Dakota Laden is an executive producer, editor, and star of “Destination Fear.” He was born on November 18, 1994, in Burnsville, Minnesota
Laden began producing content when he was just seven years old. His sister had an old camera which he used to shoot videos. His experimental videos are also available on his YouTube channel.
Dakota was in high school when he developed a passion for exploring scary and haunted locations. After that, he began searching for such places and shooting videos.
It was in 2011 that he started a YouTube series inspired by one of his favorite shows on television called Ghost Adventures. At the same time, he launched a paranormal documentary called Trail to Terror in the year 2015 along with his sister Chelsea and best friend Tanner Wiseman.
Laden was also invited by Bagans to be a part of the Ghost Adventures show officially. People were extremely impressed because of his exceptional camera skills. In 2019, Travel Channel premiered his paranormal T.V. series called Destination Fear, and it had a huge success.
Discovery plus began sharing Destination Fear since the year 2021. Laden took his passion and interest to the next level and made a successful career out of it in a tremendous manner.
1. Dakota Laden Is Currently 27 Years Old
Filmmaker Dakota Laden was born in the year 1995. As of 2022, he is 27 years old. Laden celebrates his birthday every year on the 18th of November.
Dakota Laden is from Lakeville, Minnesota. His father is named Rob. Rob joined his son on the Ghost Adventure as a guest spot. Dakota had an interest in cameras since an early age. His first camera was from his sister, and he got his hands on it when he was a child. It was in 2007 that he gradually began sharing some of his video clips on YouTube.
According to him, it’s not a necessity to have the best equipment or bulk of money in order to follow one’s dreams. His enthusiasm for investigating haunted places, that too for a living surprises many people, including his well-wishers.
2. Dakota Laden Sister Chelsea Stars In Destination Fear
Dakota Laden’s sister named Chelsea also stars in Destination Fear alongside him and his friend Tanner Wiseman. She was born in the year 1992 and is thirty years old as of 2022.
Chelsea Laden was an optometry student and she studied at the Illinois Colle of Optometry. She was also a Division I NCAA ice hockey starting goaltender for a top-five nationally ranked team from Quinnipiac University. Moreover, she is also the first goalie to sign in the inaugural season of the National Women’s Hockey League.
Besides playing hockey, she is also interested in exploring haunted and abandoned places just like her brother Dakota. During her teenage years, she played for the Lakeville South High School in Lakeville. She served there as a team captain two times and earned all-state MVP honors four times.
After completing her graduation, she was all set to end her ice hockey career. It was because she did not get any worthy opportunities while playing. She received a contract of $14,000 with the Connecticut Whale and made her PHF debut in October 2015.
Similarly, she also became the part of first-ever trade in PHF history. She was traded to the New York Riveters in exchange for Shenae Lundberg. According to Distractify, she is in a long-term relationship with her partner named Jake whom she met while studying optometry.
She began featuring in a Travel Channel original paranormal television show, Destination Fear in the year 2019. The explorers in the show travel to haunted and paranormal spots around the United States.
3. Dakota Is Best Friends With Co-Star Tanner Wiseman
Dakota Laden and his Destination Fear co-star Tanner Wiseman are best friends. They knew each other since they were young. As teenagers, both of them created videos on YouTube together. Wiseman also shared a great passion for filming, acting, and comedy.
Tanner Wiseman attended Augsburg University in Minneapolis. He has got a degree in marketing and management. He is equally interested in football and plays a lot. Tanner was amazed by the wonders of the world from an early age, He had always wanted to explore more scary stories and unwanted and abandoned locations.
Wiseman used to go on a trip with his friends just to explore the wonders of the wild every weekend since he was in college. As of now, he lives in the same house as Dakota in Las Vegas. They have been on a number of long and grueling journeys.
4. Dakota Laden Is The Son Of Rob And Polly Laden
Dakota Laden is born to his father Rob Laden and his mother Polly Laden. His father had also appeared in the Ghost Adventure as a guest feature.
His mother Polly is reported to be a house-maker. She is available on the social media platform, Twitter under the username @crazedhousewife. She has got a total of 2,039 followers on the platform.
Rob and Polly have five children altogether. Dakota Laden and Tavian Laden are their two sons and they have three daughters named Chelsea Laden, Isabella Laden, and Mykenna Laden. Chelsea, who appears in the Travel Channel’s Destination Fear is his elder sister.
5. Dakota Laden Has Over 64 Thousand Subscribers YouTube Channel
Dakota Laden has a YouTube channel called Shortfilmzz123 which has over 64 thousand subscribers.
He shares a variety of content via the YouTube channel, including short videos, movie reviews, and more.
Further, he also has a personal YouTube channel under the name @TheDakotaVlog where he posts videos behind the scenes of his films. At the same time, he also utilized the channel for posting vlogs and other random videos.
Dakota joined the video streaming platform on the fifteenth of June, 2011. His channel has got a total of 761,052 views altogether. Before he came into prominence, he used to make comedic short films through the YouTube channel. However, he has stopped posting videos on his channel for the last six years. His channel has got 11.6K followers. Laden’s latest video on YouTube was about the Trail to Terror screenings at a Mall in America. It has got 5.1K views in total.