Nick Groff

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Murder In America · 201: NEVADA - The "Ghost Adventures" Murders (feat. Nick Groff) · 16 May 2025 podcast

I'm Nick Ruff, co-creator of Ghost Adventures, Paranormal Lockdown, Ghost Talkers, Death Walker. Been on the journey for a very long time, since about 13 years old. I've been exploring the unknown, fascinated by all things weird. And yeah, I've been doing this for a long time, executive produce, edited films, been on camera for over a decade.

Aliens and UFOs and extraterrestrials. I was that weird kid about 13 years old. My parents took me to Las Vegas to visit my sister's godparents who lived there in Nevada. And they would tell me stories about their father who helped build the bunkers at Area 51 in Nevada in the secret base. And they introduced me to Art Bell at a very early age, so about 1993.

I was listening to my little boombox radio on Art Bell late at night. Then my dad would walk into my room, you know, to try and put me to sleep and stuff as a teenager, and I'd have a map. Remember the old fold-out maps? I actually had a legit map that I was trying to find Area 51. I told my dad, one day I'm going there. I also grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire.

And my grandparents, specifically my grandma, she would talk to me too about the abduction case that took place in New Hampshire way back in the 50s. So I got introduced at a very early age to aliens and then I was just, you know, that interesting kid that would look up into space or look up into the sky and say, what else is out there? We can't just be it as human beings in this vast universe.

In high school, I actually was looking for ghosts in paranormal. My buddies and I, we would hop in the car and hear about this burnt down house in Massachusetts. We would drive over the border and go see this house and we'd walk up to it and then all of a sudden there'd be a creek in the house and all my buddies would run away and I would be the only one standing there looking in the window.

So I was one of those kids. It didn't scare me as much. I was more intrigued.

I went to college at UNLV, and I started exploring all the haunted mining towns. I went up to Area 51 in the little town of Rachel. I got as close as I could to the secret base. And I just started exploring all those things that intrigued me as a little kid. I had video camera equipment back then. I was shooting little films because I went to film school.

So I made my first project called Malevolence in 2004 that screened at the Santa Vegas Film Festival with Dennis Hopper, David Lynch, and all those people that were there. And I said, man, I want to make a project where I go off and I document, you know, anything to do with ghost or paranormal. And I just want to see if it exists. So I said, I have all this camera gear.

I know how to kind of edit mini DV tape and kind of put something together. But I didn't know what that was. I didn't even know what a documentary was back then. I just knew that I could film and have like a lump of mini DV tapes and footage and kind of put maybe a narrative or something behind it. Let's just see what happens.

So I knew Aaron Goodwin for a long time. He would sneak into my college classes, and that's how we kind of became friends. At the end of classes, we'd be the two standing there talking to the film professor. And the film professor would tell Aaron, hey, you want to do film projects, work with me, Nick, because I was already doing stuff. So that's kind of how we befriended.

We knew each other for a long time. Then I graduated college, and I started picking up wedding gigs, filming weddings, filming corporate events.

I met Zach by doing weddings and stuff. He's a wedding DJ. And so we befriended. I said, I'm working on some projects. Hey. And he said, oh, I can do film and stuff like that. I said, all right. And I hired him to actually shoot second camera for me at weddings.

But not until years later did I see an episode of sightings on TV about the Sally House. And that's when I actually got really fascinated about spirits and poltergeists and things that could possibly attack you from beyond.

You know, I saw the documentary news team who filmed that guy in the house, the family, and seeing him be scratched on camera while the reporter's filming without any cuts or anything being broadcasted, I said, man, if that's legit, I want to go out there and see if possibly something can physically harm me from beyond. And what is that? How is that possible? And do ghosts exist?

I really want to see firsthand. You know, I've had experiences as a little kid, but, you know, as a logical thinker and getting a little bit older and more in depth into the paranormal, I really just wanted to see for myself and kind of search it out.

I said, man, I want to make a project where I go off and I document, you know, anything to do with ghost or paranormal, and I just want to see if it exists. So I said, I have all this camera gear. I know how to kind of edit mini DV tape and kind of put something together. But I didn't know what that was. I didn't even know what a documentary was back then.

I just knew that I could film and have like a lump of mini DV tapes and footage and kind of put maybe a narrative or something behind it. Let's just see what happens.

So I called Zach up. I said, hey man, I have all this camera equipment. Let's hop in the car. Let's go up to Virginia City, Nevada. I went there during my spring break, so I knew about Virginia City, Nevada. Let's go investigate all these haunted locations. I was walking through them on my spring break.

I drove up there and I filmed a bunch of stuff on a VHS camera back then, but I have better cameras now. We can have night vision cameras with super night vision back then. This is 2004, 2005, started it. And he said, OK, let's do it. You know, he told me about some experience he had in Michigan and and basically jumped in his little Scion car, which was super small.

And we partnered up to go off and shoot that. And I said, hey, I know another guy who's really funny. He's a good friend of mine, Aaron, and we can take him with us. He can shoot camera two, three. So it would be like the three of us. So we can have two camera shots and whatever we can film.

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