Built by St. Louis architect Alfred F. Rosenheim in 1908, this Tudor-style estate has appeared on TV screens in both horror ('Dexter,' ' Buffy the Vampire Slayer') and non-horror ('Miami Vice,' 'The X-Files') contexts over the years. What really put the three-story, six-bedroom, 7,588-square-foot mansion on the must-visit map of creepiness, though, was the inaugural season of the FX series 'American Horror Story,' in which it served as the setting (and major plot point) for all kinds of seriously spooky stuff. That first season later came to be known as 'Murder House' and its namesake would live on in the Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk horror universe, including Season 8 of AHS ('Apocalypse') and several episodes of the spinoff series 'American Horror Stories.' (Fun — non-spooky — fact: In 1999, the Rosenheim Mansion was added to L.A.'s list of Historical-Cultural Monuments.) Spookiness factor: There's something about the heavy red brickwork, the Tiffany stained-glass windows and the fact that it served as a convent for Catholic nuns for half a century that makes this one of the spookiest places on the list. (And the less thought about what transpired in the basement — onscreen or off — the better.)
One of the things that makes the approaching spooky season so special in Southern California is that so many of the set pieces that haunt our collective imagination — on screens big and small — are close at hand.
Second, while scariness is, to a certain extent, subjective , I’ve tried to give each place I visited an in-the-flesh spookiness factor; a barometer of how just frightening these scary places seem offscreen. Whether or not you ultimately agree, consider yourself forewarned.We’ve traveled around Los Angeles to find the scariest places to visit when you’re high, whether for Halloween or a day of exploring the city.Built by St. Louis architect Alfred F.
Here’s hoping the new owners carry on the Halloween tradition of the previous ones, who were known to stock the porch with prop pumpkins and a nice note each season, encouraging visitors to reenact the scene where Laurie Strode sat atop a concrete pillar clutching her bags and a pumpkin at the corner of Fairview Avenue and Oxley Street waiting for Annie to pick her up for an ill-fated babysitting gig.
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