Episode 15: Dead Man's Curve ~ Ghosts Wanted

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Episode 15: Dead Man's Curve

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Although the Jan and Dean song "Dead Man's Curve" is based on a section of Sunset Blvd. (near UCLA), Mulholland Drive is the street that comes to mind to most locals when the term "Dead Man's Curve" is used in conversation, due to its hair-pin turn that has claimed many lives. The majority of "curve related" deaths occured back in the days of illegal street racing along this stretch of highway (between Laurel Canyon and Coldwater Canyon) as seen in the the movie "King of the Mountain."

The Friday and Saturday night racing rituals are said to have started sometime in the 1950's and extended all the way into the 1980's, until a minor (who was a passenger of a racing car) died in a fatal collision. The tragic event caught the attention of the public, and in turn, pressured the police to crack down with road blocks, curfews, and an increased presence. Thus, the racing moved out of the hills and into the valley. When filming episode 15, it was discovered that the cameraman had a personal connection to this location. He was a friend and classmate of the young man, whose death sparked the end of this deadly curve's reign of terror.

(Ground-breaking ceremony for Mulholland Drive)

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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.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009