Ghost Adventures Halloween Special

Even though Jason and Grant have abandoned their post for Halloween that doesn’t mean we are left without some ghost hunting excitement. The Ghost Adventures crew will step in and helm a 7-hour live investigation of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia.

(Chevy Chase, MD) This Halloween season, on October 30, 2009 from 8PM to 3AM ET the Ghost Adventures crew, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, will voluntarily lock themselves in one of America’s most haunted locations, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, for a LIVE seven-hour, paranormal investigation.

Zak and his crew maybe a little “odd” at times, but he still has a stage presents I find interesting and engaging. I have a feeling their quirky antics could make for a very worthwhile show. Plus, the place they are visiting certainly has a checkered and troubled past.

For example:
Ghost Adventures will have unprecedented access to the entire asylum — from the seclusion cells, where the most violent patients were shackled, to the medical center, where primitive procedures and autopsies were performed.

And where some of the “primitive procedures”, why the lobotomy of course, the cure-all to mental disease:

Dr. Walter Freeman, who had no surgical training, “perfected” the lobotomy on the patients at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. The patients would not be given anesthesia, but were instead given electroconvulsive therapy (which are basically electrically induced seizures) until they became unconscious. He would then stick an ice pick between the eyeball and eyelid and hammer it into the brain, where he made sweeping motions with the ice pick to destroy brain matter. He performed around 3,500 lobotomies in his lifetime, until he killed a patient during one and lost his medical license.

Their methods are a touch different, but I like these guys. As I stated in a previous post Zak has a great narrative style and his enthusiasm draws you in. He seems really excited about the location he’s at and wants to see what he can find. I can’t say everything they find is compelling or that yelling, “Dude! Did you see that?” doesn’t make me roll my eyes, but I’ll be tuning in for this event, this looks cool as hell!

Want to read more of the events that took place at the Asylum? Check out this article:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2301337/halloween_ghost_adventures_live_transallegheny.html?cat=2

And read more about it on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Allegheny_Lunatic_Asylum

More details on the show can be found here:
http://www.travelchannel.com/Ghost_Adventures_Live/

As an aside, if you want to do your own Ghost Hunt on Halloween, you can! The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is offering a Witches Ball from 7pm – 1am and then a Ghost Hunt inside the Asylum from 1:30am until 7am.

http://www.shop.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/product.sc?productId=47&categoryId=10

I don’t think you could ask for more on Halloween night!

Other Articles of Interest:

• Ghost Hunters Halloween Special 2009 – It’s On!
• Paranormal Challenge – Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum – S01E07
• Paranormal Lockdown – Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum – S01E01
• More on Ghost Hunters Live Halloween Special
• Ghost Hunters Live Halloween Special at Pennhurst State School and Hospital
• Ghost Adventures Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum – The Cutdown
• Ghost Hunters Halloween Live 2008
• Ghost Adventures Live Halloween Special
• Ghost Adventures – Pennhurst State School and Hospital
• Ghost Adventures asks for help after fire destroys home of GAC family member