{"id":2253,"slug":"los-feliz-murder-house-los-angeles-california","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Los Feliz is the stopped — the 'December '59' that's the night's freeze, the 'tree still lit' that's the Christmas kept. The 'ball-peen' is the swung — the 'wife sleeping' that's the hammer's first, the 'daughter struck' that's the second's survive. The 'acid drank' is the ended — the 'glass downed' that's the doctor's choice, the 'cyanide' that's the medicine's turn.","The 'never lived' is the held — the 'Enriquez bought' that's the probate's sale, the 'stored not stayed' that's the house's use. The 'wrapped gifts' is the told — the 'under tree' that's the presents' wait, the 'tinsel '59' that's the decades kept. Los Feliz is the paused — the 'time capsule' that's the crime's keep, the 'sold '16' that's the market's move.","The file keeps Los Feliz: the stopped Christmas, the hammer's night, the unused house, and the kept gifts.","Los Feliz Murder House is the archive's California file — the Christmas that never ended."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Los Feliz Murder House is the archive's California file — the mansion that kept 1959 for sixty years.","A house keeps its night — the file's suggestion being that Los Feliz's hold is the frozen: the 'gifts wrapped' that's the morning never came, the 'never lived' that's the owners' choice, and the 'doctor's acid' that's the medicine's turn."]}],"name":"Los Feliz murder house","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","HAUNTED_PLACE","MEDIA_REPORTED"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"The 1959 mansion where Dr. Perelson killed his wife and himself—left untouched for decades.","full_desc":"The Los Feliz murder house is a 1925 Spanish Revival mansion where, in December 1959, Dr. Harold Perelson killed his wife and then himself. The house stood essentially untouched—with furniture and even wrapped gifts—for decades, becoming an object of fascination; it finally sold and was cleaned out in 2016.","address":null,"city":"Los Angeles","county":null,"state":"California","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":34.0797,"lon":-118.2617,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PRIVATE","access_notes":"Private home; do not trespass.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Dark-history/ghost-town batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1633,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Neighbors and investigators report a presence in the house; the untouched interiors fueled decades of lore. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. Digital folklore: the retellings are documented, the original event less so. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"INTERNET_RUMOR","evidence_label":"Internet rumor","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Los Feliz murder house","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Feliz_murder_house","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The December 1959 murder-suicide is documented; the house’s decades of abandonment made it a landmark of the macabre. The documented date is 1959-12. A house in Los Angeles, California with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Los Feliz murder house'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1959-12","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Los Feliz murder house","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Feliz_murder_house","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Private property; not open to the public. View only from public rights-of-way where legal.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Los Feliz murder house","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Feliz_murder_house","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}