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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Los Feliz Murder Mansion How Creepy!

Like Charles Dickens' Haversham mansion in "Great Expectations" there is an empty house in the hills of Los Feliz looking down upon the city of Los Angeles. Unoffically known as the Los Feliz Murder Mansion, 2475 Glendower Place is the site of a murder that took place on December 6, 1959. The house at the time was occupied by a Dr. Harold Perelson and his family. On that night Dr. Perelson beat his wife to death with a hammer. In the house were his three children. The eldest Perelson daughter escaped the house and ran to a neighbor's home for help. The younger children awoke but were convinced by their father that it was just a bad dream. Dr. Perelson then commited suicide by drinking a glass of acid.
Standing empty today the house has been unoccupied since the time of the murder. The Perelson family sold the house a year later to Emily and Julian Enriquez who never spent a night in the house. Neighbors reported seeing them bring boxes in and out of the house but never spend time there. The house is fabled to have been left in the state it was the night of the murder. The rumour has it the family christmas tree is still in place but it has never been proved or disproved as no one is allowed in. In 1994 Rudy Enriquez inherited the house from his parents and has follwed in their footsteps by not living there. He has been seen by neighbors feeding cats.
The Los Feliz Mansion still sits behind its walls slowly decomposing still uninhabited surrounded by multi-million dollar mansions and celebrites. Dark and ominous in the LA sunshine the Los Feliz Murder Mansion is a real life Scooby-doo mystery!

3 comments:

  1. Hummm, gotta go see this, since my father in law lives in Los Feliz!

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  2. Dr. Perelson killed himself with nembutal and some other drugs.

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