Spooky Theater Show

Wicked Lit at the Millennium Biltmore

A Free Night of Ghostly Fun

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Ghosts, goose bumps, and laughs are promised at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel this week.

An “anti-horror” comedy adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Ghost Story, the performance is free and will run twice on two nights: June 15 at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., and June 16 at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Adapted by Wicked Lit’s Jonathan Josephson and directed by Paul Millet, the story follows a lost college student who stumbles upon an abandoned hotel.

The show will take place inside Bernard’s, a former restaurant located in the hotel. Early arrival is suggested and entrance is on Olive Street.

Although admission is free; RSVP is strongly encouraged.

The Millennium Biltmore Hotel is at 506 S. Grand Ave. For more information or to RSVP, go to wickedlit.org.

Tim Burton Exhibit

Tim Burton is a local boy that made good (or ghoulish).

This Summer (until Halloween), LACMA will be displaying his art depicting Goblins, Ghouls, and yes,... Ghosts!

So, come out and see these paranormal portraits in a museum that has paranormal activity of its own...

It is rumored that LACMA West's 1939 art deco building (formerly the May Co.) is the home to a couple of ghosts, and by "couple," we mean a pair of married ghosts (husband and wife).

The legend is that back in the days when it was a department store, there was a restaurant/tea room for customers upstairs with a view of the city (the windows can still be seen from Fairfax Ave.), one day while a Culver City woman was playing card games with friends over snacks, her husband stormed in, pulled out a gun and shot her at point blank range just before turning the gun on himself. Supposedly, the other women present later asked the police if they could go back into the crime scene to finish their game.

Is there a better place to enjoy Tim Burton's dark art?

Real Ghosts with Reel Ghosts

DATE: April 7
TIME: Various (check show times)
PLACE: Royal Theater
11523 Santa Monica Blvd.West LA (map)
MOVIE: Uncle Boonmee (2010)
ADMISSION: $11.00

Your chance to see this movie about ghosts in an actual haunted theater! (Note: this event is not hosted by GHOULA, and is just an event our members should know about. Thus, the event staff may not answer any questions regarding their ghosts.)

The Royal Theater is said to be haunted by an elderly man. (to read more about this theater's ghost... )

http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=1

Highlights from June's SWS

Thank you all who came out (20-30 people) for our SPIRITS with SPIRITS gathering at the historic (haunted) Figueroa Hotel. Once there, almost everyone made the observation that the infamous pool, and the target of past suicide jumpers, is mysteriously shaped like a coffin. Coincidence?

It was also observed by a couple of GHOULA members that the hotel's lobby was very similar to the "lobby" of the ghost-themed attraction, "Tower of Terror," at Disney's California, which also plays with the idea of a "death plunge." Coincidence?

(for this location's ghost stories...)

Tower of Terror "lobby."

Hotel Figueroa's lobby