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If You’ve Ever Wondered How an Urban Legend Gets Started…
StockXchng image Here at Dateline>City of Angels we love to dissect and examine historic ghostlore and other longstanding urban legends. However, it’s not very often that we get to see a real,...
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L.A.’s Forgotten Lizard People
(StockXchange image) The KCRW Shortcuts blog has a new post exploring the facts and fiction surrounding Los Angeles’ oft-ignored network of underground tunnels. The post includes links to several...
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Can Haunted Los Encinos SHP Be Saved?
Garnier House. (Wikimedia) That’s the question raised by this March 2 Los Angeles Daily News article. (Well, the article doesn’t actually mention the “haunted” angle, but we’ll get to that below.) It...
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Summer Reruns: A Few Favorite Ghost Posts
(StockXchange image) When it comes to sleuthing a good ghost story, I’m like Velma in the “Scooby Doo” cartoons: I prefer to start my search in the library. Over the years, this blog has paid a lot of...
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Summer Reruns: Murder and Mayhem Edition
(StockXchange) That’s right, folks! Once again we’re pimping the old Dateline>City of Angels archives to reacquaint readers with some of our all-time favorite posts. This week we bring you three...
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Close-Up: Monrovia’s Scary Aztec Hotel
Monrovia's haunting Aztec Hotel. Built in 1925 in the Mayan Revival style, Monrovia’s sadly dilapidated Aztec Hotel is a notable example of the once-proudly offbeat motoring attractions that...
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Summer Reruns: Cryptic SoCal Edition
Angeles-Rosedale Cemetery. Like many history buffs, I find old cemeteries profoundly educational. Walking among the plots, statuary and epitaphs, you never know who (or what) you’ll stumble upon. But...
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This has got to be some type of Halloween gimmick or hoax. During California’s Mission Era, meticulous records were kept by both civil and Church authorities documenting every phase of a mission’s...
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Will South Pasadena’s “Haunted” Rialto Theater Ever See a Revival?
Rialto Theater, Mike Imlay. Every respectable theater has its ghost stories, but a ghost cat? Yet that’s just one of several creepy tales circulating about South Pasadena’s crumbling Rialto Theater....
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Rudolph Valentino’s Mysterious Ladies in Black
Valentino; Wikimedia Commons Amazingly, 87 years after his death, Rudolph Valentino continues to capture the imagination of cinema fans. Even more incredibly, he still somehow manages to draw veiled...
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They Paved Toto and Put Up a Parking Lot
Toto; Public Domain Well, sort of. They actually paved over the Wizard of Oz canine’s Studio City grave when they built the Ventura Freeway — which often seems like a parking lot. The Los Angeles...
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Photo Find: Dissuading “Suicide Bridge” Jumpers, 1937
Colorado Street Bridge barricade. Herald Examiner, LAPL Digital Archives Finally frustrated by the shocking number of jumpers drawn to Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge, officials took the drastic...
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Kitsch LA: An Atlas Tombstone That Sort of Makes You Shrug
Atlas headstone; Michael Imlay L os Angeles graveyards can get pretty odd, but seldom odder than this tombstone at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The chisled scale granite replica of an Atlas missile...
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Photo Find: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson Goes to Rest
Sister Aimee Semple McPherson at rest; LAPL Digital Archives In life they say “Sister” Aimee Semple McPherson was the most photographed woman of her time. In death they say she went to her grave with...
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The Hollywood Reporter Names LA’s “Most Haunted” Locations
Ship of ghosts, courtesy the Queen Mary Hotel website The word is out… The best place to rest with the angels is the City of Angels. That’s apparently because, for the dead as well as the living,...
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Slideshow: Tripping Out to Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Now this is what a real graveyard should look like: Mausoleums, tombs, monuments and headstones pushing up like daisies from the grounds — not boring flat markers...
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Photo Find: Fido’s Lost Resting Place
LA Pet Cemetery Sign, circa 1937; LAPL Digital Archives A 1930s sign welcoming visitors to the now-defunct LA Pet Cemetery at 2500 N. Highland Ave. The animal boneyard was eventually razed to make way...
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Photo Op: Carroll Ave. “Thriller” House
"Thriller" House at Carroll Ave.; Michael Imlay Nothing says Halloween like an old Victorian house. And no place will you find a better collection of Los Angeles Victorians than Carroll Ave., an...
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The Avila Adobe: LA’s Oldest Haunted House?
Olvera Street's Avila Adobe; Michael Imlay Built in 1818 by wealthy rancher and former mayor Francisco Avila near the center of Olvera Street, the Avila Adobe is considered Los Angeles’ oldest...
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The Giant Tombstone and the 1928 St. Francis Dam Disaster
Before the 1928 Disaster. LADWP Archive Photo. When William Mulholland completed the 12.5-billion-gallon St. Francis Dam in 1926, Angelenos hailed it as the capstone to the distinguished engineer’s...
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