{"id":22772,"date":"2025-10-25T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/22772\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:22:11","slug":"10-haunted-bars-in-l-a-to-visit-this-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/22772\/","title":{"rendered":"10 haunted bars in L.A. to visit this Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nights are getting colder, the pumpkins and skeleton decorations are up, and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/frankenstein-review-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frankenstein<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0playing in theaters. It must be the\u00a0spookiest time of year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/los-angeles\/halloween-in-la\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dating back some 2,000 years, All Hallows\u2019 Eve originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, a pagan celebration beginning on the evening of October 31 that marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the \u201cdarker half\u201d of the year. During that time, people lit bonfires and wore costumes to ward off spirits, as it was believed the barrier between the living and spirit worlds was weakened.<\/p>\n<p>L.A.\u2019s\u00a0heritage might not stretch back that far, but we still have\u00a0a century of Old Hollywood history to draw from\u2014and\u00a0some of\u00a0the city\u2019s most popular drinking destinations have a dark past hidden behind the glamour. Read on for a list of 10 bars, hotels and restaurants\u00a0where you can sip spirits alongside actual spirits. The spots have been frequented by both stars\u2014there\u2019s even a Taylor Swift cameo or two\u2014and specters. Which will you encounter when you visit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nights are getting colder, the pumpkins and skeleton decorations are up, and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein\u00a0is\u00a0playing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7579,17983,17984,48,52,51,47,50,49,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-22772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-categories-things-to-do","9":"tag-drinks-cocktails","10":"tag-holidays-halloween","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}