The Jim Morrison Room, Room 32. Conveniently halfway between where Jim worked (the Doors Workshop) and played (Barney’s Beanery) lays the Alta Cienega Hotel, where Morrison is said to crashed during binges or whenever he had a fight with girlfriend Pam. Fans can rent the legendary room to add their […] Read more
Musician Sam Cooke was shot and killed here after storming into the manager’s officer, naked, looking for a woman who left his room. The manager shot him in the heart, in what was found to be a justifiable homicide. Read more
If the rumors are to be believed, Marilyn Monroe still gets around. Fifty years after her untimely demise, the ghost of Marilyn has been reported at various locations across the United States, including multiple spots in Los Angeles. “How is this possible?” asks Yona Williams at Unexplainable.net. “Can she haunt two […] Read more
I don’t know if anyone has ever had a more loyal friend than Gram Parsons had in Phil Kaufman. Sometime in early 1973, Parsons told Kaufman that if he ever died he wanted to have his body cremated in Joshua Tree National Park. Flash forward a few months later, and there Kaufman was, […] Read more
In 1968, Louise Huebner cast a spell from the Hollywood Bowl to increase the “sexual vitality of the County of Los Angeles.” One week before, County Supervisor Ernest Debs had given Huebner the title of the Official Witch of Los Angeles. Soon thereafter, as Huebner was making the rounds in […] Read more
The last known place Elizabeth Short, aka The Black Dahlia, was seen alive. Her ghost is allegedly just one of many that haunts the hotel. The hotel lobby and ballroom were used in the filming of “Ghostbusters.” In 2010, Laura Finley was killed when she fell six stories down an […] Read more
The private practice of Dr. Walter Bayley, who owned a home one block from where the Black Dahlia was found, was located here, just a few blocks from the Biltmore, where Elizabeth Short was last seen alive. Read more
The home of Dr. Walter Bayley, who Larry Harnisch has made a convincing argument is the Black Dahlia killer. Read more
A black patent leather purse and one black high heel shoe were discovered in the trash by the owner of a cafe here. Red Manley, a suspect in the Black Dahlia case and the last person known to have seen Elizabeth Short, identified these as belonging to Short. Read more
Elizabeth Short frequented the soda fountain inside the drug store that was in this location. Due to the flowerlike arrangement of her hair and penchant for black clothing, some of the regulars nicknamed her “The Black Dahlia.” Arnold Landers, who owned the drug store, told a Herald-Examiner reporter, “She’d come […] Read more
