A post in 2012 that ignited a long thread on a website forum (not this blog) about Zak regarding his many “girls” with average age of 18-24, and 100's of escapades. Flying girls in off Twitter, then Tinder, then IG but the pattern never changes. He gets older but the young girls stay in same age group. The original thread on its own website was deleted once and returned by popular demand in 2015. Again recently the thread lost all of its comments without the website owner (not me) being able to recover them. Ask questions and I can answer them to the best of my knowledge, which I never will say is a guarantee. I am not the sole poster here. People can submit posts or ask anonymously. So here we go. I am not Nik Richie nor am I The Dirty website. Information is proprietary to the owner and doesn’t imply harm. This is theories and information gathered over time. Anything that is said is not part of The Dirty website forum. This is solely driven by persons not employed by The Dirty Website. Any comments or opinions are solely representative to those posting and does not imply any liability to The Dirty Website Forum. Any post in this blog is the intellectual property of the owner of the post and is purely an opinion and not of owner of the blog even if posted via moderation. EST. October 2017 The header and avatar are edits.
Ghost Adventures’ Zak Bagans on Investigator Dan Rivera’s Death, Annabelle & ‘Worst’ Doll Encounter (Exclusive)
By Ryan Naumann and Andrea Simpson July 16, 2025
Ghost Adventures star Zak Bagans spoke exclusively to Us about his experience with Annabelle days after fellow paranormal investigator Dan Rivera died in the presence of the haunted doll.
“My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends,” Bagans told Us in an interview on Wednesday, July 16.
Bagans, who had his own experience with the doll in 2017, told Us, “I can only speak to my experiences with Annabelle.”
He explained, “I did have the opportunity to investigate Annabelle when the owner brought her to my museum in 2017.”
“I got very affected by her and it kinda caused me to touch the doll. The owner didn’t like that too much,” he said.
Bagans told Us of a frightening encounter in February that he had with another doll that left him scared and fighting for his life.
He explained, “It was a demonic infestation and severely affected me, and I was literally in the hospital the next day. It was a two-month-long attachment and one of the worst experiences of my life.”
Bagans said in his 21 years of paranormal investigation, the February encounter was one of “the top two worst attachments I have ever had in my career.”
He said a family in Las Vegas and the owner came under possession of the doll — and shockingly, two members of the doll owner’s family tried to take their lives.
Bagans said he was trying to “cast the demon out of this doll” himself after his exorcist wasn’t able to take on the “urgent” case.
“That’s when it backfired. I have never seen a doll like this in my life. I brought it to my house that night and I was projectile vomiting the next morning and had pain in my side,” he told Us.
The terrifying aftermath led the famed investigator to frequent the chapel at his home to say prayers and blessings 10 times a day.
“That’s how bad my attachment was and I had very dark thoughts.”
Bagans said something in his house told him he was “going to die” for two weeks. He added, “There was a black shadow-type figure that I would see in my bedroom. It affected my assistant who had tumors in their neck. My relationship got messed up. It affected my mom. But those things went away. And it all happened around the same time. How did that happen?”
He said his doctors ran tests and took an MRI, but his severe health issues later “disappeared.”
He told Us the “horrible” months-long experience caused him to take a break from paranormal demonic investigations. “It goes to show you as someone who does this for a living, dolls can be vessels for demonic possession and attachment,” he said, adding, “Do I believe that dolls can be vessels for demons? Absolutely. Do I feel they can affect people? Yes, I do.”
On July 13, Rivera died while on the Devils on the Run tour in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the reportedly haunted doll Annabelle was being displayed.
The police confirmed they responded to a call at the hotel where the tour was being held over a report of a dead man.
“The decedent was discovered in his hotel room by workers,” the police said. “Nothing unusual or suspicious was observed at the scene.”
According to Francis Dutrow, Adams County coroner, Rivera’s autopsy is completed. A cause of death has been deferred pending toxicology, which could take eight to 10 weeks.
The New England Society for Psychic Research said it planned to continue its scheduled tour across the United States despite Rivera’s death.
Annabelle has been described as “demonically possessed.” People reported that the New England Society for Psychic Research, where Rivera worked and which was founded by famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, said the doll’s history goes back to 1968.
A woman was gifted the doll, a fictional version of which is depicted in the Conjuring film franchise. After the woman’s roommates claimed to notice weird things happening with the doll, a medium reportedly told them the doll was possessed by a young girl named Annabelle.
Ed and Lorraine took the doll from the woman and kept it locked up for years. The Warren family later displayed the doll in their museum and occasionally lent it out for tours like the one Rivera was part of at the time of his death.
Ghost Adventures’ Zak Bagans spoke to Us about the paranormal investigator Dan Rivera’s death and his experience with Annabelle
He said he found out she had cheated in his with multiple men....including Amato, the killer in jail.
But yet he still tried to make their marriage work.
Poor guy.
He didn't deserve this at all....although we all said it would end bad...but who thought like this??
Aaron has always been a really great guy. It was heartbreaking to watch his statement. Unfortunately here at this blog we knew who Victoria was but never expected this… - TDB
So listening to Hollys latest TikTok about the fact her kids were brought up in conversation from Zak’s friend saying” he never even met her kids.” Do you know if Zak wanted to meet them and spend time with them. Bc I find it extremely weird that he would. He’s shown no interest in kids at all.
No! Kids are not in picture at all. He doesn’t know how to interact with them. - TDB
So you send anon messages to people, passive-aggressively suggesting they are who they are not, but apparently have disabled the ask anonymously option for your own blog? Because I couldn’t send this anonymously. Not that I feel I need to hide. Because my intention is never to bring fellow tumblrs down. Just wanted to say I figured out it was you who sent those three anon messages to me the other day ☺️ the 🐰 emoji gave it away. Also to say that I used to hold ur blog in high regard. But now, after you came at me for running a blog that is allegedly sh*tting on someone you seem to care about so much, I asked myself, actually what has your own blog been doing all those years? The answer is in its name…. You recommended (low key threatened) me flat out not to comment on the return of the dirty, and I won’t anymore, ever. Hope this closes the matter👏 but in return I ask you to not publish this answer.
Whoever you are you need help. Period. Reading into things? - Get help. - TDB
If only Holly would acknowledge that she knew this blog existed. It has all been here for many years about Zak’s cheating ways. She has been here and so have her friends who reported back to her.
Holly felt she could change a leopard but alas no one can…
For us, we have always known the truth and a lot of the information in the archives gets stolen so influencers can act like they uncovered it. I am not an influencer, which was never any goal. It was to warn girls about Zak…
Funny thing is we tried warning Zak too about Holly especially if it ended badly. She is a writer after all but instead of a book she is going at it in social media. - TDB
Holly MadisonClaims Zak Bagans Cheated on Her in Social Media Posts
Published May 10, 2025 4:16 PM PDT | Updated May 10, 2025
Holly Madison seems to be taking aim at Zak Bagans ... claiming the television star cheated on her in a couple social media posts.
Madison posted to TikTok earlier today ... sharing a short clip where she stares directly into the camera -- letting her added caption do all the talking.
Check it out for yourself ... she writes that her biggest "I'm bored" scenario is getting all of the girls her "most recent ex" cheated on her with so they can tell her every sordid detail.
While she doesn't drop Bagans' name, we know the two broke up just a couple month ago -- so, there is a good chance she's talking about Zak.
She also took to Instagram to fire off again ... saying at least four women have reached out to her claiming her ex -- again, no name -- cheated on her with them. She says she's going to wait and see how many people end up reaching out to her with the same claim.
We broke the story ... the two split earlier this year -- and, they unfollowed each other on Instagram, giving the impression that their breakup wasn't totally amicable.
Zak and Holly had been on and off for years before this breakup, so another split may seem like no big thing ... but, on a podcast a few days after we broke the news, Holly confirmed the two were done for good.
We reached out to Zak about Holly's new social media posts ... and, he tells us, "We were on and off for 6 years. Broke up multiple times. We haven’t spoken in 3 months. Wish her the best."
Sounds like there might be more to this breakup than we originally thought ... though it seems we'll have to wait and see if Holly plans on saying more.
Holly Madison seems to be taking aim at Zak Bagans ... claiming the television star cheated on her in a couple social media posts.
If only she would acknowledge that she knew this blog existed. It has all been here since 2017 about Zak’s cheating ways. She has been here and so have her friends who reported back to her. Holly felt she could change a leopard but alas no one can… For us, we have always known the truth and a lot of the info in the archives gets stolen so influencers can act like they uncovered it. I am not an influencer, which was never any goal. It was to warn girls about Zak… - TDB
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