Haunted Hollywood Hour

The fact that Hollywood, California ended up being the home of motion pictures in the 20th Century was never a given. In fact, the motion picture industry in the United States came very close to not being possible at...

Calese Crowder – arguably the worst person in Southern California (and that’s saying something) – is at it again. He’s a man who has been caught multiple times "sniffing women" in various retail establishments. And, as...

Exciting news from Haunted Hollywood Hour! The pod is preparing for an all new season with improved audio and even more episodes delivered regularly to the feed. But as we get ready to roll out more weird, historical...

Resurfaced from the archives, this episode originally aired Jan. 23, 2025. He was part of an ostrich consortium that failed due to an 1880s sex scandal. He shot his wife in the face. He was the embodiment of late-stage...

Resurfaced from the archives, this episode originally aired Jan. 29, 2025. Love Wicked ? This guy probably inspired The Wizard of Oz . This story of a whimsical professor is also a tribute to Altadena, a city recently...

This week’s episode is about Jack Parsons' second wife, Marjorie Cameron, who may actually be more interesting than her rocket scientist/occultist husband. She grew up in the room where her aunt died, was a weirdo in...

In 2011, Michael Darnell Bell, a 25-year-old, is found by CHP officers in a car on the side of the I-5 freeway. It's 3:00 AM in the morning. His car is out of gas. The CHP officers pick him up and drive him to a...

This week, we’re covering another aerospace weirdo with connections to the Mojave Desert. He’s a rocket man, an occultist and a fan of orgies. This is the Jack Parsons episode with Ringa Sunn who is back on the show...

Today we're sharing the story of George Van Tassel who left a successful aerospace career to move his wife and 3 daughters literally under a rock in the middle of the Mojave Desert, where he communicated with aliens...

Today's episode is about a turn-of-the-century manhunt in the Mojave Desert that’s been told and retold by various folks over the years like a game of white people telephone… We never fully get the truth of what really...

50 miles east of Los Angeles, there’s a town of about 200,000 that was mostly made up of chicken farms and citrus groves in the early 1900s, but by the 1940’s its population grew when Henry Kaiser opened a steelmill...

We’re talking Bigfoot encounters in Southern California with Canadian friend Tessa! Because there's so many Sasquatch stories to cover, this will be a multipart series. Today's episode focuses on the Bigfoot encounters...

Today we’re talking about the man behind one of the most tragic cult stories in US history — David Koresh who was born Vernon Howell and who went on to become the leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect, his life...

Today on Haunted Hollywood Hour, we have a little astrological fun and find out our friend’s astrology, then match them with a murderer who has the same sun sign as them. In this case, Bel is an Aries. And I’m going to...

Cahuenga Pass is where a California governor got part of his face ripped off, where 10 people died because of cursed treasure, where the Egyptians allegedly buried a god’s penis, and that’s just the beginning! Today...