[1] He is also an author, social media micro-influencer, and founder of ParanormalPopCulture.com,[2] a website which covers paranormal topics in popular culture.
He grew up with a love of nerd culture, and is a fan of Doctor Who, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and comic books.
He then transferred to Tift County High School in Tifton, Georgia, before attending Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida for his undergraduate degree.
In 2009, he launched ParanormalPopCulture.com was to cover "all forms of paranormal popular culture in mass media - and to have fun while doing it" without "proving or debunking the existence of anything beyond the entertainment factor.
The eight-episode series was similar in tone to TMZ, and included field reports about zombie bunkers, bigfoot hunts, haunted locations, and featured interviews with Norman Reedus, and other celebrities.
He appeared as HBO's Game of Thrones expert for morning shows across the nation and Australia, and filmed a Travels with Dracula travel show in Transylvania (with Bram Stoker's descendant Dacre Stoker) in 2013, which led to him returning to Romania for his "Vlad vs. Vlad" segments with Luke Evans supporting Universal Home Entertainment's Dracula Untold's home media release in 2015.
As a TV host and paranormal personality, he appeared on TruTV's Super Into — where he ghost hunted with Aaron Paul in 2015.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sagers launched the NightMerica true crime/paranormal podcast in 2020 with co-host Britt Emme, and began hosting "Paranormal Pop Culture Hour" with Den of Geek.
Guests have included, Alan Tudyk, Greg Nicotero, Elvira, Dana Gould, Harvey Guillen, Rhys Darby, Rainn Wilson, and more.
In September 2022, Sagers was revealed to be the co-host on Netflix's first ghost hunting show, 28 Days Haunted — along with Tony Spera, the son-in-law of Ed and Lorraine Warren — a series that involves three paranormal investigative teams embedded at three separate locations for nearly a month.
He has been hired by networks or studios to moderate live events for Universal, Sony, Fox, Focus Features, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel/Destination America, Syfy — and Universal Home Entertainment’s high-profile Back to the Future and The Breakfast Club anniversary reunions.
He has appeared on panels alongside, among others, the casts from fan-favorite franchises The Avengers, The Walking Dead, Pacific Rim, Doctor Who, Captain America, Sons of Anarchy, Guardians of the Galaxy, Firefly, Supernatural, Lucifer, and more.
Sagers gives specialized lectures on various topics connected to paranormal pop culture, such as entertainment's fascination with Mars, a history of ghosts in media, and the apocalypse.