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'Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream?' demands the 'Happy Man' played by Abdul Salaam El Razzac in 1990's Pretty Woman. As the character implies, anything can happen in Tinseltown whether it's in real life or make-believe on film. Since the early 1900s, Britannica verifies, thousands of actors have flocked to this iconic neighborhood of Los Angeles in hopes of making it big. And when they don't, well, that's Hollywood for you. Only the strong can survive the ups-and-downs of the film industry that keeps America on the cutting edge of stardom with anticipation. As the media has shown, the acting profession can be quite volatile as dreams are frequently dashed.

Hollywood certainly has had lots of stories of heartbreaks and tragedies that pair nicely with the trappings of fame. That is no doubt why Hollywood makes such a great place for ghost stories. No wonder people like ghost hunter Scott Michaels are on hand take tourists on a 'Dearly Departed' tour and show them such intriguing items as the car actress Jayne Mansfield died in and other 'tragical artifacts.' And if you too have a dark love for haunted Hollywood, read on to learn about some of the more intriguing landmarks this famous, and sometimes infamous, suburb of glitz and glamour has to offer.

Hollywoodland: a real estate developers dream

Hollywood's first dreamers were its founders, Harvey and Daeida Wilcox. U.S. History says the Wilcox's moved to Los Angeles in the 1880s and purchased 160 acres of land. Daeida Wilcox had heard of Hollywood, Ohio and thought that would make a nice name for the Wilcox ranch. When the ranch failed, Harvey platted a town instead. Hollywood had a population of 500 by 1900. At least that's one story. History explains that in 1902, real estate developer H.J. Whitley, aka the 'Father of Hollywood,' showed up and opened the Hollywood Hotel (now the Dolby Theater), thereby officially establishing the community. Either way, Hollywood incorporated in 1903 but soon relegated itself to just being a trendy Los Angeles neighborhood.

Next, in 1907 according to Hollywood Sign, a Chicago film company came west because California offered better weather. Besides, filmmakers were sick of Thomas Edison's studios back east which were hard to work with. By 1911, Hollywood's first film studio had been built at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, and within a year there were around 15 such places in operation. Oh, and about the famous Hollywood sign on Mount Lee: it was originally erected in 1923, as Hollywoodland, to advertise a new subdivision. It would be twenty years before the Chamber of Commerce removed the last four letters, restored the rest, and made the sign one of the most famous landmarks in America.

The ghosts of Grauman's Chinese Theater

Sid Grauman opened the historic Chinese Theater in 1927, according to the theater's website. Someone accidentally stepped in the wet cement in front of the new theater, and the idea to have celebrities put their handprints, footprints, and signatures in the sidewalk out front was born. An Open Suitcase verifies that there are now nearly 200 concrete squares dedicated to the stars. Now known as TCL Chinese Theatre, Grauman's has been such a hotspot for movie premieres and other events over time that it is no wonder that a few spirits hang around. The most unusual of them, says The Culture Trip, is Annabell, a child who loves playing around the red curtains on the stage.

But there are more substantial ghosts at the theater, including a stagehand named Fritz who allegedly hung himself above the stage. A more reliable story is that of elderly actor Victor Kilian, whom the New York Times reported was found beaten to death in his apartment near the theater in 1979. Kilian's ghost has been seen wandering around in front of Grauman's, perhaps looking for his killer. Britannica blogger Laurie Jacobson, who toured the theater in 2010, witnessed a large drape 'violently shaking' and said employees have heard buzzers sounding from some private rooms once used to entertain special guests. But the rooms have been sealed off for years.

Actors who haunt the Roosevelt Hotel

Sid Grauman did more than build his Chinese Theater. He also played a heavy hand in building the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which also premiered in 1927 and hosted the very first Academy Awards. Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford also financed the hotel, which towers 12 stories with 300 rooms. Notable guests of the past include film legends Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, as well as Marilyn Monroe (pictured) who actually lived on the property for two years and shot her first commercial there. Actor Montgomery Clift also lived at the hotel for three months, according to the Los Angeles Times, while shooting From Here to Eternity in 1953. Even in death, neither Monroe nor Clift seem able to leave the Roosevelt.

Haunted Rooms reports that Monroe's spirit habitually haunts her old suite, #1200, and has appeared in the mirror there. As for Clift, the actor's ghost brushes up against people, plays his trumpet, and paces the hallways like he did when rehearsing his lines. But there are more, including a five-year-child identified as 'Caroline,' whom LA Curbed describes as wearing a blue dress. Carole Lombard's ghost floats around the upper floor, while two unidentified spirits linger in the Blossom Room where the Academy Awards were held. Radisson Hotels purchased the Roosevelt in 1985, and in 1991 the hotel was added to LA's Historic-Cultural Monument list.

Ghostly jazz players and perfumed women of the Avalon Theater

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Yet another landmark to open in 1927 was the Hollywood Playhouse, better known today as the Avalon Theater. Britannica says the theater also has been called El Capitan, while Totally LA says it was also once named The Palace. Under its various names, according to Haunted Places, the theater presented such famous programs as Fanny Brice and Baby Snooks (on radio), This is Your Life, the Lawrence Welk Show, and more. The shows are long gone, but some of the ghosts from the past didn't get the memo. Most prominent is an unseen jazz piano player who plays to an invisible audience upstairs.

Other unseen ghosts allegedly include a gaggle of high-heeled women whose scented perfumes still linger. Guests have heard voices talking in the balcony, a girl sobbing in the ladies' lounge, and there's a former electrician named Harry who steals tools and messes with things. And Only in Hollywood reports that 'strange messages' are somehow generated by the theater's adding machines and cash registers. There are some sightings, too, such as a dashing man wearing a tuxedo and another couple sipping cocktails, à la 1930s style. The scariest phenomenon? A woman's 'blood-curdling' scream, which, as urban legend tells it, was once emitted by a chorus girl after her jilted boyfriend committed suicide by jumping from the catwalk above the stage and died right in front of her.

The mystery of Greystone Mansion

Interestingly, the scene of one of Hollywood's first murders had nothing to do with the movies. But there is plenty of mystery about the unsolved deaths of Ned Doheny and his secretary, Hugh Plunkett. The story, according to Little Things, goes that Doheny and his