(An angel at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery)
If you live in Southern California, you might see this article by Tamara Thorne in the newspapers. After exploring a load of allegedly haunted places in and around the Los Angeles basin, she chose her 13 favorite haunts.
(Suicide Bridge)
All are publicly accessible and include the Queen Mary, the Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica, Suicide Bridge in Pasadena, and Calico Ghost Town in the high desert.
(A schoolhouse from Calico Ghost Town, which was the inspiration for Tamara’s novel, Thunder Road.)
Her personal favorites include the Old Zoo in Griffith Park – it’s haunted by tourists and animals from long ago – and a little taco joint called Taco Lita in Arcadia, where she saw a friendly apparition.
(Taco Lita, where Tamara saw an apparition… and had great food!)
The other sites include Wilmington’s Drum Barracks, full of phantom sounds and fragrances, two lighthouses on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Claremont’s Old Schoolhouse, Olvera Street, Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
(A haunted Palos Verde lighthouse)
To learn more about these haunted places, check out the newspaper article here.
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