Haunted Downtown Los Angeles 1947 - Virtual Tour

Scott Markus • October 1, 2024
A black and white photo of a haunted los angeles building

L.A. Noire was an incredibly detailed video game, released by the people who brought you Grand Theft Auto featuring an extremely realistic open world map of Los Angeles as it was in 1947. Our Los Angeles tour writer, Scott Markus decided to venture to several real-life haunted locations in the world of the video game and share some of The City of Angels' best ghost stories in this virtual tour of 1947 LA and its most haunted spots!

Here are the downtown Los Angeles locations featured in this video:

 

0:00 – Ghost Tour – AmericanGhostWalks.com

0:59 – Why 1947 LA?

3:37 – Elisa Lam & Cecil Hotel Pt 1

4:13 – Huge map of where we can travel

5:25 – The haunted house I lived in, in LA

6:10 – Pueblo De Los Angeles

8:42 – Avila Adobe in Olvera Street

11:34 – La Golondrina Cafe

13:12 – Pico House & the Chinese Massacre

16:36 – Union Station

17:32 – Moore Hill Pt 1

18:18 – Lizard People living under LA?

20:42 – Moore Hill Pt 2 – LA High School #9

23:13 – LA’s Biltmore Hotel & the Black Dahlia

26:18 – The Cecil Hotel

31:00 – Any requests?

31:30 – LA City Hall


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