Haunted Hotels :: Hollywood Roosevelt

Where: 7000 Hollywood Boulevard [map], Hollywood, CA, United States, 90028

9/28/2006 at 9:05 AM
Tags: Haunted Hotels, Hollywood Roosevelt

We've written about Haunted Hotels before but this week we're looking for some good ghost stories. We know, Halloween is not for another month, but if you plan on taking a trip around the end of October, you should know which hotels might have some unpleasant and unwanted guests. Unless, you're into that sorta thing.

In Los Angeles years, where something that is five years old can roughly be equaled to 25 years in other cities, the Hollywood Roosevelt is practically an ancient landmark.

Back in the day before the guys of Entourage, the Simpson sisters and Amanda Scheer-Demme invaded the place, old-time Hollywood celebs like Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Will Rogers and Clara Bow were frequent guests and revelers. Unfortunately, the hotel later spent years languishing in a state less desirable than its original glory.

Around the mid 1980s, the hotel underwent its first round of renovations (the second being the fix-up done by Jason Pomeranc and Thompson Hotels a few years ago.) It was during this first restoration, that ghosts were spotted:

The first strange event took place in December 1985, about two weeks before the grand re-opening. Alan Russell, the personal assistant to the General Manager, was in the Blossom Room, where the first Academy Awards banquet was held in 1929. He was sweeping the floor when he noticed an extremely cold spot in one part of the room. He and the other employees who were present were perplexed to find there were no drafts or air conditioners to explain away the chill. Psychics who have investigated the hotel believe there is a man in black clothing who haunts this room, although who he may be, no one knows.

Another employee said she spied th reflection of a blonde woman in a mirror that once hung in suite 1200, where Marilyn Monroe frequently stayed.

All this is very troubling because does this that 100 years from now the ghosts of Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson will be haunting the Hollywood Roosevelt instead of Marilyn Monore?

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