The Haunting of Greystone Mansion, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Booming derricks, Jazz Age decadence, and a fortune gushing straight from the California earth—Greystone Mansion was born of 1920s oil money and built to dwarf every other residence in Beverly Hills. At 47,000 square feet of concrete, limestone, and raw ambition, the estate became the backdrop for glittering parties where Hollywood legends clinked glasses beneath crystal chandeliers. But opulence has a price, and the Doheny family soon paid in tragedy: a mysterious 1929 murder-suicide that still stains the marble halls.

Nearly a century later, guests and film crews whisper about cold spots, shadow figures, and the echo of a single gunshot reverberating through empty corridors. In this episode, author and Greystone docent Clete Keith walks us through the mansion’s turbulent history, spanning oil booms, scandal, and a lingering darkness that refuses to leave. Step past the wrought-iron gates and discover why Greystone’s grandeur is matched only by its ghosts.

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1:24.5	Soon their lives are transformed from everyday citizens to some of the most wealthy in the world.
1:30.3	What do you do when you find such wealth? Well, you build a massive home, of course, but what would they call this massive concrete and limestone mansion of wealth?
1:41.3	Greystone, of course. There it was, the Greystone Mansion, a 47,000
1:48.2	square foot home for a single family. Knights would be filled with lavish parties, the who's-who
1:55.3	of Hollywood showing up, and like any great story of wealth and excess, tragedy.
2:01.9	Tragedy that would leave a lasting impression on the estates to this very day.
2:07.4	Today we discussed the story of the Beverly Hills Greystone Mansion with Cleat Key.
2:13.6	The first thing that happened to me, and I wasn't into the paranormal, never thought about ghosts or spirits or anything like that.
2:22.2	And it happened to my parents.
2:24.7	And my great uncle, his name was Wes, they lived up north in California.
2:31.4	And Wes ended up getting cancer. so he went out they have a house
2:38.8	up there in Cambria and he went out on this little house on the porch at night while his wife
2:43.7	was sleeping and took his rifle out there and shot himself in the head looking out at the ocean
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