By Gregory Han
It’s been 15 years since I lived directly across the street from the infamous La Bianca murder house, the Los Feliz residence and crime scene where Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were killed in grisly fashion by the brainwashed minions of Charles Manson back in 1969. I still remember being welcomed to the area with warnings that the house was haunted, a bona fide parcel of poltergeist haunted real estate, according to people’s wide-eyed and hushed voiced accounts of what they saw (or more like what they heard about the home through the grapevine). Disappointingly, I never experienced anything remotely paranormal.
Although 3311 Waverly Drive in Los Feliz is remembered as one of the more storied locations of Los Angeles’ bloody and haunted past, the city is actually dotted with other older homes, businesses, restaurants, and public spaces where the denizens of the afterlife supposedly materialize to stumble across hallways, moan about rising rental prices, and separate and hide socks — but after you’ve had one too many to drink (yup, that’s my PKE meter of skepticism going off the chart).
But you want to believe! LA blog, CreepyLA, has pieced several posts revolving around locales where celebrity sightings aren’t limited to the living, including the past haunts of The Doors’ Jim Morrison, silent movie star Rudolph Valentino’s 13 Ghosts, The American Horror Story tour, and my favorite, every spot in Los Angeles used to shoot Michael Jackson’s opus, “Thriller.” But even better, CreepyLA has done would-be Peter Venkmans an even bigger favor and pieced together a giant Google Map labeled with a plethora of haunted spots across Los Angeles County:
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