Believed to be cursed by Dona Petranilla, a young blind girl and also the niece of the man who owned the property, because he had willed it to someone else, making her a young blind and homeless girl.

Ever since, all who have acquired this property have either met untimely deaths or have been ruined. She was also seen in 1884 appearing in a harsh rainstorm cursing the property, as if once wasn’t enough. Before giving the land to Los Angeles Griffith J. Griffith, the last single owner of the property went crazy and tried to murder his wife, later on he was sent to San Quentin.