Speaker 1: Sharon couldn't sleep. It was Jay, her boyfriend, who suggested
Speaker 1: she stayed at his house while he was out of town,
Speaker 1: and since she was currently between apartments, it made perfect sense.
Speaker 1: But Sharon had been reticent. It wasn't that she didn't
Speaker 1: like the house. It was positively charming in its Bavarian
Speaker 1: timber framed style, nestled high among the hills and trees
Speaker 1: of LA's Benedict Canyon. In fact, the couple, who'd been
Speaker 1: seeing each other for almost a year, had spent many
Speaker 1: happy hours there together, often in the company of their
Speaker 1: many glamorous friends, spending long lazy days by the pool,
Speaker 1: drinking and getting high. But being there alone and at
Speaker 1: night was an entirely different proposition. The place, located at
Speaker 1: ninety eight sixty Eastern Drive, was built sometime in the
Speaker 1: Prohibition era and once belonged to Hollywood film producer and
Speaker 1: writer Paul Byrne. In nineteen thirty two, Burne's marriage to
Speaker 1: Jean Harlowe, one of the major film stars of the
Speaker 1: day and twenty years his junior, brought him to public prominence. However,
Speaker 1: it was the events that occurred in their home two
Speaker 1: months later that would seal his place in Hollywood infamy.
Speaker 1: Burne's butler, John Carmichael, was inspecting the house early one
Speaker 1: morning when he found Burne lying naked in the dressing
Speaker 1: room adjacent to Jean Harlowe's bedroom. Assuming he'd collapsed, Carmichael
Speaker 1: rushed to his help, only to find to his horror
Speaker 1: that Burne was lying dead in a large pool of blood.
Speaker 1: Carmichael saw the single bullet wound in his head, then
Speaker 1: looking up the large splattering of blood and soft tissue,
Speaker 1: still wet and clinging to the ceiling, Sharon host and
Speaker 1: turned in bed, opening her eyes. She couldn't help but
Speaker 1: stare at the entrance to that small adjacent room, just
Speaker 1: visible in the dark, where Burne's blood soaked body had
Speaker 1: once lain. There had long been rumors that the house
Speaker 1: was haunted, that her mystery surrounding Burne's death had caused
Speaker 1: his restless soul to wander and had become trapped in
Speaker 1: that big, eccentric house of his. It was partly what
Speaker 1: had drawn Jay to the house in the first place
Speaker 1: when he bought it two years back in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 1: Sharon had never let it bother her until now, that is,
Speaker 1: She tried to push it all from her mind and
Speaker 1: get back to sleep. But couldn't escape that creeping sensation
Speaker 1: that those creeks outside the door weren't just creaks but footsteps,
Speaker 1: and they were getting nearer. You're listening to unexplained, and
Speaker 1: I'm Richard McClean smith. Paul Burne's death was determined to
Speaker 1: be a suicide after investigators found not only a gun
Speaker 1: in his hand, but an apparent suicide note left at
Speaker 1: the scene for his wife. It read, dearest dear, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this is the only way to make good the frightful
Speaker 1: wrong I've done you and wipe out my abject humiliation.
Speaker 1: I love you, Paul. You understand that last night was
Speaker 1: only a comedy. Only something didn't quite fit that misspelling
Speaker 1: of unfortunately from a successful writer perhaps, or was it
Speaker 1: something more. The day after Paul Burne's body was discovered,
Speaker 1: a woman boarded the Delta King riverboat in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: heading for Sacramento. In the early hours of the following day,
Speaker 1: the woman, Dorothee Millet, Paul Burne's first wife, was seen
Speaker 1: standing alone on the top deck, staring out to see
Speaker 1: and clearly in some distress. A few hours later, a
Speaker 1: night watchman found a pair of shoes and a woman's
Speaker 1: coat on deck, close to where Dorothee had been seen.
Speaker 1: By the time the boat docked the following morning, Dorothee
Speaker 1: had completely vanished. Milette's disappearance soon hit the news, with
Speaker 1: many speculating she had in fact killed Paul Byrne and
Speaker 1: faked her own death to get away. This speculation was
Speaker 1: given greater credence when rumors emerged that Byrne had been
Speaker 1: entertaining a mystery woman at his home the day before
Speaker 1: his body was found. Years later, producer Samuel Marks, Burne's
Speaker 1: friend and colleague at MGM Studios, who employed both Jean
Speaker 1: Harlowe and Paul Byrne, made the stunning revelation that when
Speaker 1: Burne's butler first found the body, he called the studio
Speaker 1: before the police. Their response, according to Mars, was to
Speaker 1: dispatch Marks into another the colleague, Irving Thalburk, to the
Speaker 1: house to assess the situation before the police arrived. Their aim,
Speaker 1: allegedly was to protect the reputation of Jean Harlowe, their
Speaker 1: newest and brightest young star. Harlowe was said to have
Speaker 1: been staying at her mother's house the night Burne died.
Speaker 1: Mars claimed to have witnessed Thalburk tampering with the scene.
Speaker 1: It isn't known to what extent it was tampered with,
Speaker 1: if it was at all, though it's been suggested that
Speaker 1: the gun found in Burne's hand by police had not
Speaker 1: been there when the butler first found his body. A
Speaker 1: week after Millet disappeared, two fishermen working on the Sacramento
Speaker 1: River found her body floating face down in the water.
Speaker 1: Over the next few days, a number of stories were spun,
Speaker 1: some alleging that Dorothy had murdered her husband. After discovery,
Speaker 1: he changed his will so that Harlowe would be the
Speaker 1: sole beneficiary. At that time in her life, Millet, who
Speaker 1: had been plagued by ill health and recently spent time
Speaker 1: in a sanatorium, had become entirely dependent on Burne's financial support.
Speaker 1: Friends of Burne's, however, spoke of his struggles with depression
Speaker 1: due to the publicity surrounding his marriage to Harlowe, and
Speaker 1: how he previously contemplated suicide, while at the same time
Speaker 1: MGM Studios apparently worried by the fallout to Harlowe. Should
Speaker 1: it be proved that Burne had been cheating on her,
Speaker 1: supposedly made their own attempts to muddy the waters, allegedly
Speaker 1: implying that Burne's failure to satisfy his wife sexually had
Speaker 1: driven him to suicide. Burne's death was said by some
Speaker 1: to have put a curse on the house, with at
Speaker 1: least one other person rumored to have committed suicide there
Speaker 1: and another drowning in the pool since it had happened.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it was this that was racing through Sharon's mind
Speaker 1: as she heard yet another creak coming from out in
Speaker 1: the hallway. Powerless to resist the thought of Burne's bloodstained
Speaker 1: body lying naked only yards away, the blood splattered ceiling,
Speaker 1: and his vacant, dead eyes. Enough was enough. Sharon switched
Speaker 1: on the light and sat up in bed. Just then,
Speaker 1: a sudden movement outside the bedroom caught her eye. As
Speaker 1: she peered out into the darkness beyond, she saw, to
Speaker 1: her horror that something was out there hovering in the doorway.
Speaker 1: It was a man, Shortisian stature, with a small mustache
Speaker 1: and a strange look on his face. He looked exactly
Speaker 1: like Paul Byrne. Sharon could only watch in terror as
Speaker 1: the man burst suddenly into the room, moving wildly about
Speaker 1: the place at double speed. Sharon leapt from the bed,
Speaker 1: grabbed her robe, and ran shrieking into the hallway, Fleeing
Speaker 1: to the stairs. Sharon raced down the steps, only to
Speaker 1: be confronted by an even more hideous sight, a body
Speaker 1: tied up with rope at the bottom of the stairs,
Speaker 1: just visible in the darkness, with its throat slit wide
Speaker 1: open and blood gushing out of it. Sharon screamed as
Speaker 1: she hurried through into the living room, slamming the door
Speaker 1: shut behind her as she struggled to come to terms
Speaker 1: with what was happening. Surely it was a dream, she thought,
Speaker 1: as she paced manically about the room. It was just
Speaker 1: one of those all two real, lucid dreams that emerge
Speaker 1: when the mind flutters about in that liminal space between
Speaker 1: sleep and wakefulness. But what was that figure tied up
Speaker 1: to the stairs. It looked so familiar, she thought, Was
Speaker 1: it Ja or had it in fact been a vision
Speaker 1: of herself? Deciding she wanted a d she heard a
Speaker 1: voice echoing from a distant place, telling her to look
Speaker 1: at the bookshelf and convincing her further that it was
Speaker 1: just a dream. Moving to the shelves, she found herself
Speaker 1: frantically searching for something, despite having no idea what she
Speaker 1: was looking for. But as she ran her fingers along
Speaker 1: the books, she found a button and pressed it. With
Speaker 1: a click, the bookshelf popped open to reveal a secret
Speaker 1: bar space behind. Grabbing a bottle from within, she quickly
Speaker 1: poured herself a drink. As she gulped it down, she
Speaker 1: became transfixed by the wallpaper lining the bar inside. Reaching
Speaker 1: out to touch it, she couldn't help but tear a
Speaker 1: piece of it away, revealing a copper panel behind it.
Speaker 1: She pulled another strip, and then another. Finishing her drink,
Speaker 1: Sharon made her way back to the hall. Peering out
Speaker 1: toward the bottom of the stairs, she caught sight of
Speaker 1: the horrifying figure once more, still tied up to the banister,
Speaker 1: its neck still gushing with blood. Then a movement upstairs
Speaker 1: drew her attention to the peculiar man again, who was
Speaker 1: now moving about on the landing. It's only a dream,
Speaker 1: she reminded herself, closing her eyes. Sharon jumped onto the
Speaker 1: stairs and sprinted back to the bedroom, closing the door
Speaker 1: quickly behind her. Then the sound of another voice calling
Speaker 1: her name from somewhere getting louder and louder, a voice
Speaker 1: she recognized immediately as Jay's, and then she opened her eyes.
Speaker 1: Sharon awoke to find herself back in bed, hearing the
Speaker 1: sound of Jay's voice calling from downstairs. Moments later, he
Speaker 1: was at the door, greeting her with a smile. Sharon
Speaker 1: laughed with relief as she tried to explain the peculiar
Speaker 1: nightmare she'd been having. She was still explaining it to
Speaker 1: him as the couple made their way downstairs for breakfast,
Speaker 1: when Sharon caught sight of the mess in the living room.
Speaker 1: The bookcase bar was open and at the base of
Speaker 1: it was a small pile of wall paper ribbed out
Speaker 1: from the inside. It was certainly a compelling story, thought Dick,
Speaker 1: But what does it mean? Asked Sharon. It was August
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, and with Sharon now a rising star
Speaker 1: herself in Hollywood, the pair was sat in a trailer
Speaker 1: on the set of her latest movie, The Wrecking Crew,
Speaker 1: a spoofed spy comedy that Sharon was starring in alongside
Speaker 1: Dean Martin. Dick, a Hollywood correspondent working for the newspaper
Speaker 1: Enterprise Association at the time, had come to interview her
Speaker 1: for an article he was writing about the production of
Speaker 1: the film. Her story had been a response to Dick's
Speaker 1: final question, something he liked to ask all his interviewees.
Speaker 1: Had she ever had any psychic experiences? Sharon sat back
Speaker 1: in her chair and took another drag of her cigarette
Speaker 1: as Dick racked his brains for an answer. I mean,
Speaker 1: was it a dream? Was it ghosts? She asked, adamant
Speaker 1: it was the only experience of that kind she'd ever had.
Speaker 1: Dick was stumped. Maybe the peculiar man she'd seem was
Speaker 1: a ghost, he thought, the troubled spirit of Paul Byrne perhaps,
Speaker 1: But the horrific vision of the mutilated figure on the
Speaker 1: stairs that she recognized as either herself or her boyfriend Jay,
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Speaker 1: Curse of the blair Witch By nineteen sixty eight, Sharon
Speaker 1: and Jay were no longer together. In nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: not long after that horrifying experience in Jay's house. Sharon
Speaker 1: had traveled to Europe to shoot the occult horror mystery
Speaker 1: Eye of the Devil. Having fallen in love with London
Speaker 1: in the process, she decided to stay awhile once filming
Speaker 1: had ended. It was there that she was first introduced
Speaker 1: to Roman, an up and coming film director from Poland.
Speaker 1: Having established himself in nineteen sixty two with his breakout
Speaker 1: film Knife in the Water. Roman was looking to cast
Speaker 1: his latest film, The Fearless Vampire Killers, when it was
Speaker 1: suggested to him that he considers Sharon for a part.
Speaker 1: The Fearless Vampire Killers was to be a power of
Speaker 1: the British horror films of the day, epitomized by the
Speaker 1: famous Hammer Film Productions. The role of Sarah Schargle, the
Speaker 1: daughter of an innkeeper who would eventually turn into a
Speaker 1: vampire herself, was to provide the romantic interest of the
Speaker 1: film's lead character, which, as it happened, would be played
Speaker 1: by Roman. After much persuasion by the film's executive producer,
Speaker 1: Marin Ransohoff, who also had a stake in Sharon's career,
Speaker 1: Roman finally agreed to offer her the role. Though they
Speaker 1: clashed at first, through the course of filming in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty six, the pair embarked on an affair. Before long
Speaker 1: they were immersed in the thick of swinging sixties London together,
Speaker 1: bouncing from one party to the next, hanging with all
Speaker 1: the bright young stars in Soho or along the King's Road,
Speaker 1: at all the most fashionable clubs and bars. Roman made
Speaker 1: it clear early on that he was not the monogamous type,
Speaker 1: but Sharon, who would have preferred him to be, could
Speaker 1: resist way she felt about him. Though he was a
Speaker 1: little on the short side, she had been seduced by
Speaker 1: his sheer sense of inner conviction and confidence. He seemed
Speaker 1: beyond manipulation in a way, utterly self assured and resistant
Speaker 1: to external forces. That he was unwilling to even countenance
Speaker 1: dedicating himself to her alone, she reasoned, was merely further
Speaker 1: evidence of his beguiling free spiritedness, and London for her,
Speaker 1: in the increasingly rare social circles that she was beginning
Speaker 1: to find herself in, was intoxicating, populated, as she said,
Speaker 1: with free thinkers feeling their way through life and leaving
Speaker 1: an impression on the times. Being the daughter of a
Speaker 1: United States army officer. Sharon, who was by then twenty four,
Speaker 1: reveled in the youthful rebellion and urgency of the day.
Speaker 1: It was a mind expanding revolution of color and thought,
Speaker 1: catalyzed by a ubiquity of pot and other mind altering
Speaker 1: substances that only served to further expose the rigid status quo,
Speaker 1: and she was at the epicenter of it all five
Speaker 1: thousand miles away, another young woman had also just secured
Speaker 1: the part of a vampire in a somewhat less auspicious production.
Speaker 1: By nineteen sixty seven, Susan had been living in San
Speaker 1: Francisco for just over a year when she took a
Speaker 1: job as a go go dancer, working at a number
Speaker 1: of clubs on the North Beach Strip. Nights were long,
Speaker 1: usually running from four pm till two in the morning,
Speaker 1: before moving on to the next club to dance until
Speaker 1: dawn in the hope of maybe being spotted by a
Speaker 1: talent agent. It was while dancing one night that Susan,
Speaker 1: only eighteen years old at the time, was introduced to
Speaker 1: Anton LeVay. Levy and his followers had been causing a
Speaker 1: stir with the recent establishing of his Church of Satan.
Speaker 1: Though many found the group alarming. In truth, it was
Speaker 1: little more than an individualist occult movement that practiced magic,
Speaker 1: more opposed to the orthodoxes of Christianity than in thraw
Speaker 1: to any actual Satan. Lavay was developing a production based
Speaker 1: around the idea of a witch's Sabbath and was looking
Speaker 1: for women to play the part of alluring scantily clad
Speaker 1: vampires who would terrorize the audience as the sabbath was conducted. Susan,
Speaker 1: needing the money, had reluctantly taken the job, often relying
Speaker 1: on acid in order to find the courage to perform.
Speaker 1: Though the show was a hit, it had come at
Speaker 1: a moment of crisis for Susan. Having become heavily immersed
Speaker 1: in the San Francisco scene, her drug use had steadily intensified,
Speaker 1: and her health, both mental and physical, was shot. Four
Speaker 1: months later, she had a breakdown and was admitted to hospital.
Speaker 1: As someone who felt she'd spent her whole life looking
Speaker 1: for somewhere to belong, it was clear that where she
Speaker 1: was then wasn't it. Her collapse was a wake up
Speaker 1: call that brought her to the more mellow confines of
Speaker 1: hate Ashbury, a counterculture mecca and the center of what
Speaker 1: would later become known as the Summer of Love. It
Speaker 1: was while walking along the streets of hate Ashbury one
Speaker 1: afternoon that Susan bumped into Barbara, an old friend from
Speaker 1: her hometown of Los Banos. Susan had always thought Barbara
Speaker 1: a little square, so was surprised to find her there,
Speaker 1: of all places. But Barbara had evolved somewhat from the innocent,
Speaker 1: seeming farm girl Susan had thought her to be. With
Speaker 1: the political turmoil of nineteen sixties America, lurching from the
Speaker 1: successful Civil Rights movement one moment to being my I
Speaker 1: had in an increasingly messy war in Vietnam the next,
Speaker 1: many Americans were beginning to question just what a free
Speaker 1: world was. Exactly what was happening in hate Ashbury offered
Speaker 1: a glimpse of a different world, a world that was
Speaker 1: no longer bound by the restrictive social conventions of the day,
Speaker 1: a place in which, often with the aid of LSD
Speaker 1: and marijuana, you could shed every label, tag, and assumption
Speaker 1: that had ever weighed you down. Like Susan, Barbara had
Speaker 1: also been drawn there by its alluring promise of new
Speaker 1: ways to exist. She invited Susan back to the house
Speaker 1: she was living in to meet her new family, as
Speaker 1: she called it. The house was a large, two story
Speaker 1: townhouse on the corner of Oak and Lyon Street, right
Speaker 1: next door to Janis Joplin's home. Once there, Barbara showed
Speaker 1: Susan around the property and introduced her to the ten
Speaker 1: other people that were living there as part of the commune,
Speaker 1: one woman for each man, but Susan noticed there were
Speaker 1: presently six men to only five women. Susan sat and
Speaker 1: smoked part with them as they explained to her how
Speaker 1: it worked. They all shared everything in common except each other,
Speaker 1: with the man to woman pairings being strictly monogamous. They
Speaker 1: made money by selling dope on the street, with each
Speaker 1: man being a dealer and the women tasked with finding
Speaker 1: people to sell it to. When Barbara suggested Susan move
Speaker 1: in with them to make up the numbers, she jumped
Speaker 1: at the charts. Having wrapped up production on The Fearless
Speaker 1: Vampire Killers, Roman and Sharon had returned together to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: unable to find somewhere to settle down, due in part
Speaker 1: to Roman's reluctance to become too rooted anywhere, but also
Speaker 1: their naturally transient work life. The couple rented a room
Speaker 1: at the Chateau Marmont before moving into a house in
Speaker 1: Benedict Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. The house, which they
Speaker 1: rented from Oscar winning actor Patty Duke, quickly became a
Speaker 1: regular hangout for the couple's burgeoning and increasingly high profile
Speaker 1: group of friends, everyone from Steve McQueen and Dennis Hopper
Speaker 1: to Candice Bergen and Mia Farrow, from the Mummers and
Speaker 1: the Pappas to Jim Morrison. The house was so often
Speaker 1: visited people soon became accustomed to Sharon and Roman's relaxed nature,
Speaker 1: where the door seemed permanently open, so that almost anyone
Speaker 1: could come and go as they pleased. As part of
Speaker 1: the agreement to rent the house, the couple had agreed
Speaker 1: to look after Patty's English sheep dock. When one morning
Speaker 1: it bolted out of the property, giving chase, Roman tracked
Speaker 1: it to a house a little further down the road.
Speaker 1: The house was being used by members of the Process
Speaker 1: of the Final Judgment, otherwise known simply as the Process.
Speaker 1: The group was a religious movement of sorts established in
Speaker 1: London in nineteen sixty six, inspired in part by scientology
Speaker 1: Alister Crowley and the work of psychologist Alfred Adler. There
Speaker 1: were rumors that they participated in the farious rituals, but
Speaker 1: Roman knew little of that, only that they were well
Speaker 1: known for keeping large Alsatian dogs as pets, a fact
Speaker 1: he became plainly aware of that day when, on seeing
Speaker 1: him draw near to the property, two of them chased
Speaker 1: him into a nearby garage in desperation, as the dogs
Speaker 1: barked manically outside, the traumatized Roman was forced to break
Speaker 1: a window before leaping out the back of the building
Speaker 1: and hurriedly making his escape. Back in San Francisco, Susan's
Speaker 1: commune was attracting the attention of the FBI. One day,
Speaker 1: while out with two of the men, Susan realized they
Speaker 1: were being followed by a couple of plainclothed officers. The
Speaker 1: group decided to split up, with Susan high tailing it
Speaker 1: in one direction and the others heading off in another.
Speaker 1: When Susan returned to the house later that afternoon, a
Speaker 1: little stone from a joint she just smoked, she heard
Speaker 1: the sound of a guitar and some one singing coming
Speaker 1: from one of the rooms above. Following the sound. She
Speaker 1: drifted softly up the stairs in her bare feet toward
Speaker 1: the doorway of the living room. There, sat on the
Speaker 1: sofa was a Shortish man, clean shaven, with long dark hair,
Speaker 1: playing the guitar. He was dressed in a white T shirt,
Speaker 1: blue jeans, and sandals, and had multi colored beads draped
Speaker 1: around his neck. On either side of him sat a woman,
Speaker 1: while on the ground other women sat at his feet
Speaker 1: as they watched him, his eyes closed and head tilted back,
Speaker 1: singing gently into the air. The room, thick with the
Speaker 1: smell of pot and incense, was hazy with smoke that
Speaker 1: curled and played with the soft light of the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Susan couldn't take her eyes off the man. Just then,
Speaker 1: for a moment, he opened his eyes and fixed her
Speaker 1: with his stare, as if beckoning her to go in.
Speaker 1: Unable to resist, Susan stepped inside and took a seat
Speaker 1: at the singer's feet, looking up at him from below.
Speaker 1: Lit up behind by the soft afternoon light, he looked
Speaker 1: like an angel. She was still staring at him when
Speaker 1: she realized he was no longer singing, but talking to
Speaker 1: the woman next to him. Just then, a thought popped
Speaker 1: into her head that she would like to play his guitar.
Speaker 1: Without having said a word, the man turned to her
Speaker 1: suddenly and said, why don't you play it. Susan was shocked.
Speaker 1: Had he just read her mind in that moment, she
Speaker 1: knew immediately that this was the thing she'd been looking for.
Speaker 1: Without thinking, Susan smiled at the man and then bent
Speaker 1: down and kissed his feet. Just then, the sounds of
Speaker 1: Jefferson Airplane began to emanate from a record player. Lured
Speaker 1: by the rhythm, Susan pulled herself up and began to dance.
Speaker 1: Unbeknownst to her, the man put down his guitar and
Speaker 1: walked over to join her. Moving in close behind, he
Speaker 1: leant in and whispered in her ear. No two actions
Speaker 1: are the same. Everything is new. Let it be new,
Speaker 1: he said. Before long, they were fused, mirroring each other's moves.
Speaker 1: At one point, it seemed to Susan that they'd even
Speaker 1: traveled through each other's bodies. The music swelled, growing in
Speaker 1: speed and intensity, and their movements did the same, becoming
Speaker 1: more and more wild, until suddenly the music stopped. You're beautiful,
Speaker 1: said the man. I'm Susan, she said in reply, who
Speaker 1: are you me? Said the man? I'm Charlie. Charlie Manson.
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