Haunting in Hollywood Dell (Photo Included)

By: Belinda Bentley

G.H.O.S.T Founder and Head Investigator

G.H.O.S.T (Ghost Huntress’ On-Site Team) investigated a house in the Hollywood Dell, in Hollywood California. For those of you not familiar, the Hollywood Dell is a small up-scale part of town, where some of the most famed in Tinseltown have lived since the early to mid 1900′s. It is nestled in the Hollywood Hills and only a thousand or so residents live there. Some of the most noted stars to recently live in the Dell are Minnie Driver, Goldie Hawn, Marilyn Manson and Eva Longoria Parker. Our investigation took us to a house that had been built in the 1920′s. The owner has had possession of it for twenty-three years. When you walk in, the beauty alone takes your breath away. The place seems to have great energy, but something wasn’t quite right in this sophisticated home and I picked up on it right away.

As a psychic I start my investigations off by doing a walk-through, or psychic tour, which then makes me the spiritual tour guide of a house I have never seen or been in. I went with the owner into every room, but I had an urge to start upstairs, so I did just that. The bedroom I went in had this overwhelming feeling of someone lurking in the corner and wanting to be left alone. This presence was sad and the energy took up most of one side of the room. I felt a woman and a man and I felt a sense of hiding. The owner told me that in all the years he has had the home he never slept in that room, but he never thought about why, which I found peculiar and notable. I also got the sense that a woman would come out of the room and peer over the railing into the downstairs when there was company. The woman renting the place at the time of the investigation validated that, saying she feels the same thing when she is there. It has the feel of old Hollywood and you can feel the rich and famous gathering around, some with cigar in hand.

From what we were told, no one has ever felt anything menacing so, the next few things that happened seemed oddly out of place. The owner relayed the story that when he first moved into the house he was scared. He’d felt frightened, thought the place was haunted, and wanted to know what he had gotten himself into. “It was very frightening,” he recalled.

That night I was breaking in a new G.H.O.S.T member. After communicating with spirits on the ghost phone – spirit box and also seeing the curtains move and an arm reach out behind me in the mirror, I decided it might be time to leave my rookie Huntress Melissa Bacelar in the room alone with a camera-man. At that moment she got pushed. I asked on the recorder who pushed Melissa and there was a response, but not one that was clear enough to understand. The push wasn’t violent and she didn’t seem scared. She was alone in the room for about fifteen minutes and when my team member “Healer Huntress” Gabriela Castillo and I went to check on her she described someone grabbing her arms and holding her down. There were no marks or bruising on her arms, so I didn’t feel there was any immediate danger, but my psychic sense was that this spirit saw Melissa as familiar (though at the time I didn’t share that bit of information, I just observed).

Later, at base headquarters, we reviewed the evidence. I found a picture of Melissa with a huge white light anomaly on her head. Earlier in the evening I had been asking a light (orb shaped) to get close to my G.H.O.S.T team members. By doing what was asked, the orb showed intelligence, so I had to label this find paranormal, without a doubt. The largeness of the light was a clear factor in my decision making as well. Then, in later photos, I found a picture of Melissa with a huge shadow over her face. She remembered that at that time it was hard for her to breathe. The biggest proof for me, along with the physical evidence, was that Melissa didn’t remember much about being in the room. In her everyday life she has a photographic memory, but she couldn’t remember that she’d put the recorder on the bed, nor could she recall what she was wearing, and there were a few other details she got wrong. It was only after we looked at the evidence that I realized her memory failed her, which is a classic sign that a spirit is present. Channelers who had excellent spelling before being a channel, commonly have a hard time remembering how to spell basic words after. It’s important to note that her memory seems to be fine again.

The next day, while reviewing our findings, Gabriela said she felt the spirit had recognized Melissa. I too had the same feeling. Was this validation that Melissa had met up with a spirit she’d known in a previous life? The story gets more interesting. Melissa recalled that ten years ago she was under hypnosis to try to overcome her fear of flying. She had a five-hour flight and the thought of it made her sick. In the session she remembered being an actress in the 1920’s. Melissa saw herself board a plane that soon after hit a mountain that had two peaks covered in snow. That was the final memory of the event she had because she died in the crash. She remembered being about thirty-five years old as a rough estimate. Piecing the puzzle together, she would have found herself in the Dell at some point in the height of its popularity. The only actress we could find who died right after boarding a plane that crashed into twin-peaked, snow capped mountains in that age range was Carole Lombard, who was married to Clark Gable. They did in fact live in the Dell. There are no definitive answers here, but the story is interesting.

What did we pick up on, and what does it mean? This is a perfect example of when a paranormal investigation can lead to a into a new new type of investigation and create a whole new unexplained or unsolved mystery. Recently it was reported that there is a machine that can be hooked up to our brains (still in developmental phase) which shows images of our dreams and it will be released in about 2 years from now. Will we stop at dreams or will we one day be able to look into our past lives too? Is it possible that we will be able to get answers that leave nothing to the imagination, only facts?

Ultimately we found a great deal of evidence to support paranormal activity. The ghost phone answered questions intelligently by giving us names, such as “Gable,” “David,” “Yes,” “Gabi” and a few other words in answer to our questions, but we have about a dozen photos of teal-colored light anomalies, huge orbs of light with faces in them and dozens of photos that couldn’t be explained as more than just dust, so they had to be thrown out. Either way, we can acknowledge that there are spirits that find solace in this house. The owner has always respectfully asked the house what it wanted before changing or building on the property, and because of this I feel he has found an amazing peacefulness that is in harmony with the home and the spirits.

G.H.O.S.T usually only takes on some of the worst cases; we take on cases others won’t because we truly want to help and we have an insatiable need to ask questions others won’t and to get answers others can’t. However, when bringing a new investigator on, we like to warm them up with kind spirits and friendly places. Is that what we found? Or is something more sinister waiting? Perhaps one day we will go back to see how the spirits answer those questions.

We all have more than one skill and the skills we have as a team are always respected and brought into the light. One day it might help us find the answers we seek!

G.H.O.S.T

“Ghost Huntress’s on Site Team.”

Founder, Celebrity Psychic and “Head Huntress” Belinda Bentley

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