Exploring the Paranormal with Blood Moon Paranormal, Part Two | Guest Zak Wenzel
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two of our conversation.
For Zak Wenzel, a fascination with the paranormal started young—and it’s never left him.
Over the past decade, that fascination has grown into full-scale investigations at some of the Midwest’s most well-known haunted locations, including the Old Joliet Prison. As the founder of Blood Moon Paranormal, he leads a team that not only investigates the unknown, but documents it—producing documentary-style videos that explore both the history and the activity they encounter.
Zak shares what it really takes to run a paranormal team, the work behind filming and reviewing investigations, and the experiences he’s had during investigations that have challenged his perspective. He also opens up about one of the more unsettling parts of his journey—an attachment he believes may have followed him from the Villisca Axe Murder House, something that still makes its presence known.
It’s a look at what happens when a lifelong fascination turns into something more—and when the unknown doesn’t always stay behind.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, part two of exploring the paranormal with Blood Moon paranormal, |
| 0:06.8 | a conversation with Zach Wenzel. |
| 0:10.1 | What happened that made you even think that you had an attachment? |
| 0:14.4 | Just as a public service announcement for people to be aware of when they go someplace. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, so I hear a lot of people talk about attachments in it being like, you know, they start |
| 0:27.7 | experiencing stuff at home. |
| 0:29.5 | That never happened for me. |
| 0:31.1 | There was only one time when it did. |
| 0:33.5 | But basically, I had gone to Velisca a total of three times at this point. |
| 0:41.1 | And we went to the Melbourne Manor, 45 minutes from Velisco. |
| 0:45.0 | And there's this theory that the murders were premeditated at this hotel. |
| 0:52.2 | And there's no proof to it. |
| 0:53.9 | There's no evidence to back it up. |
| 0:55.8 | I think it's just like connecting the locations. |
| 0:58.3 | I don't know if it's actually true. |
| 1:00.0 | But we decided to ask about it. |
| 1:02.6 | And, you know, when I went to Velisco, I was pretty affected by it my first time. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, the second time I was pretty badly affected by it. The first time I quit |
| 1:13.0 | out halfway through because I was pretty scared of what was going on. The second time, it affected |
| 1:19.1 | me pretty badly. The third time was like, I confronted it a little bit and said like, hey, |
| 1:27.3 | like, you're not going to scare me this time, you know. |
| 1:31.5 | So we went to Malvern. |
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