Episode 3: The Haunted Statue ~ Ghosts Wanted

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Episode 3: The Haunted Statue

FOR A MAP OF THIS HAUNTED LOCATION PRESS HERE

Sadly, this historic bronze was witness to the deaths of two young children who played, perhaps too adventurously, amongst the rocks and water at its feet. Psychic Lee Barron was able to sense the death imprint of two separate incidents where young boys met their last day by receiving fatal concussions on the boulders while playing in the fountain. Lee senses that the incidents are twenty five years apart, due to the varying strengths of the "signals".

Here is a photograph from 1927 depicting the statue in its original state as the centerpiece for a peaceful fountain in front of the Fox Carthay Circle theater. The popular cinema palace no longer stands, but was on par with Grauman's Chinese Theater in reputation, and hosted grand premieres and celebrities of the day. Click here to read the amazing history of this cinema palace and to see photos of the modern monstrosity which now takes its place.

WATER LEVEL: MEDIUM (FORMER POIND, PIPES UNDERNEATH)

UPDATE! 3/16/08

In a bizarre GHOSTS WANTED twist of fate, the statue of the miner at Carthay Circle, which was the subject of our last episode, was hijacked by scrap metal thieves and nearly boiled down and shipped to China.

Article reprinted in full from Los Angeles Times, February 16, 2006:
Police strike pay dirt in hunt for stolen statue of miner
The bronze miner who stood for 80 years in a Mid-City park suffered the height of indignities.

He was ripped from his pedestal in the park two blocks from Beverly Hills, cut in half above the knees and trucked to a scrap yard on Alameda Street south of downtown. There he was thrown amid the lumpen metal masses -- common copper plumbing, old radiators, transmissions and beer kegs.

Fortunately, police found the miner before he was crushed in the bailer, sent to China and melted in a foundry forge. And they may have ended a peculiar crime spree as well.

Residents of Carthay Circle were delighted to learn the old miner survived, albeit with amputated legs.

"I'm glad he's only cut in half and not melted down," said Judy Moore, president of the Carthay Circle Neighborhood Assn. "At least he didn't go into the witch's brew to become God knows what." Moore said the neighborhood association is willing to help pay to fix the miner.

UPDATE 7/6/08

GHOSTS WANTED returned to this location to follow up on another ghost.

TO SEE "INVISIBLE VAUDEVILLIAN" EPISODE PRESS HERE

UPDATE 1/8/09

The "cursed" statue returns home! ...But, for how long?

UPDATE 1/8/09

According to an L.A.Times article dated Feb.19, 1939, the intersection where the "cursed" statue resides was infamous for the numerous "terrible smash-ups" that occurred as a result of ten lanes of traffic (and two trolley lines) that at that time converged around the statue's island. (The "accident problem" was later solved by converting some of the streets to "one-way" traffic.)

UPDATE 5/13/09

The "miner of misfortune" has once again been attacked. This time he may have been the target of a hate crime. The word "Jew" was spray-painted across his mining pan.

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The Skeleton Crew

LEE BARRON is a sketch comedy actor with a special gift. Born into a family with a genetic disposition for psychic receptivity, Lee can consciously small-talk with spirits and uses etheric humor to break the ice and help them along their path through the after-life. His grandfather used to do energy healing on the livestock on their Texas ranch, an ability that has been passed down through the generations.

His first shuddersome experience in tinseltown occurred while working behind the scenes on In Search of Haunted Hollywood with Max Maven and John Davidson. One morning on the Alcatraz set in GMT Studios, he heard tapping on the prison bars when no one was there. Set managers confirmed that they had heard, “strange sh*t, too.” Lee later discovered that the studio lot was built on top of the old Culver City Cemetery.

Since he has accepted his gifts, he has experienced ghosts in many unusual situations, such as haunting an apartment heater, attending a funeral, and possessing a laundry room. Lee’s advice to other ghost hunters; “Keep it Ethe-real, but don’t be a white-light wanker about it.”

RICHARD CARRADINE's passion for spooky subject matter was ignited when he came face to face with a “woman in white” that haunts a 19th century mansion in Pasadena, CA. Since that experience, he has had many unexplainable encounters with the other side, from full-bodied apparitions to heavy furniture sliding back and forth across a room.

In almost two decades of hunting, he has investigated ghosts from all over the world, (Canada, Scotland, England, Wales, Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovenia) and throughout the United States (Florida, California, New York, Louisiana, Virginia, and Montana). In California alone, he has investigated over 200 haunted locations (including all 23 missions).

His approach to each case is academic. Proving or disproving the spiritual activity of a certain spot isn’t what motivates this ghost hunter. Instead, he is more interested in collecting the stories and eyewitness accounts, and archiving them, not only as a means of getting a glimpse into that place’s past, but also as a means of recording them for future studies into these unusual phenomena that clearly affect so many seemingly unconnected people.

Sunday, February 10, 2008