Guest Interview: Scott Michaels (Celebrity Death Historian)

Dark House

House Beautiful/Hearst

Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Following their deep dive on 10050 Cielo Drive—the Beverly Hills home where Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered on August 9th, 1969—Alyssa and Hadley sit down with Scott Michaels, whose Dearly Departed Tours provided true crime fans with a one-of-a-kind look at the dark side of Hollywood for almost two decades. The conversation begins where the co-hosts left off: Is it possible that all of Benedict Canyon, where both 10050 Cielo Drive and the Harlow/Bern house were located, is cursed? Scott shares his thoughts, including a list of peculiar deaths and tragedies that have befallen Benedict Canyon residents over the years. Scott also shares his own experiences driving a tour bus on Cielo Drive and visiting the Oman House, as well as his book recommendations for anyone interested in learning more about the Tate-LaBianca Murders and what happened when he brought a piece of stone from 10050 Cielo Drive into his own home. CREDITS Alyssa Fiorentino - Co-host & Producer Hadley Mendelsohn - Co-host & Producer Jessy Caron - Producer Jacob Stone - Sound Editor & Mixer Ian Munsell - Assistant Audio Engineer & House Beautiful Lead Video Editor James Scully - Pre-production Advisor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was bad. I had to get out right then and there. I can't explain it. I've been around a lot of murder location.
0:09.0	But that was a place where I was like, no, this is bad. Something's bad around me and I got to go.
0:18.0	Hey guys, welcome back to Dark House. We've got a really fun bonus episode for you this week.
0:24.1	Hopefully you've already listened to last week's episode on 10,050 CLO Drive.
0:27.9	If you haven't, stop here and go back. And if you have, get excited because we are going to dig further today with special guest, Scott Michaels.
0:35.7	Scott was the owner and operator of the dearly departed tours in
0:38.5	L.A., which took guests on guided bus tours to Hollywood's most infamous locations, including
0:43.4	10,050 Cello Drive. He also wrote and produced a documentary on the Manson murder victims called
0:48.5	The Six Degrees of Halter-Skelter, which then inspired a Manson-themed bus tour. So I'm dying to talk to him
0:53.2	about Ciello Drive and the other stops on that tour, as well as his work consulting on the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
0:59.2	What a niche to get into, and I love the passion. I'm excited to talk to him.
1:04.3	Me too. Let's go talk to Scott. Full disclosure, we had a little bit of a technical difficulty during the guest interview, so you might hear a clicking sound during our conversation with Scott, but we promise it's worth listening to anyways.
1:19.6	Hi Scott, welcome to Dark House. Thank you for joining us.
1:22.6	Hi, thanks for asking.
1:24.6	Of course. We're so excited to talk to you today. I have a million questions. But before
1:29.0	we get into those, I wanted to ask you, where did you begin learning all the incredible,
1:34.0	in-depth knowledge that you know?
1:36.7	As a kid, I was sort of interested in death, mostly because it was something we weren't
1:42.6	supposed to be interested in. We had that weird thing where, you know, you hold your breath when you're passing a cemetery because all your pets will die.
1:49.0	That's what we always told when we were growing up. So, of course, I always wanted to go in because I wanted to see what was so mysterious about it.
1:54.0	And also, I lived in a place in Detroit where accidents happened and people were killed in front of my house a lot. It sounds really dramatic, but it's true.
2:06.5	Therefore, I was exposed to death at a young age, so it didn't really faze me. Now, when I came to Hollywood for the first time on Adair, we went into a cemetery and I found Liberace's grave,
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