“Welcome to Hell” reads the graffiti written on the pink concrete wall behind the tennis court at this crumbling 148-acre estate. Built by A&P heir Huntington Hartford and later leased by Errol Flynn, all that is left of the mansion are a few brick foundations. But neighbors say that the splendid old mansion reappears on some…
The specter of TV star Ozzie Nelson has been seen in his old house by family members. The once cheerful comedian is apparently not happy in the afterlife, for his ghost is always in a decidedly somber mood. The house is located at 1822 Camino Palmero Road, Hollywood, CA, 90028.
Although Harry Houdini’s mansion burnt down over fifty years ago, people still report seeing his dark form standing on the scorched staircase that survived the fire. Ten years after his death, his wife announced that psychic Arthur Ford had received a secret, coded message by Houdini “from the other side”, but pressures from a Christian group forced…
Human beings have wanted to fly since before recorded history. In the Greek legend, Daedelus and Icarus built wings of bird feathers and beeswax. Leonardo de Vinci experimented with bird wing-type designs for flight. And even though we now build airplanes, people are still intrigued by flying with real wings. There are stories about jet…
Hollywood’s Memorial Park cemetery is also home to a few ghosts. The form of a Lady in Black has been observed in the Cathedral Mausoleum, kneeling in front of crypt number 1205. This was the final resting place of Rudolf Valentino, who died in 1926. The ghost of actor Clifton Webb, who died in 1966, has been…
Hollywood’s famous hotels are said to be the home to some celebrity guests who never really checked out. John Belushi died of a drug overdose in Cabin 3 at the Chateau Marmont, and comedian Divine died from respiratory failure at the Regency Plaza. Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose at the Highland Gardens, and Diane Linkletter jumped from the sixth floor of…
Actor Clifton Webb lived in Beverly Hills for twenty years, and held frequent seances in an attempt to contact his dead mother. Later residents insist the ghost of the former owner still haunts the premises. Webb, who died in October 1966, was very forthright and outspoken — traits he is said to have carried to the grave….
Last night we went out to the Baby Graves cemetery and got the crap scared out of us. This cemetery is weird, it’s over a hundred years old, and has nothing but babies buried there. They say that if you go there at night, and are really quiet, you can hear the babies crying. Maybe…
Pickfair was the home of silent-film great Mary Pickford, wife of actor Douglas Fairbanks. Her ghost, dressed in a ruffled white dress, was encountered in a den on the first floor by several subsequent owners, including comic Buddy Rogers. Pickfair is at 1143 Summit Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210.
Actress Elke Sommers and her husband Joe Hyam witnessed supernatural phenomena in the dining room of their North Berverly Hills home from 1964 to 1968. The apparition of a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and tie was seen by guests on five separate occasions. Investigators from the American Society for Psychical Research and UCLA monitored unexplainable…
