Elke Summer is 84 years old, and has been many things, but is best known as an actress. She was always a kind soul and was gifted with stunning beauty.
But few know that in the early to mid 1960s, she and her partner Joe Hyams went through as hellish an experience as I’ve ever heard of when it comes to haunted houses.
I was haunted during these exact years, and being twenty years younger, my own experience was something I could not comprehend.
Yet humans have the natural ability to sense evil, even when it can’t be seen. Why Joe lived in denial of what he had to sense is only touched on in the following video, but I understand it. We don’t want to believe that a chair in another room just moved, or that a glass fell to the kitchen floor while we’re in bed.
In the midst of so many hoaxed and doctored ghost videos out there, I question why? Why fake it when you know the paranormal is real? The evidence was always there.
I’ve had many experiences when the hair on my arms and the back of my neck stood up. I’ve gone through the house searching for intruders when there were none.
I’ve seen things I didn’t like writing about here since 2019, because they’re terrifying to think about and set me up to look like some amateur crank who believes in ghosts, goblins and ghouls to skeptics.
I have reflected on these things and still have no answers. Frankly, I really don’t want any. I want to retreat into denial again, but I am a terrible liar, especially when it comes to lying to myself.
What I went through, from childhood through a few years ago, should have driven me insane.
I get by with what little bit of faith I can muster, that God is real and will continue to protect me.
But for Elke Summer and Joe, their hell in Hollywood stands out as particularly harrowing. I could never have stayed in such a house, although I’ve been in some that were bad.
This is a long video, but it held my attention from beginning to end.
The storyteller is good and I recommend his channel.
Enjoy a true story about a haunting that is both true and very well told.
Memoirs of an American Asshole 