Hoaxster Zak Bagans Buys ‘Conjuring 2’ Demon Prop for Haunted Vegas Museum
Posted on: July 5, 2024, 10:02h.
Last updated on: July 8, 2024, 07:40h.
Zak Bagans, host of cable TV’s “Ghost Adventures,” recently announced on Instagram his acquisition of a major Hollywood horror artifact for his Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum in downtown Las Vegas.
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According to Bagans, his latest museum acquisition is the “ORIGINAL DEMON prop (his caps, not ours) used in the filming of the ‘The Conjuring 2’ movie.”
If you’ve seen “The Conjuring 2” and the animatronic demon suit doesn’t ring a bell, that’s because it never appeared in the movie, which may be why TMZ reported that the acquisition, from a horror collectible shop, only set Bagans back $6,000.
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Director James Wan filmed only a few scenes with the suit before replacing it with Valak, a demon nun whom he felt would be a more personal foe for the movie’s main character, Lorraine Warren.
Warren, a Catholic school graduate, was the real-life paranormal investigator who, along with her husband, Ed, perpetrated the proven hoax that inspired the “Amityville Horror” series of films.
In his Instagram post, Bagans said he will display his latest acquisition in the “Devil’s Rocking Chair,” which his museum describes as “the demonic throne” that inspired “The Conjuring 3.”
Fiction is Stranger than Truth
Bagans is known for stretching the truth about his museum’s exhibits, including its very centerpiece. (As Casino.org previously reported, the “world’s most haunted object” was a hoax perpetrated by a horror writer who wanted to test whether he could fool people into buying a literally worthless wine cabinet by fabricating its backstory on eBay.)
In case a $6,000 piece of movie memorabilia that no horror film devotee will recognize wasn’t a strong enough lure, Bagans apparently fabricated his own backstory for the acquisition.
“This is an extra disturbing piece because this is exactly what the horned demon looked like in my dream one week before I bought the Demon House and started filming the documentary in Gary, Indiana,” he wrote in his Instagram post, referring to his 2018 film, “Demon House,” which professes to chronicle “the most authenticated case of possession in American history.”
Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum not only displays disproven hoaxes as genuine, but also what Bagans calls “murderabilia” — a distasteful assortment of real-life artifacts including Ted Bundy’s glasses, a painting made using the cremated ashes of Charles Manson, and a Camaro once owned by David Koresh.
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