California – Hollywood Sign, Hollywood
As California’s most unsightly landmark, The Hollywood Sign has an unsurprisingly sordid history. In September of 1932, supposedly after getting a bad review, an actress climbed the Hollywood sign and jumped to her death. Hollywood being Hollywood, her suicide note was published: “I am afraid, I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E.” Legend now says that anyone who goes to The Hollywood Sign alone is accompanied by death, and many suicides have happened there since.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)