150 years of misfortune in L.A.’s Griffith Park: A curse, ghosts and, now, an unknown woman’s skull
There are caves carved in canyons, sheer cliffs, twisting trails and craggy peaks, all of it barely more than a mile from the freeway but seemingly a world a way. That’s what makes the rugged, mountainous Griffith Park so appealing to filmmakers — it’s been home to the Bat Cave, a hiding place for Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter in the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a Klingon penal colony in the Star Trek series.
But the Los Angeles park has enough strange and sometimes grim history for a movie of its own. It’s said to be inhabited by ghosts and haunted by a 150-old curse. And it’s been the scene of a number of murder mysteries in the past few years, including one that’s still unfolding.
