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Extras prepared by Legend Films for the Fox DVD release included an audio commentary track by comedian Michael J. Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000, two versions of the trailer, and a slideshow of images from the film's original press book. After Nora, Watson, and Ruth release Lance from the secret room, Nora tells them that she shot Frederick. When they arrive in the cellar, Frederick explains that he loaded her gun with blanks, that his wife and David plotted to kill him, and that they both met their ends in the vat of acid. Watson remains convinced the house is haunted, with David and Annabelle now added to its ranks of ghosts, and that he will be the next victim. Aroused by the ghostly sounds, David concludes that the killer is about and proposes he and Frederick split up to search the house.

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There are more similarities, but there are also important differences which would be spoilers. Frederick Loren, an eccentric millionaire, invites five people to a party he is throwing for his fourth wife, Annabelle, in an allegedly haunted house he has rented. He promises to give each guest $10,000 with the stipulation that they stay the entire night in the house after the doors are locked at midnight, all the windows are barred, and there are no phones or radios to use.

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People have reported seeing a woman near the sign matching Entwistle’s description and dressed in period clothes; some people say they’ve seen a female figure actually making the jump. Vincent Price is in top form, and his conversations with his wife are in the old-school Hollywood tradition of sharp banter. It’s as much or more a mystery as it is a haunted house story, though I can’t say any more without spoiling some of it. Johnny Legend released a 50th anniversary DVD containing many extras such as both the original theatrical trailer and TV spots plus several William Castle and Vincent Price theatrical trailers, a Carol Ohmart profile and "golden age" TV shows starring Vincent Price. The poster for the film included an illustration of a house in yet a third style, that of a fanciful four-story Romanesque structure.

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Hearing a scream, Lance and David find Annabelle's corpse, suspended to suggest she hanged herself, but the absence of a perch immediately arouses suspicions of murder. Nora confronts Lance and tells him an unseen assailant strangled her and left her for dead. He tells her to remain out of sight so that her attacker will still think she is dead. Lance and David propose that everyone stay in their rooms and shoot anyone who enters to survive the night.

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Lance uncovers a secret room at the end of the second-floor hall, but the door shuts behind him once he enters, trapping him. David instead meets with Annabelle, who had faked her death using a hanging harness and sedatives. Secretly lovers, the two of them have orchestrated the various mishaps to manipulate Nora into killing Frederick. Nora, seeing Frederick enter the basement with a gun in his hand, does indeed shoot him. After she flees, David slips in to dispose of Frederick's body in the vat of acid, and the lights go out. Griffith Park is all kinds of haunted, dating back supposedly to the nineteenth century, when owner Don Antonio Feliz left the land to one Don Antonio Coronel instead of to his niece, Dona Petronilla Feliz.

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Dan Aykroyd was living here when he got the idea for Ghostbusters—he says he was inspired by the house’s extreme hauntedness (door locking, lights going on and off, a piano playing itself). The Roosevelt competes with the Knickerbocker for most celebrity hauntings. Marilyn Monroe supposedly appears in a full-length mirror from Suite 1200, where she stayed when she first started becoming famous; Montgomery Clift is said to hang out in and around room 928, where he lived while shooting From Here to Eternity. One psychic says he’s also detected Humphrey Bogart, Carmen Miranda, and Betty Grable. There’s also a cold spot in the Blossom Room (the first home of the Oscars), near where a dapperly-dressed ’30s-era man is said to hang around.

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The Comedy Store’s building originally housed Ciro’s, a hot mob hangout in the ’40s and ’50s; now it’s said to be haunted by several hit men, as well as a woman who performed illegal abortions in the downstairs lounge and a woman who died getting one of those abortions. Elisha Cook Jr. plays Watson Pritchard, the nervous, frightened, and almost psychotic owner of the house who once spent a night there and, he says, almost died because of it. Shirley Jackson’s• The Haunting of Hill House• novel was published in 1959. William Castle is known for the speed of his productions, but it seems very likely that the movie was written first. The script does not appear to have been based on any previous work that Jackson could have been inspired by. Producer and director Castle was known for adding extra “special effects” to his B-film productions.

The Silent Movie Theatre is said to be haunted by the ghosts of its first two owners. John Hampton opened the theater in 1942 and dedicated his life to preserving silent films… using toxic chemicals that eventually gave him cancer. Lawrence Austin reopened the theater after Hampton’s death in the early nineties; in 1997, he was fatally shot in the lobby in a plot concocted by his lover/projectionist.

Thus the innocents will have no reason to leave their rooms (and a good reason to stay inside them) and the killer must stay put or admit guilt. Annabelle privately warns Lance that her husband is scheming something and that she suspects him of murdering his second and third wives after his first wife disappeared. The guests learn the party's rules downstairs, and each is given a Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer for protection. Having encountered further apparitions, Nora decides against staying the night, but the caretakers lock the doors five minutes early, taking that option out of the guests' hands.

He explains to his guests that any among them who survives in the house for one night—during which all communication with the outside world will be cut—will receive a prize of $10,000. Annabelle warns the guests that she fears Loren means her harm and meanwhile plots with her lover, Dr. Trent, to trick one of the guests into shooting him. Assorted terrors haunt the guests at every turn, including ghosts, a severed head, and Annabelle’s (later revealed to be faked) death.

There have been reports of ghosts in several areas of City Hall; the most famous is a nattily-dressed, old-fashioned gentleman who likes to disrupt City Council meetings and bother officials in the bathrooms. If you’re looking for something here, use the search box in the navigation to limit your search to this part of the site, or use the Negative Space search page. I just discovered, while looking it up on IMDB, that there was a remake in 1999, the same year as the Liam Neeson Haunting remake! Apparently it was universally panned, which is too bad, as Geoffrey Rush is an amazing actor. The theatrical trailer promoted the film as The House on Haunted Hill, although all advertising material and the title on the film itself were simply titled House on Haunted Hill.

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Mix 1 tablespoon borax and 1 quart of warm water to make your home-made cleaning solution. Pour the mixture into a spray bottle and spray directly on the stains and wipe with a clean cloth. Borax is a great natural herbicide for those pesky weeds that like to grow in the cracks of your walkways. You may need to try out a few options before you find one that works.

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There will also be small holes where carpenter ants have kicked out debris, usually varying in size. Alternatively, termite-damaged wood contains soil and mud debris with more uniform sizes. Minor infestations of carpenter ants can be dealt with using many of the same strategies used with other species of ants. Ant baits work by lacing a sweet substance with a substance toxic to ants, such as borax. Worker ants carry the borax-laced food back to the hidden colony inside the damaged wood, where it is eaten by other ants.

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Once you have dealt with infestations in your walls, there is a number of steps you can take to prevent new infestations without using pesticides. Periodically inspect wood framing and wood siding near ground level around foundations, and make sure to keep all gaps sealed. Inspect the penetrations where pipes and other services enter the home, as well as the sill plates where the walls meet foundation walls or slabs. Dry up leaks inside and outside the home, and repair any moisture-damaged wood when you find it. Read on to learn how to identify carpenter ants and their damage and get rid of them in your home.

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The baiting approach using honey can also be used to trace carpenter ants which are foraging outdoors back to their nest. To tell the difference between damage from a termite vs. a carpenter ant infestation, homeowners will want to examine the wood carefully. Wood galleries created by carpenter ants will be smooth and have an almost sandpaper texture to them.

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Even if you successfully get rid of the carpenter ant nest, there still might be more in your home. Call an exterminator to check that the nest is destroyed and to look for possible other nests. You should also call a pro if you haven't been able to find the nest, but still see carpenter ants. You can increase your chances of following workers to their nest by setting out food that they like.

This is why it takes a number of years for a carpenter ant nest to grow into a full-blown colony. Ants are social creatures that form colonies with a queen and thousands of worker ants. The worker ants roam outside the nest to retrieve food for the queen and young ants. These worker ants form and follow trails to lead them back to the nest once they discover a food source in your home. The potent chemicals kill ants almost instantly meaning that the workers do not get a chance to carry the bait to the rest of the colony.

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These ants are the reproductive males and females searching for a new nest site. This ritual tends to last a few days annually, but can be a real nuisance. Spills should be cleaned up immediately and opened food and drinks should either be sealed in a container or kept in the fridge. Don’t leave dirty plates or pans stacked up in the sink, or sticky food wrappers dotted around the home.

When you get to the suspected area of the nest, listen closely—you may be able to hear a faint rustling sound. You can also tap on areas of suspected nests to listen for hollow sounds of damaged wood. Carpenter ants may not eat the wood they chew, but they can still cause a lot of damage to your home.

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If accidental ingestion occurs, call a poison control center. Termites, on the other hand, have veiny wings, all four of which are the same size. They have straight antennae (no “elbow”), only have two body segments, and their midsections are thicker.

Parent carpenter ant colonies sometimes establish one or more satellite nests in nearby indoor or outdoor sites. The workers of satellite colonies move frequently between their nest and the parent colony. Satellite nests are typically composed of workers, pupae and mature larvae. The parent colony, or main colony, is typically located outside and contains the queen, eggs and young. Satellite nests can occur and branch out from the main parent colony, and they only contain workers, mature larvae, and pupae. Satellite nests are formed in mid-summer both indoors and outdoors and do not form until the parent colony matures over several years.

A number of steps can be taken by homeowners to reduce the potential for future carpenter ant problems. There can be more than one nest in a building, but only treat nests that have been discovered. Carpenter ants are attracted to honey and other sweet foods. Wingless queens found indoors are not an indication of an indoor nest. They are new queens that have recently shed their wings and are still searching for nesting sites. There are several species that may be found infesting homes and other buildings.

Carpenter ant coloring also can vary, but the most common colors are black or dark brown and can include coloration of reddish-orange or yellow. Worker ants are wingless and are typically 1/4- to 1/2-inch long. Winged ants have two sets of wings, with the front set being longer than the rear set. This variation in wing size helps to distinguish carpenter ants from winged termites, which have two sets of wings that are roughly equal in size.

The small tropical Pharaoh’s ant loves to make its home in central-heated blocks of flats. These ants also prefer protein to sweet food and choose to make multiple — difficult to reach — nests within the building structure. If the infestation seems extensive, you are having difficulty finding or exterminating the ants, or you don't want to do it yourself, contact a pest control professional. To help prevent future infestation, eliminate any direct contact between the structure and surrounding soil, plants, or mulch. Mix two teaspoons each with hot water in a small container and place in their path.

When threatened or crushed, odorous house ants give off a smell of rotten coconut, hence their name. While these ants do not pose a public health risk, they can contaminate food. Odorous house ants are only about 1/8-inch long and have beehive-shaped abdomens. Pest management professionals may also offer services such as sealing or screening holes and crevices to help prevent further carpenter ant activity in homes.

In carpenter ants, the thorax is evenly rounded—there’s no indentation, unlike with other ants, Russell says. They don’t form trails, although many may congregate around a food source at once. My housemate used to see them regularly emerge from the wood slat ceiling of her bedroom during the summer. She tried fogging the room with cedar oil, spraying the ants with insecticides and sealing gaps.

Borax may be mildly toxic but it is still not a substance that you want to handle unnecessarily. Store-bought baits generally come in ready-to-use containers where you only need to open and place the bait without touching any toxic substance. It is worth noting that the ants aren’t attracted to borax on its own. The compound has to be mixed with bait which is what attracts the ant in the first place. Think of it as preparing a delicious, poisoned feast for your unwanted guests.

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Carpenter ants are often confused with termites since both insects can cause substantial damage to the wood in a home's walls. Carpenter ants do not actually eat the wood, but instead, hollow it out with an extensive network of tunnels in which to establish colonies. This tunneling gradually opens up the wood to more moisture, more rot, and more weakening. Termites, however, actually consume the wood, unlike carpenter ants that merely tunnel through it, leaving behind residue (frass) in piles around the entry to the nest. Diatomaceous earth (DE) is a naturally occurring mineral made up of fossilized skeletons of diatoms, a form of algae. It is applied to ants in the same way as boric acid and works by the same principle.

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The professional may also apply sprays using special equipment that creates an ultra-fine mist that penetrates wood more effectively than any method available to homeowners. Finally, a professional exterminator may apply perimeter treatments around the outside of your house in addition to addressing the nest itself. These perimeter applications may use residual pesticides that will kill any stray ants that attempt to enter your home in the following weeks and months, thereby preventing reinfestation. Next, deal with sources of nearby decaying wood outside the home. Chip up any tree stumps and make sure the debris is removed or mulched in an area well away from the home. Firewood piles should be located well away from the house or garage.

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Since these insects are mostly nocturnal, homeowners may not see carpenter ants with wings themselves. Wings are most likely to be found on windows or near cracks and crevices, especially in places where piles of frass have also accumulated. Regular ant bait is unlikely to be effective with carpenter ants, Pereira says. That’s why he recommends looking for bait that’s specially designed for carpenter ants. The hope is that the ants will take the bait back to the nest and destroy it. The same can’t be said of carpenter ants, which chew through rotten or damp wood, potentially damaging windows, doors, or even structural framing in the process.

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However, specially formulated carpenter ant baits available to professional pest managers and have been very effective. Place bait indoors where activity has been observed or is suspected. Monitor bait and place more if it is consumed or remove it if there is no activity. Carpenter ants do not eat wood but instead construct their nests in wood by chewing an interconnecting series of tunnels and cavities.

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Pure pyrethrin has fairly low toxicity since it is a natural product based on an extract from chrysanthemum flowers. Pyrethrin-based insecticides work by exciting the central nervous system of the insects, causing paralysis and death. But some insecticides blend pyrethrin with other chemicals, known as synergists, to increase their longevity and effectiveness.

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What exactly are they, how did they get in and what are they looking for? Unfortunately, most big black ants found in people’s homes are carpenter ants. They’re called carpenter ants because they build their homes in wood by chewing and tunneling through it. Much like termites, if they aren’t discovered and eliminated, carpenter ants can cause a lot of hidden structural damage in a home. When carpenter ants build their nests, usually in damp or decaying wood, they dig out tunnels which weakens the wood from the inside.

A professional can also tell the homeowner what damage has been done to their home, if any, so it can be fixed and the home’s structural integrity restored. Carpenter ants are one of the most common types of household ants in the United States. Carpenter ants are so named because they love to nest in wet wood and excavate it into a nest for their brood.

If you want to mix your own borax ant killer, it’s relatively easy to do. If they’re interested in liquid plan food during the day they are scavenging at night. These ants (Camponotus laevissimus) are part of the carpenter group of ants in California. Initially attracted by plants in gardens and backyards, these ants make their way inside the house. Their aggressiveness sometimes makes them hard to deal with as they often move their nest from one location of the house to another. This is why reducing interior humidity levels is part of a strategy of dealing with these ants when found inside homes.

Nests discovered during remodeling can be sprayed to halt ant dispersal, or the ants can be collected in a vacuum and discarded. Drilling holes to inject insecticide into all wall voids may be of limited benefit, especially if the walls contain insulation. Replace damaged or decayed wood and thoroughly seal the structure to eliminate future moisture problems. As noted earlier, carpenter ants seen in the home may actually be nesting outdoors, foraging indoors for food and/or moisture. Once the outdoor nest is discovered, treatment can be performed by spraying or drenching the nest with an insecticide such as carbaryl (Sevin), diazinon, or chlorpyrifos (Dursban).

There are 3 sub-species in this family with similar characteristics. These types of food include sugary foods such as syrup and honey. They made their way to California where they are considered household pests. Alternatively, try an insecticide that will be carried back to the nest, such as Vitax Nippon Ant Killer Liquid. Contact information for each states diagnostic laboratory for U.S. residents. If you live outside of Iowa please do not submit a sample without contacting the Plant & Insect Diagnostic Clinic.

A carpenter ant nest can exist in a house during winter but not be noticed. If the nest is in a place that does not receive sufficient indoor heat or sunshine, such as a north-facing outside wall, the ants will remain dormant until spring. On a bright sunny day, ants may be seen walking through different areas of the house.

Keep reading to learn about how to kill and repel ants safely. That said, ants may carry bacteria, making them potential transmitters of disease or infection. For example, a small 2019 animal study showed that Monomorium ants can carry pathogenic bacteria, which can be dangerous to people. Pesticides based on pyrethrins are considered safe to use around humans and are among the least toxic of pesticides—but they are still neurotoxins and should be used with care. Pyrethrins are toxic to fish and other aquatic life, and they have been known to cause serious allergic reactions in humans, especially asthma sufferers.

These ants (Camponotus modoc) are also common in California and parts of Western North America. They use trails or pathways to get out of the nest and move towards food. These ants live in large colonies, albeit smaller colonies compared to other more common California ants. The species (Tapinoma sessile) is known for nesting on all types of grounds.

They're attracted to sweets, so a little bit of jam or jelly can work. You can also mix equal parts sugar and baking soda, then place the mixture in a shallow dish. The sugar attracts the ants, but the baking soda will kill them naturally. To prevent carpenter ant problems indoors, eliminate high moisture conditions. They have one or two nodes and an uneven thorax when viewed in profile. It’s best to use neem oil around plants, especially where you see aphids or ants.

Ants farm aphids (small sap-sucking insects), so poisoning the aphids with neem oil can take care of both types of pests. The process, which may involve a professional contractor, can be a major undertaking if the damage has been extensive. Along with hiding in dewy, decomposing wood, you’ll often find carpenter ants colonizing behind dishwashers and air conditioning units, in the backs of moldy cabinets or around leaky pipes. They usually range from 3.4 to 13 millimeters long, according to Howard Russell, M.S., an entomologist at Michigan State University. Carpenter ants are often black, but some types have a reddish or yellowish shades to them.

The Black Harvester ant (Veromessor pergandei) is a typical harvester ant highly common in California. It harvests seeds and other types of foods it later stores in its nests in small chambers. By far the best course of action to keep ants outdoors where they belong is to remove the temptation to venture over the threshold of your home.

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Though her plot finally comes to fruition and Loren is “shot” by one of the guests, the gun proves to have been loaded with blanks. Trent attempts to dispose of what he thinks is Loren’s corpse, but he is pushed into a vat of acid by Loren. Loren later uses Trent’s skeleton to scare Annabelle into the acid as well. House on Haunted Hill•, with Vincent Price, certainly looks like it was inspired by The Haunting of Hill House•.

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The film is also known for its promotional gimmick, Emergo, which included a "flying skeleton" that would appear over the audience as they enjoyed the film in a movie theater. In collaboration with Rob Zombie, Waxwork Records is thrilled to release Rob Zombie Presents House On Haunted Hill Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Von Dexter. Starring Vincent Price, House On Haunted Hill is a 1959 American Horror film produced and directed by William Castle. Vincent Price played Frederick Loren, an eccentric millionaire who rents a reportedly haunted mansion for one night under the pretense of hosting a party for his wife, Annabelle, whom he believes to be after his fortune.

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The guests are test pilot Lance Schroeder, newspaper columnist Ruth Bridges, psychiatrist Dr. David Trent, who specializes in hysteria, Nora Manning, who works for one of Loren's companies, and the house's owner, Watson Pritchard. All are strangers to both the Lorens and each other, their only commonality being their lust for money. House on Haunted Hill, American horror film, released in 1959, that was produced and directed by popular B-filmmaker William Castle, who was known for his theatre gimmicks. Rob Zombie and Waxwork Records have partnered to release an exclusive, curated line of classic Horror movie soundtracks. “Rob Zombie Presents” features several never-before-released film soundtracks that were personally selected by the singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. Rob Zombie and Waxwork Records have partnered to release an exclusive, curated line of classic Horror movie soundtracks.

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It’s said that industrialist and eventual owner Griffith J. Griffith donated the property to the city to rid himself of the tainted land (the ostriches on his ostrich farm there apparently stampeded at night). The land is supposedly haunted by Don Antonio Feliz, Dona Petronilla, Griffith J. Griffith, a young girl, and several others, as well as some kind of humanoid beast. The film was remade as the 1999 film House on Haunted Hill, which had a 2007 sequel titled Return to House on Haunted Hill. The 1999 film was released to negative reviews but was a box office success, while the 2007 sequel was direct-to-video and widely panned. Chavez Ravine is haunted by more than just the eerie specter of displaced poor people—it’s also said to have one or two actual ghosts, as well as a spooky mist. Several ghosts supposedly haunt the bridge, including possibly a worker who fell into the concrete during construction.

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In collaboration with Rob Zombie, Waxwork Records is thrilled to release Rob Zombie Presents HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Von Dexter. Starring Vincent Price, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL is a 1959 American Horror film produced and directed by William Castle. Vincent Price plays an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle, has invited five people to a house for a "haunted house" party. As the night progresses, the guests are trapped within the house with an assortment of terrors. The film uses many props used in carnival haunted houses to generate fear and terror.

There are also the usual lights going on and off and mysterious footsteps. The 1906 Alexandria, now low-income apartments, has been both one of the fanciest joints in Downtown and a rundown flophouse. Several dancers are said to haunt the second-floor ballroom, an angry teenager hangs around Charlie Chaplin's old suite, and Rudolph Valentino apparently leaves the Knickerbocker occasionally and visits his old 12th-floor suite. The basement, which is filled with tunnels, is supposedly haunted by a couple of mobsters, at least one of whom also likes to visit the Comedy Store. Peg Entwistle is probably the most famous failed actress in Los Angeles history. Depressed by her lack of success, she jumped from the Hollywood Sign’s “H” to her death in September 1932.

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Among these were buzzers hidden beneath moviegoers’ seats and a countdown clock reporting the time that remained for viewers to exit the theatre before viewing the frightening climax of the film. Castle’s gimmick for House on Haunted Hill was “Emergo,” a fake skeleton that flew over the audience on a wire at a key moment during the film, engendering as many laughs from the audience as screams of fright. Every mission in California is said to be haunted, but only one has ghost cats!

Rob Zombie Presents”features several never-before-released film soundtracks that were personally selected by the singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. Frederick is convinced Annabelle tried to poison him to acquire his wealth, which Annabelle somewhat evasively denies, attributing his suspicions to paranoia and jealousy. Watson believes the house is genuinely haunted by the ghosts of those murdered there, including his own brother; he claims to have spent one night there before and "was almost dead" when found the next morning. He gives a tour of the house, including a vat of acid in the basement, which a previous resident used to kill his wife. When Lance and Nora remain behind to further explore the basement, Lance is locked in an empty room and struck on the head, while a menacing ghost confronts Nora.

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The lore goes that Father Francisco Uria kept four pet cats whom he loved so much that when he died, the “four cats solemnly marched to the chapel. Leaping to the rope of the chapel bell, they swung it back and forth, tolling out the mournful message that the padre was dead. The grand old department store (now a Southwest Law School building) is supposedly haunted by a little girl who was killed in an elevator shaft.

Hampton is said to haunt the upstairs lounge while Austin covers the lobby. Waxwork worked with the rights holders of the original film elements which have been restored, allowing for the best source material of this never-before-released soundtrack album. In addition to the original music by composer Von Dexter, this release features segments of the film's dialogue and sound effects appealingly included and sourced from the restored original soundtrack. Lorimar Productions released the film on VHS cassette on CBS/Fox Video's Key Video in October 1985. Warner Home Video released the film on DVD as a tie-in to the release of the 1999 remake.

No psychologists, but still, a group of talented and varied people invited to an old house along with the current owner who thinks it is a bad idea. The characters are accompanied by the owner, but, as in Hill House, are invited by a third party who is paying them to be there. In this case by Vincent Price’s millionaire, who promises them $10,000 each if they stay the night. And there’s the impressionable young woman lost in the maze of a house that seems to want to swallow her up.

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She would visit him at his cousin’s auto upholstery business in Glendale, which homicide detectives later determined was the scene of the killings. She said that Buono was strange and withdrawn, but she had no idea the men were orchestrating their reign of terror out of the shop. Hillside Villa had served for 30 years as affordable housing as part of an agreement with city officials.

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The administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers have called the social media site a growing national security concern. Biden also signed an initial aid package of military assistance and said shipment would begin in the “next few hours” — the first tranche from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine, according to U.S. officials. It is expected to include air defense capabilities, artillery rounds, armored vehicles and other weapons to shore up Ukrainian forces who have seen morale sink as the Russian military has racked up win after win. President Biden signed into law a $95-billion military aid measure Wednesday that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and has a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or banned in the U.S.

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But when two young girls were found murdered after they never returned from a trip to the mall, investigators launched an intensive manhunt. As part of the deal, Botz will have an additional 10 years to repay a $3.5-million redevelopment loan at 1% interest. A second, $1.85-million loan will eventually be forgiven, as long as the landlord adheres to the terms of his agreement with the city, housing officials said. Tenant activists responded by urging the council to purchase Hillside Villa using eminent domain, a process used by government agencies to acquire private property. Tenant advocates and some residents of Hillside Villa denounced the deal, saying many cannot afford to pay.

For the Stahls, it became the blank screen on which they projected their dreams of a life together, a place to build a future, a family, and a house like no other. Nathan Solis is a Metro reporter covering breaking news at the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked for Courthouse News Service, where he wrote both breaking news and enterprise stories ranging from criminal justice to homelessness and politics. Before that, Solis was at the Redding Record Searchlight as a multimedia journalist, where he anchored coverage of the destructive 2017 fires in Northern California. Rolling Hills Estates Mayor Britt Huff said the city planned to declare an emergency at its Tuesday council meeting. Hahn helped residents who had already lost their homes to connect with the county assessor to jump-start the process of receiving a property tax waiver.

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to send a letter expressing its opposition to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The agency has the authority to approve or deny a permit application initially filed by the conservancy in August 2023 to remove the deer. After killing about 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7, Hamas captured around 250 hostages, according to Israeli officials. A video Anderson Cooper later shared with his parents showed him accompanied by Hamas and covered in blood, heaving himself up onto the back of a pickup truck. His mother, Rachel Goldberg, last saw him the evening of Oct. 6, when he left a family dinner celebrating the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah to meet his best friend. Hamas has issued similar hostage videos — a tactic that Israel and various human rights groups condemn as “psychological warfare” because hostages appear and make statements under duress.

An additional 68 units already have been subsidized by Section 8 rental vouchers — although some of those tenants have also withheld rent, Botz said. The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to spend nearly $15 million to spare many tenants of a Chinatown apartment building from major rent hikes, even as several of those residents demanded the city do more to erase their unpaid back rent. Tucked into the measure is a provision that gives TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, nine months to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States. The president can grant a one-time extension of 90 days, bringing the timeline to sell to one year, if he certifies that there’s a path to divestiture and “significant progress” toward executing it.

The conservancy reviewed six potential plans for deer removal, including fencing, aerial sharpshooting, recreational hunting, the introduction of natural predators, relocation and sterilization and the use of chemical contraceptives. Invasive mule deer are pushing native plants to the brink on Catalina Island. In the video shared by Hamas on Wednesday, Goldberg-Polin blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli officials for allowing him and other hostages to languish for 200 days. Nearly seven months into the Israel-Hamas war, Hamas released a video Wednesday of California-born hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

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Sitting in a chair against a blank wall, he urges the Israeli government to immediately bring him and other hostages home before addressing his parents and two younger sisters, Leebie and Orly. Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. For example, U.S. officials this month laid out intelligence findings that showed China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry. Earlier, the White House publicized intelligence that Russia had acquired ballistic missiles from North Korea and acquired attack drones from Iran. All the while, senior Biden officials frequently updated McConnell and key House Republican committee leaders, including Reps. Michael McCaul of Texas and Michael R. Turner of Ohio.

It is not clear when the video was filmed, but Goldberg-Polin wished his family a happy holiday, a likely reference to the Jewish Passover. In a statement, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said that the Goldberg-Polin family had given permission for the video to be shared after its release by Hamas. Dressed in dark T-shirts marked with tape that read “201” — a reference to the number of days their son has been held in captivity — they said in a videotaped statement they were overwhelmed to see Hersh alive, but concerned about his health and well-being. On explicit orders from Biden, White House officials also avoided directly attacking Johnson over the stalled aid — a directive the president repeatedly instilled in his senior staff. But significant damage has been done to the Biden administration’s effort to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion during the funding impasse that dates to August, when the Democratic president made his first emergency spending request for Ukraine aid. Even with a burst of new weapons and ammunition, it is unlikely Ukraine will immediately recover after months of setbacks.

For generations of pilgrims, gawkers, architecture students, and midcentury-modern aficionados, it would be known simply as the Stahl House. Grace Toohey is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering breaking news for the Fast Break Desk. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, she covered criminal justice issues at the Orlando Sentinel and the Advocate in Baton Rouge. City Manager Ara Mihranian said officials had to take action before it’s too late. A dormant landslide complex that shaped the south side of the peninsula for hundreds of thousands of years was reactivated 67 years ago, threatening to destroy homes and infrastructure in the hillside communities that dot the landscape.

Firefighters and investigators who examined the land on Peartree Lane on Saturday afternoon after Schwartz’s call found damaged homes and garages. Hahn first visited the street late Saturday and said she could hear the “snap, crackle, pop” of shifting homes, but the movement was minor. “It’s just amazing how quickly this all happened,” said Zee, showing pictures of his neighbor’s homes standing intact just 24 hours earlier.

Multiple interviews with those close to the case paint a vivid picture of a city on edge and the desperate effort to end the carnage. Thomas Botz, managing member of 636 NHP, the company that owns the building, said the unpaid rent ranges from less than $5,000 for some households to nearly $91,000. After Friday’s vote, Botz praised the council member for working to find a resolution. The agreement approved Friday would roll back rent hikes in many of Hillside Villa’s units. In addition, tenants with unpaid back rent would avoid eviction proceedings by signing an agreement promising to gradually repay the landlord over the next six years at 3% interest, according to the city’s report. Blossey, who is also chair of the university’s deer management program, pointed to aerial shooting efforts used to eradicate feral goats on the Galapagos Islands and in New Zealand earlier this century.

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Residents in 48 of the building’s 124 units still owe a combined $1.4 million in back rent, according to Ann Sewill, who heads the city’s Housing Department. Blossey also said he didn’t want to “sugarcoat” aerial shooting, because he said the mortality numbers would be high, particularly earlier in the process. The conservancy hosted a community forum Jan. 31, after the petition was published, to discuss several conservation issues, including the deer population. Aerial sharpshooting was listed as the top option because it’s “efficient” for eliminating large numbers of deer over a short amount of time, according to the conservancy.

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Shulman’s famous seven-minute exposure captures the house and its sprawling city backdrop. The designed of this luxurious hillside home is arranged around the LA skyline view, loosely forming two wings, one oriented east-west, and the other north-south. The largely open-plan interior, in the absence of mass walls, has been articulated vertically and through volumetric changes to rationalise the layout. The site is a 20,000 square foot estate, showcasing 300-degree views over the LA skyline and the city basin below, and the design was conceived of more as a self-contained oasis rather than a conventional house. This luxurious hillside home was designed by SAOTA in collaboration with WOODS+DANGARAN, located above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

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The home is set on a prominence, just one over from the landmark Stahl House, a modernist-style home designed by architect Pierre Koenig, known as a frequent set location in American films. The neighborhood where the Peartree Lane homes are sliding was built in 1978, Huff said. Palos Verdes Peninsula has long been prone to landslides, and the most dramatic one is affecting Portuguese Bend, an area named after a Portuguese whaling operation, now known for its natural beauty and native vegetation. A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Officials said a visible fissure was winding its way between the homes that were affected.

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She said she also reached out to Gov. Gavin Newsom about the situation Monday but hadn’t yet heard back. By Monday, multiple homes — including Schwartz’s — had slid down the hillside that borders the street’s southeast side, dipping below what remained of their driveways, some almost completely hidden from the road they previously lined. The cousins resided in a house located next to the shop on Colorado Boulevard, a location that still serves as an auto body garage today. Sex workers were their earliest victims, a high-risk population that didn’t draw much press when they turned up dead.

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Each option was evaluated on seven values, including minimizing the impact on ecology and deer’s suffering, team safety and how quickly it could be accomplished. The conservancy previously said it planned to hire sharpshooters from the Connecticut-based nonprofit White Buffalo Inc. The group would use AR-15-style rifles with non-lead bullets, to avoid poisoning natural scavengers.

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The nonnative mule deer population on the island can range between 500 and 1,800, according to the conservancy. The deer have destroyed natural habitat — including native vegetation found only on the island — and exacerbated the risk of soil erosion in grazed-over areas. In a conservation battle that pits native vegetation against imported deer, Catalina Island residents say they’ll take venison over ‘stupid plants’ any day. The homes were red-tagged after firefighters and investigators found them visibly leaning Saturday afternoon because of massive movement on the hillside. It’s still unclear what initially caused the ongoing landslide in the community, which is on the southwestern side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Seventeen of the building’s units are occupied by residents who are paying market rate.

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About two months after their dash to Las Vegas, the Stahls decided to drive up to this mystery spot and have a look around. They found themselves gawping at the entirety of Los Angeles spread out below in a grid that went on for an eternity or two. In the kismet-filled conversation that followed, Buck agreed to buy the barren one-eighth-acre lot for $13,500, with $100 down and the seller maintaining the mortgage until the Stahls paid it off. On that site, they would construct Case Study House #22, designed by Pierre Koenig, arguably the most famous of all the houses in the famous Case Study program that Arts & Architecture magazine initiated in 1945.

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Mule deer were introduced to the island in the 1930s as a game species for hunting, according to the conservancy. Normally, the review process takes 100 days, according to Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Tim Daly. However, Daly said the department hasn’t ruled on the application because it’s been waiting for the conservancy to file additional requested paperwork. Hahn, however, called for the conservancy to reconsider other options it previously studied and rejected.

Over the last two decades, the conservancy that owns nine-tenths of this island has shot, trapped and shipped out thousands of goats, pigs and bison that were literally eating away the island. The group says there was “no meaningful public process” in discussing the proposal and characterized aerial shooting as “inhumane tactics.” Both the coalition and Hahn have said the sharpshooting method is extreme. In comparison, fencing was described as costly and challenging given the island’s topography, while recreational hunting was generally ineffective on its own, the conservancy found.

Biden, the day after returning from a whirlwind trip to Tel Aviv following the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel, used a rare prime time address to make his pitch for the supplemental funding. The White House maneuvering to win additional funding for Ukraine started months earlier. Former President Trump, the presumptive 2024 presidential GOP nominee, has long criticized U.S. support for Ukraine and has defended Putin. More recently he’s complained that European allies have not done enough for Ukraine. While he stopped short of endorsing the supplemental funding package, his tone has shifted in recent days, acknowledging that Ukraine’s survival is important to the United States. TikTok said will wage a legal challenge against what it called an “unconstitutional” effort by Congress.

He and his family were told by emergency officials they had just 20 minutes to get out of their home Saturday night. David Zee is still hopeful his family’s new home — where they moved just two months ago — can withstand the landslide, as it remains one of the few red-tagged structures still upright. Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said Monday evening that his crews continued to monitor the still-moving ground. Although they had documented damage on all 12 red-tagged units, he said no other nearby homes had yet been affected. Bianchi’s girlfriend at the time of the Los Angeles killings, Eagle Rock resident Sheryl Kellison, is also featured throughout the series. She was 17 when they began dating and said that her 25-year-old boyfriend appeared to be thoughtful and courteous, even though he never revealed much about himself.

Biden during his congratulatory call with Johnson urged him to quickly pass Ukraine aid and began a months-long, largely behind-the-scenes effort to bring the matter to a vote. At the time, the House was in chaos because the Republican majority had been unable to select a speaker to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, who had been removed more than two weeks earlier. McCarthy’s ouster by the GOP’s far right came after he agreed earlier to allow federal spending levels that many far-right House Republicans disagreed with and wanted undone.

“Even the people who didn’t fall in, are they going to have to relocate as well? His home was still considered safe Monday, but Hung worried about how widespread the geological issues could go. As L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn toured the street again Monday, she affirmed her prior assessment that most of the homes would completely fall into the canyon. “We have a glimmer of hope,” Zee, 52, said Monday afternoon as he assessed the street’s damage. Hours later, she, her husband, their daughter and almost half of their small street on Peartree Lane were evacuated and 12 homes were red-tagged, as the land beneath the picturesque neighborhood had started to shift, seemingly inexplicably.

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Wrights’ design is an adapted version of the Walser House in Chicago (1903), with the addition of tile roof, brick veneer, and an expanded verandah. A central 30-foot chimney creates a multi-story wigwam at the center of four residential wings. Each of the four living zones was designed for specific functional uses (i.e. for adults, children, guests, servants). Wingspread is the name given to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residence of Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. (1899 to 1978) and his family. At the time, Johnson was the President of the Johnson Wax Company, founded by his grandfather. The design is inspired by the Prairie School, but with native American influences.

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The Martin House is widely considered one of Wright’s finest Prairie houses – a signature work from the early years of his celebrated career. Wright himself referred to the Martin House as “the opus” and kept the site plan pinned to his drawing table for close to fifty years. Built in 1924 and occupying a majestic Los Feliz hilltop with staggering views from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, this remarkable property has undergone years of thoughtful restoration at a cost of nearly $17 million.

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HHL Architects worked on the project and supplemented the roof framing to make it stiffer (a common complaint of Wright’s architecture was the roofing, with its dramatic overhangs that often led to leaks and drainage issues). We take time to source and create the balloons to find your perfect color. We prep ahead then design and style on-site as each organic arrangement becomes it’s own unique work of art.

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The house’s reinforced-concrete floors, resting on steel spanning beams, required patching on the second level, while the basement floor was raised for new mechanical equipment beneath the slab. Interior fittings, finishes, and small ceramic mosaic tiles on the ground floor and porches of the house received particular attention. Upstairs, the magnesite (a poured-cement material Wright also used in the Larkin Building) had to be replaced with a mix that contained no asbestos. Some of Wright’s original movable furniture surprisingly remained intact, along with some of the sumptuously tinted art glass, but many windows had gone missing only to reappear in the art markets. They needed to be reproduced, as did most of the built-in furniture and casework.

Also, the largest and heaviest portion of the house is at the rear, not over the water. The Ennis House has not weathered well, and millions of dollars have gone into repairing the roof and stabilizing a deteriorating retaining wall. In 2011, billionaire Ron Burkle paid almost $4.5 million to purchase the house. After restorations, it was again listed for sale as of December 2018. Frank Lloyd Wright captured the aura of ancient Maya temples with stylized hollyhock patterns and projecting pinnacles at the Aline Barnsdall House. Located at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles and commonly known as the Hollyhock House, it was referred to by Wright as his California Romanza.

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Darwin D. Martin had become a successful businessman at the Larkin Soap Company in Buffalo by the time the company's president, John Larkin, entrusted him with building the new administration building. Martin met with a young Chicago architect named Frank Lloyd Wright, and commissioned Wright to build a small house for his sister and her husband, George F. Barton, while creating plans for the Larkin Administration Building. Frank Lloyd Wright designed this Prairie Style Oak Park home for Arthur Heurtley, who was a banker with a keen interest in the arts. The low, compact Heurtley House at 318 Forest Ave., Oak Park, Illinois, has variegated brickwork with vibrant color and rough texture.

Taken with Wright's new Prairie Style house design, Martin commissioned Wright to design this residence at 125 Jewett Parkway in Buffalo, as well as other buildings, such as a conservatory and carriage house. During his long life, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed hundreds of buildings, including museums, churches, office buildings, private homes, and other structures. Known for visionary design choices and an eclectic style, he also designed interiors and textiles. Explore the grounds of the estate during this interactive audio tour, designed to be experienced on site. Today the Martin House has been completely-restored to its former magnificence in the most ambitious restoration of a Frank Lloyd Wright site ever undertaken. Three of the original elements — the pergola, conservatory and carriage house, which were demolished decades ago – are rebuilt in the first-ever reconstruction of Wright buildings.

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Both homes have leaded glass windows, an arched entryway, and a low, long profile. The Thomas house is widely considered Wright's first Prairie Style home in Oak Park. Using stucco instead of wood meant that Wright could design clear, geometric forms. Waller became an early client of Wright's by commissioning the young architect to design a couple of modest apartment buildings in 1895. Waller then hired Wright to do some work on his own River Forest House, including designing the rusticated stone entrance gates at Auvergne and Lake Street, River Forest, Illinois.

The piers marry distinct utilitarian and aesthetic elements by serving as structural supports, room dividers, and furniture pieces that encase radiators, light fixtures, bookcases, and shelving. Described by Wright as a “domestic symphony,” the Martin House is a comprehensive residential estate. The property includes the main dwelling, a secondary house, a gardener’s cottage, and a series of interconnected buildings woven together within an integrated landscape. Art glass, furnishings, and other creative design elements—all conceived by Wright—give rise to a bold new vision of the home as a total work of art. Cassina’s astounding three-level space —  designed by its art director Patricia Urquiola, the renowned Spanish architect and industrial designer — is the Italian furniture manufacturer’s largest store to date.

The city of Buffalo and its vicinity has one of the greatest collections of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture outside of Illinois. After the remodel, the size of the house had expanded to 35 rooms, 12,600 square feet, plus a 3,100 square foot carriage house. The Frank W. Thomas House at 210 Forest Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois, was commissioned by James C. Rogers for his daughter and her husband, Frank Wright Thomas.