Random Celebrity Ghosts As Famous In Death As They Were In Life (14 items)

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  (#13) Montgomery Clift

  • Dec. at 46 (1920-1966)

  Marilyn Monroe isn't the only celebrity ghost haunting the Roosevelt Hotel - she's in good company, as Montgomery Clift likes to spend his ghostly time there as well. Clift, a four-time Oscar nominee, died at the age of 45 and became a posthumous queer icon as he was revealed to be bisexual by Elizabeth Taylor at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2000.

  Clift now haunts the Roosevelt Hotel, specifically room 928, where he has been known to pat guests on the shoulder and give people the feeling of being watched. 
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  (#7) Harry Houdini

  • Dec. at 52 (1874-1926)

  Renowned escape artist Harry Houdini could not escape death's clutches, and now he is apparently shackled to this mortal coil. He died from a ruptured appendix on October 31, 1926 - what a day to go out!

  Houdini's ghost is rumored to haunt the Hollywood mansion where he was thought to have lived or at least visited during his life, as many in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood claim to have seen a spectral man matching his appearance. However, it now seems unlikely that Houdini had any association with the mansion. The haunting remains a mystery. 
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  (#10) Joan Crawford

  • Dec. at 73 (1904-1977)

  Joan Crawford's daughter has claimed that she and her mother lived in a house that was already haunted. So, when Crawford died of a heart attack on May 10, 1977, it seems as though she joined the ghost party that was already raging.

  Apparently, Joan and the other ghosts spend their time starting fires and trying to burn the house down. According to the book Hollywood and the Supernatural, an exorcist was even hired to clear the home of malevolent spirits, and she referred to Crawford's home as a "place of conspicuous negativity," calling it an "Astral Central."
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  (#9) Jean Harlow

  • Dec. at 26 (1911-1937)

  The phrase "blonde bombshell" was coined to describe Jean Harlow - this girl originated one of the hottest descriptors in the business! But another kind of bombshell broke when Harlow suddenly died of kidney failure on June 7, 1937. However, it appears that Harlow has some unfinished business to attend to with her first husband Paul Bern, an MGM studio executive, with whom she had a tumultuous relationship.

  Bern later killed himself in their home while Harlow was staying at her mother's, but Harlow spirit has apparently stuck around. A family who lived in their home later on described hearing racking sobs, smelling mysterious perfume, and hearing a woman's voice whispering, "Please help me."
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  (#1) Marilyn Monroe

  • Dec. at 36 (1926-1962)

  Marilyn Monroe was found dead of an overdose on August 5, 1962, at her Los Angeles home. Rumor has it that she still haunts the Brentwood home where her body was found, but she also supposedly makes the occasional ghostly appearance at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in her favorite Cabana Room Suite.

  Monroe is said to haunt the full-length mirror in the hotel's lobby and has appeared as a pink mist near her crypt in Westwood.
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  (#8) Lucille Ball

  • Dec. at 78 (1911-1989)

  Lucille Ball's ghost likes to party - you could even say she likes to have a ball! The I Love Lucy star died at age 77 from a ruptured aorta following open-heart surgery. But nothing keeps a good ghost down.

  The owners of Ball's house in Beverly Hills have complained of sounds coming from the attic, such as voices that sound as if they're talking over loud music. Seems as if Lucy has some ghost buddies over that she's having a blast with up there. They've also mentioned supernatural happenings like furniture moving about of its own accord and household items disappearing and reappearing in different places.

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