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10.20.16 Volume 15 Issue 283
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Help Homeless and be a Ghostbuster BY MARINA ANDALON Daily Press Staff Writer
Ghost tourism and hunting has shot up in the past years, mainly due to the public’s interest in the supernatural, especially during the Halloween time. Haunted Santa Monica Ghost Tours is offering a very unique event this Halloween, The Ghost Hunting Experience. The event allows guests to be part of an actual ghost hunt in a haunted location, the Venice Beach Bar. The Venice Beach Bar is rumored to be the former home of Jim Morrison, and current staff has reported numerous paranor-
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mal occurrences that include objects moving on their own and a picture that changes its expression while being observed. The experience is an actual paranormal investigation that allows guest a hands on opportunity to use real ghost hunting equipment to try to find evidence of the supernatural. “During the experience, guests will hear true tales of the history and haunting of the Venice Beach Bar, they will take part in an oldfashioned séance,” said Candace Fahey, co-founder of Haunted Santa Monica Ghost Tours. The bar has never been investigated before; this is the first event
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of its kind in this location. “The Venice Beach Bar has a rich, fascinating history,” says Zack Fahey, co-founder and historian of Haunted Santa Monica Ghost Tours. “It was a creative space, but its later history is much darker. There were drugs and murders…all of these things can contribute to a haunting. It will be interesting to see what we discover.” The weekend of the tour is the only time the public is allowed onto the property after hours. People will walk into the room of Jim Morrison, and experience the whole location.
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After Calif. leak, feds seek to curtail natural gas blowouts
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Santa Ana winds bring Southern California heat, fire danger
BY MATTHEW DALY
BY JOHN ANTCZAK
Associated Press
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A year after a blowout at a natural gas well near Los Angeles spewed tons of noxious gas and drove thousands from their homes, a federal task force is recommending dozens of safety changes for the nation’s 400 underground natural gas storage facilities. A report released Tuesday recommends that operators of gas-
Santa Ana winds gusted out of the mountains of Southern California on Wednesday, driving up temperatures and raising the danger of wildfires in the droughtstricken region. Firefighters got their first test with an overnight brush fire in the brown hills above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles and held it in
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Santa Monica High School hosted Hawthorne High School in an Ocean League football game last week and lost 40-28 dropping their record to 0-2 in league play and 3-4 overall. Pictured are Running Back Tony Dancy eluding a tackle, quarterback Dariush Sayson being chased out of the pocket and Tony Dancy rushing the football down field.
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