Formerly the filming site for the popular television show Fantasy Island, the L.A. City Arboretum is also known to be inhabited by a famous Indian chief. Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, known in his day for being an actor, writer, and activist for Indian rights.

Though he was an avid participant in all these activities he was also exposed as an American-Indian impostor. Upon closer inspection of his past it was discovered that he was not an Indian nor a chief after all.

His real past revealed him to be a black man named Sylvester Long, poor and unwilling to bear segregation in the south he moved to California. After his true identity was discovered he committed suicide and now his soul has been doomed to haunt the Arboretum for an undisclosed amount of time.

Since his death there have been occassional sightings of the chief on the set of Fantasy Island, when it was still airing. Identified in crowd scenes and spotted hanging around the sets, it would seem that even death has no cure for the ever elusive “acting bug”.

It seems that Hollywood has it’s fair share of lost dead souls as well as lost living ones. This lost soul belonged to a young aspiring starlet named Lillian Millicent Entwistle. Lillian, or Peg as some called her, arrived in Hollywood from England with dreams of stardom like so many millions of other young women. Apparently she didn’t find it or else she wouldn’t have jumped off the sign!

On the 18th of September in 1932 Peg climbed up the walkway leading to the Hollywood sign, found a ladder behind the big “H” and leaped into eternity. Unlike so many other suicides committed by actors and actresses, this one worked. Her suicide was all over the news the next day, it turned out she gained more fame through death, all it cost was her life. Now her ghost can be seen walking up the walkway towards the sign and jumping off the big “H” every once in a while.