Haunted Places in Hermosa Beach, California



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    Zamperini Stadium

    Torrance, California

    5.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Locals tell of a young woman and her children who were murdered while walking home from a football game. Now, witnesses say they have heard children laughing and a woman crying and seen the apparitions throughout the neighborhood.


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    Los Angeles Airport Marriott

    Los Angeles, California

    5.9 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

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


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    Vanderlip Mansion

    Rancho Palos Verdes, California

    7.7 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Vanderlip Mansion, in a private, gated community, is rumored to be haunted. One legend says it is haunted by a former resident, Mr. Vanderlip's daughter, who committed suicide after being prohibited from marrying her African-American lover. Mr. Vanderlip was said to have built an insane asylum and locked his daughter ...


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    Inglewood Park Cemetery

    Inglewood, California

    8.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    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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    Wayfarers Chapel

    Rancho Palos Verdes, California

    8.3 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    The Wayfarers Chapel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., is said to be home to wispy apparitions at night and a phantom giant white owl. Eerie voices are said to call visitors by name, and the apparition of an elderly Native American man has been seen tending to a ghostly ...


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    Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery

    Culver City, California

    9 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    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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    Del Monte Speakeasy

    Los Angeles, California

    9.6 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Drum Barracks

    Los Angeles, California

    9.8 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    The Drum Barracks served as a base during the Civil War; after the war, the area became a hospital, and not too long after that, the land was auctioned off. Around 100 years later, the Drum Barracks finally became the museum it is today, but it also includes the ghost ...


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    Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum

    Compton, California

    10.5 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    At the historic Rancho Dominguez Adobe Ranch House museum, witnesses have seen orbs and flashes of light move around late at night. The hauntings are believed to stem from a man who was staying at the place when it was a hotel. He was beaten, robbed and left to die ...


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    Kmart #7625

    Los Angeles, California

    10.7 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Culver Studios

    Culver City, California

    11.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    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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    Rancho Los Cerritos

    Long Beach, California

    11.8 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Some 50 Native American graves were uncovered here when the golf course was being laid out. Immediately afterward, guests and employees had the feeling that they were being watched or followed, objects would move by themselves, a rocking chair started rocking back and forth for no reason, some even reported ...


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    The Georgian Hotel

    Santa Monica, California

    11.9 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    DeForest Park

    Long Beach, California

    11.9 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    People have seen shadows floating and running about. It's common to feel like someone is following you, hear disembodied voices, or feel sudden cold gusts. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Fort MacArthur

    Los Angeles, California

    12.1 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    It is said that Fort MacArthur is inhabited by the spirits of soldiers who perished in accidents here.


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    Templo De La Santa Muerte

    Huntington Park, California

    12.7 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    This place is a church for La Santa Muerte. My mother worked here for a year and we lived in the apartment upstairs of it. We moved out a year ago because my mother got a new job, i was 12 years old and i had cats and we had ...


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    Love's Pit Barbecue Site

    Los Angeles, California

    13.3 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Sunnyside Cemetery

    Signal Hill, California

    13.3 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    A woman named Bessie M. Baxter was struck by an oncoming car and thought to be laid to rest here (though it was discovered that she was buried at an adjacent Sunnyside Cemetery). Still, people claim to have seen her in a white wedding dress wandering among the graves. (Submitted by ...


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    RMS Queen Mary

    Long Beach, California

    14.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    This retired ocean liner that once sailed for the Cunard Line is now a permanently docked museum ship. Inside are a hotel, several restaurants, and the ship museum. Her maiden voyage was in 1936, and she sailed until 1967. The historic attraction has hosted haunted houses for Halloween, complete with ...


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    Hollydale Insane Asylum

    Downey, California

    14.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Abandoned decades ago, the Hollydale Mental Hospital was originally a facility for TB and polio patients. Many rumors surround the place, such as one that tells of a mental patient who slashed the throat of a priest in the building. According to witnesses, there are many unhappy spirits here, and ...


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    Rancho Los Amigos Hospital

    Downey, California

    14.6 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    The Southern Campus here is abandoned, but was once a recovery center for people with the Spanish Flu. Victims were buried in a nearby field and said to still be as well as victims of polio, the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, a flood in the 1930's, and a secretary who ...


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    Joan Crawford House

    Los Angeles, California

    14.8 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Figueroa Hotel

    Los Angeles, California

    14.9 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Bullocks Wilshire Building

    Los Angeles, California

    15.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    The Beverly Hills Hotel

    Beverly Hills, California

    15.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Stay on Main Hotel

    Los Angeles, California

    15.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Silent Movie Theater

    Los Angeles, California

    15.3 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Hilton Checkers Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California

    15.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe

    Los Angeles, California

    15.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Thelma Todd was a star from the 1930's who ran a cafe at this address before her mysterious death. Coroners ruled it as accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, but some people believe that she was murdered. She has been seen walking up and down the staircase and some people smelling exhaust ...


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    Long Beach Marriott

    Long Beach, California

    15.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Only a single report of this spot being haunted can be found on the internet so it's best to treat it as dubious, at best. Supposedly however room 217 is haunted with a ghost that prefers the television on and its guests not be bed hogs as it's prone ...


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    Hotel Alexandria

    Los Angeles, California

    15.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    King Eddy Saloon

    Los Angeles, California

    15.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Millennium Biltmore Hotel

    Los Angeles, California

    15.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Antonio's Restaurant

    Los Angeles, California

    15.5 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Pickfair Mansion

    Beverly Hills, California

    15.8 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Barney's Beanery

    West Hollywood, California

    15.9 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

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


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    Doheny Mansion - Greystone Mansion

    Beverly Hills, California

    15.9 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Murphy's Ranch

    Los Angeles, California

    15.9 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    The legend here is that Nazi sympathizers wanted to start another Reich in California. Children and locals went missing and may attributed to occultists who also are said to have made this area their home. The screams of children are reported and it is believed that the land itself is ...


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    Paramount Studios

    Los Angeles, California

    16 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Los Angeles City Hall

    Los Angeles, California

    16 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    According to reports, the second, third, fourth, 27th and 28th floors of City Hall are haunted by ghosts who make themselves known during the overnight hours. On the second floor folks report noises and the feeling of being watched; on the third and fourth, an unseen presence follows you as ...


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    One-Eyed Gypsy

    Los Angeles, California

    16 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Before it closed, guests would be touched or even fondled by an unseen man. One rumor is that this place was built on the site of a brothel that burned down; the lady who ran it is believed to be here. The male ghost is thought to be that of ...


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    Linda Vista Community Hospital

    Los Angeles, California

    16 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Seen on the TV show Ghost Adventures, the historic hospital is said to be haunted by many patients who died traumatically here. The site has been used as a setting for a great number of films including Outbreak, To Live and Die in L.A., and Day of the Dead 2: ...


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    Mount Saint Mary's College

    Los Angeles, California

    16.1 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    In Mount Saint Mary's Brady Hall, students have felt an oppressive presence and seen doors open and slam by themselves, sometimes in the middle of a class. And at the Carondelet dorm, nuns' apparitions are said to walk around and doors open by themselves.


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    The Comedy Store

    West Hollywood, California

    16.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Tate Murder House

    Beverly Hills, California

    16.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    Pico House

    Los Angeles, California

    16.2 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    This historic residence is said to be the home of lingering spirits of those who were killed in the Chinese massacre. Pio Pico's apparition also has been seen here. The house was featured on the TV show Ghost Adventures.


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    Casa de Mexicano

    Los Angeles, California

    16.3 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    According to a report from a caretaker, nine ghosts reside here. The witness has heard knocking and footsteps and seen lights turn on by themselves. Some witnesses have seen the apparition of a Mexican man in jeans, boots and a checkered shirt and felt cold spots.


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    Bella Vista - Barrymore Estate

    Beverly Hills, California

    16.3 miles from Hermosa Beach, 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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    La Golondrina Cafe

    Los Angeles, California

    16.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    A ghost nicknamed "La Consuela" walks the stairs and is sometimes seen on the balcony. Items also move by themselves or are hidden elsewhere in the building. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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    Avila Adobe

    Los Angeles, California

    16.4 miles from Hermosa Beach, CA

    Francisco Avila, former owner of the house has been seen and heard here. His second wife, Encarnacion, has also been seen in the master bedroom. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)


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