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The 2014 Academy Awards hilton garden inn chicago Ceremony is March 2, and this year’s batch of actors, directors, musicians and techs can’t wait to see who gets the gold this time around. The winners will become hilton garden inn chicago part of an industry legacy nearly a century old. Some winners will vanish into obscurity, doomed to be little more than a question hilton garden inn chicago on trivia night at a bar downtown, while the memories of others will live forever, and continue to make headlines long after they are dead.
It’s not a new story. This has been going on from the beginning of the awards ceremony, as even one of the founders of the Academy reportedly still haunts Los Angeles. Even the one-time home of the Oscar’s ceremony, the Pantages Theatre (1949-1959), is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Howard Hughes, who owned it and lured organizers into moving hilton garden inn chicago the ceremony there.
it should be noted, claims about celebrity hilton garden inn chicago ghosts should be viewed with skepticism because an audience as large as the one for the Oscars, reportedly close to 1 billion worldwide, makes an attractive target for people looking to make a quick buck. That’s why many of these ghostly celebrity homes are hot spots on “haunted tours” in Hollywood and other locations.
With that being said, it should also be noted this started out as 9 Oscar Winning Ghosts, but I’ve ditched a few because detailed stories just aren’t there to support the claims. The reports of them in the sources I found are basically the same sentence or two, copied over and over again, in tourist-trap, promotional materials. Those names will be listed at the end, without much detail, just to complete the list of every Oscar winning hilton garden inn chicago ghost I could find.
In recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium. Mary Pickford was not present at the awards ceremony. The presentation was made at her Pickfair estate hilton garden inn chicago and taped for inclusion in the broadcast.
The Academy Awards began in 1929, the year Mary Pickford’s hilton garden inn chicago film Coquette, for which she would win an Oscar the following year, was made. Coincidentally, she was one of the 36 people who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was also a founding member of United Artists along with D.W. Griffith, hilton garden inn chicago Douglas Fairbanks, and Charles Chaplain. She and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, were the first two hands to be put in cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Pickford was one of the first international movie stars, and as such, she has a list of “First to” achievements longer hilton garden inn chicago than just about any other actor in history.
The couple dubbed the home “Pickfair” and it was known for paranormal activity hilton garden inn chicago long before Pickford would pass away in 1979. Pickford reportedly saw the ghost of a servant woman at the home on several occasions, but it wasn’t until after Pickford herself died, that things really heated up at Pickfair. Her husband at the time of her death, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, reported seeing the ghost of a woman in a white , who looked like Mary, and visited him several times at the home.
He eventually sold the place to Los Angeles Lakers hilton garden inn chicago owner Jerry Buss in 1980, and he too reported similar sightings, as well as sightings of a male ghost not mentioned by Rogers. The home was eventually sold to PIa Zadora in 1988, and was then torn down in favor of a new one. The demolition and new construction is believed to have stopped the paranormal activity that once occurred on the property.
Joan Crawford was not present at the awards ceremony and feigned ill that night. Meanwhile she listened to the show on the radio. When she won, she ushered the press into her bedroom, where she finally accepted her Oscar.
hilton garden inn chicago Stories about Crawford’s instability have permeated for decades, and her adopted daughter’s book, Mommie hilton garden inn chicago Dearest, published after Crawford’s death in 1977, claiming she was an abusive nutjob didn’t help matters much.
Christina Crawford, the author of Mommie Dearest, has reported experiencing weird phenomena in the home she grew up in with Crawford.  She reported seeing the ghosts of children, and hearing their voices coming from the walls, but qualifies her claims with a disclaimer hilton garden inn chicago about the violent, and abusive environment she lived in, which might have contributed to what she thinks she saw and heard as a child.
I have vivid memories of some things, but when you are severely abused, you tend to block out other things. I m positive that there were manifestations occurring when I was little. I saw them! There were places in the house that were always hilton garden inn chicago so cold that nobody ever wanted to go in them. From The Konformist Blog
In the late 1980s a specialist was brought in to investigate weird occurrences in the home, like the owner’s report of the wall where Joan Crawford’s bed sat spontaneously catching fire on a regular basis. The specialist, Reverend Rosalyn Bruyere of the Healing Light Center , allegedly told Christina the home did have several spirits hilton garden inn chicago in it, some of whom had underworld connections, but she did not believe Crawford was among the spirits in the home.
Bruyers told the Konformist hilton garden inn chicago Blog she  believed the home was poisoned before Crawford moved in, and that it could have contributed to some of her mental  and emotional difficulties. hilton garden inn chicago Bruyers hilton garden inn chicago believed hilton garden inn chicago people had been tortured in the home, and that the ghosts remaining behind are the ones who keep trying to burn the place down.
Buster Keaton is arguably the greatest comedic actor of the silent film era. Known for his deadpan mugs to the camera and his wild stunts, he’s among the few silent film stars whose work is still watched with regularity.
He was also known for drinking too much, just as his father did before him. It was reportedly a drunken incident with Louis B. Mayer, that led to Keaton’s dismissal from a contract he had with MGM and started his downfall in the movie business.
More details about Keaton’s haunting can be found in the book Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Sixteen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, from Tallulah Bankhead to River Phoenix by E.J. Fleming.
John Wayne reportedly loved his boat named the   Wild Goose . The boat, a 136-foot, wood-hulled World War II-era minesweeper, was the scene of many celebrity poker games, drinking binges, and adventures in general, during the 17 years The Duke owned it. He sold the Wild Goose shortly before his death in 1977, but he allegedly hilton garden inn chicago just couldn’t hilton garden inn chicago let his beloved boat go that easily.
Both the new owner and caretakers hilton garden inn chicago reported hilton garden inn chicago hearing footsteps on board that clip clopped to the rhythm of Wayne’s unique gait when no one else was present to make such footstep sounds. The man who bought hilton garden inn chicago the boat from Wayne, hilton garden inn chicago reported seeing Wayne’s hilton garden inn chicago ghost on the Wild Goose at least three times while he owned it. Others have verified his claims.
Parapsychologist William G. Roll and Psychic Patricia Hayes are such people. The Wild Goose s newest owner, a Santa Monica attorney named Lynn Hutchins also believes in the ghost of John Wayne. Weird occurrences began happening four months after he bought the boat so he invited Roll and Hayes aboard the Wild Goose to investigate. They discovered hilton garden inn chicago that Hutchins was not making hilton garden inn chicago it up. The investigators felt the presence of John Wayne and found that Hutchins was psychologically sound. - From Yahoo News
What I found, she said, was that one of the reasons he was there on the boat was because it still is one of his favorite places to be. He knows he s dead . He just chooses to hang out there. In other words, that s not the only thing he does; when he has some time available he goes to the boat.  - From the Los Angeles Times
One story about the boat involves it mysteriously coming loose in the middle of the night and making its way across Newport Bay to John Wayne’s former home where Wayne kept it docked. “Apparently, neither the pilot house nor engine room had been entered, hilton garden inn chicago and the ropes tying it to the dock were not broken or cut,” the LA Times reported.
hilton garden inn chicago John Wayne’s ghost doesn’t just allegedly haunt his old boat. He’s also been seen at various locations important to his film career as well, like a Saloon in Ridgeway, Colorado , where True Grit, his Oscar-winning role, was filmed.
Orson Welles was a big man who got that way because he was a passionate consumer of the things that brought joy to him. Among the things that brought him joy were food, cigars, and liquor, and he overindulged in all of them.
He reportedly ate too much, drank too much, and smoked too much, on a regular basis at a Los Angeles restaurant named Ma Maison’s. One account of his binges at the restaurant claims he ate two steaks, two baked potatoes, an entire pineapple, three servings of pistachio ice cream and an entire bottle of scotch in one sitting. (In his defense, it takes me a few hours to make my way through an entire bottle of scotch, which is plenty of time to get hungry and hit a few too many bowls of ice cream.)
Today, employees at the restaurant, which is now called Sweet Lady Jane’s, have reported seeing Welles’s ghost sitting at the table located in his favorite spot in the dining room. They have also reported smelling the faint scent of cigar smoke and booze in that same area from time to time.
His former home was featured on a episode of the SyFy channel’s Haunted Collector , where investigators checked out claims of unexplained footsteps and other weird occurrences reported by the current homeowner.
The investigator, John Zaffis, finished his visit convinced hilton garden inn chicago Welles was still in the home. He believed this because he and his team not only heard the reported footsteps, hilton garden inn chicago but were treated to a falling hilton garden inn chicago pool cue when he asked if Welles hilton garden inn chicago was in the room.
While investigating the home, they also found a box of sheet music believed to belong to Welles’s mother, and told the homeowner to store the sheet music by a photo of Welles that hung in the home. The activity has dissipated since this was done.
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