Sharan couldn't sleep. It was Jay, her boyfriend, who suggested she stayed his house while

he was out of town, and since she was currently between apartments it made perfect sense,

but Sharan had been reticent. It wasn't that she didn't like the house, it was positively

charming in its Bavarian timber-framed style, nestled high among the hills and trees of

L.A.'s Benedict Canyon. In fact, the couple, who'd been seeing each other for almost a year,

had spent many happy hours there together, often in the company of their many glamorous

friends, spending long lazy days by the pool, drinking and getting high. But being there

alone and at night, wasn't entirely different to proposition. The place located at 9860

Eastern Drive was built sometime in the prohibition era and once belonged to Hollywood film producer

and writer Paul Byrne. In 1932 Byrne's marriage to Jean Harlow, one of the major film stars

of the day and 20 years his junior, brought him to public prominence. However, it was the events

that occurred in their home two months later that would seal his place in Hollywood infamy.

Byrne's butler, John Carmichael, was inspecting the house early one morning when he found Byrne

lying naked in the dressing room adjacent to Jean Harlow's bedroom. Assuming he'd collapsed,

Carmichael rushed to his help only to find to his horror that Byrne was lying dead in a large pool

of blood. Carmichael saw the single bullet wound in his head, then looking up, the large splattering

of blood and soft tissue still wet and clinging to the ceiling. Sharon tossed and turned in bed,

opening her eyes, she couldn't help but stare at the entrance to that smaller adjacent room

just visible in the dark where Byrne's blood soaked body had once lain. There had long been

rumors that the house was haunted that her mystery surrounding Byrne's death had caused his

restless soul to wander and to become trapped in that big, eccentric house of his. It was partly

what had drawn Jay to the house in the first place when he bought it to two years back in 1963.

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