Macabre Marionettes (Day #12 of 13)

Note: This event is part of the "13 Days of Christmas." There will be more events for each day leading up to X-mas. (Info on all the upcoming events @ creepyxmas.com)

Date: December 24th (Friday)
Location: Bob Baker Marionette Theater
1345 W. First St. (map)
Time: 10:30am
Tickets: $15-$20 SOLD OUT!

Bob Baker’s Nutcracker

How this collection of rambling, psychedelic episodes about a little girl and vermin royalty became a holiday staple is one of the great mysteries of Christmas (perhaps the composer, Tchaikovsky, sold his soul to Krampus). Fortunately, Bob Baker's famous puppet players elevate this uninspired source material into high art. So, come out and experience one of the truly great treasures of Los Angeles.

Creepy Christmas Crawl (Day #11 of 13)

Note: This event is part of the "13 Days of Christmas." There will be more events for each day leading up to X-mas. (Info on all the upcoming events @ creepyxmas.com)

Date: December 23rd (Thursday)
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Sci-Ti Santa (Starting Place)
Hollywood Blvd. & McCadden Place (map)
(the "Winter Wonderland" in the parking lot)

CREEPY CHRISTMAS CRAWL

Come out and enjoy the "Holiday Spirit, or "spirits" as the case may be, when GHOULA (with creepyla.com) conducts their first ever BAR CRAWL to some of the haunted taverns along the real "Santa Claus Lane" (the one that inspired the song). We will visit with "the ghosts of Christmas' past" where they reside, and even follow the path of a famous drunken ghost that walks the "boulevard of broken dreams" (and not the sugar plum kind).

8:00pm - 8:30pm Meet-up & photo w/ Sci-Ti Santa
8:45pm - 9:15pm Miceli's
9:30pm - 10:00pmMusso & Franks
10:15pm - 10:45pm Snow White Cafe
11:00pm Roosevelt Hotel Lobby Bar

Ecto-Ice Skating (Day #10 0f 13)

Note: This event is part of the "13 Days of Christmas." There will be more events for each day leading up to X-mas. (Info on all the upcoming events @ creepyxmas.com)

Date: December 22 (Wednesday)

Location: Pershing Square

Downtown, (map)

Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Skating at (the haunted) Pershing Square with the Spazmatics!

(WEATHER PERMITTING)

Seriously? Ice skating in this weather? Yeah, I didn't think so.

But, if for some reason you do go, here's the ghost story...

Aside from being situated in front of the famously haunted Biltmore Hotel (pictured above), Pershing Square is also the setting for one of the oldest ghost stories in Los Angeles. The South-East corner of this civic park is said to be where a "dark-skinned woman wrapped in a blanket" is seen walking along the curb (two feet above the ground). This tale goes back several generations, and even predates Pershing Square, itself. Sightings of this silent siren started back when an aqueduct cut through this site, and her spirit (according to earlier witnesses) strolled along it's banks.

Spooky Shopping Spree (Day #9 of 13)

Note: This event is part of the "13 Days of Christmas." There will be more events for each day leading up to X-mas. (Info on all the upcoming events @ creepyxmas.com)

Location: Burbank Media District (map)

Wrap up your last minute ghoulish gifts in scary Burbank, where all sorts of strange and funky stores can be found within a couple of blocks from each other, such as...

Atomic Records, The Train Shack, American Way Thrift Store, The White Elephant, Halloween Town, A Better Way Cremation, Autobooks-Aerobooks, The Writer's Store, It's a Wrap!, The Victorian Rose, Hubba Hubba, Burbank Sports Cards, etc.

Then, take a dinner break at Pinocchio Restaurant (where 6 creepy paintings of "the puppet without strings" hang against vintage wood-paneling).

Lastly, finish the day at Dark Delicacies for a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab event (7:00pm - 10:00pm)