The Corner of Hollywood & Vine Lon Chaney’s ghost was spotted sitting on the bench where he used to always catch the bus. After the bench was replaced, his visitations stopped.

Hollywood Blvd. Bela Lugosie’s ghost was seen strolling down the blvd.

The Hollywood Sign
The hillside around the sign is said to be haunted. Peg Entwistle, a young starlet who leapt to her death from the top of the letter "H", is reported walking around on the wooded hillside. She was seen one night climbing up the letter H, and then a week later she was seen again. Police reports were filed, but when they arrived no one was there.

The House of Nicky Hilton In his old room blood kept seeping through the carpet no matter how many times it was replaced.

The Biltmore Hotel James Moore saw a beautiful woman dressed all in black on the elevator. She rod up to the top floor, her head down, hesitating to leave the elevator. He felt a chill as she stepped past him onto the sixth floor. Feeling something odd was happening, he reopened the doors, but no one was there. He saw her picture in a book. She’d been dead for half a century. Her name was Elizabeth Short and she was called the Black Dahlia. Her body was found mutilated and sawed in half, her mouth slashed, her fingertips sliced off, her wrists restrained and cigarette burns on her body. She had black hair, blue eyes and a rose tattoo on her left thigh. She always dressed all in black. She hung out in bars and nightclubs and she was an aspiring actress. Her killer was never found.

Joan Crawford Mansion She had an exorcism performed on her house. Shadows appeared in the hallways. Reportedly evil spirits had taken over the actress. Whenever anyone walked through the hallways they experienced a chill. Fires erupted for no reason. Many of the people who lived there suffered mental problems. Marilyn Crawford has been sighted in the house and at her grave.

The Pines Fingers appear and disappear and laughter and music is heard. There are many strange sightings. At night the ghosts of stars come out to party.

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood - 7000 Hollywood Boulevard
One of the hauntings at the Hollywood Roosevelt concerns a full length mirror located near the elevators in the lobby. Every once in a while, someone will glimpse the reflection of a blonde woman in the mirror, only to turn around and find no one there. These witnesses may have seen the ghost of one of Hollywood's most popular stars: Marilyn Monroe. This mirror once hung in Suite 1200, one of Monroe's frequent rooms. Like other Hollywood ghosts, Monroe has been seen other places as well, including Westwood Memorial cemetery and her former home in Brentwood, where she died.
Another celebrity spirit reported at the Roosevelt is that of Montgomery Clift. Clift's presence is centered around Room #928, where he lived in 1952 while filming From Here to Eternity. Today, both guests and staff members have felt Clift's presence on the ninth floor, pacing the area where he spent much time rehearsing his dialogue and playing his bugle. Cold spots have been felt in this section of the hotel, and in November, 1992, a guest felt an invisible hand pat her shoulder while she was in bed. Teryl Velazza felt someone behind her in the ninth floor hallway and then a cold breeze walked right by her.
Cold spots are not limited to Clift's old haunts, however. Another cold spot is located in the Blossom Room, a ballroom famous for hosting the first Academy Awards banquet in 1929. The Blossom Room is home to at least one other presence, that of a man in a white suit. In 1990, a couple encountered the ghost after following piano music into the Blossom Room. As the couple neared the figure of a man standing next to a piano, he vanished. Two days after the incident, a hotel engineer saw a similar apparition on the third floor. When the engineer got within three feet of the man, the figure in white passed through the fire door.
Spectral children are also reported at the Roosevelt from time to time. The apparition of a little girl was seen playing in the lobby near a fountain, and guests sometimes phone complaints to the front desk about noisy children in the hallways. When security guards check, however, there is no one there.
Sources:
Hauck, Dennis WIlliam. The National Directory of Haunted Places.
Jacobson, Laurie and Marc Wanamaker. Hollywood Haunted.

The Barrymore Estate is at 6 Beverly Grove, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212.
Visitors to the mansion during the 1970's frequently reported seeing the ghosts of John, Lionel, and Ethyl. The estate is also haunted by the ghost of a man who died in a cable car accident on the property. An unusual incident involved a cuckoo clock that belonged to John Barrymore. When John died, his friend Gene Fowler decided to position the hands of the broken clock at the time of his friend's death. When he went to set the clock, however, Fowler discovered that the clock had already been set at 10:20 p.m., which was the exact moment of John's death.
Sources:
Hauck, Dennis William. The National Directory of Haunted Places.
Holzer, Hans. Star Ghosts.
Steiger, Brad and Sherry Hansen Steiger. Hollywood and the Supernatural.

1436 Bella Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210
The ghost of Rudolph Valentino lingers in his former mansion, known as Falcon Lair. Actor Harry Carey was one of several subsequent owners who encountered the silent star's specter. The ghost has appeared in his old bedroom and in the stables, where his beloved horse was kept. Passersby have reported his dark silhouette looking out over the Los Angeles skyline from his favorite window on the second floor of the mansion.

2320 Bowman Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212 Several tenants have reported unexplainable events occurring in the upstairs bedrooms. Beds are messed up, pillows cut open, and the impression of a body forms on unoccupied mattresses. The entity causing the disturbances has never been identified.

Houdini’s Mansion
Some say that all who occupy it are cursed with ruin and misfortune. Many spiritualists and mediums were brought to the house in an effort to contact Houdini. 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 her to retract her statements. Houdini's home was located at 2398 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028.

West Beverly Hills at 8650 Pinetree Place, Los Angeles, CA, 90070
The ghost of Anne Baxter's husband, actor John Hodiak, haunts their charming hillside house. Agent Hal Gefsky, who lived in the house in the 1970's, says guests saw Hodiak's specter hovering outside a second floor window. Gefsky even received phone calls from the ghost, but all the actor could manage was a faint "hello".

512 North Palm Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211
The ghost of actress Jean Harlow lingers in the master bedroom on the second floor of her former residence. Her husband, agent Paul Bern, beat her frequently and is said to have caused the kidney damage from which she later died. However, the actress loved him dearly and after hearing that he had killed himself with a gun, attempted her own suicide in the upstairs bedroom here.

2644 Benedict Canyon Drive in North Beverly Hills
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 physical events in the house and produced a psychological profile of the ghost. The Hyams moved out after being awakened one night by mysterious knocking on their bedroom door. They opened the door to find the hallway filled with smoke from a fire that had started in the downstairs dining room. The house was bought and resold seventeen times in the next few years, and over thirty people, including scientists and well known Hollywood personalities, have witnessed strange events here.

Pickfair, 1143 Summit Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210 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.

1579 Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210
On June 16, 1959, actor George Reeves went into his upstairs bedroom and shot himself in the head. Television's Superman died instantly, but some say his spirit was indestructible. In the bedroom one evening, a couple saw him materialize fully outfitted in his Superman costume and then fade slowly away. They moved out of the house that same night.

1005 Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210
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. His ghost is not at all bashful about keeping people from smoking or sitting in his old armchair. If anyone, especially a woman, sits in the chair, it reportedly bounces and makes strange noises. Clifton Webb was a firm believer in life after death and many mediums have reportedly contacted him. His ghost has also been seen standing near his crypt.

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 committed suicide at the Regency Plaza. Janis Joplin leapt to her death from the Highland Gardens, and Diane Linkletter jumped from the sixth floor of the Shoreham Apartments, after she took LSD. Peter Finch had a fatal heart attack in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel. God told Mae West to come up and see Him, while she was living at the Ravenswood Apartments. On the roof of the Hollywood Knickerbocker, Harry Houdini's widow held annual seances to reach her husband's wandering spirit.

Bela Lugosi's Apartment
The ghost that haunts this property manifests as a grief-stricken woman who is frequently heard sobbing. She has a tendency to move furniture and she occasionally steals things.
Source:
Hauck, Dennis William. The National Directory of Haunted Places.

Memorial Park cemetery is 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 reported several times in the foyer of the Abbey of the Palms Mausoleum. The sound of sobbing is sometimes heard near the grave of silent-film star Virginia Rappe. She allegedly died after being forced to perform sadistic sexual acts with comic Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. After three sensational trials, he was acquitted of raping and murdering the young actress. Dozens of Hollywood's most famous stars are buried at this cemetery, located at 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028.

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.

Another ghost loiters in the catwalks above Studio 5 on Paramount Studios massive movie lot. His footsteps echo through the empty studio, and many witnesses have beheld his ectoplasmic presence. Actress Robin Tapp refused to continue working in the studio because of the disturbances. Paramount is located at 5451 Marathon Avenue, Hollywood, CA, 90028. Phone: 213-956-5000.

"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 summer nights, amid the sounds of a lavish party and multicolored lights on the second floor. The Pines Estate is located at 2000 Fuller Avenue, Hollywood, CA, 90029.

Hollywood's most recent ghost sighting is an unidentified apparition that haunts tenants at an apartment building on Beachwood Drive. Residents have reported the phantom of a very old man walking up and down the main stairway of the building. The specter's halting, deliberate footsteps can be heard during the day or late night and seem to be centered around Apartment 4. The lost spirit has yet to be identified. The apartment building is located in the 1200 block of North Beachwood Drive, Hollywood, CA, 90025.

Moss Beach
The gruesome ghost of a lady in a blue dress, soaked in blood, haunts an old speakeasy on Highway 1 just south of San Francisco. Moss Beach residents say she is the spirit of a young woman stabbed to death in front of the old Moss Beach Distillery restaurant, nearly 70 years ago. The restaurant used to be a speakeasy in the 1920's, and was frequented by a lot of unsavory and flamboyant characters. The beautiful young lady was murdered on the beach by her jealous lover, the piano player at the bar. Waitresses, chefs, and customers have witnessed her phantom standing near the piano or dancing alone in deserted rooms. Once, a boy ran screaming from the restroom, insisting that a lady covered in blood touched him. More recently, two of the town's policemen saw her bloody figure standing in the middle of the highway in front of the cliffside restaurant. Last year, two waitresses saw a stool tip over and do a somersault. On average, her ghost has been sighted once or twice every year for the last 50 years. The building has been thoroughly studied by researchers from the Ghost Research Society and the Office of Paranormal Investigation. Both groups found cold spots near the piano and unusually high electromagnetic fluctuations in the old dance hall. The most recent phenomenon occurred just a few months ago, when all the settings in the restaurant's automatic thermostat system were changed. The complicated reprogramming would have taken most people three or four hours. It was impossible for any kind of malfunction in the electronic circuitry to have changed the settings. "The company told me that there was no way it could have been done except manually," owner John Barber related, "but I had the only key!"

Haunted Hollywood Graves
Marilyn Monroe at Westwood Memorial cemetery
Marilyn Crawford