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Haunted L.A. Hospital To Be Turned Into Senior Apartments

Posted: May 17, 2012

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A supposedly haunted L.A. hospital could be set for a conversion into senior citizen apartments.

The LA Times reports that the 107-year-old Linda Vista Community Hospital, which closed in 1991, is the subject of a proposed $40 million conversion. The hospital has been used in numerous Hollywood productions (it’s appeared in the David Fincher-directed Se7en, as well as TV shows like True Blood and ER), and is also the setting for many real-life spooky tales.

Many who worked there claim supernatural events occurred in their presence, including the hospital’s caretaker Francis Kortekaas. Speaking to the Times, Kortekaas says he witnessed a sink at the hospital turn itself on and off in front of his eyes, and reveals he felt a child’s hand reach out for his own, despite him being alone at the time: “It felt like my daughter’s hand,” he told the paper.

None of which put off Maurice Ramirez. Ramirez is the executive VP of Amcal Multi-Housing Inc., the affordable housing group that is backing the hospital’s conversion. “People tell me it’s the most haunted place in L.A.,” Ramirez scoffed, “Because it’s been empty for maybe 25 years or so, it becomes the subject of a little urban folklore about ghosts and things.”

The closed hospital is now used for filming for around four months every year, and even has a fake prison cell (added by Kortekaas) to make it more appealing to potential filmmakers.

That movie legacy could soon be gone, however, with Ramirez gushing, “It’s going to look like an upscale hotel. People in the neighborhood will really see a transformation.”

Would you send Grandma here?



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10 Archived Responses to “ Haunted L.A. Hospital To Be Turned Into Senior Apartments ”

  1. Wdc All T Way
    May 17, 2012

    guess ghost hunters will have to find a different place now to haunt.

  2. Carol Morgan
    May 17, 2012

    they could always go to the Trans Allegany Aslyum in West Virginia.

  3. Wdc All T Way
    May 17, 2012

    oh my god sis they have been there that shit is scary there holloween 24 hour lock down was there i think

  4. Carol Morgan
    May 17, 2012

    yep, they do it every year for four lucky people get to be locked up in that place. I took the kids there for an easter egg hunt. Geez, i did not want to get near the door. We sat on the other side of the fountian.

  5. Wdc All T Way
    May 17, 2012

    i want to go

  6. Carol Morgan
    May 17, 2012

    O.o….you can go, and ill sit across the street at Tand L hotdogs and the rest of us will sit acrossed the street watching while we eat hot dogs. Someones bound to come out of their with peepee pants.

  7. Windie Breeze
    May 18, 2012

    What scare the old peoplle to death what a shame

  8. David Lucas Garcia
    May 24, 2012

    D'aaamn!!! Never got to check out the whole hospital

  9. Noelle Levesque
    Jun 16, 2012

    "supposedly haunted" NO it is! JUST WATCH GHOST ADVENTURES! THIS HOSPITAL DOES NOT NEED TO BE TURNED INTO APARTMENTS!

  10. Betonon Pacheco Pulido
    Jun 21, 2012

    usted.es.medico.snr.lucas.