The Candy Cat Strip Club (GT Mini)
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A murderous family made this a second home in the 1960s.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees? |
| 0:05.0 | Are you interested in exploring the paranormal? |
| 0:07.0 | Faffled by stories of previous lives. |
| 0:10.0 | Well so are we. |
| 0:11.0 | In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena |
| 0:17.0 | and some horrific true crime cases. |
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| 0:22.5 | and join us every Tuesday, |
| 0:24.6 | wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | And be prepared to be totally and utterly, |
| 0:29.7 | perplexed. Bitter Sweet. I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm Rebecca Lebe. |
| 0:51.8 | And this is Ghost Town. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah. I'm Rebecca Leab. And this is Ghost Town. At 21625 Devonshire Street in Chatsworth, California, that's between Santa Clarita and Calabasas, |
| 1:17.0 | about 30 miles outside of L.A., is the old location of the Candy Cat Strip Club, also called the Candy Cat 1. |
| 1:25.5 | This club wasn't just a divey hole in the wall to play pool. For many, |
| 1:30.1 | it was a community, a safe haven, a family. But there's family and then there's the family, |
| 1:38.4 | the Manson family, to be exact, who would call the area their hangout. To some of the family, the Candy Cat |
| 1:45.9 | Strip Club would even be their place of employment. Today on Ghost Town, the notorious Manson-fueled |
| 1:53.2 | history of the Candy Cat Strip Club. In 1971, the Candy Cat Strip Club was a biker bar |
| 2:00.0 | with pool tables, poles, and a bar that |
| 2:02.6 | had live dancers, games, and sometimes live music. |
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