Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign. If you love old movies, Hollywood history, or the golden age of filmmaking, you've come to the right place. This is the podcast that talks about amazing stories of Tinseltown from another era and fascinating conversations with writer Steve Kubine and actress writer Nan McNamara.

So Steve, did Ava Gardner and Howard Hughes have a good relationship?

Well, they did until he dislocated her jaw.

What?

Well, don't worry. She hitting back with an ashtray.

From beneath the Hollywood sign is the gin joint for you.

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Hey, y'all, so on last week's episode of Southern Gothic, we went on down to Montgomery, Alabama, and visited Catherine Tucker Windham's alma mater, Huntington College. There, there's this apparition of a young woman dressed in red who's been wandering the corridors of Pratt Hall for almost a century. Well, that ghost story, the lady in red, is an iconic

Alabama ghost story, and it's helped cement the school status as one of America's most

haunted college campuses. But just like Catherine Tucker Windham isn't the only famous author to come out of Huntington,

the Red Lady ain't the school's only spook.

There's another one, and he's known simply and endearingly as Frank the Library Ghost.

Music As early as the 1980s, students at Huntington have claimed to have run-ins with Frank,

a mischievous but friendly poltergeist who seems to be more interested in getting attention

and causing destruction.

And hardly anything is known about who this spirit was in life.

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