Celebrity Ghost Stories: Lucille Ball, Bela Lugosi and Jayne Mansfield

The stories involve Lucille Ball, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, George Reeves, Errol Flynn, and Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Their careers helped shape film, television and the public image of Hollywood, giving later supernatural accounts a familiar cast of names and places.

The episode also considers stories connected with Bela Lugosi, Joan Rivers and the presence known as Mrs. Spencer, and Jayne Mansfield. These are reports and pieces of celebrity folklore rather than established facts; the discussion keeps documented biography separate from the stories told after each figure’s death.