Hollyweird Paranormal

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...

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 Hallo...

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. i...

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 o...

“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 da...

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...

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...

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...

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 f...

  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 ghost...

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 lif...

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?  W...

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...

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...

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 th...

THERE IS A CONSEQUENCE IN SOUND.   A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY THAT STARTED STRAIGHT OUT OF NEW YORK WITH A RIVALRY BETWEEN TWO LABELS THAT CAME TO A DISMAL END IN CALIFORNIA. LEGENDARY RAP ARTISTS, TUPAC AMARA SHAKUR WAS GUNNED DOWN IN LAS VEGAS September 7, 1996 AT THE AGE OF 25.  6 MONTHS LATER , CHRISTOPHER WALLACE, AKA BIGGE SMALLS, AKA NOTORIOUS BIG MET THE SAME FATE ON MARCH 9 1997 AT THE AGE O...

THERE’S A LOT OF MAGIC IN FILM.   FROM THE MOMENT BETWEEN ACTION & CUT , A WORLD IS CREATED.   BUT WHAT ELSE LINGERS BEHIND THE MARKER?   THE MISFITS WAS A FILM FILLED WITH POTENTIAL, PROMISE & INVOLVED   A CAST OF A-LIST STARS.   UNFORTUNATELY, IT WAS A FILM FILLED WITH SET BACKS   & BAD LUCK.   NO ONE KNEW THAT THIS FILM WOULD GO DOWN IN HOLLYWOOD LORE AS A CURSED PRODUCTION.   DID T...

NEW ORLEANS IS A CITY FULL OF CHARM, BUT IT CAN BE A CITY FULL OF HARM.  ITS A CITY ENRICHED WITH MULTI-CULTURAL INFLUENCE, MUSIC, ART & FESTIVAL.  HOWEVER,WRAPPED AROUND THE CITY’S COLORFUL HISTORY IS A DARK CHAIN OF TRAGIC & EVIL EVENTS.  STORIES OF WAR, NATURAL DISASTERS, A MURDEROUS SOCIALITE,  THE RACE RIOT OF 1866, LYNCHING OF 1890 &  THE INFAMOUS AXEMAN MURDERS. IN 1918-19...

  History leaves a permanent mark and that mark is a mansion in a little are around los angeles called Los Feliz.   The mansion remained frozen in time since December 6, 1959.   During that dark night in December, Dr. Harold Perelson murdered his wife and attempted to murder his children in a frenzied hammer attack. He then later killed himself after realizing what he had done. Fifty years later,...

Life is lived large in Los Angeles, ever since the orange groves of an arid hamlet called Hollywood gave way to the dream factories. In the early 20th Century, the actors and musicians who gravitated there wasted no time in taking their places.   One of those actors was Charly Chaplin, bldg his first studio in the heart of the residential section of Hollywood at La Brea Avenue and naming it The Ch...

Drive around Hollywood neighborhoods and you can see buildings and structures that have been around since the development of the city.   The art deco structure and their unique designs can almost tell stories of the golden era. Many of these structure were owned by major production companies, MGM, RKO, Warner, Paramount and 20th century Fox.   Their purpose was to house fresh and new actors/actres...

The date is June 16th, 1959 LAPD arrives at 1579 Benedict Canyon to find George Reeves, AKA, Superman with a gunshot wound to the head.   Investigators immediately labeled his death as a suicide, however, many close to Reeves believe that his death was a murder.   Could there have been a Lex Luthor hiding in his bedroom that night? Or could it have been depression that became TV superman’s krypton...

Built in 1924, The Cecil Hotel was the best destination for business travelers and tourists to check-in and have a good night’s rest while enjoying the views of downtown LA.  But, the hotel’s reputation and its neighborhood fell into a rapid decline after The Great Depression. The Hotel has been the site of 16 unnatural deaths and has been a refuge for 2 serial killers, Richard Ramirez aka The Nig...