What is one of the strangest ghost legends you uncovered while researching Haunted Baseball?
It’s difficult to say, because we found so many. If I had to choose one, I’d say la llorona stories and Dodger Stadium. I’m sure many Ghostvillagers know the popular Mexican legend, which has many variations, about a mother who drowns her children and roams the earth as a ghost in search of her lost children. In Los Angeles, with its rich Mexican-American heritage, there are variations of the story. Dodger Stadium rests on the land of a former Mexican American community Chavez Ravine (and on the site of the former Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery, the first Jewish cemetery in L.A. — behind what is now parking lot 40-41) that was cleared to make room for the ballpark. The stadium rests on the leveled-off crest of a hill overlooking the city and according to urban legend, a couple on their honeymoon taking in a breathtaking view of downtown L.A. from the hillside (at what is now the southern edge of the stadium parking lot) plummeted from the ravine to their deaths. The story went tha
