If the "evidence" produced on Ghost Adventures often seems underwhelming, we are at least taken to some fascinating locations and this episode is no exception.
This is the only chance you will get to visit this particular property, Westerfeld House, on the corner of Scott and Fulton in San Francisco and get a glimpse of that period in the 1960s when the Church of Satan was fashionably shocking and attracted Hollywood celebrities like actress Jayne Mansfield.
The only other property associated with the Church at that time, the Black House in San Francisco, has since been demolished and Westerfeld House itself is now privately owned by someone who disavows any interest in its past. Zak did well to get access.
He also shows us what must be a very rare interview with almost the only survivor from that time who lived there, film director Kenneth Anger. He looks a bit of an old wreck himself, which is hardly surprising, when you consider what he and his colleagues got up to in the house. One of them, it is pointed out, was Bobby Beausoleil, still currently incarcerated for the murder he carried out as part of Charles Manson's gang. Manson himself was a frequent visitor, as was the Church's founder, Anton Szandor LaVey.
The programme gives enough references and suggestions to encourage the viewer who may want to follow up with a bit of own research.
Kenneth Anger's movies were regarded as "underground" or cult cinema at the time but popular enough to attract Mick Jagger to provide a soundtrack to the one developed in Westerfield House, called "Invocation of my Demon Brother."
The Church of Satan is these days based in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York but it's really just a shadow of its former self; just a pretentious club for predominantly male libertines.
So just sit back and enjoy the time travel back into the sinister 1960s!
This is the only chance you will get to visit this particular property, Westerfeld House, on the corner of Scott and Fulton in San Francisco and get a glimpse of that period in the 1960s when the Church of Satan was fashionably shocking and attracted Hollywood celebrities like actress Jayne Mansfield.
The only other property associated with the Church at that time, the Black House in San Francisco, has since been demolished and Westerfeld House itself is now privately owned by someone who disavows any interest in its past. Zak did well to get access.
He also shows us what must be a very rare interview with almost the only survivor from that time who lived there, film director Kenneth Anger. He looks a bit of an old wreck himself, which is hardly surprising, when you consider what he and his colleagues got up to in the house. One of them, it is pointed out, was Bobby Beausoleil, still currently incarcerated for the murder he carried out as part of Charles Manson's gang. Manson himself was a frequent visitor, as was the Church's founder, Anton Szandor LaVey.
The programme gives enough references and suggestions to encourage the viewer who may want to follow up with a bit of own research.
Kenneth Anger's movies were regarded as "underground" or cult cinema at the time but popular enough to attract Mick Jagger to provide a soundtrack to the one developed in Westerfield House, called "Invocation of my Demon Brother."
The Church of Satan is these days based in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York but it's really just a shadow of its former self; just a pretentious club for predominantly male libertines.
So just sit back and enjoy the time travel back into the sinister 1960s!
