GHOSTLY VISIONS
The area around Lookout Mountain has also been plagued by sightings of ghostly apparitions, mainly clustered around the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Road. One eyewitness account comes from 2000. During a party at a house on Lookout Mountain Road, attended by Hollywood stars, including Faruzia Balk of 1995 witch movie The Craft, Tarot readings were held. Leaving the event, one eyewitness reported sighting an “old-fashioned carriage pulled by two white horses” racing silently down the road. After a second or two the apparition “vanished into thin air”. As reported in Jeff Belanger’s Encyclopedia of Haunted Places (2005), several people reported similar sightings and traffic accidents had been attributed to the dramatic appearance of the two ghostly white horses and their carriage. That intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Road was where the original “trackless trolley” railway cable-car terminated, and where Tom Mix would later live in his opulent 2,000 square foot ‘log cabin’ house. Mix died in a single-vehicle car crash (of a blow to the back of the head, oddly) on 12 October 1940, and his ‘log cabin’ home burned down 22 years later on Hallowe’en 1981, just one of many devastating property fires in the area.