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Pleasing Terrors

004: The Devil's Business

Pleasing Terrors

Mike Brown

Arts, Performing Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

 

A haunted house should loom out of the darkness, its windows boarded up, ghosts and dust as the only occupants. But horror dwells inside two beautifully decorated homes in the Benedict Canyon of Beverly Hills. While its name means "heaven" in Spanish, 10050 Cielo Drive was nothing but Hell for the five victims brutally murdered by Charles Manson's "Family" within its walls. Some say their spirits still haunt the area, having taken up residence in the nearby Oman House.

 

Two men, film director David Oman and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, have turned the blood-soaked history of Cielo Drive into a booming source of revenue. Both men show signs of struggling with their own inner demons – are the spirits still trapped within their homes disturbed and vengeful at the business created around their murders, or is it the morality of the situation haunting the living?

 

Episode Highlights:

  • History of the Oman House
  • David Oman: homeowner, movie director, and tour guide
  • Dr. Barry Taff investigates
  • Trapped spirits in the Oman House
  • Charles Manson & The Family
  • The Tate Murders on Cielo Drive
  • Trent Reznor on 10050 Cielo Drive

 

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0:00.0

Some stories were never supposed to be told.

0:09.0

Stories that exist in the twilight between science and

0:16.8

the supernatural, between history and horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things.

0:25.9

Stories that you want to hear.

0:28.6

Stories that you need to hear.

0:32.0

Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. My name is

0:38.2

Mike Brown and this is pleasing terrors.

0:46.0

Episode 4, the Devil's Business.

0:51.0

What is hell?

0:59.0

Hell is a beautiful day spent in the company of friends that ends in a night of horrors. Hell is pleading for your life in that of your child, as your hands are bound behind you,

1:06.4

as your friends are slaughtered in front of you, as you realize that you will not live to see a new dawn, as you realize that this day is your

1:17.7

last. Hell is realizing that you are wrong and seeing these horrors repeat themselves again and again.

1:27.1

Hell is a house whose walls are forged from the final worst moments of your life,

1:38.6

a place decorated with madness and violence, a place from which seemingly there is no escape, but a place from which you can look out a haunted house. It's not very old and its architecture is modern and design. It is clean and well maintained.

2:06.0

It is decorated like a museum with walls adorned with autographs and sports memorabilia.

2:13.0

The owner often has guests staying there

2:16.0

and entertains frequently.

2:18.0

The house clings to a canyon wall,

2:20.0

in the Santa Monica Mountains,

2:22.0

in the northern part of Beverly Hills, California.

2:25.6

It is located on a street called Cialo Drive, a name which means heaven.

2:32.4

But this is not just any haunted house. a name which means heaven.

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