Celebrities, they seem to have it all.  Fame, fancy cars, beautiful mansions, and GHOSTS.  It seems as though many celebrities have moved into a real-life Disney haunted mansion minus the hitchhiking ghosts.   Yes, their mansions and/or fancy apartments come with everything, especially permanent roommates and they’ve all dealt with it differently, from moving out as soon as possible to getting to know their ghosts.  Let’s sit down and pull a Robin Leach as we get to know these famous celebrities’ stories and their haunted homes.

Join us on today’s episode as we travel to one of L.A.’s most famous cemeteries, The Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery located in Westwood off of Wilshire Blvd.

The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905 but had been used for burials since the 1880s. In 1926 the name was officially changed to Westwood Memorial Park and was later changed again to Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary.

Although it is the resting place of some of Hollywood’s greatest names, it also contains the graves of many uncelebrated people.  Most of those famous names laid to rest within Westwood Memorial include Marilyn Monro, Jack Lemon, Natalie Wood, Hugh Hefner, Eva Gabor, Dorothy Stratten, Walter Matthau, Kirk Douglas, Dean Martin, Carolyn O’Connor, Eva Gabor, and Fanny Brice.

We are joined by our friend and paranormal investigator, former crime scene photographer, and James Dean aficionado, Patrick Langdon.  You may have seen Patrick on Ghost Adventures, The Cecil Hotel Episode, and on LiveSciFi live streams.  He’s traveled all across the U.S. investigating some of the most haunted locations, such as The Queen Mary, The Cecil Hotel, The Black Swan Inn, and The Sallie House.  Let’s get Hollyweird with Patrick inside The Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Let’s get Hollyweird with our friend, Mark Mallman!  Mark is a Minnesota-based musician, film composer, and memoirist. Since 1998, he has released eight full-length studio albums and in 2019 he released his first book, The Happiness Playlist, which promotes mental health advocacy through the arts.

During Mark’s recent visit to L.A., Tammie was able to spend the day with him in old town Burbank and conduct a little impromptu interview.  Mark had quite a few interesting stories of haunted music venues, hotels, and music studios!  Ghosts and Music!  Just a few of our favorite things.

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Check out Mark’s memoir, The Happiness Playlist

We love a good gothic ghost story!  There’s one that comes to mind that manifested here in the state of California, The Legend of Sarah Winchester and the ghosts that built the Winchester mansion.  According to legend, Sarah had an around-the-clock crew of craftsmen who were hired to construct her house that was designed by ghosts.  The unique design of staircases leading to nowhere with twisted corridors and 160 rooms.  This project was to be a lifelong project to appease the spirits of the people killed by the Winchester rifles.  However, quite a few historians suggest a much more mundane explanation, such as our special guest Christiane Franke.

“Sarah Winchester was an intelligent woman and architect, but she was painted as a crazy old woman who lived alone…” explains Christi.  “She took care of everyone, you wanted to work for her…”

Let’s go beyond the legend with Christi as we revisit The Winchester Mansion to separate fact from fiction.

Miracle Mile!  According to the LA Times, “As wealth and newcomers poured into the fast-growing city, Ross’s parcel became one of Los Angeles’s most desirable areas. Acclaimed as “America’s Champs-Élysées,” this stretch of Wilshire near the La Brea Tar Pits was named “Miracle Mile” for its improbable rise to prominence. ”  Join us as we take you on our audio walking tour of one of our favorite places in L.A. Wilshire Blvd, AKA, Miracle Mile.  Tune in and learn a little history and haunted history about L.A.’s once-famous place to shop and venture.  What former department store was used for a scene in 1984’s, Ghostbusters, what former museum witnessed a horrific murder, and which former department has some unusual haunts?  Tune in to find out!

For decades, the Original Spanish Kitchen served meals to Hollywood customers like Bob Hope, Linda Darnell, Mary Pickford, and John Barrymore. Opened in 1932 it was a sister restaurant to one downtown, owned by Johnny and Pearl Caretto. Their enchiladas were the talk of the town, attracting show-business personalities as regulars.  Silverscreen legend, Mary Pickford, had her own booth, by the door, offering up not only autographs to fans, but also recipes to Johnny.

In 1961, the restaurant closed for vacation, however, it would be a permanent vacation.  Following its closure, the building’s contents were left intact for years afterward, the tables remaining set with full table settings and linens. The restaurant’s sudden closure gave rise to urban legends that the owners, who lived in an apartment above the restaurant, were murdered by the mob.  Another legend suggested a lovers quarrel. The truth was more prosaic, according to a 1986 article in Tables magazine by reporter Don Ray. He determined that the owner had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and the restaurant had been shuttered by his wife after she found that she was not up to the task of running it.  Johnny passes away a few years after his diagnosis and Pearl eventually follows a few decades later.  The property lays dormant until the Caretto family sells the property to a couple who turn the kitchen into Ona Spa & Prive Salon.    

Soon after the salon and spa open, ghost stories began to circulate.  Workers in Ona Spa, which was located on the second floor, would sense a presence within the space.  Stylists would claim as though they were being watched, see an unusual shadow figure in the corner of their eye and hear phantom footsteps around the staircase area.   One of the co-owners of the spa and salon would feel the temperature suddenly drop out of nowhere.  Our guest Richie Dueñez, LA native and former manager of Prive Salon, sits down with us to confirm the strange activity during his time working within the once-popular salon and spa.  Dueñez also shares his interesting discovery of an old Original Spanish Kitchen pan within the property along with his cultural and family connections of the once-famous kitchen.

We are continuing with our Listeners’ Tales Series!  We are serving up some pretty spooky tales that were prepared and ready to serve during this holiday break.  We will be continuing with the school spirit as we share a few more haunted school tales along with a haunted dorm story.  We also share a tale about a listener who gets a little help from the other side with his writer’s block.

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Let’s get into the school spirit here in the west coast Hollyweirdos as we sit down and go over the list of some of the most haunted schools in California.  What is the most haunted high school and university here in the sunshine state?  Well, ya gotta tune in and find out!  We’re too ghoul for school!

It looks like something strange is going on in Tammie’s neighborhood, The Pocket.  So who do the neighbors call?  Tammie of course!  It turns out that one of Tammie’s neighbors had a very unsettling and unexplainable experience while housesitting for her friend.  But, it turns out that the house may have a few unseen occupants living within the dwellings of this San Fernando Valley home.   Could it be that one of them has been captured unexpectedly on a SnapChat picture. (See Below).

Join Tammie and her neighbors, Sam and Jeana, as they conduct a paranormal investigation within this SFV home.  What EVPS and messages do they pickup?   What does the psychic Rissa pickup during a virtual walkthrough of the home conducted over Facetime?  Tune into find out.

Join the banter with our podern friends LA Not So Confidential in our round table discussion of The crimes and paranormal aftermath of The Barclay Hotel.  What makes this hotel one of LA’s most violent and haunted hotels?  Could it be the many freak accidents, deaths, and serial killers attached to the hotel? Is there a paranormal aftermath? Turns out that there are several individuals out there who have first-hand accounts with the ghosts of the Barclay, however, are their experiences too intense to share? Find out !