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Historical paranormal events, hauntings, and mysterious occurrences across Los Angeles.
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Sycamore Knoll: The Mysterious Underwater Structure Off the Coast of Malibu
Six miles off Malibu, 2,000 feet below the Pacific, sits Sycamore Knoll — a nearly five-square-mile underwater formation with a flat, structured top. ...
The USS Nimitz Tic-Tac Encounter: Navy Pilots Intercept Unknown Craft off Southern California (2004)
On November 14, 2004, U.S. Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz intercepted a smooth, white, 40-foot tic-tac shaped craft off the Southern California coast...
The Topanga Canyon UFO Wave: 50 Years of Documented Sightings in the Santa Monica Mountains
Topanga Canyon, a rural community of 8,000 residents tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains just west of Los Angeles, has been a concentrated hotspot ...
The Hillside Stranglers: Cousins Who Terrorized Los Angeles Under a Badge (1977–1978)
Between October 1977 and February 1978, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. raped, tortured, and murdered ten women across Los Angeles, dumpi...
The Manson Family Murders: The Night That Ended the 1960s (1969)
Over two nights in August 1969, members of Charles Manson's cult — known as the Family — murdered seven people in two separate Los Angeles locations: ...
The Los Feliz Murder House: The Home Frozen in Time Since 1959
On December 6, 1959, physician Harold Perelson bludgeoned his wife to death in their Los Feliz home, then took his own life. The next owners purchased...
The Black Dahlia: The Murder of Elizabeth Short That Haunts Los Angeles Forever (1947)
On January 15, 1947, the nude, bisected body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found in a Leimert Park vacant lot — drained of blood, severed with su...
The Battle of Los Angeles: Anti-Aircraft Guns Fire on an Unknown Object Over the City (1942)
On February 24–25, 1942, Los Angeles County went dark under a full blackout order as anti-aircraft guns across the city opened fire on an unidentified...
The Legend of the Lizard People: Ancient Tunnels and Gold Tablets Beneath Downtown Los Angeles (1934)
On January 29, 1934, the Los Angeles Times ran the headline 'Lizard People's Catacomb City Hunted' — reporting engineer G. Warren Shufelt's claim that...
The Lizard People of Los Angeles: A Mining Engineer, an X-Ray Machine, and 5,000-Year-Old Tunnels Beneath the City (1934)
On January 29, 1934, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page story about mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt, who claimed his self-built radio X-ray devi...
The Hollywood Pantages Theatre: Ghosts Behind the Curtain
Opened on June 4, 1930, the Hollywood Pantages Theatre is an Art Deco masterpiece on Hollywood Boulevard that hosted the Academy Awards from 1950 to 1...
The Greystone Mansion Murder Mystery: Two Men Dead, No Answers (1929)
On February 16, 1929, oil heir Edward 'Ned' Doheny Jr. and his personal secretary Hugh Plunkett were found dead in a guest bedroom of Greystone Mansio...