Haunted Places in Ladera Heights, California



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    Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery

    Culver City, California

    While vacationing in Los Angeles (Friday, January 28, 2005), I went out to Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Culver City to take some pics of some celebrity graves. I got pictures of the graves of Sharon Tate, Bing Crosby, Bela Lugosi, Rita Hayworth, Rosalind Russell and wanted to get pictures ...


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    Culver Studios

    Culver City, California

    Odd, unexplainable noises are heard and EVP's are picked up. Thomas Ince, a screenwriter from the silent era, is said to be here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Inglewood Park Cemetery

    Inglewood, California

    Apparitions and unexplained noises have been seen and heard throughout the cemetery, including a woman who appeared to be lost. When staff members approached her trying to help, she vanished.


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    Los Angeles Airport Marriott

    Los Angeles, California

    3.3 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Apparitions are alleged to appear on the 18th floor. People claim to feel "a presence".


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    Love's Pit Barbecue Site

    Los Angeles, California

    4.4 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    While it was still a restaurant, several people died inside of this premise. The bar was the most active area, where a murdered woman and an elderly couple were known to hang out. A former manager who died only days before a paranormal investigation was also reported to have an ...


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    Kmart #7625

    Los Angeles, California

    4.9 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Many employee rumors surround this Kmart. Among them are a double murder/suicide that took place within a love triangle in a stockroom. All three spirits are said to haunt the store. A fourth apparition of an unknown man is said to walk in a stockroom.


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    Del Monte Speakeasy

    Los Angeles, California

    5.6 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Once a speakeasy during the Prohibition, former owner Frank Bennett is believed to believed to reside there even after his death. (Submitted by Chris)


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    Silent Movie Theater

    Los Angeles, California

    6.1 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The original owner developed cancer as a result of working with toxic chemicals in an effort to preserve film. The next owner was shot and killed inside of the theater. Both of them are seen in different spots of the theater long after closing hours. (Submitted by Chris)


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    Antonio's Restaurant

    Los Angeles, California

    6.3 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Lights turn on and off, objects move, and the owner has even stated that someone tugged on his shirt before. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    The Beverly Hills Hotel

    Beverly Hills, California

    6.4 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Peter Finch died outside of this hotel 1977. While it's possible he's still here, it is believed that Harpo Marx and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff haunt here, still making music after their deaths. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Barney's Beanery

    West Hollywood, California

    6.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Employees say the restaurant is haunted, and report having seen apparitions here.


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    Bullocks Wilshire Building

    Los Angeles, California

    6.8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Bullocks Wilshire Building is an Art Deco building that was built in 1929 as a department store. Many famous folks shopped here in its day, including Walt Disney, Mae West, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Garbo and Clark Gable. The ending of 1984's hit film "Ghostbusters" was shot ...


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    Doheny Mansion - Greystone Mansion

    Beverly Hills, California

    6.9 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    On February 16, 1929, Ned Doheny died in his bedroom. Reports say he had a murder-suicide pact with his secretary Hugh Plunket. Now, witnesses say screams and other noises can be heard inside the house at night. Another point of interest: In 2007, a part of the film "There Will ...


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    Paramount Studios

    Los Angeles, California

    7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Hollywood Memorial cemetery is right behind this building and closest to the stages between 29 and 32. People are seen walking around in 1930's to 1940's attire, usually through walls. Electrical equipment for sound and lights are commonly tampered with by unseen forces. Doors are also heard slamming and footsteps ...


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    The Comedy Store

    West Hollywood, California

    7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Witnesses have reported that, appropriately enough, a prankster ghost haunts this building. Employees have stacked roomfuls of chairs away only to find that, seconds later, they were all set up again. A dark entity also is said to reside in the basement. Comedians Blake Clark and Joey Gaynor have reportedly ...


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    Pickfair Mansion

    Beverly Hills, California

    7.1 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Pickfair Mansion was an early-1900s 56-acre estate remodeled by silent film actors Mary PICKford and Douglas FAIRbanks. The home was demolished in 1990. Rumor has it that the mansion was haunted, some say by the ghost of Douglas Fairbanks. On an episode of TV's Celebrity Ghost Stories, Pia Zadora said ...


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    The Georgian Hotel

    Santa Monica, California

    7.1 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The hotel's restaurant is apparently extremely haunted as guests and staff report a variety of activity including disembodied voices and the sound of running footsteps. People have also claimed to see ghostly apparitions that appear at times.


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    Chateau Marmont

    Los Angeles, California

    7.2 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    No one knows who is haunting the Chateau Marmont. Some claim it is John Belushi who died there in 1982 of a drug overdose. Others believe it was a random guest who died in one of the rooms. In any event, many people have reported many different sightings. ...


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    The Laugh Factory

    Los Angeles, California

    7.2 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The ghost of Groucho Marx frequents here. The owner has reported the smell of cigar smoke or a trail of cigar ashes manifesting despite no one being around. While the building was being replastered, Marx's face appeared in the plaster despite no one having a key to get inside. Marx's ...


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    El Compadre Restaurant

    Los Angeles, California

    7.3 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    At least three ghosts are believed to call El Compadre Restaurant home, two of whom are former patrons who like to linger around the piano during nighttime. The third ghost shows up in a mirror.


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    Figueroa Hotel

    Los Angeles, California

    7.3 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Haunted, or merely bad wiring? Elevators that stop on random floors, lights that flicker and TVs that come on of their own accord, most of the reports of hauntings seem to involve the electric grid. No way of knowing unless you go and check it out for yourself. ...


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    Charlie Chaplin Studios - Jim Henson Studio

    Los Angeles, California

    7.3 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Featured in an episode of TV's Ghost Hunters, the motion-picture studios built in 1917 by Charlie Chaplin (now Jim Henson Studio) is rumored to be haunted. An apparition has been seen on the roof wearing a top had and coat, and a woman's form was seen walking through a door. ...


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    Hollywood Forever Cemetery

    Los Angeles, California

    7.4 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The burial site of many big name stars, Hollywood Forever is also reported to have some activity. Apparitions come up in photographs, but most notably are the claims of Rudolph Valentino wandering the streets of the city and usually stopping when he reaches his grave site. (Submitted by Chris)


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    Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

    Los Angeles, California

    7.6 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Although no famous actor died in the hotel, the place is rife with celebrity "hauntings". If they are, they are of the residual sort, as many claim to see Marilyn Monroe peering at them from a mirror she once favored when she stayed there, or Carol Lombard seen in ...


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    Off Vine Restaurant

    Los Angeles, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    A lovely turn-of-the-century craftsman-style bungalow, built in 1908, it was surrounded by fruit trees and orange groves, off a newly formed country road called Vine Street. Since then it has survived through the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depressions, Hollywood's Silent and Golden Eras, numerous earthquakes, ambitious land-owners and most ...


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    El Capitan Theatre

    Los Angeles, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    El Capitan Theater, on Hollywood Blvd., opened in 1926 and is known for its 1920s Hollywood glamour. It was beautifully restored by the Walt Disney Company and Pacific Theaters in 1989 and now hosts grand premieres of Disney films. The theater is said to be visited by apparitions in the ...


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    Tate Murder House

    Beverly Hills, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Sharon Tate and three others were murdered during the Manson Family killing spree. All four of them are said to haunt the house next door to the crime scene. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Madame Tussauds Hollywood

    Los Angeles, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Madame Tussauds Wax Museum is said to be haunted by moving figures, a sign that turns on and off by itself, and unexplained music after closing time. Museum staff says the eyes move on the wax figure of Bette Davis, too. There's been speculation that the museum is haunted by ...


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    Graumann's Chinese Theater

    Los Angeles, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    A man named Victor was murdered nearby here, but is still reported here. A little girl nicknamed Annabell also can found here tugging on people clothing and appearing to people backstage. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Bella Vista - Barrymore Estate

    Beverly Hills, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The estate is rumored to be haunted by John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore. A cuckoo clock that John loved is said to have stopped running at exactly the same moment that John passed away. Also, the apparition of a man who was killed in a cable car accident on the ...


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    Nickelodeon on Sunset

    Los Angeles, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    In the late 60's it was call the Hullabaloo. It was a concert theater for many of the upcoming bands of that era. Chicago,the Doors, The Mandala and many other bands performed there. I was in a band that worked there and we would lock the place up after rehearsal ...


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    Hollywood Wax Museum

    Los Angeles, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Seances have revealed that souls still wander among the wax figures. Some people actually witness the apparitions running around or are lucky enough to catch them on camera. (Submitted by Chris)


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    Nelson House

    Los Angeles, California

    7.7 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The Nelson House was used as a model for the stage sets on the 1950s-1960s TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Ozzie Nelson's ghost has been seen several times inside the home in many different locations. Owners also have noted doors that open and close by themselves, disembodied ...


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    Vogue Theatre

    Los Angeles, California

    7.8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    It's been reported that more than 4,000 people have had paranormal experiences at this historic theater. Entire audiences of more than 600 were said to have witnessed a ghostly little girl skipping up and down the aisles, and at least seven different entities have been identified here. A ghost named ...


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    Hudson Apartments

    Los Angeles, California

    7.8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    A former home for actors during the silent film era, a young man supposedly shows up around the area. (Submitted by Chris)


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    Hollywood Pacific Theatre

    Los Angeles, California

    7.9 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The 1927 Hollywood Pacific Theatre, aka Warner Pacific Theater, is the largest theater in Hollywood and is believed to be haunted by one of the Warner Brothers. Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner were responsible for the construction of the theater, as well as the first talkie film, The Jazz ...


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    Hilton Checkers Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California

    7.9 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    A woman identified as Teresa Brauden jumped to her death here and two other suicides have taken place here. One of those three may very well be responsible for the sudden chills guests feel or a CCTV recording of a door opening and closing by itself. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Stay on Main Hotel

    Los Angeles, California

    7.9 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Formerly the Cecil Hotel, this location has been a site of murder, suicide, and once even housed serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger; the last infamous case involved that of Elisa Lam who was last seen on security cameras hiding from an unseen force in the elevator before her ...


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    Millennium Biltmore Hotel

    Los Angeles, California

    7.9 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The hotel gives off an eerie feeling all around. Guests experience weird noises, being pushed or shaken, and seeing light anomalies. Ghosts of a little girl, nurse, and a woman in a black dress have been reported. (Submitted by Chris)


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    Yamashiro

    Los Angeles, California

    7.9 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Multiple spirits can be found here including the former owner, someone who smashes dishes, and the voice of a woman crying. (Submitted by Chris)


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    Knickerbocker Hotel - Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments

    Los Angeles, California

    8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Many Hollywood stars resided in this hotel, one woman, a costume designer named Irene Lentz, having jumped to her death here; another face in the area was D.W. Griffith who also died here, in the lobby. Seances held by Harry Houdini, as well as firsthand experiences around the hotel have ...


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    Pantages Theater

    Los Angeles, California

    8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Pantages Theater, named after Alexander Pantages, was once owned by Howard Hughes--and Hughes is thought to remain here in spirit to this day. According to theater legend, a 1990 break-in by vandals spurred the hauntings on the second floor where Hughes had his office. Witnesses have felt a presence, an ...


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    Avalon Hollywood

    Los Angeles, California

    8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Avalon Hollywood, a former theater built in 1927, has also been called the Hollywood Playhouse and the Palace Theater over the years. It once featured Fanny Brice's radio show, the Baby Snooks Radio Show and Ken Murray's Blackouts Theater Revue, then became one of the earliest TV studios housing the ...


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    Reeves House

    Beverly Hills, California

    8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    George Reeves, well-known for his portrayal of Superman in the 1950's, died here. It's disputed if he committed suicide or was murdered, but he is often seen here even after his death. He is also said to cause loud noises in the upstairs bedroom and leave behind the smell of ...


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    Joan Crawford House

    Los Angeles, California

    8 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Christina Crawford, Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, said that when she was a child, she used to see many frightening figures here. When she talked to a later owner of the house, she learned that the paranormal activity was still continuing and was thought to house many negative spirits. The owners ...


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    Hotel Alexandria

    Los Angeles, California

    8.1 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    The 9th, 11th, and 12th floors are said to have the most activity. Two Mafiosos are also said to be here in the basement of this location. The elevators here also have a knack to go to floors that aren't selected (usually it's the 3rd floor). (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Create Nightclub

    Los Angeles, California

    8.1 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Employees have claim to see black apparitions in the kitchen, lounge & dance floor. Many known cases are seeing moving objects in the corner of one's eye. Maybe the Museum of Death is responsible for these sightings since it's right next door to the venue. (Submitted by Abraham S)


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    Wonderland Massacre Site

    Los Angeles, California

    8.1 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    Four people were murdered at this spot. Their voices are heard and are believed to haunt the site. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    King Eddy Saloon

    Los Angeles, California

    8.2 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    A form of the vanishing hitchhiker story exists here involving an inebriated woman who demands people pull over at Evergreen Cemetery only for people to discover her grave. Another possible ghost here is Benjamin E. Smith who went on a suicidal drinking binge before shooting himself nearby. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Hollywood Tower

    Los Angeles, California

    8.2 miles from Ladera Heights, CA

    One of the more notable "guests" is a man in his 30's who appears and disappears. Other spirits are said to reside there as well. This location has inspired the Disneyland ride "The Hollywood Tower of Terror". (Submitted by Chris)


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