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Haunted Hollywood Hour

The acclaimed weekly podcast that reveals all the strange, weird, creepy, and cool true stories from Southern California and entertainment industry history.

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48:37

The UFO experienced by millions in Los Angeles (Also:...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/19

This is an episode that originally aired Oct. 29, 2024. New episodes of Haunted Hollywood Hour will be coming soon!Propaganda told those on the west coast of the U.S. to fear foreign invasion during World War II. Something did invade the skies over Los Angeles, but it wasn’t an overseas’ military, it was something that remains a mystery to this day. What happened during the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles?Also: It's a Sunset Strip venue that’s captivated the public for decades, but it’s allure reaches

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01:08:59

Back from the dead: Hollywood style! (also: the room...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/13

This is a rewind of the episode we released on October 31, 2024. We'll be back with an all new episode next week!He lived for 61 years, building up his career in the entertainment industry, first as a dancer, then a manager, then an agent to successful film actors. But in 1964, Marty Martyn would suddenly succumb to an illness, perishing on Christmas Day. 40 years later, a boy in Oklahoma would be born with Marty Martyn’s memories and at five years old he would succeed in proving his identity. This

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01:18:29

The Scandalous Pancho Barnes & Her Happy Bottom...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/05

This week’s story is about defying gender norms in the early 20th century, leading a life of adventure and chaos, and experiencing all the joy and heartache that comes with committing to authenticity. This is a tale of woman who was forced to marry a Reverend when she was just 19, and when she wanted out of the marriage and was refused a divorce, she told her husband she was going to live on her own terms. She became a stunt pilot and test pilot, breaking speed records and winning races. She tested

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59:36

Linda Goodman & the Hollywood Hills Penis Mystery

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/01

On New Year’s Day, 1970, a man claiming to be an astral traveler visited astrologer Linda Goodman in her room at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. He claimed that inside a hill next to the Cahuenga Pass, there was an ancient Egyptian burial chamber that held the penis belonging to the Egyptian god Osiris. So began Linda’s quest to scan and study that hill to find out if the astral traveler's story was true. Today on the podcast, Karina Wilson shares the interesting and tragic life of Linda Goodman

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01:10:13

Rewind: The Tujunga Canyon UFO Abduction

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/02/20

The Haunted Hollywood Hour co-hosts are all busy this week with jobs, vacations, and other things, so this week enjoy a replay of the Tujunga UFO abduction story :) We'll be back next week with more new stories!What did Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley experience in Tujunga Canyon in 1953?We share the most detailed narrative of the Tujunga Canyon Contact UFO abduction — including a compelling (legit?) alien-delivered cure for cancer — on this week’s episode of the Haunted Hollywood Hour podcast!The info in

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45:21

Hollywood Forever Cemetery: Why are graveyard...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/02/13

I first visited the Hollywood Forever cemetery in 2005. The lure of visiting celebrity graves is the initial hook, sure, but there’s so much more to Hollywood Forever than just the tombs of famous people. This place is weird. It’s got elements of beauty and elements of tackiness. There's hundreds of thousands of stories within its 62 acres.This week, writer and historian Karina Wilson (https://karinawilson.substack.com/) takes us through Hollywood Forever and shares some of its most interesting

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59:35

This Queen Mary Ghost is Eager to Communicate

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/02/05

It’s a 1930’s era luxury ocean liner that’s permanently moored at Long Beach and you can actually visit there, eat there, and spend the night — it’s a hotel now. But is it haunted? In 2009, Ryan, from BuzzFeed Unsolved, recorded a very compelling video of a plastic bag being apparently jerked upright and a tube of toothpaste plummeted to the floor.But the magnificent vessel has a long history that predates Ryan — it was used as a filming location for an episode of the X-Files – and many, many people

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01:03:05

The Wizard of Oz of Altadena - The Incredible Life &...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/29

Love Wicked? This guy probably inspired The Wizard of Oz. This story of a whimsical professor is also a tribute to Altadena, a city recently devastated by the wildfires this month. Andrea Antony-Morr is on the podcast this week discussing Professor Thaddeus Lowe who, after being a balloon spy (yes, a balloon spy!) for President Lincoln, went on to attempt to build a luxury resort above Altadena that would have been absolutely utopian if it had just lasted a little longer...Our source material can be

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50:44

Ostriches, Addiction, & Crime: Inside the Mind of...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/23

He was part of an ostrich consortium that failed due to an 1880s sex scandal. He shot his wife in the face. He was the embodiment of late-stage capitalism. Today, we're bringing you the story of Griffith Jenkins Griffith — the namesake of Los Angeles' Griffith Park. Historian Karina Wilson (https://karinawilson.com/) is on the show this week helping us get inside the mind of this Welsh immigrant who had so many dreams but who ruined his life. Karina has an excellent substack article on Grif at:

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58:10

The Magic Castle in Hollywood, the Bijou Theater in...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/13

This is another special bi-coastal episode of Haunted Hollywood Hour! I’m joined today by Molly Mullin, who is coming to us from Knoxville, Tennessee. Molly is a producer and photographer who’s worked as an Associate Producer for some true crime TV shows that are produced and filmed in Knoxville. She also has a new history and politics podcast with her historian friend Patrick O’Neil. It's a conversation between two friends to help make sense of where we find ourselves in American politics today and

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54:11

Apocalypse Cow: Bird flu H5N1 is here. It's serious....

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/06

Note: As of this episode's air date (1-6-25) the H5N1 patient in Louisiana has died. Bird flu kills cats and makes your eyeballs bleed. Where does H5N1 fall on Los Angeles’ nearly three-century history of pandemics? Dr. Crystal Heath has been tracking bird flu since 2022. This episode has everything you need to know about this deadly virus.Important reading:This evil company owns all the food in your house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3B6oy1nz4ABird flu mutation:

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46:58

The Los Angeles County Poor Farm (& the Stede Bonnet...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/02

Today, I’m telling you about the now abandoned and allegedly haunted location of the former Los Angeles County Poor Farm that has a history that’s entangled with the California Gold Rush.Much of the information comes from a 2015 PBS So Cal article by Hadley Meares called “Ranch of the Friends: The Extraordinary Evolution of the Poor Farm” https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/ranch-of-the-friends-the-extraordinary-evolution-of-the-l-a-county-poor-farmAlso: California and the Politics of

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54:29

The Disneyland of Death! Fighting racism in Glendale....

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/29

Today, I'm sharing one of my favorite places in Los Angeles. It’s a place with a complex history and a lot of duality. It's been called the Disneyland of Death—the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Most of the information for this episode comes from Adela Rogers St. Johns' "First Step Up Toward Heaven: Hubert Eaton and Forest Lawn" which is available here: https://archive.org/details/firststepuptowar0000hube/page/128/mode/2upAlso, a reflectspace.org blogpost called “A Family’s

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01:10:13

A Tujunga Canyon UFO abduction. The legit cure for...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/20

What did Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley experience in Tujunga Canyon in 1953?We share the most detailed narrative of the Tujunga Canyon Contact UFO abduction — including a compelling (legit?) alien-delivered cure for cancer — on this week’s episode of the Haunted Hollywood Hour podcast!The info in this episode comes from The Tujunga Canyon Contacts by Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo. Buy it here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-tujunga-canyon-contacts-ann-druffel/1000373573Some info also comes from:

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50:27

Cornell grad missing in Los Angeles, the Toypurina...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/12

Jahnay Bryan is a Cornell grad who was reported missing the same week as Hannah Kobayashi but she’s received far less public attention. We share what we know so hopefully she, too, can be located.We also coverthe story of the badass indigenous woman who led a rebellion against the Spanish colonizers in 18th century Southern California. This and more missing persons and paranormal tales on the Haunted Hollywood Hour podcast!Important reads: (Why Thomas Manizak is a bad person who shouldn't get your

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01:06:36

Why did Hannah Kobayashi head to Mexico? Missing...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/06

Hannah Kobayashi #findhannah has been spotted crossing the border on foot into Mexico and new evidence suggests she may have been involved in a marriage for profit scam. We analyze the latest developments in the Hannah Kobayashi case and also explore previous missing persons cases where the individual was located and returned safely to their family. Will this happy ending happen for Hannah?Also on the show, we tell you about a 400-year-old Los Angeles landmark that was destroyed in the 19th century

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01:14:52

Hannah Kobayashi #findhannah updates, ghosts at the...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/11/27

At the end of Route 66, the Santa Monica Pier is home to a spooky history that goes back to the 19th century. Hear all the ghostly tales about this landmark’s many paranormal sights and sounds.Also on the podcast this week, we give the latest update on the #findhannah Hannah Kobayashi case and I tell you a cryptid story from the 1960s – “the Dog Woman of Watts.” We have theories! We have more evidence than you can shake a stick at! All on this week’s episode of the Haunted Hollywood Hour

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01:13:18

The Hannah Kobayashi disappearance, the Zankou...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/11/22

This week on the Haunted Hollywood Hour podcast, we have guests from a haunted bar on the East Coast, and they help us pore through the evidence around the Hannah Kobayashi missing persons case. We also learn about the Zankou Chicken murders and find out what it's like to live and work around ghosts. Stay tuned!Join the search to find Hannah Kobayashi:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1721515858420462Official statement from the RAD Movement RE: Hannah Kobayashi:"If you see Hannah in real time, please

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01:02:52

The Heidi Planck disappearance and the wild history...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/11/14

It was a true crime story that consumed Los Angeles for months: a mom mysteriously vanishes without a trace. Her dog is found wandering the 28th floor of a luxury high rise. Initial suspicion lands on the woman’s boss who was being investigated by the SEC for a $40 million dollar fraud scheme, but then additional revelations complicated the narrative. What really happened to Heidi Planck and do we have any answers more than three years after her disappearance?Also on this week’s episode, Tanya

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01:08:59

PROOF! Was Marty Martyn reincarnated 40 years after...

Haunted Hollywood Hour ·

2024/10/31

He lived for 61 years, building up his career in the entertainment industry, first as a dancer, then a manager, then an agent to successful film actors. But in 1964, Marty Martyn would suddenly succumb to an illness, perishing on Christmas Day. 40 years later, a boy in Oklahoma would be born with Marty Martyn’s memories and at five years old he would succeed in proving his identity. This week, we bring you the entirely true and incredible tale of the reincarnation Marty Martyn into the body of Ryan

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