Growing up in the Osbourne family and featuring on a reality TV show is not what most of us consider a normal childhood. For Jack Osbourne, his childhood was a little different in more ways than one.
Jack, son of Ozzy and Sharon, is launching a new show Jack Osbourne’s Haunted Homecoming, where he seeks to find the truth behind unexplained mysteries and experiences in his past. Although he considers himself to be “pretty rational”, the TV star has had some “unexplainable” things happen to him.
As the family is set to make a return to the UK, Jack will return to his childhood home and his former haunts in Buckinghamshire for his ghost hunting show. He spoke to Good Morning Britain via a video call from Los Angeles about his experience of ghost hunting and said: “It’s been really interesting.”
He explained that ghosts to him are a “catch-all” and added: “I don’t necessarily think 100% of the time you’re encountering the spirit of a once living human being. I think there’s a whole lot going on and it’s probably far too heavy of a conversation to have at eight in the morning on a 10-minute segment.”
The show is inspired by “some very interesting and unexplainable things” which have happened to him, “and I’m pretty rational,” he added. “If there’s something that happens that’s clearly the wind or a creaky old building, I’m the first to be like, ‘No, that’s not what you’re saying it is right now’. “It keeps me coming back because I still haven’t figured out what the heck is going on.”
In a trailer for the documentary, Jack said he feels like his childhood home “cursed” his family because so many terrible things happened after moving there, including fires, his father getting into a motorcycle accident and his mother being diagnosed with cancer.
He also revealed: “The house used to be an insane asylum, and that was before we moved in.” The family moved to California when Jack was around 11 years old, away from the Buckinghamshire home.
During the Good Morning Britain interview, the TV presenter recalled a time when he and sister Kelly were left at home alone aged 11 and 12 and heard someone walking down the hallway. He said: “There’s a very distinct sound because the floorboards creak at the house and it sounded like someone was running their hand along the closets in the hallway.
“And initially I thought, ‘Oh, my God, someone’s broken into the house’ and when you’re a kid it’s like, ‘Oh, there’s a robber, let’s get out of here’. And to this day, we still have no idea what the experience was all about.”
While the family apparently don’t share Jack’s enthusiasm for ghost hunting, they have come on investigations with him. “Kelly, she used to just make fun of it. She’s like, ‘You’re just a nerd just living out some kind of weird childhood fantasy’, he said.
Kelly’s ghost adventure with him resulted in doors flying open and the “wildest experiences”. He’s hoping to capture some of these spooky goings on in his new show Jack Osbourne’s Haunted Homecoming which will air on Discovery+.
