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(Houdini, incidentally, hated the occult the famous seances his wife held were per an agreement they had that, if there was an afterlife, Houdini would get in touch.)Īs for the guesthouse, apparently it's completely gone and the hillside itself has been graded back a bit.

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According to Wild About Harry, 'The property went through a series of renters, including evangelist Joe Jeffers, who turned the mansion into the Temple of Yahweh and required donations of up to $100,000 to live on the property.' In 1959, both the main house and guesthouse burnt down and 'All that remained was a smaller carriage house and the sprawling system of caves and stone walkways, which for the next few decades became home to hippies and homeless, including a mentally unstable man known as 'Robin Hood' who believed Laurel Canyon was Sherwood Forrest.' Houdini-ists began to make pilgrimages to the ruins and some claimed to see/feel his ghost. The house was owned by Errol Flynn in the late 1930s. Originally built in 1918, the house is famous for the successful bands who have recorded music there. In 1935, Walker either died or sold the property, and Bess moved. Coordinates: 34.116317N 118.375365W The Mansion is a four-bedroom mansion owned by music producer Rick Rubin in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. EDITORIAL VIDEO 55 Houdini Mansion Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures Browse 55 houdini mansion photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. There was an elevator which took passengers down through the solid rock to a tunnel that went under Laurel Canyon Boulevard and came up in the gatehouse of the Walker mansion.' According to the website Houdini's Ghost, the guesthouse 'was built on solid rock and the hills around it were honeycombed with caves, some natural, some man-made. There's no solid evidence for this, but there is lots of solid evidence that Bess lived at 2435 after Harry's death. Houdini scholars are pretty sure that in 1919 the Houdinis actually stayed in the four-bedroom guesthouse at 2435 Laurel Canyon (across the street, on a knoll). In 1959, the mansion at 2398 (now 2400) Laurel Canyon burnt down, and all the papers referred to the fire at the old Houdini mansion however, that house actually belonged to Ralf Walker, a department store owner and friend of Houdini's. Here's a nice mysterious Halloween tale about Harry Houdini, who died on October 31, 1926: It's believed that Houdini and his wife Bess were living in Laurel Canyon in 1919 (while Houdini filmed for Famous Players-Lasky), but there's been a lot of confusion about the exact house.