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Los Angeles Airport Marriott
Los Angeles, California
4.5 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
Apparitions are alleged to appear on the 18th floor. People claim to feel "a presence".
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Zamperini Stadium
Torrance, California
6.7 miles from Manhattan 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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Inglewood Park Cemetery
Inglewood, California
7.1 miles from Manhattan 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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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Culver City, California
7.6 miles from Manhattan 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
7.9 miles from Manhattan 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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Vanderlip Mansion
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
9.4 miles from Manhattan 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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Culver Studios
Culver City, California
9.7 miles from Manhattan 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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Kmart #7625
Los Angeles, California
9.9 miles from Manhattan 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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Wayfarers Chapel
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
9.9 miles from Manhattan 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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The Georgian Hotel
Santa Monica, California
10.2 miles from Manhattan 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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Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum
Compton, California
11.2 miles from Manhattan 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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Drum Barracks
Los Angeles, California
11.2 miles from Manhattan 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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Love's Pit Barbecue Site
Los Angeles, California
11.7 miles from Manhattan 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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Templo De La Santa Muerte
Huntington Park, California
12.4 miles from Manhattan 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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DeForest Park
Long Beach, California
12.6 miles from Manhattan 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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Rancho Los Cerritos
Long Beach, California
12.7 miles from Manhattan 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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Joan Crawford House
Los Angeles, California
13.1 miles from Manhattan 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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The Beverly Hills Hotel
Beverly Hills, California
13.6 miles from Manhattan 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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Fort MacArthur
Los Angeles, California
13.7 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
It is said that Fort MacArthur is inhabited by the spirits of soldiers who perished in accidents here.
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Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe
Los Angeles, California
13.8 miles from Manhattan 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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Silent Movie Theater
Los Angeles, California
13.9 miles from Manhattan 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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Figueroa Hotel
Los Angeles, California
13.9 miles from Manhattan 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
14.1 miles from Manhattan 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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Antonio's Restaurant
Los Angeles, California
14.1 miles from Manhattan 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
14.2 miles from Manhattan 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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Murphy's Ranch
Los Angeles, California
14.2 miles from Manhattan 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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Doheny Mansion - Greystone Mansion
Beverly Hills, California
14.3 miles from Manhattan 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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Stay on Main Hotel
Los Angeles, California
14.3 miles from Manhattan 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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Barney's Beanery
West Hollywood, California
14.4 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
Employees say the restaurant is haunted, and report having seen apparitions here.
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Sunnyside Cemetery
Signal Hill, California
14.4 miles from Manhattan 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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Mount Saint Mary's College
Los Angeles, California
14.5 miles from Manhattan 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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Hilton Checkers Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
14.5 miles from Manhattan 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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Hollydale Insane Asylum
Downey, California
14.5 miles from Manhattan 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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Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Los Angeles, California
14.5 miles from Manhattan 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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Hotel Alexandria
Los Angeles, California
14.5 miles from Manhattan 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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Tate Murder House
Beverly Hills, California
14.6 miles from Manhattan 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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King Eddy Saloon
Los Angeles, California
14.6 miles from Manhattan 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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The Comedy Store
West Hollywood, California
14.7 miles from Manhattan 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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Paramount Studios
Los Angeles, California
14.7 miles from Manhattan 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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Bella Vista - Barrymore Estate
Beverly Hills, California
14.7 miles from Manhattan 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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Haunted Southern California: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Golden State
Charles A. Stansfield Jr.
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Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
Downey, California
14.8 miles from Manhattan 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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Reeves House
Beverly Hills, California
14.9 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
George Reeves, well-known for his portrayal of Superman in the 1950's, died here. It's disputed if he committed suicide or was murdered, but he is often seen here even after his death. He is also said to cause loud noises in the upstairs bedroom and leave behind the smell of ...
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Chateau Marmont
Los Angeles, California
15 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
No one knows who is haunting the Chateau Marmont. Some claim it is John Belushi who died there in 1982 of a drug overdose. Others believe it was a random guest who died in one of the rooms. In any event, many people have reported many different sightings. ...
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The Laugh Factory
Los Angeles, California
15 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
The ghost of Groucho Marx frequents here. The owner has reported the smell of cigar smoke or a trail of cigar ashes manifesting despite no one being around. While the building was being replastered, Marx's face appeared in the plaster despite no one having a key to get inside. Marx's ...
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El Compadre Restaurant
Los Angeles, California
15.1 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
At least three ghosts are believed to call El Compadre Restaurant home, two of whom are former patrons who like to linger around the piano during nighttime. The third ghost shows up in a mirror.
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Charlie Chaplin Studios - Jim Henson Studio
Los Angeles, California
15.1 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
Featured in an episode of TV's Ghost Hunters, the motion-picture studios built in 1917 by Charlie Chaplin (now Jim Henson Studio) is rumored to be haunted. An apparition has been seen on the roof wearing a top had and coat, and a woman's form was seen walking through a door. ...
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Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles, California
15.1 miles from Manhattan 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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Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Los Angeles, California
15.1 miles from Manhattan Beach, CA
The burial site of many big name stars, Hollywood Forever is also reported to have some activity. Apparitions come up in photographs, but most notably are the claims of Rudolph Valentino wandering the streets of the city and usually stopping when he reaches his grave site. (Submitted by Chris)
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One-Eyed Gypsy
Los Angeles, California
15.2 miles from Manhattan 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
15.3 miles from Manhattan 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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