You're going to be here. Welcome to Los Angeles, the fabled city of angels.

Home to Palm Tree's movie stars Disneyland and the American dream we know is Hollywood.

It's a place of shadows and sunlight, myth and murder, and is the historical home to more cranks, nutcases, killers and Lunatics, and you'll find just about anywhere else in the country.

And welcome to the second episode of our new season of American Hauntings, which is hosted

and produced by Cody Beck, and is written and performed by Troy Taylor.

That's me. In season five we're taking a long hard look at the history, mystery,

spirits, scandals and sins of Hollywood, that glamorous bit of Los Angeles, that's not so much a place these

days, but a state of mind. Each new episode will reveal another sorted Hollywood tale of crime,

corruption, murder, and of course ghosts.

And none of them will be for the faint of heart.

So make yourself comfortable and pour yourself a big tall glass of water for this episode.

You'll understand why soon. You're going to be here. At just three minutes before midnight on March 12th, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, which had been designed as a reservoir for the Los Angeles water supply,

suddenly failed, releasing 11 billion gallons of water into a narrow valley in northeastern Los Angeles County,

destroying everything in its path.

Over the course of the next four hours, a roaring wall of water swept through the night,

traveling 55 miles from the St. Francis

Kito Valley through the St. declarra Valley and then on to the Pacific Ocean.

The dam had been Arch Dam should have been impregnable, but Mulholland's mistakes during the

planning, which he took complete responsibility for, led to disaster. The

devastating flood killed more than 600 people in its collapse is one of the worst American

engineering failures in American history. The disaster marked the end of

Mulholland's career and it left an eerie haunting in its wake.

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