26 Facts About Josh Gates

Joshua Gates is an American television presenter-actor and television producer who hosts and co-executive produces The Discovery Channel series Expedition: Unknown and Legendary Locations.

Josh Gates is the host of live specials for, and a guest investigator on, the television series Ghost Hunters and its spin-off Ghost Hunters International.

Josh Gates produces the related Ghost Nation series along with other paranormal television shows through his production company Ping Pong Productions.

Josh Gates was the host and co-executive producer of Destination Truth and Stranded on Syfy.

Josh Gates attended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, co-majoring in archeology and drama.

From 2007 to 2012, Josh Gates was the host of Destination Truth on Syfy.

In 2008, Josh Gates traveled to Walt Disney World in Florida to meet with Joe Rohde, Executive Designer of Walt Disney Imagineering.

Josh Gates presented Rohde with a cast of the "Yeti" footprint found during a Destination Truth episode.

Josh Gates hosted eight live specials for the television series Ghost Hunters and its spin-off Ghost Hunters International.

Josh Gates acted as a guest investigator on four episodes.

Josh Gates produces the related Ghost Nation series featuring former Ghost Hunters members Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango.

In 2007, Josh Gates hosted the Ghost Hunters Live Halloween special, and in 2008 he made a guest-appearance on the mid-first-season finale episode of Ghost Hunters International.

Josh Gates returned as the host of Ghost Hunters Live in 2008, where he helmed the live seven-hour broadcast from Fort Delaware, a Civil War POW camp in Delaware Bay.

Josh Gates returned as host of the Ghost Hunters Live Halloween specials in 2009,2010 and 2011.

Josh Gates hosted Ghost Hunters Live 100th episode special from the stage of Saturday Night Live in 30 Rockefeller Center, during which the TAPS team investigated Alcatraz Prison.

Josh Gates hosted two round-table interviews with Ghost Hunters in 2007 and 2008.

Josh Gates returned as guest investigator on a 2009 episode wherein Essex County Penitentiary was investigated, a 2011 episode wherein Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum was investigated, a 2012 episode wherein Hammond Castle was investigated, and a 2013 episode wherein Mission San Juan Capistrano was investigated.

Josh Gates has hosted and executive produced Expedition Unknown on Discovery Channel after having moved from Travel Channel, since January 2015, and is in its 12th season as of November 2023.

In May 2012, Josh Gates was in 2 episodes of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files where he investigated paranormal activity.

Josh Gates was the creator, executive producer, and narrator of Stranded, a paranormal reality television series that premiered on the SyFy channel in February 2013.

Josh Gates produced the show in cooperation with Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions.

Since relocating to Los Angeles, Josh Gates has appeared in a number of television advertisements like Coke and Ozark Trail.

Josh Gates appeared in a national commercial for BMW as part of a campaign launched by Publicis New York and BMW USA.

Josh Gates has appeared in commercials for EA Sports video games, Dish Network, and Stanley Tools.

Josh Gates' narration was awarded the Earphones Award by Audiofile Magazine which celebrates exceptional audio presentations that excel in narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for the audio format and enhancement of the text.

In February 2020, Josh Gates premiered a new show Expedition X where fellow paranormal researcher Jessica Chobot and scientist Phil Torres investigate paranormal reports and other mysterious phenomena.