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“Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. ―Robert Louis Stevenson The Historic Harris House is a two-story Victorian Transitional home dating back to 1902. Recently, a film crew captured a “ghost” photo inside one of its upstairs rooms. Others, including the owner, have also experienced paranormal activity there as well. On March 8th Hollyweird Paranormal attended Bizarre Los...

On June 5, 1983, William Hughes peered through a sliding glass door into the master bedroom of the Ryen family’s house in Chino Hills. He spotted the bloodied body of his 11-year-old son Christopher, who had spent the night with the family. Nearby were Peggy and Doug Ryen, hacked and slashed to death. Eight-year-old Joshua Ryen lay on the floor, his throat slit, but alive. Out of sight in the hall was Jessica Ryen, 10, no longer breathing. Family photo of Chino Hills family Doug, Peggy and Jess...

The Oscars might be the biggest night in the entertainment calendar, but it’s never just about honoring the best movies Hollywood has to offer. Over the course of its 91st-year history, the Academy Awards has had its fair share of controversy and scandal—from A-lister boycotts, to awkward musical numbers and even award mishaps. On episode 31 we talk about the Oscars dark secrets and scandals that have recently made its way into light. We also touch on the brief history of The Oscars, the attack...

Los Angeles is world-famous for its nightlife. But do us Angelenos know that we are literally having spirits with the spirits while we are out in town? If you’ve always wanted to have drinks with a ghost, L.A. is definitely your town. Join us on another haunted walking tour of Los Angeles with your gurls as we travel from DTLA to Mid-Town and Hollywood to take a look inside some of the creepiest places to enjoy happy hour. Tag along as we discover the underground prohibition tunnels, rub elbows...

Over a period of 14 months, Richard Ramirez, aka “Night Stalker,” killed 13 people and attempted to kill five more across California. In a span of one year, Ramirez kept LA on edge with his murderous rampages. Today he is known to be one of the most notorious serial killers in history. On today’s episode we talk about Richard’s childhood, dark journey into a life of crime and satanism. We also talk about his trial and the women who loved, fought and admired The Death Row Romeo. The paranormal a...

Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of the year but Charles Dickens, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, and other literary greats felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their most terrifying stories during the dark and chilly days of Christmastime. Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional holiday festivities as turkey, eggnog, mistletoe, and Saint Nick. On this episode we share a submitted holiday ghost tale from one of our listeners as w...

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There’s a house that sits on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon that has an array of paranormal activity. It’s best known as The David Oman House and its located just 200 ft from where the Sharon Tate and Manson Murders took place in 1969. In 2014 David Oman produced and co-wrote a movie documentary about the paranormal activity that has been going on in his house. It’s called The House at The End of the Drive. Since producing this film, Oman feels that the spirits have really reached out to him. On...

OUR FIRST LIVE SHOW GUYS! WE RECORDED LIVE AT THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE ON OCT. 30TH AND 31ST. DID WE MENTION THAT THIS PLAYHOUSE IS HAUNTED AF! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SHOWED UP AND SUPPORTED US AND A VERY VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR PEEPS AT PASADENA PLAYHOUSE! WE TRYULY HAD AN AWESOME NIGHT OF LAUGHS, SPOOKY TALKES AND SPOOKS!

Working on a film set can be pretty fun, quick and exciting. You can instantly be taken to another world while working on set, but what if you were working on a haunted film set? You feel as though you were taken to another vortex? On Ep. 24 we sit down with our paranormal sista, Film & Fashion Makeup & Hairstylist Calie Mazariego, ans we talk about working on haunted film sets. Below is the link to the film short that we first worked on together, The Babysitter Murders. It was also the setting...

On Dec. 26, 1973, The Exorcist, a horror film about a girl possessed by an evil spirit, makes its debut in theaters; it will go on to earn a reputation as one of the scariest movies in history. The Exorcist was based on William Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name, about the last sanctioned Catholic exorcism to take place in the United States, in the late 1940s. To celebrate the month of Halloween Hollyweird Paranormal teamed up with LA Not so Confidential for an exciting yet creepy Crossover E...

Behind every spooky horror movie is a notion that the events really did take place. Is that true for the 1982 hit classic film The Poltergeist? Reportedly, yes. The film was based (loosely) on the events experienced by a 1953 New York family, the Hermanns and their little boy, James. But the film’s story centers around a little girl, and a poltergeist who terrorizes her and her whole family. it seems that Superstitious legend holds that a number of strange deaths are connected to a ‘curse’ on...

Tales of unexplainable happenings are passed down from family members, friends, coworkers and even our own listeners! In today’s episode we SHARE our listener’s ghost tales What happened to one of out listeners when her and her husband move into an old historical home where the past literally comes alive with some unexplainable occurrences and odd smells. What if you came from a long line of spiritualists and tarot readers? What if one of the members of your family tree tried to help Harry ho...

“if we walk far enough, says dorothy” “we shall sometime come to someplace….” Whether it was singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” or following our own Yellow Brick Road, THE WIZARD OF OZ is still referenced with great affection to this day. It’s hard to imagine that filming this seminal film was anything but happy and magical, and yet, sadly, it seems there was more than one dark moment during this film’s production back in the late 1930s. Ever since it premiered back in 1939, rumors have cir...

In 1886 an eccentric woman named Sarah Winchester travelled from New Haven, Connecticut to San Jose , California, to start a new life. She purchased a small eight-room farmhouse and started a small renovation project that would take 36 years and $5.5 million, only stopping when she passed away in 1922. Legend has it that she was led by spirits to California to build a home that would appease the spirits of the victims who were killed by the Winchester Rifle. The only catch, if she continued bui...

The Rebel Without A Cause Casting Curse Hollywood stars may seem larger than life, but of course, they are just as vulnerable to life’s tragedies, including the chance of dying at a young age. Their celebrity was sometimes brief, sometimes felt for decades. What they had in common was a death that came too soon. BUT SOMEHOW THEY ALWAYS COME back …. James Dean once said, “dream as if you’ll live forever; live as if you’ll die today.” Rebel w/o a cause was a classic film detailing the sordid a...

HOLLYWEIRD PARANORMAL TAKES A TRIP TO LOUISIANA AND TAMMIE BRAVES THE NIGHT AT ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST HAUNTED HOUSES, MYRTLES PLANTATION LOCATED IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA. WE PUT THE LEGENDS OF MYRTLES TO THE TEST AND SEPARATE FACT FROM FICTION. FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MYSTERY TOUR AND THE OVERNIGHT. GHOST PICS FROM THE MYSTERY TOUR AT MYRTLES PLANATATION Browsing for a new hosting site? Wanna start your own podcast? Then Blubrry is the perfect place to start! Use our promo code WEIRD f...

Jayne Mansfield was on her way to becoming THE blond bombshell of the 60s, having already achieved a great deal of success as an actress, singer, and even an early Playboy Playmate. SADLY her life would end tragically on a highway outside Biloxi, Mississippi. Her death was said to have been caused by a curse gone awry, but was the “curse” nothing more than a publicity stunt arranged by the founder of the church of satan? How did Hollywoods sex siren meet such a tragic and gruesome death? The Pa...

To see the elements of theater come to life on a stage is an experience that one may never forget. The scenery, lights, costumes and sound all come together to physically enhance a presence. But what about a supernatural presence. It seems like Every good theater has a ghost and in Hollywood they have an all access pass. Theaters all over America play host to a great number of ghosts that range from the frightening, to the precocious and even the tragic! Hollyweird Paranormal takes you down Hol...

Author, Joris Karl Huysmans once stated, “Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God…It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.” In 1985, recent film-school graduate Will Allen found what appeared to be an exciting community in LA. While searching for the meaning of life and community, Allen was lured by a charismatic South American-born guru known as Michel. With little hesitation, he...

So lets talk dirty, lets talk about PORN! How did the porn industry start in LA? In order to find out we needed to go Deep in The Valley, The San Pornando Valley to be exact. Season 2, Episode 13 we talk about the birth of the porn industry, cocaine and The Wonderland Murders. What happened on July 1, 1981 at 8763 Wonderland Ave.? Who was responsible for the murder of the Wonderland gang? What secrets did John Holmes and Eddie Nash take with them to the grave? The paranormal aftermath… when som...

The finale of our Season 1 and PT.2 series of The True Crime and Paranormal aftermath of Marilyn Monroe. When movie goddess Marilyn Monroe’s naked body was found on her bed at her Hollywood home, it was assumed she had killed herself by consuming an insane amount of barbiturates . Devastated by tangled affairs with American President John F Kennedy and brother Bobby, the 36-year-old star of The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot was said to have overdosed on sleeping pills. But so many things...

Ideals are dangerous but what if you were the ideal woman? What if you were Marilyn Monroe? On August 5 1962 Marilyn was found dead in her Brentwood home by her housekeeper. Even though her death was ruled as a possible suicide; there have been claims that it was a murder. Marilyn died at the age of 36 and the legends, mostly bad, that have sprung up regarding her troubled life may be the reason that this beautiful woman has never been able to find peace in the afterlife this is the life, true ...

Tammie and Brice share stories of their first paranormal experiences along with two listener tales! Brice shares two unusual experiences when he encounters strange lights over a set of train tracks and an evil figure in a country field. A listener experiences an eerie silence in the woods while hiking with his wife and brother-in-law. They soon find out that someone or something was following them all along. Another listener shares her first experience with a ouija board and the icy effects it l...