Haunting Rumors
The mansion is rumored to be haunted. Artists such as the Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler Zavala have reported doors opening when they are known to have been previously closed. Zavala also cited one room, the bell tower, that the band chose to avoid while living there.
The nine-piece metal band Slipknot reported experiencing a number of unusual events while living there during the recording of their album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). Drummer Joey Jordison claimed to have had an unsettling experience in the basement when he felt something walk through him and subsequently never went down there again. Also, Singer Corey Taylor took pictures of two orbs hovering near the thermostat in his room that changed the temperature. System of a Down's guitarist, Daron Malakian, said that everyday around 4 o'clock, his amp tubes would act weird.
It is rumored that the house has been haunted since 1918, when the son of a furniture store owner pushed his lover from the balcony. The mansion is actually built on the grounds of the old mansion that burned down in the late 1950s and wasn't rebuilt until years later to be used as a recording arts studio. Also, during the recording of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, more unusual things occurred. Consequently, drummer Chad Smith chose to not live in the house during the recording. Guitarist John Frusciante considered the ghosts friendly, so he decided to masturbate in front of one. The BSSM album art also features a photograph of a strange orb captured during a group photograph, which the band suggests might have been a spirit at the mansion.
The Mansion also appears in the second season of Showtime's Californication, in which the owner of the house is Lew Ashby, a famous record producer (played by Callum Keith Rennie) living alone in his ivory tower. Also referred in the TV Show as "Ashby's Den of Iniquity". Dave Navarro and Carmen Electra visited the mansion during their MTV reality show "Til Death Do Us Part".
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