Home of Hollywood, heartbreak, and tragedy. Find out why Los Angeles is the city where dreams are made until they become nightmares.
LA Ghosts offers a remorseless look at Tinsel Town’s dark past. Our unique collection of captivating and unnerving historical stories reveals what makes this city one of the most compelling haunted locations in the country.
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Leslie Pulu
Soooooo much fun!! Highly highly recommend. Emily is super sweet and fun! She did an amazing job as our tour guide. And is so informative.
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Janette Moreno
It was fun learning experience. Lauren was great and shared so many stories that we never imagined existed around Hollywood.
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Had a very good time learning the history of Hollywood's haunts. Our tour guide Heather was very informative and engaging. Would recommend to friends...
Visit the most historic haunts and drinking hotspots in Tinseltown. They are often one in the same, and filled with both dejected, and delicious, spirits.
Tour Meeting Location: 6801 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles CA 90028
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Soak up some fascinating history on our Los Angeles ghost tour and hear about the deplorable side of the City of Angels. In a town where everyone’s got a story, sticking to the facts takes dedication and perseverance. Our tour is painstakingly researched and based on facts from the history books, as well as recorded first-person accounts of hauntings and ghostly sightings.
Take a walk with us down Hollywood Boulevard and the surrounding streets to see historical locations like the TCL Chinese Theatre, the Hollywood Roosevelt, and The Magic Castle. Learn about several unexplained and downright creepy encounters that have taken place here over these last one hundred years.
The Hollywood Roosevelt
Named after President Theodore Roosevelt, this hotel has seen its fair share of celebrities, both living…and dead. This popular location is a hot spot for ghost hunters, as it’s said that the spirit of Marilyn Monroe still frequents the building.
Magic Castle
Housed in a storied Victorian mansion built in 1909, the Magic Castle exudes an air of enchantment and mystery as an exclusive clubhouse for the Academy of Magicians. . The original owner, Rollin. B Lane, passed away in the house and still roams the halls and several magicians have heard spiteful whispering back stage.
The Hollywood Sign
Ablaze in the night sky, The Hollywood Sign has become a beacon of hope and amusement in American society. But in 1932, the Hollywood Sign represented something far more sinister for the thousands of Angelenos basking in its shadow.
What to Expect on Your Los Angeles Ghost Tour
LA Ghosts takes you through 8 to 12 different sites around the Hollywood Boulevard area, each one ratcheting up the tension. Meet your experienced tour guide outside of El Captian Theatre at least 15 minutes before your tour’s scheduled departure time. The standard tour takes about an hour and walks you through several landmark locations in the area. If you select the extended tour, you will get another 40 minutes of chilling stories and historical locations!
The LA Ghosts walking tour is a great way to see the amazing sites of Hollywood Boulevard while also getting your fill of the ghostly atmosphere of the city’s most haunted locations. This tour is perfect for first-time visitors to Los Angeles and seasoned locals alike!
Our Los Angeles ghost tour is a family-friendly attraction suitable for everyone, so bring your kids, friends, or a date! We’ll make sure that you have an informative, memorable, and slightly terrifying night. Keep in mind that tours fill up quickly, so reserve your spot early!
Discover the Horrors That Haunt Los Angeles
Learn where Marilyn Monroe still makes an appearance or two years after her untimely, mysterious death.
Visit The Magic Castle, where the biggest trick is uncovering the various spirits that reside there.
Discover the history behind the Hollywood Sign and why it’s one of the most tragic spots in Los Angeles.
Check out the theater that was hit so hard by the Great Depression that one manager took their life right in the building.
Take a walk with us to hear the true Hollywood tragedies and the ghosts they left behind.
Why You Should Book Your Los Angeles Ghost Tour Tonight!
You want to immerse yourself in the spooky history of Tinsel Town
Soak up some fascinating history on your tour as well as hearing about the deplorable side of the City of Angels. In a town where everyone’s got a story, sticking to the facts takes dedication and perseverance. Our tour is painstakingly researched and based on facts from the history books and recorded first person accounts of hauntings and ghostly sightings.
Los Angeles, like so much of southern California, was initially settled by Spanish Mexico, later absorbed into the United States after the Mexican War. The small city of Los Angeles struggled initially and focused on selling the sunshine of California as a health tonic to the pale, sickly workers of the East Coast (or so they were depicted). The movie industry came later, and really got going with the arrival of Cecil B. DeMille. Weak Unions and plentiful labor with cheap space for studios made it a small rival for the established studios in the North East US.
The 40s and 50s with the Hollywood Red Scare, and the Golden age of the studio system established Hollywood’s reputation and opened the floodgates of people seeking fame and fortune, but the ghosts were already here.
The Hollywood sign even has its own hauntings and spooky stories. In 1930 the sign was still in its original form, reading ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ it promoted a new housing development. Aspiring actress Peg Entwistle tasted fame, following the time-honored tradition of an ‘and’ career Actress ‘and’ stage bit player, she also went to parties with Hollywood’s royalty hoping to be noticed. The strategy worked, she appeared in one film, Thirteen Women (1932), but then she hit a dead end. Drinking, drugs, and depression ensued, and after one heavy night of drinking, she scaled all 50 feet of the first ‘H’ and plunged to her death.
Since then several sightings by hikers and even motorists have kept the story of Peg Entwistle alive and her spirit haunting the H in Hollywood.
You are looking to get to know the LA story
LA has the movies, but it’s still a city like any other, and even LA felt the effects of the Great Depression. The beautiful Hollywood First National building opened as a mixed-use building as high as was possible at the time, with ‘ultra-modern fixtures’ it was, for a while, a desirable location.
Then disaster struck, the Great Depression affected the owners. The building ran into trouble and became run down with the economic difficulties affecting many of the tenants, this led to one tense showdown where a tenant on the upper floors kidnapped his secretary and threatened her with a gun. The police attempted a daring raid, but it backfired and the gunman was tackled just after he had killed the secretary, and in the struggle he tried to shoot himself, maiming his face.
To this day a mutilated ghost patrols the building, which is perhaps why it remains empty and haunted.
Our tour is full of detailed insights into the lives, loves, and losses of the characters who helped build Hollywood and its storied legend.
You need something to do with the whole family
Hollywood is a family-friendly area today, our tour of LA’s Ghosts continues in this vein. We welcome people of all ages on the tour and offer entertainment and history for everyone. Our stories are scary, but we aim just short of terrifying, leaving most of the gore and guts to the imagination.
Some of the stories we tell are of benevolent hauntings, some might even be downright cute! Ghosts come in as many guises are there are living spirits to create them.
For example, the ghost that hoovers up the popcorn littered rows of The Egyptian Theatre has never been seen, but rumor has it the creature snuffles a lot like a pig, and if you drop your glasses and come face to face with it, you’ll only hear it, and see the seats move as it scurries away, startled. But bear in mind this has been going on for years…
You are looking for a new angle on the same old Hollywood Stories
Everyone knows the one in a million Hollywood stories that end in fame and fortune, with a career on the silver screen being adored by millions. But Hollywood has a different side. A darker side. Some stories don’t have a happy ever after, these are the Hollywood that most people experience, and we proudly present their stories for your entertainment, shock and awe!
Let us tell you about the misdeeds, mishaps, and miscreants that haunt Tinsel Town today and are, in our opinion better stories than most of what you will see at the movies today.
Take for instance the intrepid reporter convinced that the infamous Hollywood Wax Museum® was not haunted despite all the tales and first-hand accounts to the contrary.
He decided to sleep inside the museum one night, with the agreement of the staff. The next morning the staff opened the doors, the journalist was in one piece, but pale and visibly shaken by what he saw. But what did he see?
Well, join the tour and we will tell you everything he saw that night. You won’t find it in any newspaper though, he said he could not explain what he saw, and would not write about it until he could explain it.
You don’t care where today's celebrities live!
The ghost stories on LA Ghosts features the stars of every era of the silver screen. But you won’t see any celebrity houses on our tour. You’ll see the theatres that have seen the grandest openings, the glitziest premiers, and more collective Oscars than Katherine Hepburn (with a lifetime total of four, still the most ever!). What you will see is the struggle, the desire, and the passion that has made this town a mecca for the spirits that just can’t let go and haunt the places they remain attached to.
Hollywood has a special feel, we will reveal a new layer to the story for you, for your family, for your date, even for your next staycation. Everyone on an LA Ghosts tour will learn something new about the ghosts of LA.