Aaron Sagers Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

He is the co-host of the 2022 Netflix paranormal investigative series 28 Days Haunted, and currently an on-camera personality on Paranormal Caught On Camera on the Travel Channel, and Discovery+ streaming service; is executive producer and host of the Talking Strange paranormal podcast with the Den of Geek Network; and host/producer of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Ripley’s Road Trip web series.

In September 2022, Sagers was revealed to be the co-host on Netflix’s first ghost hunting show, 28 Days Haunted — along with Tony Spera, the son-in-law of Ed and Lorraine Warren — a series that involves three paranormal investigative teams embedded at three separate locations for nearly a month.

Since 2020, Sagers has appeared as a “Paranormal Journalist,” and panelist on Travel Channel’s and Discovery+’s unscripted clip show, Paranormal Caught on Camera, which was airing its fifth season in 2022, and already filming its sixth season. On the show, he is known for providing historical context, paranormal theories, and citing folklore/myth. The popular series discusses folklore and phenomena from across the globe, and is notable within the paranormal genre for its 26-episode seasons. In 2021, Sagers scripted, produced, and hosted the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Ripley’s Road Trip web series.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sagers launched the NightMerica true crime/paranormal podcast in 2020 with co-host Britt Emme, and began hosting “Paranormal Pop Culture Hour” with Den of Geek. This led to the creation of the Talking Strange paranormal podcast for the Den of Geek Network in 2022. Guests have included, Alan Tudyk, Greg Nicotero, Elvira, Dana Gould, Harvey Guillen, Rhys Darby, Rainn Wilson, and more. The show streams on Twitch, and is posted on YouTube, and published on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms. The show has been invited to record live at Rooster Teeth’s RTX festival in Austin, Texas.

From 2018 to 2019, he served as an executive producer for Centerboro Productions, where he developed numerous paranormal TV show pitches. In 2019, he joined Fandom as a producer and senior manager of creative for sponsored content. During his role at Fandom, he produced content for Facebook/Oculus, Coca-Cola, and Overwatch League.

As a TV host and paranormal personality, he appeared on TruTV’s Super Into — where he ghost hunted with Aaron Paul in 2015. He hosted the two-hour special episode of Paranormal Lockdown, titled Paranormal Lockdown: Evidence Revealed, with Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman in 2016. Sagers appeared on Reelz’ The Shocking Truth to discuss The Conjuring in 2017. He appeared on Portals to Hell’s first season with Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman in 2019.

From 2014 to 2018, Sagers was Editor At Large and producer for Syfy’s online presence, previously named Blastr. During this role, he contributed to series “Everything You Didn’t Know,” and created the series “Blastr to the Past,” “Science of Fear,” and “Comic Book Roulette.”

He appeared as HBO’s Game of Thrones expert for morning shows across the nation and Australia, and filmed a Travels with Dracula travel show in Transylvania (with Bram Stoker’s descendant Dacre Stoker) in 2013, which led to him returning to Romania for his “Vlad vs. Vlad” segments with Luke Evans supporting Universal Home Entertainment’s Dracula Untold’s home media release in 2015.

Sagers first appeared on camera with CNN in March 2012. He has contributed on-air to the BBC, Huffington Post Live, and began contributing to MTV’s Geek site in 2013. He was a guest, then guest host for Playboy Radio with Jessica Hall, Sirius XM Radio .

In 2012, Sagers co-created, executive produced, and hosted the paranormal entertainment news and lifestyle series Paranormal Paparazzi based on his Paranormal Pop Culture concept along with Zak Bagans. The eight-episode series was similar in tone to TMZ, and included field reports about zombie bunkers, bigfoot hunts, haunted locations, and featured interviews with Norman Reedus, and other celebrities. It aired for one season. His book Paranormal Pop Culture: Rambling and Shambling Through the Entertainment of the Unexplained was released in 2013.

As a journalist, Sagers’s work has appeared in publications such as The Hollywood Reporter, IGN, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Orlando Weekly, The Morning Call and Playboy. He began writing for the CNN website in 2011, and Paranormal Pop Culture was a content partner with CNN’s Geek Out! vertical.

His work has appeared in publications such as The Hollywood Reporter, IGN, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Orlando Weekly, The Huffington Post, StarWars.com, Marvel.com, Entertainment Weekly, and Playboy. He began writing for the CNN website in 2011.

He has been a contributing author for Lonely Planet travel guides for Costa Rica, ABC-CLIO reference guide on pirates in pop culture, and the H.W. Wilson Company reference guide on the paranormal. Sagers was also a guest editor for the TAPS Magazine, the magazine for the Syfy channel’s Ghost Hunters, in March/April and May/June 2011. His book Paranormal Pop Culture: Notes from the Entertainment of the Unexplained was released in 2013. He has contributed to pop culture psychology books Doctor Who Psychology and Joker Psychology.

As he gained notoriety for his contributions to the paranormal community, he started to appear on paranormal reality programs. He was a celebrity guest judge on the Travel Channel show Paranormal Challenge in 2010, and worked with Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures as a lecturer at paranormal tourism events, and has appeared as a guest on Coast to Coast AM multiple times. Sagers was guest editor for the TAPS Magazine, the magazine for the Syfy channel’s Ghost Hunters, in March/April and May/June 2011.

In 2009, he launched ParanormalPopCulture.com was to cover “all forms of paranormal popular culture in mass media – and to have fun while doing it” without “proving or debunking the existence of anything beyond the entertainment factor.” He takes credit for coining the phrase “paranormal pop culture” and has said in interviews he was motivated to create the site after writing multiple well-received articles on paranormal television, but also because of his childhood fascination of ghost stories around the campfire, monsters, and zombies. His main goal is to examine the “cross section of mainstream pop culture and the paranormal.” He interviewed a variety of celebrities on both paranormal and mainstream topics, including George R.R. Martin, Simon Pegg, Dan Aykroyd, Clive Owen, Matt Smith, Kevin Smith, Rob Zombie, Stan Lee, George A. Romero, Robert Kirkman and Max Brooks, the cast of Being Human, Mike Mignola, and Bruce Campbell. His work was featured in Entertainment Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter.

Sagers began his career in travel journalism with Budget Travel and MSNBC and working freelance before eventually accepting a position with the Tribune Company. He launched the entertainment weekly magazine Merge for The Morning Call newspaper in 2005, and served as an arts & entertainment editor until 2008. He created and wrote the “Pop 20” and “Pop Pundit” syndicated column for McClatchy-Tribune, which ran for more than three years.

Sagers attended Saint Margaret Mary school in Winter Park Florida before graduating to Bishop Moore High School. He then transferred to Tift County High School in Tifton, Georgia, before attending Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida for his undergraduate degree. In 2002 he attended New York University to study journalism for his Master of Arts, where he graduated in 2004.

Aaron Sagers has been active as a journalist and author since at least 2002. He began his career in travel journalism with Budget Travel and MSNBC in 2003, and worked freelance before eventually accepting a position with the Tribune Company. He launched the entertainment weekly magazine Merge for The Morning Call newspaper in 2005, and served as an arts & entertainment editor until 2008.