Hollywood hauntings don’t just happen in the movies – just ask Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and George Reeves! Rumor has it these stars couldn’t step out of the spotlight — even in death.
[IMG:L]The Roosevelt Hotel
It’s a familiar tale in Hollywood: a glowing debut, days and nights of star-studded glamour, a slow decline, a shocking fall from grace, and just when everyone thinks the best days are behind, a sudden and spectacular comeback turns up the heat all over again. But even when Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel had fallen into one-star disrepair, several guests remained faithful to its four-star origins — even from beyond the grave. (Read More)
[IMG:L]The Comedy Store
The Sunset Strip has long been the epicenter of Hollywood’s nightlife, the adult playground where stars and wannabes alike went out to see, be seen and party the night away. And it seems that one of the longest-standing entertainment hot spot in town, The Comedy Story, still houses some of the more unruly guests, who have stayed long past last call.(Read More)
[IMG:L]Manson Murders in Benedict Canyon
The canyon’s Cielo Drive served as the sight of one of the bloodiest and most vicious murders in Los Angeles history: the 1969 slaying of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, hairstylist-to-the-stars Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and others — at the hands of followers of aspiring rock star-turned-cultist Charles Manson. But it’s not the epilogue of the heinous multiple homicide that’s tinged with haunting aftereffects; rather, it was ghostly premonition of the horrors to come. (Read More)
[IMG:L]George Reeves’ Hollywoodland
One of the spookiest stories of a celebrity spectre involves the alleged shade of actor George Reeves, best know to a generation of pre-adolescent Baby Boomers for playing the Man of Steel on TV’s Adventures of Superman throughout the 1950s, and whose dark and mysterious tale was dramatized in the 2006 film Hollywoodland.(Read More)
[IMG:L]Lucille Ball’s Roxbury Drive Home
For generations, everyone loved Lucy, who still reigns supreme as the funniest comedienne in television history. But what Lucille Ball really loved was her Beverly Hills home on posh Roxbury Drive. She loved it so much, in fact, that she didn’t want to leave — ever. (Read More)
[IMG:L]Dracula and Depp’s Undying Domain
Gothca! This exotic mansion in West Hollywood only looks like the perfect haunting grounds for all kinds of ghosts, ghouls and even vampires, so much so that even today local legends insist that it was the home of film’s original bloodsucker Bela Lugosi, but Dracula never actually hung his cape there. (Read More)
[IMG:L]Tangled Webb in Beverly Hills
Few tales demonstrate just how attached a spirit can become to the posh environs of Beverly Hills like the tale of the quaint Spanish stucco house that was once set at a prestigious corner of Sunset Boulevard at 1005 Rexford Drive, where not one but two stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age reportedly tried to remain, even in death. (Read More)
[IMG:L]Jayne Mansfield’s Pink Palace
As a bosomy, platinum blonde sex bomb with more photo ops filled with overflowing cleavage to her credit than actual screen roles, Jayne Mansfield was Hollywood’s reigning Queen of Self Promotion. And it was only fitting that she found herself a posh palace on Sunset Boulevard to rule from—in pink, her favorite color. (Read More)
