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Recently uncovered, signed portrait of the late Mirana White.

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Victims Daniel Bloom & Mirana White who seemed to be good friends before the incident.

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The Hollywood Tower Hotel

The Hollywood Tower Hotel was a 12-story tower built within view of the famous Hollywood sign in the Hollywood hills. In its prime, it was all the rage and host to some of the biggest Hollywood stars. The top floor housed a first-class restaurant and dance hall, the Tip-Top Lounge. Today, it looks just as it did that fateful night the hotel closed its doors, with luggage left on rolling cards, mail still in room slots and an unfinished card game resting on a table in the lobby. The entire property looks as if the former occupants might show up and resume their lives at any moment.

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The Incident

On Halloween night in 1939, the main elevators were out of order. Five people boarded a maintenance elevator in the Tip-Top club, bound for lower floors. At some time during the short ride, lightning hit the hotel just where the elevator shaft was located, causing the elevator to plunge down uncontrollably. All the occupants of the elevator were killed on impact. Hotel management removed the bodies in secret, to avoid the prying eyes of reporters, and Dewey Todd, Sr. immediately closed the doors of the hotel.

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The Victims

Six people, all from very different social backgrounds, got on the elevator that night. Sally Shine was a child star before Shirley Temple graced the movie scene, with more than 20 short films to her name. Emmeline Partridge was Sally’s nanny; She was very protective of her charge, keeping fans at bay. Mirana White was a glamorous aspiring actress, and Gilbert London was one of her many male admirers. Daniel Bloom was a young writer who recently moved away from home to seek broader horizons.  The sixth and final unlucky passenger was Dewey Todd, Jr. Although his father, Dewey Todd, Sr. built the Hollywood Tower Hotel, the junior Dewey worked as a bellhop, perhaps to work his way up in his father’s business.

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Closing the Doors

After the incident, the Hollywood Tower Hotel closed its doors with no plan of ever opening them again. There was talk of leveling the building and creating a new tourist destination entirely, but many people had protested as it had become an icon of old Hollywood. It also became the setting of many ghost stories — some swearing that the ghosts of all six passengers still haunt the property to this day.

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Re-Opening

For the 75th Anniversary of its closing, its doors were re-opened to the public as a 1930’s-themed resort, allowing staff and guests to dress and act only in a ‘30s manner.  The re-opening was a hit and welcomed into its doors all forms of life. Also incorporated into the setting was the classic “haunting” spin on the story, involving some paid actors and staff to act as the living dead. What they were unaware of was that the living dead were among them.

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The After-Life

While the location was left to rot, the spell that caused the incident had left the ghosts of the victims and the possessed resort dormant. With its re-opening, the ghosts were awoken, not knowing that they had died in the first place. Caught in a time loop, the ghosts appeared the way that they did all those years ago with no sign of being a creation of the supernatural. With the hotel restored in full ‘30s decor and everyone playing the part, the ghosts believed they hadn’t missed a thing; But they would soon find out as the resort itself, hungry for the lifes of its guests, would do everything in its power to obtain more souls for itself.

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Mirana White

Age: 22

Occupation: Actress

Residency: Hollywood, CA

Status: Deceased

Bio: Young Mirana White was a startlet on the rise. A woman of stunning beauty and intelligence, she seemed to have a promising career ahead of her. Unfortunately, the young diva was one of the six victims of the elevator crash that fateful night. Her talent and beauty would be remembered forever in Hollywood, as would her most gruesome end.

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Jamison Andrew Collins

Age: 27

Occupation: Travel Writer

Status: Alive

Bio: Jamison writes for a popular travel blog in the 21st century. When it was announced that the Hollywood Tower Hotel would be re-opened, he was eager to book a reservation, very much aware of what an icon it had been and what it would mean to cover its return as a ‘30s-themed resort. However, his trip proved far from normal as the historic hotel was not all he had expected it to be.

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Daniel Bloom

Age: 22

Residency: Redding, CA

Occupation: Writer

Status: Deceased

Bio: Daniel Bloom, known to his friends as “Danny,” was disowned from his family as a teenager when they’d discovered him holding hands with a boy that went to his school. His father had not allowed him to return, yet his mother — who did not understand his affections, but pitied him — wrote to him often. He left Nevada and traveled to Redding, CA, where he hoped to find work as a novelist. When he’d heard of the prodigious Hollywood Tower Hotel, he booked a reservation, unaware that it would result in his untimely death.