18: Dearly Departed with Scott Michaels

Ghost Bunny

Bridget Marquardt & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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On this week's episode, Bridget talks to Scott Michaels, the founder of LA's Dearly Departed Tours. Scott has years of experience investigating some of Los Angeles's most haunted locations, including The Biltmore, The Roosevelt and Cecil Hotels. Bridget and Scott dive into some of tragic and gruesome history in Los Angeles, including ghostly legends, unsolved mysteries, and hauntings from some of Hollywood's most iconic names. Plus, Scott talks about how he got to work with Quentin Tarantino while the filmmaker was creating Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Marquart, with a brand new episode for you guys.
0:24.5	My guest today is a good friend of mine, Scott Michaels. Scott Michaels started his celebrity death adventures with the original Hearst-driven death tour, grave line tours.
0:34.7	When the internet took off back in 1998, Scott established the first celebrity
0:38.5	death website, find a death.com. Cut to 2004, Scott established his own Hollywood death tour
0:44.8	and museum, dearly departed tours, which you probably saw on Girls Next Door because we took one of
0:49.8	their tours. And he offered like a standard tour. and then the first walking ghost tour of Hollywood and
0:55.1	tours devoted to Karen Carpenter, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and the Helter Skelter Tour, which was
1:01.0	specifically devoted to the crimes that made, that were made famous by Charles Manson. And of course,
1:07.4	he hosted the Bridget Mark H Markort, a spooky Halloween tour.
1:12.7	The dearly departed tours and museum included artifacts that were bricks from the
1:18.3	Cialo Drive home of Sharon Tate and Sharon's false eyelashes, Lucille Ball's hairdressing
1:23.9	sink from the Beverly Hills home. And if I remember right, I think it even had red dye still in it.
1:28.6	Floor tiles from the Ambassador Hotel where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated and the infamous 1966 Buick Electra in which Jay Mansfield was killed in 1967.
1:39.4	Scott's been involved with several paranormal investigations and has appeared on several paranormal shows,
1:44.7	including ghost hunters, haunted collector, and several episodes of ghost adventures, including
1:50.4	the infamous Cecil Hotel. And he's also done my podcast before. Scott's documentary,
1:55.8	The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter, brought him to the attention of Quentin Tarantino, who got
2:00.0	Scott to assist with
2:00.9	the historic details of the Manson murders for once upon a time in Hollywood.
2:04.8	Deerly Departed Tours shut its doors in 2021, sadly, and the artifacts have been put into storage.
2:10.6	But that is just until a new home can be located in Palm Springs where he has relocated.
2:15.5	Scott now works exclusively on YouTube with his channel
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