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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: December 7, 1941
ABBOTT & COSTELLO
AMERICAN CLASSIC MOVIES INTRODUCTIONS
ANIMALS AND THE MOVIES
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Black Dahlia Murder
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Evan Thompson's Bottle House
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Hollywood Sign
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Homes of the Stars
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Jean Harlow
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Maps and Floor Plans
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Pickfair
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Scotty's Castle
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: West Hollywood Historical Association
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Whimsy
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 1
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ASSORTED SHORT CLIPS
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THE BARRYMORE FAMILY
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BUSTER KEATON
CARLA LAEMMLE
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CHARLIE CHAN ANNEX
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CHARLIE CHAN: The Books and Their Movies!
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CHARLIE CHAN: Charlie's Sons
CHARLIE CHAN: Chemicals
CHARLIE CHAN: Chronology
CHARLIE CHAN: Cookbook, the Preview
CHARLIE CHAN: Cookbook
CHARLIE CHAN: Criminal?!?!*
CHARLIE CHAN: Extras
CHARLIE CHAN: Hawaii Steve
CHARLIE CHAN: Maps
CHARLIE CHAN: Maven and Rush Glick's Interview in . . . "Monster Bash"!
CHARLIE CHAN: Movie Eras
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CHARLIE CHAN: Behind That Curtain (1929)
CHARLIE CHAN: Murder Rate
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Colleen's Moore's Fairy Castle
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Nancy Drew
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Nancy Drew (For Older Fans!)
CHILDREN'S CORNER: The Hardy Boys
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Paper Dolls
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Shirley Temple
COMEDIANS
COPPER CAPERS: FBI's and CIA's!
COSTUME DESIGNERS
DASHIELL HAMMETT
ETTA KIT
FASHIONS IN FILM
FOOD CENTRAL
FOOD CENTRAL: Recipes of the Week
FOOD CENTRAL: Recipes of the Week (Cookbook Form)
FOOD CENTRAL: Rejuvenating Diet
FILM NOIR
GENRES
GINGER ROGERS
HALLOWEEN FUN!
HAUNTS: Hollywood and Elsewhere
HISTORY: Hollywood and Elsewhere
HOLLYWOOD'S MARRY-GO-ROUNDS
HOLLYWOOD'S SCANDALS
HORROR - SCIENCE FICTION
HORROR - SCI FI: Annex
HORROR - SCI FI: The Atomic Submarine (1959)
HORROR - SCI FI: Bela Lugosi
HORROR - SCI FI: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
HORROR - SCI FI: Boris Karloff
HORROR - SCI FI: Dracula (1931)
HORROR - SCI FI: Frankenstein (1931)
HORROR - SCI FI: Gojira (1954) & Godzilla (1957)
HORROR - SCI FI: Invaders from Mars (1954)
HORROR - SCI FI: King Kong
HORROR - SCI FI: Lon Chaney
HORROR - SCI FI: Nifty Fifty's Creature Features
HORROR - SCI FI: Nightmare Theatre with Gorgon
HORROR - SCI FI: Ray Harryhausen
HORROR - SCI FI: Stephen King
HORROR - SCI FI: Universal Monster Genealogy
HORROR - SCI FI: Wes Davis
HORROR - SCI FI: The Witch's Dungeon
HUSTON FAMILY
INTERVIEWS
JONATHAN GEFFNER
JOSEPHINE BAKER
KAY LINAKER
LEI MAKING
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MDs - RNs - RNBs - OH MY!
MAGIC IN MOVIES
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MARX BROTHERS
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MAVEN'S LIBRARY
MAVEN'S MAYHEM
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MUSIC
MUSIC: Dancers
MUSIC: The Lyrics
MYSTERIES
MYSTERIES: A Warning For Those Who Give Away The Endings!
MYSTERIES: Alfred Hitchcock
MYSTERIES: The Bat
MYSTERIES: D. W. Griffith vs. Mary Roberts Rinehart
MYSTERIES: Gum Shoes
MYSTERIES: Old Dark Houses
ORSON WELLES
PERRY MASON
QUIZZES AND PUZZLES
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QUOTES From Great Hollywood Movies
QUOTES From Hollywood
QUOTES From Dorothy Parker
QUOTES Dorothy Parkers' "The Waltz"
REVIEWS
RONALD REAGAN
SAN FRANCISCO'S OLD CHINATOWN
SEX IN THE CINEMA
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
SILENTS
TAYLOR SCHULTZ: Hollywood Sculptor
VINCENT PRICE
VINCENT PRICE: Connoisseur
WHOZAT?
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
WHAT'S MY LINE?
Hollywood has has Haunted Houses since practically day one.  Trust Maven!
And Maven will start off the stories from her own archives!

CHARLIE CHAN . . . Psychic?

SPOOKTACULAR HOLLYWOOD: A Curse on Your House!

Maven would like to help celebrate Halloween by adding some stories about haunted - truly haunted! - places in Texas, including a couple of stories set in her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas . . . Thistle Hill!

Thistle Hill

Thistle Hill - Oh, My!

Thistle Hill - A Little Extra

The Log Cabin Village, Fort Worth, Texas

The Ghosts of the Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells, Texas

Seguin's Headless Walker, Seguin, Texas

Perry Mason and the Haunting of the Black Swan Inn, San Antonio, TX

News has reached Maven that the late Michael Jackson may be haunting his former home called Neverland.  He is still "in the building" according to a video from Larry King's show shot live at Neverland.  Or is it somebody on the crew ?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Am67-Sew7k.

 

Michael Jackson's Ghost, Explained, Part II: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UFq8_1tNOA&feature=related.

 

Michael Jackson's Ghost, Explained, Part III: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6AfnrOoQk&feature=related

 

His possible ghost atop his coffin at his memorial service? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWrG_PUQ_Q&feature=related

 

 

HOLLYWOOD HAUNTED:  This is a book (by Laurie Jacobson and Marc Wanamaker) that Maven, herself, has.  If you want to check out excerpts for yourself go to: 

http://www.angelcitypress.com/haunteex.html.

 

 

A FEW GOOD LINKS:

http://www.seeing-stars.com/died/haunted.shtml 

 

ELKE SOMMERS'S POLTERGEIST:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/actress-elke-sommers-with-a-poltergeist/50253068

 

 

JOHN DREW BARRYMORE: 

http://www.topangamessenger.com/Articles.asp?SectionID=6&ArticleID=1089

 

 

DAN AYKROYD'S ALLEGEDLY HAUNTED HOUSE:

http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2007/09/rent-dan-aykroyds-allegedly-haunted.html

 

 

HARRY HOUDINI'S ALLEGED HAUNTED HOME:

http://www.weirdcalifornia.com/HoudiniStory.html

 

There is also a site that has pictures of Houdini's homes that says that the house (the "property mostly burned down in a big fire in the 1950s") "but has since been renovated."  Still . . . the pictures of the property are worth checking out:

http://www.pbase.com/voya/2007_harry_houdini_estate

 

 

HAUNTED HISTORY - HOLLYWOOD:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiulhAHa4Lg

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zss18a3I5co&feature=related

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbb_PYKSXo&feature=related

Part 4:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMB5MRx3rVs&feature=related

Part 5:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBNw8TkE9us&feature=related

 

 

HAUNTED HISTORY [from the History Channel]:

Part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiulhAHa4Lg                               

Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zss18a3I5co&feature=related

Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbb_PYKSXo&feature=related

Part 4.:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMB5MRx3rVs&feature=related 

Part 5:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBNw8TkE9us&feature=related

 

 

HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD HOMES:

http://ghosts-hauntings.suite101.com/article.cfm/haunted_hollywood_homes

 

 

HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD ROOSEVELT HOTEL:

http://ghosts-hauntings.suite101.com/article.cfm/haunted_hollywood_roosevelt_hotel

 

 

HAUNTED KNICKERBOCKER HOTEL, HOLLYWOOD:

http://ghosts-hauntings.suite101.com/article.cfm/haunted_knickerbocker_hotel

 

 

HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJJvepeOD1I

 

 

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY GHOSTS:

http://ghosts-hauntings.suite101.com/article.cfm/hollywood_forever_cemetery_ghosts

 

 

HOLLYWOOD GHOST STORIES:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j42mKkr57HU

Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dasnR06e4g&feature=related

Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIy0olzQpc&feature=related

Part 4:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Is7o6Upkk&feature=related

Part 5:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlfE9E0QqFE&feature=related

Part 6:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpxMyGmuzqM&feature=related

Part 7:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PfbL5UaQFQ&feature=related

Part 8:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbc3S7d1C0&feature=related

 

 

HOLLYWOOD GHOSTS:

Part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u4uZNeEOEM&feature=related

Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OoRnMDXy0&feature=related

Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrEAnFdZRCE&feature=related

Part 4:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhjlJ4_3LMI&feature=related

Part 5:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGcy3JDG7dE&feature=related

Part 6:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4MB5moP1A8&feature=related

 

 

HOLLYWOOD HAUNTED:  A Ghostly Tour of Filmland [by Laurie Jacobsen and Marc Wanamaker]:

http://www.angelcitypress.com/haunteex.html#Table%20of%20Contents

http://ghostshauntings.suite101.com/article.cfm/haunted_knickerbocker_hotel

 

 

JAMES DEAN'S ALLEGED CURSED CAR:

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/paranormal_realm/115683

 

 

RUDOLPH VALENTINO:

http://ghosts-hauntings.suite101.com/article.cfm/valentinos_ghost_haunts_estate

 

 

THE GHOSTS OF HOLLYWOOD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cTFfUciUXQ&feature=related

http://www.silentsaregolden.com/articles/silentspectresarticle.html

 

 

WILLIAM PETER BLATTY on "Hollywood Ghost Stories":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYPEpm15Rs8

 

 

There is a link to a site that has stories about actors who have seen ghosts.  Maven is providing the link to the third page of the article because the first two pages are just reruns of the links above:

http://paranormal.about.com/cs/trueghoststories/a/aa022304_3.htm

 

BLOODY HOLLYWOOD
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by Troy Taylor

PRAIRIE GHOSTS:
 
HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD:  An Original Series by Troy Taylor:  
 
HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD:  The History of Tinseltown, First Scandals & the Fall of Fatty Arbuckle"
 
THE HAUNTS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN:
 
HAUNTS OF THE SHIEK:  Remnants of Rudolph Valentino:     
 
GHOSTS & HAUNTS OF THE HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STUDIOS:
 
THE HOUSE IN LARUEL CANYON:  The Sirited Life & Death of Houdini and His Castle in the Hollywood Hills:
 
HAUNTED HOTELS:  The Ghosts & Haunts of Hollywood's Most Legendary Hotels: 
 
HOT TODDY:  Who Killed Thema Todd . . . And Why Does Her Ghost Still Walk?
 
GHOSTS OF HARLOW'S HOUSE:  The Creepy Little Man: 
 
THE GHOST OF SUPER MAN [The Death of Superman]:  The Unsolved Death and Mysterious Afterlife of Television's "Superman) . . . George Reeves: 
 
HOLLYWOOD'S FAVORITE GANGSTER:  The Ghost of Bugsy Siegel:
 
HOLLYWOOD'S HAUNTED THEATRES:

  

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