Esoterica: Psychic Searches For Crash Victims, Haunted Warwickshire Hotel and Paranormal Vicar

Chile enlists psychic in search for plane crash victims

Chile on Monday turned to the powers of a psychic to find the bodies of 17 people still missing after a military plane crash near the remote Robinson Crusoe island in the Pacific Ocean.

"We're are working with a person who is on one of the (search) boats," Defense Minister Andres Allamand told national Chilean TV in response to a question of whether a medium was taking part in recovery efforts.

"Not only are we using all of our technological capabilities, but also all the human and superhuman abilities that may exist," he said.

Allamand, who has been on the island since Saturday, said earlier, however, sought to lower expectations that all the victims bodies will be recovered.

"We must prepare for the possibility that we will not find some of the bodies," said Allamand.

The Chilean government has organized a huge search in waters off the island where the plane went down late Friday carrying 21 people .

On Sunday, officials declared two days of national mourning, while only four bodies and a small amount of aircraft debris have been found so far.

The search continued on Sunday even though the government said there was no hope that anyone survived the crash.

The air force plane had made two abortive attempts to land at Robinson Crusoe before radio contact was lost.

The victims included one of the country's best-known television personalities.

Thousands gathered at state broadcaster TVN to remember daily morning talk show host Felipe Camiroaga, who was traveling to the island with a crew to report on reconstruction efforts after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused devastation last year.

Robinson Crusoe, believed to have been the setting for the famous novel by 18th century British author Daniel Defoe, is the main island of the Juan Fernandez archipelago, which lies in the Pacific some 700 kilometers (435 miles) west of the South American coastline.

The Chilean navy is using sonar equipment to try to locate the fuselage of the aircraft, where officials believe may hold the remaining crash victims. - afp

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Is this Britain’s most haunted hotel?

Built in the 12th century, Ettington Park, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest buildings in the Midlands.

And things, it seems, regularly go bump in the night.

The hall was originally a family home to the Shirleys until Sewallis Shirley died in 1912. It then changed hands several times until 1935 when it became a nursing home.

During the Second World War it was turned into a Prisoner of War camp for Italian soldiers.

Its next incarnation was as a nightclub.

But it became derelict after being destroyed by fire in 1979, until it was rescued by a hotel chain in 1983 and restored to its former glory.

And it seems its chequered history has refused to allow the building to rest in peace.

Hotel guests have reported spooky goings-on, including:

l Footsteps have been heard clomping around empty rooms;

l Mysterious floating figures have stared out of windows;

l The sound of billiard balls clinking against one another in a deserted library;

l A floating candle was seen on an oak mantelpiece;

l An elderly Victorian lady has been seen in the Conservatory;

l Women’s voices have been heard in an empty drawing room;

l Books have been known to fly from shelves in the library;

l On the main staircase, the ghost of Mary, a servant who died in a fall, has been seen.

The reports have got the neo-Gothic mansion featured in an online directory of the country’s scariest overnight stays, www.hauntedhotelguide.com.

One guest, Stan Smit, has written on the website: “I stayed in the Old Tower Room, and I had to go downstairs to complain to the manager about the people in the room above me.

“I was awakened at 1.30am with them stomping around and banging doors.

“The manager stared at me for a moment, then said: ‘But sir, there is no room above yours, only the attic’.

“I then discovered that 200 years ago a woman had been hanged in the attic, directly above my room.”

A second guest said: “A friend of mine used to work here.

“In a particular room, the telephone used to ring the hotel reception switchboard, even though there was no-one staying in it.

“On another occasion the hotel had been gutted by fire. Workmen arrived on the first morning to commence the building’s reconstruction and noticed a white figure looking out of one of the first-floor windows.

“It wasn’t until they were well inside the premises that they noticed there was no room there. It had been destroyed by the fire.”

The hotel is set in 40 acres of rolling countryside six miles away from medieval Stratford.

It was used as a location for the 1963 film chiller The Haunting, one of the creepiest ghost movies ever made.

The Warwickshire hotel is not the only Midland stately home to make it on to www.hauntedhotelguide.com. Also included is Coombe Abbey, in Coventry, Warwickshire.

It is renowned for its ghostly inhabitants, one of whom is Abott Geoffrey, who was brutally murdered in 1345.

The website also covers the 16th century manor house Madeley Court. Guests have reported seeing mysterious dark shapes hovering by the windows, ghostly Victorian maids in the corridors and phantom monks in the gardens. - sundaymercury

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Claudia Schiffer moves family into ghost-free country house

Model Claudia Schiffer has moved back into her country home in Suffolk with her family after ridding it of ghosts.

The German star and her husband film director husband Matthew Vaughn have been living in London recently, because they had to call in an exorcist to banish a ghost from their £5million country mansion.

But the couple have now moved back into the property as they are satisfied that the spirits have gone.

Claudia and Matthew, who have three children, Caspar, eight, Clementine, six, and 16-month-old Cosima, are now allowing builders to work on their their London home.

A spokesperson for the 41-year-old told British newspaper the Daily Mail: 'Claudia and Matthew have moved to their country home while their London home is being renovated.'

Schiffer called in the exorcist after she was told there were two cursed pictures and the ghost of a mother called Penelope in the property. - monstersandcritics

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Cardiff vicar lifts lid on spooky Wales

A vicar has lifted the lid on Wales’ haunted hotspots – and claimed the nation is the UK’s most haunted.

The Rev Lionel Fanthorpe, a judo black-belt, motorcycling, ex-headteacher has been tracking paranormal mysteries since his retirement.

And now the colourful Fortean Times presenter, from Cardiff, is set to address a cultural debate about his findings.

Most recently, clues have led him to Stratford-upon-Avon where he is trying to uncover fresh mysteries for a new TV show.

Fanthorpe moved to Wales in 1979 and has had a number of strange encounters.

He has spent time on the trail of a sea monster in Pembroke Dock, a monarch’s mistress in Haverfordwest and a Nazi deputy back from the dead.

“I would say Wales has a disproportionate amount of incidents,” he told Wales on Sunday.

“Welsh friends and Welsh mediums seem to have this highly-developed spiritual sense, a high intelligence and sensitivity – it’s a perceptiveness and degree of awareness that you don’t find in other parts of the UK.

“It may well be something inherent, something in the genes of Welsh people that carries this extra power and extra awareness with so many spiritual phenomena.”

Reported phenomena have seen Fanthorpe investigate Roch Castle in Haverfordwest where Charles II’s mistress Lucy Barlow has been seen floating through the rooms.

Elsewhere a number of “credible witnesses” have testified to seeing a Nessie-style monster swimming in Pembroke Dock after an initial sighting from the nearby Shipwright pub.

Meanwhile, Fanthorpe said Rudolf Hess wanders the Skirrid mountain near Abergavenny after his stay in the Maindiff Court Military Hospital after he was taken as a prisoner of war.

Fanthorpe, from Roath, also gets four or five calls a year asking him to exorcise spirits making a nuisance of themselves round the house.

He added: “There was a case in Splott in Cardiff where the house was divided into an upper and lower flat and there were two young tenants living there, each of them had a young family.

“They would go shopping together and when they came back they would see the outline in the upstairs flat of an old woman in Victorian cape and bonnet. As they went up to investigate, they would hear knocking noises from downstairs. - walesonline

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This Week on 'Beyond the Edge' Radio: Christopher Quaratino - The Truth Behind the Amityville Horror

Christopher Quaratino, or AKA Christopher Lutz, was one of the children living in the infamous Amityville House during the time of its alleged haunting. Christopher talks to Eric and Lon about his childhood, and makes a challenge to the movie mongols. Don't miss this show! The truth behind the Amityville Horror!

The Amityville Horror

In December 1975, George and Kathleen Lutz and their three children moved into 112 Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house in Amityville, a suburban neighborhood located on the south shore of Long Island, New York. Thirteen months before the Lutzes moved in, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. had shot and killed six members of his family at the house. After 28 days, the Lutzes left the house, claiming to have been terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there.

The Book

112 Ocean Avenue remained empty for thirteen months after the DeFeo murders. In December 1975, George and Kathleen Lutz bought the house for what was considered to be a bargain price of $80,000. The six-bedroom house was built in Dutch Colonial style, and had a distinctive gambrel roof. It also had a swimming pool and a boathouse, as it was located on a canal. George and Kathy married in July 1975 and each had their own homes, but they wanted to start afresh with a new property. Kathy had three children from a previous marriage, Daniel, 9, Christopher, 7, and Melissa (Missy), 5. They also owned a crossbreed Malamute/Labrador dog named Harry. During their first inspection of the house, the real estate broker told them about the DeFeo murders of the previous November, and asked if this changed their opinion about wanting to buy it. After discussing the matter, they decided that it was not an issue.

The Lutz family moved in on December 23, 1975. Much of the DeFeo family furniture was still in the house, since it had been included as part of the deal. A friend of George Lutz learned about the history of the house, and insisted on having it blessed. At the time, George was a non-practicing Methodist and had no experience of what this would entail. Kathy was a non-practicing Catholic and explained the process. George knew a Catholic priest named Father Ray who agreed to carry out the house blessing. (In Anson's book the priest is referred to as Father Mancuso. This was done for reasons of privacy and the now-deceased priest's real name was Father Ralph J. Pecoraro).[2] Template:Listen Father Mancuso was a lawyer, a Judge of the Catholic Court and a psychotherapist who lived at the local Sacred Heart Rectory. He arrived to perform the blessing while George and Kathy were unpacking their belongings on the afternoon of December 23, 1975, and went in to the building to carry out the rites. When he flicked the first holy water and began to pray, he heard an audible, masculine voice demand that he "get out." When leaving the house, Father Mancuso did not mention this incident to either George or Kathy. On December 24, 1975, Father Mancuso telephoned George Lutz and advised him to stay out of the room where he had heard the mysterious voice. This was a room on the second floor that Kathy planned to use as a sewing room, and had formerly been the bedroom of Marc and John Matthew DeFeo. The telephone call was cut short by static, and following his visit to the house, Father Mancuso allegedly developed a high fever and blisters on his hands similar to stigmata.

At first, George and Kathy Lutz experienced nothing unusual in the house. Talking about their experiences subsequently, they reported that it was as if they "were each living in a different house."

Some of the experiences of the Lutz family at the house have been described as follows:

-George would wake up around 3:15 every morning and would go out to check the boathouse. Later he would learn that this was the estimated time of the DeFeo killings.
-The house was plagued by swarms of flies despite the winter weather.
-Kathy had vivid nightmares about the murders and discovered the order in which they occurred, and the rooms where they took place. The Lutzes' children also began sleeping on their stomachs, in the same way that the dead bodies in the DeFeo murders had been found.
-Kathy would feel a sensation as if "being embraced" in a loving manner, by an unseen force.
-Kathy discovered a small hidden room (around four feet by five feet) behind shelving in the basement. The walls were painted red and the room did not appear in the blueprints of the house. The room came to be known as "The Red Room." This room had a profound effect on their dog Harry, who refused to go near it and cowered as if sensing something negative.
-There were cold spots and odors of perfume and excrement in areas of the house where no wind drafts or piping would explain the source.
-While tending to the fire, George and Kathy saw the image of the devil with half his head blown out. It was burned into the soot in the back of the fireplace.
-The Lutzes' five year old daughter, Missy, developed an imaginary friend named "Jodie," a demonic pig-like creature with glowing red eyes.
-George would be woken up by the sound of the front door slamming. He would race downstairs to find the dog sleeping soundly at the front door. Nobody else heard the sound although it was loud enough to wake the house.
-George would hear what was described as a "German marching band tuning up" or what sounded like a clock radio playing not quite on frequency. When he went downstairs the noise would cease.
-George realized that he bore a strong resemblance to Ronald DeFeo, Jr., and began drinking at The Witches' Brew, the bar where DeFeo was once a regular customer.
-While checking the boathouse one night, George saw a pair of red eyes looking at him from Missy's bedroom window. When he went upstairs to her room, there was nothing to be found. Later it was suggested that it could have been "Jodie".
-While in bed, Kathy received red welts on her chest caused by an unseen force and was levitated two feet off the bed.
-Locks, doors and windows in the house were damaged by an unseen force.
-Cloven hoofprints attributed to an enormous pig appeared in the snow outside the house on January 1, 1976.
-Green slime oozed from walls in the hall, and also from the keyhole of the playroom door in the attic.
-A crucifix, hung in a closet by Kathy, revolved until it was upside down and gave off a sour smell.
-George tripped over a four foot high china lion which was an ornament in the living room, and was left with bite marks on one of his ankles.
-George saw Kathy transform into an old woman of ninety, "the hair wild, a shocking white, the face a mass of wrinkles and ugly lines, and saliva dripping from the toothless mouth."

After deciding that something was wrong with their house that they could not explain rationally, George and Kathy Lutz carried out a blessing of their own on January 8, 1976. George held a silver crucifix while they both recited the Lord's Prayer, and while in the living room George allegedly heard a chorus of voices telling them “Will you stop?!”

By mid-January 1976, and after another attempt at a house blessing by George and Kathy, they experienced what would turn out to be their final night in the house. The Lutzes declined to give a full account of the events that took place on this occasion, describing them as "too frightening."

After getting in touch with Father Mancuso, the Lutzes decided to take some belongings and stay at Kathy’s mother’s house in nearby Deer Park, New York until they had sorted out the problems with the house. They claimed that the phenomena followed them there, with the final scene of Anson's book describing "greenish-black slime" coming up the staircase towards them. On January 14, 1976 George and Kathy Lutz, with their three children and their dog Harry, left 112 Ocean Avenue leaving most of their possessions behind. The next day, a mover came in to remove all of the possessions to send to the Lutzes. He reported no paranormal phenomena while inside the house.

The book was written after Tam Mossman, an editor at the publishing house Prentice Hall, introduced George and Kathy Lutz to Jay Anson. The Lutzes did not work directly with Anson, but submitted around 45 hours of tape recorded recollections to him which were used as the basis of the book. Estimates of the sales of the book are around ten million copies from its numerous editions. Anson is said to have based the title of The Amityville Horror on "The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft, which was published in 1929. - horror-movies.wikia.com


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Esoterica: Haunted Houses of Wales, Hollywood Ghosts and Saloon's Paranormal Past

Haunted Houses of Wales

After the tragic tale of a servant’s suicide emerged this week with a hoax picture of a ghost outside the historic Llanelly House, Sion Morgan revisits some of Wales’ supposedly haunted buildings

Miskin Manor Hotel

Miskin Manor, near Cardiff, dates back to the 10th century and is reputedly haunted by a ghostly lady who appears regularly in the bar area between midnight and 1am. The hotel porter is said to have grown used to her appearances.

Hotel owner Ben Rosenberg believes she was a former resident of the house who is simply following a path between the bar and the drawing room she once regularly walked in life.

“There used to be a staircase where the bar stands today so she is evidently coming from the drawing room and going up the stairs just as she did when she lived here,” he said.

Castell Coch

Castell Coch was built on the outskirts of Cardiff in 1870 for the wealthiest man in the world, the Marquis of Bute, and designed by architect William Burgess.

It is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a lady who, following the death of her son in nearby woods, died of a broken heart.

Following the death of the Marquis of Bute, Lady Bute continued to live in the castle but was, according to the story, driven out by the constant appearances of the ghostly white lady.

Llancaiach Fawr Manor

Llancaiach Fawr Manor in Treharris, Merthyr, has been called the most haunted house in South Wales.

“Llancaiach Fawr Manor is one of the spookiest and most atmospheric places I’ve ever been to,” paranormal investigator Phil Wyman has said.

“And when the lights go out and it’s pitch black, there is an overwhelming sense of desolation.”

The story goes that the grand staircase is haunted by two children, who appear then disappear. Several other ghostly children are apparently loose inside the house, their giggling voices clearly audible.

Author of Haunted Wales, Richard Jones, said: “The costumed female guides have long grown used to their aprons falling to the ground at the most inopportune moments when their bows have been untied by invisible impish hands.”

The manor’s kitchen is also said to be haunted by a lady in a white blouse who appears to be baking bread and who is assumed to be the ghost of Mattie, a former housekeeper.

Aberglasney

Legend has it that in the 1630s a housekeeper at Aberglasney in Llangathen, near Carmarthen, saw five candles floating around the house’s newly plastered “blue room”.

The next morning, five maidservants were found dead in their beds. A charcoal stove, left burning to speed the drying of the plaster, had killed them as they slept.

Over the following centuries, the “corpse candles” became one of Aberglasney’s most abiding legends.

Since the 17th century ownership of the house has changed a number of times.

The phantom of Thomas Phillips, who bought the house in 1803, has apparently appeared to gardeners, ser-vants and tradesmen, while more recently guides have heard his ghostly footsteps.

Builders working on the regeneration of the house have also reported a young girl standing in a corner of the basement, apparently cooking.

It is, however, in Pigeon House Wood at the rear of the property that the most disturbing phenomenon is reported – many visitors sense a feeling of dreadful unease, intensifying as they descend the earthen path until, at the edge of the wood, it is replaced by sudden fear and eerie coldness.
The haunted Skirrid Inn

The Skirrid Mountain Inn

The inn in Llanfihangel, near Abergavenny, dates back to 1110 when John Crowther was sentenced to death for sheep stealing and hanged from a beam of the inn.

The pub also doubled as a courthouse and over the next 800 years 182 felons would meet a similar fate.

The spirits of those executed here are said to often make their presence known in a direct and disturbing manner, including visitors feeling the overwhelming sensation of an invisible noose being slipped around their necks and tightening, leaving marks in the days afterwards.

Newton House

Newton House in Llandeilo was originally home to the Rhys family’s castle, the ruins of which still loom large over Dinefwr Park.

It is haunted by a “white lady” who is thought to be the wronged wraith of Elinir Cavendish, first cousin of the lady of the house in the 1720s, although some versions of the story say she was her sister.

Tradition maintains that she was being forced to marry a man that she didn’t love and to escape his clutches she sought sanctuary with her family in Dinefwr Park.

Incensed by the rejection, her spurned suitor murdered her in cold blood.

Her ghost has walked the building ever since.

Maes-y-Neuadd Manor

The sturdy manor in Talsarnau, near Harlech, dates back to the 14th century but today operates as a country house hotel and reportedly boasts one haunted bedroom, the Morfa suite, in which guests can look forward to the enchanting possibility of being lulled into their slumbers by a female phantom of good intentions.

She is thought to be the ghost of a former children’s nursemaid wearing long gown and mobcap. Author Richard Jones said: “Nobody who has seen her has found her to be in the least bit frightening or troublesome, indeed witnesses say that she has a very calming presence and emits an aura that helps them drift into a deep and restful sleep.”

Dylan Thomas’ Boathouse

The boathouse in Laugharne was the poet’s home for the last four years of his life.

With his widow Caitlin unwilling to live in the boathouse after Thomas’ death, his mother, Florence became the tenant, staying until she died there in 1958.

Her ghost is believed to haunt the house which is now a shrine to the memory of her son.

Staff have often been surprised when opening the premises at the beginning of the day to hear the sound of a chair scraping over the floor upstairs, as though someone has quickly risen from a table to avoid them.

The Robber’s Grave at St Nicholas churchyard

The grave in Montgomery is that of John Davies, a “melancholy, grief-haunted man” whose past was shrouded in mystery but who in 1819 became the steward on the rundown farm owned by a widow named Morris and her daughter, Jane.

Thanks to his dedication, the fortunes of the business were soon reversed.

But, according to legend, the sudden success angered a local man, Thomas Pearce, who had hoped to benefit from the widow’s misfortune by acquiring the property at a bargain price. Davies also made an enemy of Robert Parker when his fiance Jane Morris abandoned him for Davies.

The two men carried out a violent robbery, leaving behind evidence implicating Davies who found himself charged with highway robbery and sentenced to death.

As the noose was tied around his neck he shouted: “If I am innocent, the grass, for one generation at least, will not cover my grave.”

And today, the story says bare patches can still be seen on the grave and that harm will befall anyone who attempts to tend it. - walesonline

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Chattanooga saloon has long, possibly haunted history

Chattanooga business owner Shane Hendrix recently purchased the restaurant formerly known as The Red Lantern and found out the building has a long, unique history.

“My understanding was that it was originally built as a saloon and bordello,” Southside Saloon owner Hendrix said.

Originally built in the last 1890s, the building has held many other businesses, such as a bottling company, a Mexican restaurant and then The Red Lantern.

Upstairs there are still several small rooms that were used when the business was a brothel.

The last two owners changed the business to its current name and Hendrix kept that name when he bought the space about six months ago, although still considers changing it.

“We decided to keep the name, only because we couldn’t think of another one,” he said. “We thought about changing it back to The Red Lantern, but there was a lot of negative stuff that went with that.”

The old building, which is located at 1301 Chestnut Street, is thought to be haunted and Hendrix is in talks with the leaders of a Chattanooga ghost tour who may make the business the last stop on the tour.

Hendrix said there are supposedly three ghosts, one of whom employee Darlene Wallace has named George.

“He’s a big man with white hair and a white beard,” Wallace said.

Although Wallace is the only one who has actually seen him, other employees said they have seen evidence of him.

Hendrix said there was an unusual instance when a clock fell off the wall and into a trash can without disturbing any of the items below.

“I have no idea how the stuff in front of it didn’t move,” he said.

Wallace said George likes to swing the pots and that he threw a pot across the room.

“He’s a prankster,” she said.

But after about a month, Hendrix said business is good for the most part.

“We’ve got to find a way to get the evening crowd up,” he said.

The night schedule includes karaoke on Wednesday nights and live music other nights, and Hendrix said he is willing to give good deals so he can get the word out about the business.

Some people at other businesses who are next door said they didn’t realize what was in the big, red, brick building.

“Even the bands aren’t driving it,” he said. “It’s coming up fall and we’ve got TV, we’ve got football, so maybe it will be a little different in the fall, but I’m willing to just about give it away to get people in the door.”

He is working on deals such as 50 cent drafts and other discounts to draw crowds.

Hendrix also made the difficult decision to make the restaurant non-smoking.

“This was TVA’s smoking cafeteria,” he said. “It was a big decision but there is evidence in here right now (that it was right). There are children. We couldn’t have anyone under 21 ever. We were turning a lot of people away from the convention center." - nooga

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Ghosts of Hollywood Legends - Part 1

By Steven Wagner - Ours is a culture that "worships" celebrities. It's always a thrill when we spot a star of film, music or television in the flesh. Strangely, the excitement of celebrity spotting seems to continue even when they are no longer in the flesh, but in the spirit. It often makes news when the ghost of a celebrity -- especially a recently departed figure -- is sighted. Here is Part One of our series of reports about the ghosts of Hollywood legends that have been seen over the years.

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger was one of the most promising actors of his generation, having delivered impressive performances in such films as Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight, in which his portrayal of The Joker drew wide acclaim. He died in January, 2008 of what was ruled an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.

Ghost: Actress Michelle Williams, his ex-fiancé, says she has seen Ledger's spirit on two occasions. The first time, she was awakened at night by eerie noises, then realized her bedroom furniture was being moved around. She saw a shadowy figure, which she admits scared her "half to death." In the second instance, she says the apparition was much more vivid and spoke, telling her he was sorry for not being able to help raise their daughter.

James Dean

Although he only made a handful of films, Dean was one of the most influential young actors of the 1950s, forcefully depicting the angst of rebellious youth in East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. In 1955, he was killed while recklessly driving his Porsche Spyder on a California road.

Ghost: Since the accident, there have been several reports of Dean's spectral Porsche speeding along the highway in the vicinity of his tragic death. More famously, there may be a haunting "curse" attached to the car itself. It may have begun before the accident when fellow actors, including Alec Guinness, warned Dean about the car, saying they had a bad feeling about it. Many other accidents and deaths have been documented in connection with the car.

Elvis Presley

He was called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", having spun out dozens of #1 hit records, starring in popular teen-aimed films, and winning the hearts of millions around the world. Tragically, Elvis was consumed by his own fame and died in August, 1977 of a heart attack, possibly drug related.

Ghost: Despite the urban legend that Elvis faked his death and is still alive, his ghost has been reported in several locations, including his former home, Graceland in Memphis (now a tourist attraction) and at the Heartbreak Hotel on Elvis Presley Blvd. near Graceland. Elvis's ghost also has been spotted at the Nashville recording studios, where he made some early records, and at the Las Vegas Hilton, where the singer performed in his later years.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles was one of the most brilliant, innovative and creative figures of theater, radio and film in the 1930s and '40s. His landmark film Citizen Kane (1941) still is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest films ever made. He died in 1985 of a heart attack at his Hollywood home at the age of 70.

Ghost: In his later years, Welles became an imposing figure, often appearing in his trademark black cape and wide-brimmed hat and puffing on a cigar. It's this figure that has been seen in his favorite restaurant, Sweet Lady Jane's in Los Angeles, sitting at the table were he usually dined. Accompanying the apparition, say the staff who have seen it, is the smell of Welles' brand of cigar and even the brandy that he enjoyed. - Ghosts of Hollywood Legends - Part 1: Next week - Part 2

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