crew returns to Goldfield, Nevada to investigate two locations, the Nixon Building and the Santa Fe Saloon, but receive the chance to reinvestigate the Goldfield Hotel once more, a site they first investigated six years earlier.
GAC travels to San Jose, California, to get locked-down inside the legendary Winchester Mystery House, a 160-room Victorian mansion filled with mazes of hallways, staircases leading to nowhere, and trap doors. Beginning in 1884, the house was built continuously for over 38 years, by Sarah Winchester, an eccentric heiress to the Winchester rifle company who was told by a fortune teller that the spirits of those killed by the rifles would kill her as soon as the house was finished being built.
The crew gets locked down in the Old Charleston Jail in Charleston, South Carolina, which held some of the city's most notorious criminals like Lavinia Fisher, the first female serial killer. GAC also demonstrates a daytime-investigation when they find evidence at The Battery Carriage House Inn.