Haunted Hollywood: Part 6

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I'm not really sure if these count as an actual Hauntings. They have
the ear markings of a curse, IMO.
Almost from the very beginning, the Cast and Crew of the movie
"Poltergeist" by strange and unexplainable events. On the Soundstage where
the interior house scenes were filmed at Paramount Studios, which, by the
way, is located right next door to Hollywood Forever Cemetery, lights would
go on and off for no reason. At times the soundstage got very cold, even
with the heaters going at full.
Dominique Dunne, 22, was strangled to death on Nov. 4, 1982 by her
ex-boyfriend, who only served 2.5 years in prison before being set free.
Then on February 1, 1988, at the age of 12, Heather O'Rourke died on the
operating table of a rare congenital birth defect, During surgery she died
of cardiac and pulmonary arrest. It was revealed that she had been suffering
from a severe bowel obstruction, a result of a congenitial birth defect. The
obstruction led to an infection, which in turn caused septic shock. The
shock triggered her death.
"Superman" was another movie which carried a curse. It is said that it
began with the mysterious death of actor George Reeves, who played Superman
on TV during the 1950's. On the night of June 16, 1959 during a party at his
home in Benedict Canyon, George told his guests that he was going upstairs
to bed. Not long afterwards, a gunshot rang out. George Reeves died of a
single gunshot wound to the head. Police ruled it a suicide. However, there
are those who think he was murdered. During the filming of the movie,
"Superman" in 1977, two stuntmen, Terry Hill and John Bodimead, were killed
during the seqence where Superman saved Air Force One after it had been
damaged by a lightning strike. Their names are mentioned in the closing
credits of the film.
While filming "Superman II", director Richard Donner was fired and
replaced by Richard Lester (director of "A Hard Days Night" and "Help!").
Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane, was severely injured in a car wreck
in 1990 and was unable to work for 2 years. She went backrupt. Then, in 1996
she had a nervous breakdown due to her strugle with manic depression. Police
found her in a distressed state, hiding in someone's garden claiming she'd
been stalked and attacked. She had apparently cut her hair off with a razor
blade. She was placed in psychiatric care facility. Today she is in good
health in body and mind, fighting her illness and supporting those who also
suffer from it. Then there is, of course, Christopher Reeve. An extremely
charismatic and gifted acter on both stage and screen, he was paralyzed from
the neck down following an accident in which the horse he was riding threw
him during an aborted jump at a race track. He bravely continues his fight
to walk again and says that he will one day do so.

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Peace,

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