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Posted on: December 19, 2025, 10:22h.
Last updated on: December 19, 2025, 10:22h.
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 slated for May 2025. But that plan imploded when its featured guest, true-crime author Jillian Lauren, became the headline herself — charged with 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 yard after she allegedly refused repeated commands to drop a handgun during an unrelated manhunt.
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 remains, as well as prison effects including hand-drawn portraits of his victims, after his death in 2020.
Little named Lauren as his sole beneficiary in his will, after getting to know and like her while she interviewed him 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 its insight into Little, but into the state of mind of Lauren 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.