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Hadley Hall Meares

Los Angeles–based journalist and historian writing about history and culture for Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Atlas Obscura, and other outlets.

Oct 8, 2026

Via Podcast

Via Podcast

Go Ghost Hunting in Haunted Hollywood: The Black Dahlia, Marilyn Monroe, and the Starlet Who Haunts the Hollywood Sign

Oct 8 · 44m

Mitti Hicks
Mitti HicksHOST
18:48
Oh.
Hadley Hall Meares
Hadley Hall MearesGUEST
18:48
And he held a lot of secrets for people in LA.
Hadley Hall Meares
Hadley Hall MearesGUEST
18:52
He was best childhood friends with the director, John Huston.
Hadley Hall Meares
Hadley Hall MearesGUEST
18:56
He hung out with a lot of surrealist artists, surrealist writers.
Hadley Hall Meares
Hadley Hall MearesGUEST
19:01
He was obsessed with the photographer, Man Ray, who he was famous for these kind of disembodied, very structural, kind of disturbing portraits of women.
Hadley Hall Meares
Hadley Hall MearesGUEST
19:12
So a lot of really horrible things happened at Sowden House.
Hadley Hall Meares
Hadley Hall MearesGUEST
19:15
He threw all these hedonistic parties, and was a very abusive man, a terrible man.
Michelle Donati
Michelle DonatiHOST
24:20
I guess there's another story here about why it's haunted.

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