Paranormal Archives
Historical paranormal events, hauntings, and mysterious occurrences across Los Angeles.
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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 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 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...
The Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871: The Largest Mass Lynching in American History
On the night of October 24, 1871, a mob of approximately 500 people — ten percent of the entire population of Los Angeles — descended on the city's Ch...