‘Ghost Adventures’ Episode Delayed by Real-Life Crime to Finally Air

• The Christmas Eve episode of Zak Bagans’ “Ghost Adventures” TV series was originally slated to air in May
• It was postponed because its guest, true-crime author Jillian Lauren, became a true-crime participant
  
• The episode explores the allegedly supernatural events surrounding Lauren’s donation of a serial killer’s ashes to Bagans’ Haunted Museum in Vegas

We’re no fans of Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, having already exposed two of its exhibits – a haunted wine cabinet and a haunted guitar — as 100% hoaxes. However, the Christmas Eve episode of Bagans’ Discovery+ TV series, “Ghost Adventures,” caught our attention because of its unintentional tie-in to a true-crime story.

Titled “Midnight at the Museum,” the episode was originally scheduled for May 2025. That plan imploded when its featured guest, true-crime author Jillian Lauren, became a headline herself — charged with the attempted murder of a peace officer after a violent confrontation with LA police.

Lauren, the former wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot in the shoulder in her Eagle Rock front yard after allegedly firing at an officer conducting an unrelated manhunt in April 2025.

Little Credibility

The episode reportedly focuses on the ashes of Samuel Little, the man the FBI confirmed as America’s most prolific serial killer with 93 confessions.

Lauren inherited Little’s cremated remains, as well as prison effects, including hand-drawn portraits of his victims, after his death in 2020.

Lauren was listed as Little’s sole beneficiary in his will, after he got to know and like her during interviews for her 2023 book, “Behold The Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”

The episode, filmed in November 2024, explores the alleged paranormal activity felt by Bagans and his museum’s staffers after the addition of Little’s ashes to their macabre collection — which also includes a portion of the cremated remains of Charles Manson — in September 2024.

What really makes the episode unsettling is not any insight into Little or the supernatural, however, but into the state of mind of Lauren just months before her own descent into criminal infamy.

Prosecutors later reduced Lauren’s charges to assault and negligent discharge of a firearm, and she avoided prison after a judge granted diversion for mental health treatment.