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Ghostly Encounters at the Historic Roosevelt
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AOTP EP:9 Tonight, I speak with Michael, who comes to us from Arizona, sharing his eerie experiences while working the graveyard shift at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. From shadowy figures and ghostly encounters to the unsettling atmosphere surrounding the hotel, Michael recounts his transformation from a skeptic to a firm believer in the paranormal.
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The content of this episode is for entertainment purposes only, and is based on local legends or personal accounts. An accounts of the paranormal podcast is not liable for any actions taken based on the content. The views and experiences shared by the guests owned and do not represent the views of the podcast or its other thing. Welcome to the show. Tonight I speak with Michael, who comes to us from Arizona, sharing his airy experiences while working the graveyard shift at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. From shadowy figures and ghostly encounters to the unsettling atmosphere surrounding the hotel, Michael recounts his transformation from a skeptic to a firm believer in the paranormal. Michael, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, thank you for having me on it.
SPEAKER_02I appreciate you being here. You've got some really cool story at a very um historic place, the legendary Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. What a fantastic place. And I'm excited to hear about what you experienced there. This hotel goes back to 1927. When I was looking into the some of the history of it, I learned it was financed by um some legendary Hollywood luminaries, uh, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Louis B. Mayer, Sid Grauman. It was the place where the first Academy Awards were held in the Blossom Ballroom in May 16th, 1929. And you have your history there. You worked there. You were a security for the graveyard shift at this hotel that is known for being haunted with some notable spirits, actually. Marilyn Monroe, who actually stayed and had a suite there, Montgomery Clift, who stayed there on the ninth floor for about three months when he was filming From Here to Eternity. And people have claims of hearing trumpet coming from that floor that he stayed on because he actually practiced the trumpet when he was there. Carol Lombard as well, I'm spotted on the 12th floor there, and then numerous other sightings. Uh a young girl is said to haunt the hotel. But I'm sure you're going to be able to tell me some of these sightings from your time there, especially working in the graveyard shift. But before we get into that, let's talk a little bit about your history and what brought you to Hollywood, to working at the Roosevelt. And what were your feelings or your thoughts on the paranormal before you started there?
SPEAKER_04Well, when I um growing up, um, my grandma and my mom, I remember uh when I was a kid, they would, you know, when family would get together, um, they would start talking about, oh, hey, remember the time we went to look at that house we were gonna buy and uh the door opened for you, and they had said somebody died there. Um so I knew my grandma, uh she was always in touch with the paranormal, it seemed, and she always had you know ghost stories when I was a kid growing up. Um, so that's why I became aware of it and I was always curious about it. And then um not until I got older, and uh mainly when I started working at the Roosevelt Hotel is uh when I was because I was pretty much a skeptic. I was just like, okay, that's a you know, that's a cute story. Um, but then when I started working at the Roosevelt Hotel, I became a firm believer in the other side, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_02And when did you start working there about?
SPEAKER_04Uh well, I had got came to Hollywood in 1990, and um a friend of mine that I knew, you know, he lived there, and um I was looking for some work, so he said that uh he could hire me. He was in charge of the security department at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Um, so I took the job and he said, uh, but the only shift open is the graveyard shift. And I said, Well, that's cool because I'm I'm more of a night person anyway. Uh so I started working there. And in the beginning, you know, it was I was just gathering the information and I was like, wow, this is you know such a cool place, and finding out all the history and everything about it. And then uh as the weeks went on, uh they would pair me with uh, you know, different other officers who were kind of training me. So they would kind of let me go off and you know, do a patrol by myself, you know, just to get the hang of it. And then sometimes they would go with me and show me, you know, the proper procedures and how to call reports in on the radio and fill out the reports and you know, etc. things like that. And then I noticed um after a while, they'd let me go on on my own. And then when I'd come back, they kept saying, Is everything okay? Uh anything strange happening? I was I was like, no, you know, just uh regular patrol. And then I got curious and I was like, why are they always asking me that? Uh, but I never really, you know, delved into it. And then um, as I got better at my job and they would let me go on my own more, uh, they started asking me to work double shifts. So there'd be a time when I'd work like two or three days in a row, like night and day. Um, so I remember one evening, this is what kicked the whole ball rolling. This one night um I had done a couple double shifts. So they said, hey, um, the supervisor, you know, they said, hey, we're gonna go ahead and give you a room uh at the end of your shift so you can go ahead and just, you know, sleep a whole eight hours if you need to just to rest up. And uh I was excited about that because I was like, wow, cool. I always wanted to stay in this place, you know, after I learned the history of it. So after my shift, uh I said, uh, okay, I'll, you know, I'll go ahead and take that room now. So they told me where it was. I got my key from the front desk. And I was still in my uniform and everything, because I had to come back to work, you know, that the next shift. Uh so this was like well after midnight. Uh they had let me go ahead and take my break. So I went up to the room. I think it was like on the third or fourth floor in the tower. Uh so I went up, went into my room, and I was so amazed because it still had like the old, like from the twenties, thirties and forties, like solid wood doors, you know, like on the closet and the those really big uh big brass, you know, doorknobs and everything. So I was uh just kind of looking at the room and you know, taking it all in. So then I got undressed and hung my pants over a chair and you know, my shirt and jacket and tie and everything. And then I was laying down in the in the bed and I had just left uh a night light on on the stand and uh was just thinking how cool that was. Uh so I started falling asleep and I heard I heard the doorknob to the closet open. And I was like, what? So I laid there for a couple minutes and then uh the door like kind of creaked open a little bit, like about two inches. So I I got up slow and I walked over to the uh closet door and I opened it and I felt like this like a breath and it was dark in there because all I had was the little nightlight on on the you know on the stand. So I like went into the closet and I saw this it was because it was black in the closet, and this shadow shaped figure was like darker than the darkness in the closet, so it stood out, and then I heard like this like this way deep rumbling, like a growl. So I just and I like looked at it face to face. There was no eyes or anything, but I could see the uh definite face, so I like slammed the door, grabbed the chair, stuck it under the doorknob, and just grabbed my my clothes and just ran down the hallway in my boxers and you know, carrying all my clothes, ran back down to the security booth, and then uh I ran in there all panicking everything. And the those two guys that were always asking me, what's you know, is everything okay, just looked at me and then they looked at each other, and then I was like, they were like, What happened? And I was so I told them, and then I said, You guys, what's going on? You know, so they kept they looked at each other, and then uh they said, Well, we probably should have told you this place is haunted, you know. So I was like, Well, thanks for telling me now, you know.
SPEAKER_02So Yeah, that that wasn't in the job description, I guess, but funny how they they definitely knew when you started, especially how they were asking you initially if everything was okay. What do you think that was that you you saw?
SPEAKER_04I because I'm not, you know, I'm pretty I'm a practical person. I'm not like, you know, make up stuff and this and I'm like, if I see something, I'll s I'll say what I saw. Or if somebody has a question, I'll give them a direct answer. And the only way I can describe it, it was a bona fide, the darkest of dark shadow figure. It was like a human figure. There was a head and shoulders, and we were like face to face, and that that growl was just like the it was like I can't even describe it, or I can't even imitate it, but it was just like I was freaked out.
SPEAKER_02That is insane. Yeah, I would have been freaked out too. That's crazy. Did they report that that particular shadow figure had been seen, or had anyone else reported seeing that particular thing?
SPEAKER_04No, they didn't, no, nobody had mentioned anything about it, but they just told me, well, we should have told you, you know, the place is haunted. And then uh we did in the security department though, have a separate file at that time. I don't know if they still have it. We would report super or paranormal incidents. So we had, you know, I I filled out a report on it. That told me, I go, well, obviously I'm not the only one this happens to, you know.
SPEAKER_02So where did you end up staying that night? I imagine you did not go back to that particular room.
SPEAKER_04No, I just uh just I redressed in the in the office and I just said, hey, you know, I'm re I'm ready to go back to work. So I just you know clocked back in.
SPEAKER_02Wow, I guess the adrenaline kicked in and you uh you were ready for another shift.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, I was like it like majorly uh I knew something was different. Like I said, that was if I had to pick any moment that was okay, I'm a believer now, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02For sure. And what are your feelings on on what it was?
SPEAKER_04Well, looking back now, and then uh, you know, because I've read up on some of the history of the hotel, and then I've even seen a couple programs on it. Um, they had, like on the the haunted mirror from Marilyn Monroe's room, and then the story about uh Montgomery Cliff's room. And I have an incident I'll tell you about later on, too, that happened at the Montgomery Clift room. But anyway, now uh looking back at it, I can say, okay, well, that makes sense. But I it would have been nice to have been informed, you know, ahead of time that uh things like that were reported to have happened. But so I just kind of found out cold turkey about it.
SPEAKER_02But what happened next? What was your next experience?
SPEAKER_04Then the next one was uh I was on patrol, and uh by that time they had hired a couple more people and I had referred a couple friends of mine. So I had two friends, Kenny and Todd. So we both worked there too on the graveyard shift. And then uh we would, you know, one time he would stay in the office and I would go on patrol, and you know, vice versa, we would switch it up. So it was my turn and I said, okay, I'm gonna go on the tower patrol. So uh went to the lobby, got in the elevator, went up to the third floor. I'd start on the third floor and you know, just go through each each level, you know, patrolling, you know, checking the doors and making sure the hallways, nobody was in there and all that kind of stuff. So I got off on the elevator on the third floor, and uh right as you exit the elevator to the right, make a left and you go down the hallway. So I just you know started walking and uh you know, checking the rooms and everything. And then all of a sudden, I just like about halfway down, I was like, I felt this like a presence, you know, like when you're around people and you can feel somebody behind you and you don't even see them. So I felt like this presence, and I was like, what? So I like stopped and I looked around, and then I you know walked a couple more steps slowly, and then on the carpet, just uh uh like two feet ahead of me, I could see like indentations, and I was like, What? So then uh I stopped and at that time the presence got closer and it actually pushed me into the wall in the hallway, and I fell down, and then I just jumped up and ran down uh to the to the stairway and then ran back down to the office and uh I told you know my friend Todd what was going on because I had told him about uh that first experience I had. So then we locked up the office and both went, you know, patrolling again, and but nothing happened after that to to both of us. But so yeah, that was the second like revelation that yeah, there's some something going on here for sure.
SPEAKER_02And that didn't make you quit, huh? You're a trooper.
SPEAKER_04No, because like I said, I've always been interested, you know, since I was a kid, you know, hearing my grandma and mom and everybody tell ghost stories. So and I just have like a an adventure kind of a feel, you know, a spirit about me anyway, I guess. So I'm more uh intrigued by something than I am scared of it. I like to like I want to know the answer to something, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Sure, sure. And that's that's great, especially being there. That was definitely helpful. This was on the third floor. Um, did you say that the room you stayed in, I think was that was the third floor as well, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it was either the third or the fourth, and I'm figuring it was the third because that's like I said, um well, the second floor they consider is the bungalows out by the um pool at the at the Hollywood Roosevelt. They have all the uh bungalows in there like 200, you know, from 206, 8, 9, 10, 11, you know. And then the third floor up starts in the towers.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it seems like that third floor, there was some kind of demonic entity there. The one that was in the closet and the one that pushed you, and maybe it was the same, the same entity. Boy, that third floor is definitely had some action.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I was like, well. So we would always be extra on our toes. Whoever, you know, was hey, watch out for the third third or third or fourth floor. I don't know remember exactly, but it was one of those two, if not both.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's crazy. Where does it go from there?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, me and Todd. This time Todd and I, uh, you know, when we used to go on our patrols, we're standing in the lobby and uh we'd go down there like when we were ready to go back to the office, and uh we'd talk to the PBX operators and you know, just kind of peel some time and you know, keep an eye on the lobby at the same time. I guess about two or three weeks before that, uh, because we would get a lot of uh the band tours, you know, like the people that played at the Hollywood Bowl, uh some, you know, like top name people, uh they would stay there and the drivers, you know, from the equipment buses and and that would, you know, transport the band members and stuff, they would always park at the Roosevelt Hotel and they'd get a room for the night. So um one of the drivers had died in a room. This was like a two or three weeks before. A friend of his who was also a driver, you know, for band members and stuff, and you know, a roadie, roadie, that's the word I was looking for. For the people that would uh play at the Hollywood Bowl. He was in town uh with whatever band was playing there at the time. And I guess the guy who had passed away a couple weeks before at the hotel was a friend of his. Uh, so he requested, hey, you know, out of respect, you know, I just want to pay some respects to where the last place that my friend was at, can I have his room? And we didn't know this till we were talking to the, you know, front desk and PBX people. Because we heard and then the elevator like opened, and this was like two, three o'clock in the morning, and this guy comes out of the elevator and he's got like he's carrying his boots and his pants are unbuckled, and he's got his shirt halfway on, and he was just like freaked out, and he threw like his bag up on the counter and he goes, I'm I'm out of here, man. I'm checking out. He goes, I don't know what's going on, but there's something in that room. And he goes, Uh, hey, my friend died in that room, so I don't know what's going on, but there's something in there. Uh so we just, me and my partner, we just like looked at each other and uh they went ahead and checked him out and everything, and then he left, you know. So he, I don't know, he slept in the bus or whatever. So then we decided instead of checking the room, because you know, we would get stuff like that all the time, we just went up and uh double-locked it and then left it for the the morning shift to check. Because uh, to be honest, we were like too scared to go in there.
SPEAKER_02So that was a common occurrence for guests to come down scared and say we're checking out?
SPEAKER_04No, not at all. This, like I said, this was the graveyard shift. On that graveyard shift, that's when pretty much all the stuff would happen. Or if anything did happen in the daytime, it wasn't made known.
SPEAKER_02Do you remember or do you recall what floor that was for that particular incident?
SPEAKER_04No, I'm trying to I wish I could remember, you know, exact floors and room numbers and all of this, but that was like 1991, 92, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So in general, uh, did people race down to the lobby claiming there's something going on in the room and they want out of there? Did that happen often?
SPEAKER_04It was it was pretty often. It was often enough that, like I said, even in the security booth, we had a you know a special little file of paranormal encounters, you know, if something like that happened. Like I said, it wasn't like a daily thing, but it was it was often enough to like make note of, you know.
SPEAKER_02Sure. And I meant to ask about that journal that you had brought up. Did you ever flip through that and read some of the accounts that were logged in there? Did your curiosity take you to that?
SPEAKER_04No, it you know, to be honest, at that time it was just it was back if it would have been today, oh man, it would have been a gold mine because you know, the way social media is and everything, um, and the interest. But back then, um Paranormal and all that kind of stuff. It was more of a hush-hush kind of thing. It wasn't as popular as it is today. It was just like uh if you knew, you knew he's had an experience. Oh yeah, he's one of us. He knows, you know. But it wasn't um wasn't real popular. And honestly, it was kind of taboo, you know, they didn't want you spreading ghost stories around the hotel, you know, because then people wouldn't want to stay there. Because, like I said, back then it wasn't as didn't have as much notoriety.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's the truth. I remember that time. And what happened next?
SPEAKER_04Next, it was we were back in the um, because like I said, we would always like take our little break, you know, between two or three o'clock in the morning down by PBX and, you know, talk to the front desk and the operators and everything. Uh so we were there, and then uh the switchboard rang. And she goes, Oh, hold on, you guys. So she, hello, hello, and she kept saying hello. She goes, That's the damnedest thing. This room keeps calling like all night, and there's nobody checked in there. And uh I was like, What room is it? And I remember this was because it was 9:28, and that was Montgomery Cliff's um room, the room where he stayed when he was filming From Here to Eternity, and he like you know practiced, you know, with his bugle in the hallway and all that kind of stuff. Uh, so we had heard about that room, and then uh I looked, my friend Kenny was working on on the shift with me that night. So I said, All right, let's go check it out. So we went up there and we had master keys, you know, so we could get into any room if we needed to. So then uh we knocked on the door, nobody answered. Knocked again. I said, Okay, let's let's go see what's going on. So we opened the door and we went in, and it was uh quick left turn because like the wall was right in front of you. It was a smaller room, and uh then we looked down about a half a hallway, and the room was just like trashed. Like the bed was all messed up and a chair was knocked over, and then we're just like trying to get our heads around that, you know, because nobody's been checked in there, and they always clean the rooms, you know. The maids do as soon as somebody's checked out, so it's you know in good shape for the next person that checks in. So we're just trying to get our heads around that, and then out of nowhere, like this big it was like a wind without breeze, it was like a force, and it just like came like right towards both of us, and he was standing a little, Kenny was standing a little bit in front of me, and it just like pushed him back into me and pushed both of us against the wall, and then it just boom went right by us, and like because the bathroom door was like pulled to, it wasn't latched, it was just like pulled to, you know, like pretty much closed, and it just boom slammed that door, and then right above us, there was like this vent, and we heard this like this real high-pitched, like squeaky talking in tongues, voice. So then we just like freaked out, and we like we were bumped, we were like the three stooges just bumping into each other, and we ran out, locked the door, and uh just went down and made a report about it, you know, and told it to the PBX operator. Then we all you know had our conversation about you know how we had heard that room was like haunted and everything, and then just left it uh for the next incoming morning shift, you know. You guys follow up on that. We're we're done, you know.
SPEAKER_02What other reports from staff did you recall hearing at that time? Like, did your co-workers ever experience the same entity like you did? Did they ever see that dark shadow? What do you know about what they experienced?
SPEAKER_04No, um, because you know, after a while we would, you know, it would go, hey man, did you hear about what happened the other night and this and that? But like I said, it was like you were almost scared to talk about it because it was like taboo for some reason. It was like, oh shh, you know, don't talk about that too loud, you know, that kind of thing. Um, but I had heard stories from some of the maids that had worked there for years, and they would um but they would talk quiet about it. Oh yeah, I remember, you know, I was in there and something pushed me and the door slammed or this fell off of the table, or you know, that kind of a thing. Um, but not anything like in major detail. But it was it was going on, but like I said, for some reason it was like a taboo thing that okay, don't talk about that, you know, kind of a thing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I remember that time. That that's pretty much what it was like regarding the paranormal. Yeah. And where did it go from there?
SPEAKER_04Uh, from there I remember another time it was my turn to go on patrol, and I believe it was, I think it was Todd that was working on shift with me that night. And uh, I said, okay, and this was my favorite spot. I never really got to go up there because it was uh it was called uh the Gable and Lombard Suite because Clark Gable and Carol Lombard used to like, I guess they lived there for a while back in the you know 40s or whenever it was that they they were married. Um so I was like, oh cool, I'm gonna go check out the Gable Lombard suite. So I went up, patrolled all you know, all the rest of the floors, and then I got to the roof. Um, but uh, you know, it was it was in the tower. The entrance to the to the suite was in the tower. So opened the door, went in and checked out the whole downstairs, and then uh I went upstairs. That's where the major bedroom and a whole like living area was. Uh, so I went up in there and I checked everything, checked the bathroom, checked the closets. Uh, then I like sat down on the bed and I was like, wow, man, I'm gonna take a little break. So I called down to the office and I said, Hey, uh Todd, I'm gonna take it, I'm gonna take a little 10-minute break up here. He was like, All right, cool, man, I'll call you if anything happens. So I'm took my jacket off, and I'm laying on the bed, and then I was just like, oh man, gable and lombard, and I was thinking about you know the Hollywood history. And then I heard the bathroom door, which was just to the right of the bed. It was a pretty good-sized room. It like just like moved a little bit, but it was enough to like creak. So I I kind of like raised my head up because I was laying down and I looked at it, and like nothing happened. So then I got up real slow and I, you know, went over and I pushed it open, and that force again, it was like a wind without a breeze, just like rushed by me, and it went to where the back door was that exited to the patio. There was a wooden patio out there on the roof and on the roof of the hotel, and it just but it didn't like open a door or anything, it just like went through the the door, and it was like a glass door, and the curtains like whooshed like there was a big wind. And I was just like, whoa! So I grabbed my jacket, got on the radio, Todd man, I don't know what's going on up here, but I'm headed back to the office. Come back up here with me when I get there. So I got down back to the office, you know, I told him what had happened. He goes, All right, let's go check it out. So we went all the way back up to the gable lombard suite. Uh, we made the same steps that I did when I first, you know, made the initial patrol, checked out the bottom, went up the stairs, and I told him, Okay, man, this is where this is what happened, and I walked him through it. So then we went to that back patio door that went out on that little wood patio on the roof, and we opened it, and we walked out on the wooden patio, and we're looking around, you know, flashlights and everything, checked out the whole rooftop, and then we went back to the patio, and we're just standing there, and then we were like, Hey, remember when this happened? You know, we were just kind of reliving when all these kind of different things were happening. So then we just we sat down. There was a couple chairs out there, and then we were just kind of you know talking about it a little bit, and then the wooden door from the patio railing like the little latch lifted, and the and then the door swung open, and we heard like like steps, and we just like jumped up both of us and just ran through it, and then uh went across the roof and uh opened up another door that you know would take us down the stairway and went back to the office, and then uh we just filed that report too and said, Hey, the morning guys can follow this up, we're done, you know.
SPEAKER_02Another one for the morning crew that is just insane.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it was like after a while, it was like, dude, okay, let's just make the report. Hey, you the morning guys, you guys can figure this out. And then the main one that really got me, because this kind of like it crossed the line and like went into the daytime. There was like a lot of smaller ones through the years because I was there for two years, you know, so a lot of stuff happens on each night of you know 365 days. But the ones that I've been telling you about this evening are like the major ones that really stood out, and this one uh would be like the capper for me. Um, I had come in a little bit early because Eddie, he was you know the supervisor, and he had called me and he said, Hey, uh, I was wondering if you can come in a little bit early. We had like a major incident at the hotel, and uh, I don't know, man, I'm a little shook up about it. Uh I was like, Yeah, no, no problem, man. I'll be there, you know. So I got there maybe four o'clock. It was in the afternoon, and he met me, you know, when I came in, and he he goes, Wow, and I was like, Wow, what happened, man? And this was around Thanksgiving time. He said, Wow, we just found this lady dead in her room, and I was like, Oh man, what happened, you know? And he goes, Well, her family hadn't heard from her, and it was Thanksgiving. So, you know, they called because they knew that she had come to California and she had checked into the Roosevelt because you know she liked Hollywood and all that. And um he said, So we, you know, we knocked on the door and everything, and then we tried to open it with you know the master key, uh, but it was deadbolted from the inside. So she had locked it from the inside, it appeared. And he goes, So then, you know, the janitors came up, tech crew janitors, and they uh had to literally break into the room through the deadbolt. And he said that when they went in there, the room was just trashed, and it looked like she had been thrown across the room against the wall, and she was like wedged down between the bed and the wall, and the bed was like pushed tight against her, and he was just like really, you know, upset. And then I said, Wow, man, you know, you're gonna be okay, and he goes, he goes, Yeah, yeah, and then I I go, what else, man? Something something else is bothering you. What's going on? And he said, I don't know, man. He goes, I went up on the roof just to like get some air and just to chill out and get my head around this, you know, finding her like that. And he goes, something like was like not pushing me, but I felt like something drawing me towards the edge of the roof. And then these voices in my head kept telling me, jump, jump, jump. So that like really freaked him out. And then uh, I think he even like took like a month vacation after that. Um, so that was like uh the last major thing that I you know vividly remember, like you know, the other incidents that I had told you about.
SPEAKER_01This lady around how old was she? Do you recall?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, she was like maybe mid to late 20s, you know. She wasn't like a teenager or nothing. I didn't see her, but you know, he said she looked, you know, like a normal lady, you know what I mean? Like uh didn't look like anybody that was upset or anything or had any problems. And I guess her family said, you know, she was a big fan of Hollywood and you know, all that kind of stuff and the movie industry, and she wanted to go to Hollywood and stay at the Roosevelt Hotel. And then the Roosevelt Hotel wasn't like anybody could just check in. It was like most people that went there, you know, you had to have a little money.
SPEAKER_02And do you recall regarding this incident whatever became of it, the cause of her death? Did you ever hear of any police report or any news report on the findings of what might have happened in that room?
SPEAKER_04No, not at all. It was kind of like uh that that was the majorist thing, because that involved a death. And uh, but it was like the other um paranormal things that would happen. It was like, okay, you know, don't talk too much about that, you know, kind of thing. Um, but I was figuring with a dress, you know. But at that time it wasn't, I think it made uh a couple little blurbs in the newspaper kind of thing, but nothing major. And then um I remember one time they there was a political thing. This was whoa '92. Um it was towards the last year I worked there. And um I don't want to mention the name of the politician, but you definitely know her. She was the wife of someone who stayed there. There was this big political, um, political function in town. And um I came to work, I got there about six o'clock, and there was all these police like uh lined up by this one entrance on I think it's Orange Street. And there was like yellow tape and all that, and uh apparently somebody had reportedly jumped off the roof. And you know, obviously they were dead, but yeah, the details on that wasn't talked about too much either.
SPEAKER_02Wow, and interesting that your coworker had that one incident where he was uh you know hearing those voices kind of pushing him to do that very same thing.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and he was the you know, he was a steadfast guy too. He wasn't, you know, I had never the years that I had known him ever heard him talk of anything like that at all. And then I kind of put two and two together, and I'll go, you know. I thought of that too. I said, Wow, that's wild because Eddie had said he heard voices in his head telling him to jump off the roof when he was up there, you know, taking trying to get his head together from finding that, you know, the dead body in that room. And then this wasn't that long after that either. And I was like, well, wait a minute, if they got all these, because then I started my curiosity got to go on, and I was like, well, wait a minute, if this is this was a really highly political thing, a lot of politicians and and they got all kinds of security. How could somebody get up on the roof and jump off the roof, you know, when when they're patrolling there? We we couldn't even patrol because they had it blocked off because they had their security, you know?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's a mystery for sure. The other reports that I found in in my little research of the hauntings there. I'm just wondering if you're aware of or if you ever heard of any of those. Uh, in particular, the ghost of a young girl. Did you ever hear about that particular ghost?
SPEAKER_04No. The only ghost was even talked about was Marilyn Monroe's spirit, was supposed to be seen by her mirror, and then um there was supposed to be a ghost in the blossom room. People would feel like uh a wind without a breeze go by them, or uh doors would open and close by themselves, or lights would go off and on by themselves. There was supposed to be, or there was talk of you know a spirit that was in the blossom room, and then Montgomery Cliff's room and Marilyn's room. But yeah, I never heard about the little girl.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I did find um where the report of two ghosts uh said to haunt the ballroom, a tuxedoed man and a man in a white suit. I wonder if one of those is what you had heard of. And when you said people feeling like something, a presence brush past them, that's a common report there as well. People feel a lot of cold spots, presence brushing past them, also whispering, pacing, um, the sound of a giggling child. That place is just chalk full of activity. And I wonder, I haven't heard anything recently, but I wonder today um what might be going on there still.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, because I had noticed too that because you know, usually you'll hear like poltergeist stuff, you know, and like fun things or or uh prankster kind of stuff, like knocking a table over or slamming a door or something like that, or things moving. And um, yeah, but these just had that little extra, wow, that's a little dark, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Oh, no doubt. That's a lot of dark. I mean, you were it was physical with you. That's straight up poltergeist entity. That's just crazy.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, the that dark, dark shadow in the closet, and that growl, I will never forget, and then seeing indentations on the carpet, like half a foot in front of me, like walking, and then being pushed into the wall. Those are the two, like, that's like okay, I'm a believer, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you started there a skeptic, and you left a believer, no doubt about it. That's top level right there, what you experienced. They also said security staff reported seeing a being swimming in the pool after hours. Did you ever hear anything about that at the pool area?
SPEAKER_04For some reason, I always stayed away from the pool area. I don't know. I I can't I just I'm conscious of it now, looking back, and I was going, wow, that's because I would always for some reason go, ah, I'm not gonna patrol the pool. You know what I mean? For some reason, I would always stay away from the pool area.
SPEAKER_02Maybe it was your sixth sense, something was telling you to stay away from the pool.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, looking back at it now, the uh that's coming to my, I was like, wow, I never, I would always say, Hey Todd, you want to do the you know, the Tropicana area? I don't feel like doing that, you know, and I would always have a I don't feel like doing that. Before I left Hollywood uh in 2016, I would always go to the Roosevelt every year because they would have AFIFest there. And I would remember and I would look around, hey, is any, you know, I wonder if anything spooky still happens here. But it always seemed so like updated, and you know, they made a few little modifications to the hotel and stuff, so I don't know if they like over-refurbished it and drove the ghosts out or what. Uh, but it was never had like a bad vibe. And I even went into the the blossom room. Um, I went in there because they had, I think one year they had like a bunch of uh movie costumes in there displayed, you know, like uh different stars wore from each movie. And um, yeah, the room it just felt light. It didn't feel like it did when I used to work there, you know. Because I know through the years, you know, all the way up till 2016, they had I had heard and read that, you know, they had like um big money investors and you know, like big corporations. Um I can't remember the name of it that had um bought the hotel and you know livened it up and refurbished it. So maybe behind the scenes, because I remember like I said, back in the nineties it was all taboo and hush hush, so maybe they just kept that going on and did all the uh whatever they might have done behind the scenes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's very possible. Especially like you said, if it felt light so that dark energy is gone. They may very well have brought some people in to drive that stuff out.
SPEAKER_04Thank you for having me on. Uh I just wanted to get that out because I you know, there's more people you see through your life, and when you start talking about ghosts and stuff, you know, I'll tell a couple stories and you know, wow, that was pretty wild, you know. Uh but I always like carrying that around. You know, so thanks for having me on to uh get that out. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02Of course, no. I thank you for coming on and sharing what you experienced there at the Hollywood Roosevelt. Thank you very much, Michael. I really appreciate you coming and telling your story.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, thank you again. And uh it was a wonderful place to uh work though.
SPEAKER_02It was a wonderful experience all ghosts aside, it it's a beautiful place and a great place to work.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, just uh make sure you're in bed after ten o'clock.
SPEAKER_02For sure, for sure. Thanks again, Michael.
SPEAKER_04Thank you.
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