Ghost Adventures Host Zak Bagans to Turn Las Vegas Bunker Into Ghost Museum

Zak Bagans, the main host of the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures, has bought a 16,000-square-foot Cold War bunker in Las Vegas and plans to build a second museum there. Bagans Bags a Bunker in Las Vegas Aptly named The Underground House, the bunker complex is buried nearly three floors beneath an unassuming home in a quiet suburb off Flamingo Road. Bagans will turn the unique property into his second Las Vegas museum, following his long-running Haunted Museum downtown. Conceived in the 1970s as the home of Avon executive and self-described nucleophobe Girard “Jerry” B. Henderson, the Underground House was designed by atomic-age architect Jay Swayze, who had previously created the “Underground World Home,” which debuted at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Henderson reportedly spent an estimated $10 million (roughly $68 million today) to create a blast-resistant retreat outfitted with painted skies, artificial landscaping, waterfalls, and lighting programmed to replicate the changing phases of a day, from sunrise and daylight to dusk and night. Over the decades, the bunker has hosted numerous personalities who’ve made documentaries about the place or used it as a set. YouTube star MrBeast once filmed a video in it and called it “one of the most expensive and bizarre bunkers on the planet.” Popular pop rock band and Las Vegas locals Imagine Dragons also used the bunker as the set for their 2021 music video, “Monday”. After Henderson and, later, his wife died, the property passed through several owners over the following decades. Most recently, it came under the ownership of the Stasis Foundation, a biochemical organization known for its work in cryogenic preservation. The foundation listed the bunker for as much as $18 million before Bagans acquired it at a much lower price of $4.5 million. An Aptly Haunted Bunker for the Museum? In what is an apt turn of events for Bagans, his new underground property might be haunted, at least according to him. Once Bagans was in the process of purchasing the property, he was surprised by the number of mysteries surrounding the house, secrets he said he was not yet ready to reveal. In an interview for TMZ, he explained that he had not set out to buy the property as a haunted house. However, he discovered that it was connected to “very heavy-duty mysteries” involving both the residence and its previous owners. Although Bagans has declined to identify whom he believes may haunt the house, Henderson is the only person known to have died there after suffering a fatal heart attack at age 78 in 1983. Still, Bagans intends to preserve the house and its history, and to “dig deeper into the mysteries” that have come up during the purchase process. In other news from Las Vegas, legendary metal band Metallica has taken up residency in The Sphere, kicking off its stay with numerous shows.