Episode 7: Victor Kilian's Ghost

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Amid the bustling touristas and grimy costumed hustlers that create the evening frenzy in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater walks a troubled ghost, the lost spirit of murdered actor Victor Killian, who travels his path of death each night on the Walk of Fame. At the time of his death on March 11, 1979, the Chinese Theatre had most recently honored George Burns with a hand and footprints ceremony, and the biggest film opening that year would be Star Trek.

Active in Hollywood since 1932, this spectacled bald man was most recently famed for his role as the Fernwood Flasher on the seventies television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. But earlier in his life he mastered macabre roles such as Dr. Cyclops (1940) and Esmerelda's hangman in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).

A life in Hollywood often leads to a death in Hollywood, and in Victor's case, it was literal. He was murdered in his residence at 6500 Yucca Street in the Lido Apartments, steps away from his beloved Hollywood Boulevard. Kilian was known to enjoy cocktails nightly at a local bar and then walk home in a tipsy reverie. Unfortunately, one night he made the wrong kind of friends, and now, for Victor, the dream never ends. WATER LEVEL: LOW (POSSIBLE WATER MAIN OR SEWER UNDER STREET)