The Queen of Angels Hospital, located somewhere on Vermont Ave. is believed to be the source of strange supernatural activity. The Queen of Angels is a well known filming location in Hollywood and is used frequently in movies and TV shows. It’s not so much the whole building that’s haunted but one of the floors. Possibly the 9th? Maybe, not sure. Security guards in the building have told of periodic motion detector alerts specifically from that floor and chairs spinning in the center of the floor without stopping.

There is also a small rumor that the 1995 film, The Prophecy, was filmed in this hospital. During shooting, Christopher Walken was said to have visited the “Haunted floor” and purportedly had an encounter with the spirit in question. (If anyone can corroborate this rumor it would be greatly appreciated as just by looking at the ‘filming locations’ in IMDB.com for this film I don’t see this hospital listed.)

Other reports tell of feeling “chills” in a certain spot on the floor, and of finding out later that the same spot was where the spinning chair made it’s debut. The ghost’s haunting days may be over though, it turns out that the Hospital was bought by a church group and the holy men had the floor exorcised.

Known to be the haunting grounds for a tragic couple that committed suicide in a rental house next to the street. Now and then people can actually see the spirits of these two deceased lovers standing at the end their bed near midnight.

An old civil war outpost, the Drum Barracks contains a large number of apparitions ranging from an officer and his family to Apache scouts and even a group of civil war-era soldiers. One witness even claims to have been told a story by the spirit of the officer and his wife.

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.

The Queen Mary was commissioned in 1936. She has had many duties ranging from luxury ocean liner to troop transport, there is no question that she’s haunted, the question lies in how many people actually haunt this ship.

There are reports of banging noises, beautiful women dressed in white, ghastly screams from the kitchen, ghosts of drowned passengers, Italian prisoners of war, children in the nursery, and dead seamen roaming the passageways. There are probably even more than that judging from the countless number of passengers she had.

It is said that the ghost in the kitchen was actually a cook whose cooking was so bad that disgruntled troops revolted and stuffed him in the oven. All the while listening to his terror-laden screams of pain.

Once known as the world famous Ciro’s Nightclub, this old building now houses a different kind of night life. Back in the day when mobsters and stars would frequent the same abodes, Ciro’s was the place to be. Now the Comedy Store stands where Ciro’s was, everything of that era is gone… or is it? Not so, say the many patrons and employees of this stand-up haven. Occurences have been reported of unexplainable sound and lighting problems as well as a strange and malevolent entity residing in the basement.

This hotel is famous for being used in the 1930’s by Harry Houdini’s wife for conducting seances in order to contact her deceased husband. It was also a well known hot spot in Hollywood way back in the 30’s. Some of the customers of the cafe as well as guests of the hotel were such well known superstars as Marilyn Monroe, Valentino, Lana Turner, and Mae West.

Employees in the cafe claim that they have felt certain cold spots in the cafe as well as having seen none other than Hollywood’s most sighted spirit, Rudolph Valentino! During an investigation it was discovered that one of the cold spots in the cafe was the actual spot where famed Hollywood director D. W. Griffith fell dead.

Known to be a “stop-off for the stars”, this quaint hotel played host to many Hollywood hopefuls. The list includes greats such as Marilyn Monroe and Orson Welles, who had to lodge up in what they could afford at the time. Lucky for them the Oban was exactly all they could afford.

The filming location for such shows as The Laurence Welk Show and This is Your Life, The Palace has been entertaining people for nearly seven decades.

Many happy events occurred here, so wouldn’t it make sense that such a happy place be filled with ghosts of happy people?

There have been reports of piano music coming from the third floor comedy room, cold gusts of wind, and the scent of perfume. On top of that a security guard describes seeing a love-stricken couple gazing into each other’s eyes on the balcony of the dance floor. When he got to the balcony to tell them they shouldn’t be there they simply disappeared.

The operations manager of the theater once caught site of some sort of blue light floating on the catwalk.

Bought in 1949 by Howard Hughes and then later sold in the 1950’s, the Pantages Theater stands as one of Hollywood’s last landmark theaters. In 1967 the Pantages Theater was bought by Pacific Theaters and then, with the help of the Nederlander Corporation initiated renovations.

Since that time there have been reports of feeling cold gusts of wind from out of no where, banging sounds emanating from empty offices and the scent of cigarettes. One witness claims to have seen Hughes’ ghost twice, described as a tall man, she always spotted Hughes rounding a corner towards the former entrance of his old office.

Another ghost spotted at the Pantages is that of a former patron who died there in 1932. Rumored to be an aspiring singer, her apparition can be heard singing in the theater at night when the lights are out and no one but the employees are around. Recently her voice was caught on a loudspeaker during a live performance.

One of the female employees in the wardrobe department claims that one night, while heading towards one of the theater’s side doors, the emergency lights suddenly went out. Leaving her in total darkness. Pressing on, she ran into something and then felt a hand grab hers. The hand led her to one of the side doors and outside the building, upon turning around to thank whoever it was, she saw that nobody was there.