10 Spookiest Hollywood Stories And Urban Legends

10. The Haunted Hollywood Sign

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Peg Entwistle was a Broadway actress who arrived in Los Angeles with dreams of more challenging roles than the ones she'd performed on-stage. Unfortunately, Entwistle's career didn't take off in the way that she had hoped. After appearing in one film, Thirteen Women, the RKO studio declined to renew its contract with her.

This rejection was a blow for Peg Entwistle and on the night of September 16th, 1932 she took her own life. In a cruel twist of fate, she became more famous in death than in life due to the manner in which she committed suicide - she jumped to her death from the letter H in the Hollywoodland sign.

Decades later, the cautionary tale of Peg Entwistle is still being told. Various park rangers and hikers have claimed to have seen a woman dressed in 1930s attire walking near the sign. These stories began in earnest in 1940 when the H mysteriously toppled over. Entwistle's story is an enduring one due to how it demonstrates the cruelties of the Hollywood machine. It's no wonder that it has inspired work by, amongst others, Lana Del Rey and Ryan Murphy.