The workers were installing sound equipment at 1902 Lincoln Boulevard in sunny Santa Monica, California.

The year was around 1983, and this was and remains today, the location of a personal growth business called Insight Seminars.

The job required getting into the building's crawl spaces.

What the workers found there were shocking. Meanwhile, the man around whom those seminars were

organized was likely at his 3,500 West Adams Boulevard headquarters in the Swanky Jefferson

Park neighborhood of South L.A.

That property is still there, too, now referred to as the Peace Awareness, Labyrinth, and Gardens.

The house is a mansion fit for European aristocrats, if not royalty, imposing, white-walled

with a stately staircase flanked by large sculptures of lions,

ornate symmetrical windows and balconies.

It's actually an historic Italian villa built by a homesick wine magnet named Secondo Gwasti in the

2010s, before it was bought in 1937 by Hollywood director Busby Berkeley,

but neither of them are implicated in what was found in the early 1980s via those crawl spaces

in the other building on Lincoln Boulevard.

The tiled walkway approaching the house on West Adams

features manicured hedges and trees, again,

symmetrically arranged in a prominent fountain-like planter

with California desert succulents in it.

The back steps open out onto a huge rectangular swimming pool. It's really worth having a look

at Google Images if you're interested. I'll tell you more about it after the break. I can't find a

reliable estimate on the current value of that villa, but it was built at a cost of half million

dollars around 110 years ago.

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