“Josh Gates Live! An Evening of Ghosts, Monsters, & Tales of Adventure" at the Adler Theatre -- October 20.
Friday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Adler Theatre, 136 East Third Street, Davenport IA
Detailing cases involving everything from puzzling paranormal encounters to reports of cryptozoological creatures, an internationally lauded author, explorer, and TV presence brings his national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 20, with Josh Gates Live! An Evening of Ghosts, Monsters, & Tales of Adventure treating audiences to an unforgettable evening with the host of Discovery Channel’s Expedition: Unknown and Syfy’s Destination Truth.
An attendee of Medford, Massachusetts' Tufts University who co-majored in archeology and drama, Gates was the host of Destination Truth from 2007 to 2012, its ratings in the 2008-9 season making the show the highest-rated second season performance by a reality series on Syfy. During that season, Gates traveled to Walt Disney World to meet with Joe Rohde, executive designer of Walt Disney Imagineering. Gates presented Rohde with a cast of the "Yeti" footprint found during a Destination Truth episode, and the program's cast is subsequently on display at Expedition Everest, Disney World's Himalayan-themed, high-speed, coaster-like attraction in which guests come face-to-face with a Yeti.
Gates hosted eight live specials for the television series Ghost Hunters and its spin-off Ghost Hunters International, also acting as a guest investigator on four episodes. He produces the related Ghost Nation series featuring former Ghost Hunters members Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango, and returned as the host of Ghost Hunters Live in 2008, where he helmed the seven-hour broadcast from Ft. Delaware, a Civil War POW camp in Delaware Bay. Gates also returned as host of the Ghost Hunters Live Halloween specials in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
More recently, Gates has hosted and executive produced Expedition: Unknown on Discovery Channel (after having moved from Travel Channel) since January of 2015, a series that recently wrapped its 11th season. In 2021, a four-part special of Expedition: Unknown was created titled Expedition: Back to the Future. In the series, Gates along with actor Christopher Lloyd set out to try and find the six other DeLorean Time Machines that were used during the filming of the Back to the Future movies, with the aim of donating them to The Michael J. Fox Foundation to sell off at auction to help raise money for research into Parkinson's disease.
The national tour of Josh Gates Live! An Evening of Ghosts, Monsters, & Tales of Adventure lands in Davenport on October 20, admission to his 7:30 p.m. event is $39.99, and tickets are available by calling (800)745-3000 and visiting AdlerTheatre.com.
