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Its owners had a close affiliation with the mob and the building still has peepholes in the upper walls of the main room that once allowed mobsters to see who was coming and going. Mickey “The King of the Sunset Strip” Cohen used the club as his base of operations. “West Hollywood was a gangster-run place with gun fights in the streets,” says Carradine.
Cobb Estate/Haunted Forest
Fewer than 20,000 people live in El Reno, but the city has what may be the world’s highest concentration of establishments serving fried-onion burgers. The dish, made by mashing a great handful of sliced onions into a wad of ground beef and then griddling the whole mess until it is drippy and brown, was invented there as a cheap meal for workers who went without pay during the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. Today El Reno is to fried-onion burgers what Isfahan is to carpets and Paris is to baguettes. Haunted House of Hamburgers is Long Island's only Halloween-themed restaurant, covered head to toe in creepy Halloween decor and serving up spooky but scrumptious bites. His cartoons have appeared in the title credits of the 1988 feature film comedy "Love at Stake" and in Haskell Wexler's 2006 documentary, "Blue Collar." Avid hikers will recognize this spot as the Sam Merrill trailhead, “a quiet refuge from people and wild life forever”—so reads the dedication on the cobblestone gate of the Cobb Estate.
The Hollywood Sign
As a freelance cartoonist, his work appeared in the magazines National Lampoon, TV Guide, Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Review, Penthouse, Omni, Working Woman and others. They give you 3D glasses to look around with but they didn’t really do too much. The drinks were cool, some came with smoke & cotton candy on top. The food didn’t sit well with me & my mom got really sick the next day. And, what gives us the creeps the least is their Haunted Happy Hour, which features great food and drink deals Monday through Thursday from 3 p.m.
Haunted House of Hamburgers Reviews
When charmed businessman Howard Hughes owned the infamous Pantages Theatre, he built a door that connected his office directly to one of the theater balconies, where he would go to think in the dark. Hughes’s ghost is a notorious workaholic, and is said to be seen in his former office on the second floor. Every day at HHH is Halloween so come down in your costume. In the 1980s, La Louisiana, K-Paul’s and Acme fed us jambalaya, blackened redfish and other tastes of New Orleans and Cajun Country. Three decades later, Aska, Luksus and Acme (the same space, without the chile-pepper lights and hot sauce bottles) introduced us to frizzled lichen and other totems from Copenhagen. The sparse forest didn’t seem so haunted until the 1950s, when the Marx Brothers purchased the land and temporarily saved the dilapidated mansion from destruction—in the process turning it into a favorite haunt for squatters and ne’er-do-wells.
But when WWII began, the Queen Mary was drafted into service as a ferry ship, carrying thousands of troops into battle areas. According to the late psychic and ghost hunter, Peter James, who led tours around the Queen Mary, almost all areas of the ship including the second class pool deck and engine room 13 are known to be haunted. Before this popular Sunset Strip comedy club appeared on the scene in 1972, it was Ciro’s restaurant, one of Hollywood’s hippest clubs during the 1940s and ’50s.
“Venice was a real crazy place historically, in terms of alcohol and bars, especially during Prohibition,” Carradine says of the area. “This bar is a weird anomaly, it’s one of the oldest bars in L.A. With one of the newest ghosts,” he says about Bennett, who still watches over his beloved underground watering hole. Legend has it that the ghost of Marilyn Monroe still haunts her old stomping grounds.
The Zombie Breakout combines Stoli citrus vodka, St. Germain, strawberry, and mint leaf, the Grave Digger is made with Kahlúa, coffee vodka, and heavy cream, and the Smoked Witches Spell combines Empress 1908 gin, sparkling lemonade, blue curacao, and a rosemary spring. The restaurant opened in the fall of last year in a shuttered Farmingdale Friendly’s, according to the Long Island Press, and they’re Long Island’s only Halloween-themed restaurant.
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“During the restoration in 2000, people said they saw a man stepping off the balcony, walking along the scaffolding, and standing over a worker to inspect his work. When the guy turned to ask the man what he wanted, the figure vanished,” says Carradine. Owner Jordan Desner told the Press that he always loved Halloween and had the restaurant concept in mind for a while before finally turning it into a reality. He also wrote and illustrated "The Haunted House Storybook" series for Watermill Press, "Scary Tales Activity Books" for Checkerboard Press, and "The Magic Answer Books" and "There's A Cat in Alcatraz" for Tor. He moved to Southern California, where he worked as an art director, and later as a creative director, at a Los Angeles ad agency.
Pull up a barstool next to the phantom of a former bartender who has been spotted around the bar. The restaurant also serves as the perfect backdrop for events and weddings, if you don’t mind a little company in the bridal suite. “There have been sounds of a crying bride; and a woman in white has been seen up there,” Carradine says. Legend has it that the ashes of former property owner, Thomas O. Glover, are buried in the inner garden courtyard and that he still watches over his property. Rumors abound about silhouettes of a man and woman seen strolling the family-owned property and the unexplainable sounds of crashing plates (and you thought that was just a clumsy waiter). The studio complex where such legendary Tinseltown films as Gone with the Wind and Raging Bull were filmed was built in 1918 by silent movie pioneer Thomas Ince.
Van Sickle and the hitman are currently serving life in jail. “We had a woman come to our Spirits with Spirits event who was actually there that night when the shooting happened,” says Carradine. “She saw his body lying there and hasn’t been back since.” Austin’s ghost is said to still haunt the lobby; and Hampton’s ghost can be heard roaming the second floor, where he once lived. The Queen Mary certainly has a past that’s ripe for modern-day hauntings. She started life as a luxury liner, setting forth on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, in 1937, and hosting everyone from Bob Hope to Winston Churchill.
Ince died in 1924, after falling ill on newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst’s yacht during a star-studded cruise and dinner, celebrating Ince’s 42nd birthday. While the official cause of death was listed as heart failure, legend has it that Ince was actually shot and killed by a jealous Hearst, who was supposedly aiming at (and missed) Charlie Chaplin, who had eyes for Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies. Some say Ince’s ghost still shows up for work at his beloved former studio, and can be seen and heard walking through walls and criticizing management. This basement bar below the Townhouse restaurant in Venice was a true speakeasy during Prohibition. Back in the day, the speakeasy kept the hooch flowing via underground tunnels, which are now used as utility corridors. Some say former proprietor Frank Bennett, who owned the bar from 1972 until his passing in 2003, still haunts his favorite corner booth, across from the bar.
