Halloween icon Cassandra Peterson - who plays horror icon Elvira – says she once lived in a haunted mansion previously inhabited by Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who moved off the property after his roommate killed himself.
Weird things started happening inside the Hollywood Hills home shortly after Peterson moved into it in 1989, the actress told Den of Geek, with A-lister Brad Pitt becoming the house's next owner after Peterson sold it five years later.
‘Things got strange the very first day we moved into Briarcliff Manor,’ she said.
The 70-year-old actress said she heard footsteps coming from an unoccupied third floor, and on another occasion saw an image of a nurse in 1930s clothing who threatened to take Peterson’ sleeping then-husband ‘into the pool.’
Halloween queen Cassandra Peterson shot to fame in the 1980s as TV horror hostess Elvira
Peterson said she heard footsteps coming from an unoccupied floor, and saw several ghosts
She says the scares continued off screen after she bought a Hollywood Hills mansion in 1989
She later starred in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, a 1988 American comedy horror film
She said she also spotted a group of men in historical outfits gathered b the fire.
Peterson claimed she learned an unsettling truth about the home after Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, attended a dinner party at the estate.
He told her he lived in the mansion in the 1960s – until a roommate, who hasn't been identified, hanged himself.
‘He drove in the gates, and he just got out of the car, and stood there going, “Oh, my god, I can’t believe it;
