Photographs above supplied courtesy of The Hollywood Sign Trust

The Legendary Hollywood Sign

The Facts
This is probably one of the most famous sights in the world, nearly everybody has seen this sign but not everybody knows of the sad death that took place by this iconic landmark in 1932.
The sign was originally built as an advertisement for a brand new upmarket housing development called Hollywoodland in 1923.
The original 13 letters were each 30 feet wide and 50 feet tall and held together on a scaffolding and was only intended to be in place for around a year and a half.

The Haunting
In 1932 Peg Entwhistle who worked as a New York stage actress packed her bags and went to live with her uncle in hope of bigger success in her career and chose hollywood to make all her dreams come true.
She happily lived with him on beachwood drive that was practically under the shadow of the sign with high hopes for her future.
Sadly this was not to be, Peg tried hard to succeed but offers of work did not flow in her direction, she was saddened by this and on the night of the 16th September 1932 she told her uncle she was going out to meet friends but this was not the truth.
Instead she climbed the mountain up to the sign and climbed a workmans ladder upto the very top of the H and then jumped to her death.
Legend has it she still walks along the sign and has been seen around the letter H.

Photographs above supplied courtesy of Peter Weingard

Eastern Airlines Flight 401

The Facts
Eastern Airlines flight 401 was a lockheed L-1011 Jet that crashed into the Florida Everglades on the evening of December 29th,1972 which resulted in 101 fatalities. The crew were busy trying to sort out a malfunction of the landing gear when they failed to notice that the autopilot facility had become deactivated.
At the time of the crash this was the deadliest air crash in the United States
Some of the wreckage was recovered and some of the parts were salvaged to be used on other jets when needed.

The Haunting
Over the next few months and years some employees of Eastern airlines complained of sightings of the spirits of captain Bob Loft and second officer Don Repo who had died in the crash of flight 401.
It was eventually found that the spirits appeared on the aircraft that were fitted with the salvaged parts from flight 401 and eventually Eastern Airlines removed these parts from the aircraft where these sightings occured and told employees to never mention these sightings again or face dismissal.

Photographs above supplied courtesy of The Foxearth and District Local History Society

Borley Rectory

The Facts
Borley Rectory was a victorian mansion in the village of Borley, Essex, England.
It was built in 1863 next to the 12th century Borley church by Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull on the site of a previous Georgian rectory which was demolished by Reverend Bull himself.

The Haunting
The first alleged events at the rectory date from around 1863 which were the sound of footsteps within the house.
Reverend Henry Bull died in 1892 and his son Harry Bull took over the property.
Major reports of happenings inside the house started in around 1900 when some of Harry Bulls family reported to have seen the apparition of a nun around the garden area numerous times.
On 9th June 1927 Harry Bull died and the rectory became vacant once more.
Various Reverends came and went over the next 10 years all reporting paranormal activity in the house.
In 1937 Harry Price a paranormal investigator took out a year long rental agreement and recruited 48 observers to take it in turns and stay in the property in hope that they witness some kind of paranormal activity.

A seance was held on March 27th 1938 and there claimed to be 2 spirits that spoke, one was of a nun that said she was murdered on the site of Borely Rectory and the other was said to be a man called Sunex Amures who claimed he was going to set fire to the rectory at 9pm that night and there would be bones discovered in the wreckage but this event did not take place until March 27th 1939 when the new owner of the rectory was unpacking boxes and knocked over an oil lamp in the hallway and fire quickly spread through the building.
Harry Price ordered a dig in the cellars of the now gutted house and discovered 2 sets of human remains.