A real-life exorcist has revealed what it was really like to work on the American Horror Story Murder House – AKA the Rosenheim Mansion.
Situated in Los Angeles, California, the house featured prominently in the first season of the hit horror series. When the Harmon family move into the restored property, only doom and gloom awaits them with the victims of various grisly happenings still haunting the home.
Well, it turns out that the home is haunted in real life, too – despite not actually being where any murders really happened. Instead, the show took inspiration from famous ‘murder houses’ from around the US, including the Amityville Manor and Franklin house.
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Designed by renowned architect Alfred Rosenheim, the stately home sits on a hill in the Country Club Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles. As well as featuring in American Horror Story’s first season, the home was also used for filming Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bones and Law & Order: SVU.
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Built in 1908, it’s widely reported that the house is haunted, with owner Angela Oakenfold confessing to WeLikeLA that she’s spotted an apparition of a butler going up and down the stairs, as well as the spirits of former nuns who lived in the mansion when it was a convent rocking back and forth in a rocking chair.
Now exorcist Rachel Stavis has sat down exclusively with Daily Star to explain just what it was like to work on the house as part of Celebrity Exorcism, along with sitcom star Shar Jackson, pro basketball player Metta World Peace and Full House actress Jodie Sweetin.
Rachel revealed: “It’s a beautiful house, a gorgeous space. It’s much bigger than people think, it’s enormous. It’s so big that it actually has its own chapel, it’s crazy. At one point, that house was used by the church and nuns lived and slept there, so it’s a huge space.
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“It was also a fascinating case, because normally an entity doesn’t reside in a house. When they asked me to exorcise the space, I had to say, ‘Okay, well if it’s not there, it’s not there. I’m not going to lie to people’. But when I checked it out, it did have an entity living in there.
“It was a Collector.” Collectors, Rachel explains, are entities that work in a space full of trauma, and are able to hold deceased people from the location like “batteries” in order to spook the living.
“The Collector was in the basement. Now normally, any entity will have the run of the place. But the reason it didn’t is because the deceased nuns are still in the space, keeping it down to one floor. I was shocked! I was not expecting all that going on in that one space.”
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Rachel was keen to offer a warning to any keen photographers eager to capture a snap of the American Horror Story home. Because the site is so famous and is only protected by a small fence, she says budding camera enthusiasts would queue to take pictures before the exorcism was performed.
“Whenever they would go take pictures, this entity had the run of just the outside and the basement – so any time people would take pictures, they would get slightly drained by that entity. A headache, a little tired, whatever.”
Meanwhile, Full House’s Jodie got the shock of her life when something “screamed in her ear” when she was down in the basement. Rachel added: “The camera crew go in early to set up, and we had an incident where the cameraman was like, ‘When I came down to the basement, something kept pushing me and would not stop touching me while I was setting up’. It was just awful.”
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