I really enjoyed visiting Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Los Angeles, so when I saw that Ghost Adventures did a 2011 episode at the Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas, I just had to watch it! The show stars Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Nick Groff and airs on the Travel Channel. Zak, Aaron, and Nick start out at the David Saxe Theatre (hey, I saw the fake Beatles there!) at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. David Saxe tells Zak that he used to work at
the Sands Casino (which is where the Ventian, where Madame Tussauds is located, now stands),
and things used to wrong with his sister’s magic act…things that could hurt or
kill her. They installed security
cameras because they thought someone was tampering with her props, but they
never caught anyone on camera. David says that he
doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he leaves a ghost light on in his theatre anyway; Zak
and David see smoke in the theatre, and David can’t explain where it’s coming
from.
The Sands used to be owned by the Mafia, and the team talks
to a few people in Vegas about the mob activity that went on before arriving at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. When they first get to the museum, they
talk to Chris Mayes, the show manager at the museum. Zac wonders if any spirits of dead celebrities are inhabiting their wax likenesses. Chris
gives them some history about Madame Tussaud, saying that during the French
Revolution she was forced to find the heads of the deceased and make death
masques. Employee Kurt Mayne tells the
team that he has seen ghosts in the maze where the Halloween show takes place. Another employee, Stephanie Freitas, says that one night at closing, she heard
the voice of Elvis Presley, who had performed at the Sands. Along with another employee, she followed the
sound; when they figured out which room it was coming from, they opened the
door and felt “a very cold chill…and Elvis was singing louder than ever.”
The crew sets up night vision cameras in the Viva Las Vegas
Room and by the staircase. They begin
walking around and hear something laugh at them; this is caught on the camera
by the staircase, as well as one of the REM pods lighting up to signify
electromagnetic energy. Zak places a recorder, an EMF detector, and
some casino chips on a table, and they soon hear the EMF detector go off. They crew goes downstairs and try a new
device called the Ovilus II that “contains a phonetic generator that spirits
can manipulate and choose specific words by using their energy.” Zak asks if there’s someone in the room, and
the word “Noah” shows up in the Ovilus II; the device then shows the words “play,”
“corner,” and “tied.” Zak asks the
spirit if the Mafia tied him up, and “contract” shows up on the Ovilus II, so
the guys deduce that the Mafia put a hit on Noah. Zak asks what happened after Noah was tied
up, and “cave” appears on the Olivus II, so Zak then asks what happened in the
cave, and “dig” appears. Zak asks Noah
if he had to dig his own grave, and he answers “throat” through the Ovilus II;
he then asks if the Mafia strangled him and Noah answers “lash.” Zak asks if Noah died then or if the Mafia
left him in the cave, and Noah answers “alive.”
The guys decide to split up: Aaron goes to the Scream Maze,
Nick goes upstairs, and Zak stays downstairs.
Zak walks around the Spirit of America room with a thermal imaging
camera, then heads to the Viva Las Vegas room, but he doesn’t catch anything. In the Scream Maze, Aaron asks if there’s anyone there who enjoy
scaring people and asks if they’ll show their presence…then he feels something
go through his body. Aaron asks the
spirit what show it performed in and if it was in a show with three other
people…a female voice answers “singing in the rain.” They wonder if Judy Garland might be the
spirit, and Kurt tells Zak that Liza Minnelli’s wax figure is standing right
outside of the door to that room. Upstairs, Nick hears a noise, then takes a picture in which a
transparent figure can be seen standing at the bottom of the stairs.
This was a great episode, and watching the Ghost Adventures crew investigate in dark rooms surrounded by wax figures was pretty creepy.
My rating: 8/10
Watch the episode here:
And just for fun, here's my favorite photo from my visit to Madame Tussauds in L.A.:
This was one of the few episodes that Zak didn't have a freak out lol
ReplyDeleteI love working with the Ovilus although my team didn't have the version the GAC has