Pals costars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, Jenna Bush Hager and George Lopez have all spoken about their houses being haunted.
Some superstar haunting tales will be unsettling and spooky – like Matthew McConaughey’s expertise with a ghost known as Madam Blu lingering in a single hallway to freak out his guests. Jessica Alba relayed her personal terrifying incident the place the sheets have been yanked off her mattress in the course of the night time with none logical clarification.
Nevertheless, Octavia Spencer really fashioned a bond with the unexplained presence in her Los Angeles house. Spencer advised Ellen DeGeneres that the ghost of an outdated Western film actor served as a “protector” on her property.
“My ghost can hang-out me, however he doesn’t hang-out me. We have now boundaries,” she joked.
Preserve scrolling for tales of celebrities opening up about supernatural encounters of their houses:
Jennifer Aniston
The previous Pals star revealed throughout an look on The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2018 that her unfriendly roommate wasn’t the one undesirable resident in her very first Los Angeles house.
“I had simply moved from New York Metropolis to California, and somebody stated to me, ‘Oh, you might have a spirit in your home. You need to have somebody [come by] and clear the home,’” Aniston remembered. “And I used to be like, ‘Oh man. I’ve landed in Los Angeles.’ We’re speaking about ghosts, spirits and a ghost whisperer?”
Aniston had some unexplainable experiences on the time, such because the dishwasher and occasional maker instantly switching on. She confirmed to host James Corden that she resorted to hiring a ghost whisperer to attempt to cleanse her house.
“They’d frankincense, and so they put it in a bit dish and began saying all this stuff and, the nook that she went to, a dish cracked,” she stated.
Aniston determined it was finest to easily transfer out – although she left with out warning her roommate concerning the ghost.
“I moved out. I really feel horrible, however I couldn’t say, ‘[The ghost] doesn’t such as you.’ I imply, that may be horrible,’” she admitted.
Courteney Cox
Aniston wasn’t the one Pals forged member to expertise an obvious haunting. Cox shared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2022 that she bought her Laurel Canyon house after being tipped off by legendary singer-songwriter Carole King that it was haunted.
Cox defined that King beforehand owned the house and advised her concerning the property’s supernatural backstory.
“Carole King came to visit to my home, and she or he stated there had been a divorce that was actually ugly, and there was a ghost in the home. And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, no matter,’” Cox relayed to host Jimmy Kimmel. “However different individuals who had stayed there with me — mates of mine — stated they’d an encounter with a girl who was sitting on the sting of the mattress.”
Cox disregarded the warnings till she had a disconcerting expertise of her personal with a supply driver.
“I used to be on the home someday, not being a believer, and the doorbell rang. It was a UPS man or one thing, and I opened the door and he stated, ‘Have you learnt this home is haunted?’” she stated. “[I told him], ‘Yeah, why? Why do you suppose that?’ to which the supply driver responded, ‘As a result of there may be somebody standing behind you’ … and I used to be like, ‘Let’s promote!’”
The Scream actress admitted to Kimmel that she “couldn’t sleep there alone ever once more,” so she actually did promote the house.
“You simply don’t consider it the identical approach,” Cox identified.
Octavia Spencer
Not all spectral encounters are scary or disconcerting! Spencer defined on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2021 that she grew up as an enormous fan of Western motion pictures, so she was excited to find the ghost of “a man who did Westerns” in her Toluca Lake house.
“I should have been a fan of his,” she stated.
Spencer got here to consider her ghost as a “protector” from anybody who entered her house with in poor health intentions.
“I really like him as a result of he sort of kinds out the unhealthy people who shouldn’t be there. He runs them out,” the Oscar winner quipped. “In the event that they keep at my place, they don’t wanna come again. And that’s how I do know that they don’t belong right here. If you happen to’re an individual that belongs there, all people is like, ‘Oh, your house is so welcoming. It’s so nice.’ And that’s how I really feel about it.”
One draw back of dwelling in a haunted home, based on Spencer, is when others carry their very own ghosts over for a go to.
“Effectively, after I depart for a very long time, he’s a bit shady. The doorways shut, the lights go off after I flip them on,” she recalled. “The one drawback — I really like my ghost, I simply don’t need you bringing your ghost to my home. I don’t need anyone’s ghost pondering they are often mates with my ghost.”
Spencer added, “My ghost can hang-out me, however he doesn’t hang-out me. We have now boundaries.”
Jenna Bush Hager
The Right now host received the inside track on the religious residents of the White Home when her father, George W. Bush, was president from 2001 to 2009. She insisted on The Kelly Clarkson Show that rumors about White Home hauntings are “true.”
“Hear, Kelly, you’d have favored these ghosts as a result of they have been very musical,” Bush Hager assured host Kelly Clarkson. “They have been musical, and so they got here with no hurt. They have been sort and pleasant and passionate ghosts.”
Bush Hager shared one explicit occasion when she was staying over along with her twin sister, Barbara Bush, on the White Home whereas on a break from school.
“The telephone rang, and I awakened, and rapidly we heard, like, Twenties piano music popping out of our fire,” she stated. “I used to be like, ‘Certainly, it’s the cat’ or one thing, we needed to faux, however it was the nighttime!”
She continued, “You could possibly really feel the music out of the hearth. I do know, we tried to speak ourselves out of it too. … We jumped into one another’s beds. We have been terrified. However, I’m telling you, the ghosts have been musical, and so they got here with no hurt! They weren’t evil!”
Clarkson joked that the scene Bush Hager described sounded extra like a “horror movie” than a comforting expertise.
“You possibly can’t think about what’s occurred there, so I believe [the music] was from one other period,” Bush Hager clarified. “It was undoubtedly terrifying.”
The Jenner Household
Throughout a Vogue interview in 2018, Kendall Jenner stated she had “skilled some fairly ghostly conditions.” Kendall went as far as to recommend there have been spirits dwelling in her mother Kris Jenner’s Hidden Hills mansion.
“In the home my mother lives in, [Kylie Jenner] and I’d all the time hear footsteps on the roof whereas nobody was house,” she stated.
In keeping with Kendall, her sister Kylie additionally had quite a few unexplainable occurrences whereas they have been dwelling within the Hidden Hills dwelling.
“Kylie’s bathe used to activate on a regular basis, and we by no means knew why,” she stated. “So yeah, I’m satisfied it was a ghost.”
Matthew McConaughey
McConaughey lightheartedly joked throughout a 2009 press junket for Ghosts of Girlfriends Previous that the film hit near house as a result of he’d lived with a spirit known as Madam Blu.
“I used to be not even below the affect, and she or he was there,” he teased.
The Oscar-winning actor admitted the ghost “didn’t appear to be she was going to be that a lot enjoyable to hold round with,” so he determined to confront her.
“I stood my floor, opened the door and stated, ‘You progress round all you need, however I’m not going wherever,’” he insisted. “For weeks, everybody who came to visit to the home stated the identical factor, ‘There’s somebody down that corridor.’”
After quite a few encounters, McConaughey felt that he merely “outlasted” Madam Blu since she ultimately stopped bothering his company.
“She received cool, and the whole lot was advantageous. Everybody stop listening to issues, and everybody fell in love with that room [where her presence was felt],” he stated. “For some time, nobody favored that room, and rapidly folks beloved that room!”
Alyson Hannigan
Hannigan battled demonic forces each week on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so she wasn’t fearful when she found a ghost dwelling in her home.
“I’ve a ghost in my home,” she advised SFGate in 2003. “I noticed him a few months in the past. I don’t suppose he died there as a result of there’s a legislation in L.A. that while you purchase a home, if any individual’s died there they need to disclose that. And no person did. So I don’t know why he’s there. However he’s very pleasant.”
The How I Met Your Mom actress confessed that some company have been unnerved by the ghost, but she was intrigued by the unexplainable presence.
“I’d like to get his title,” she stated. “I’m pondering of placing a bit chalkboard the place I believe he lives to see if he’ll write his title down.”
Lucy Hale
A 2010 interview took an uncommon flip when the Fairly Little Liars star swore that there was a ghost lurking in her residence.
“I’ve a ghost in my home,” she declared.
Hale described “the newest occasion” of encountering a ghost when her mom dropped by for a go to. At round 1 a.m., Hale stated her mother known as out to ask if she was making espresso as a result of the espresso maker had instantly turned on within the kitchen.
“Doorways shut, not slam, however they shut, and I’ve a movement sensor that lights up in my condo, and I swear, it would mild up typically when there’s nothing below it,” she stated.
She added, “I don’t really feel that threatened although, in order that’s good! But it surely freaks me out.”
Jessica Alba
The Sincere Firm cofounder relayed a terrifying story about seemingly being attacked by a ghost whereas in mattress at age 17.
“I had no concept what it was. I felt this strain and I couldn’t stand up, I couldn’t scream, I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t do something,” she advised The Sydney Morning Herald in 2008. “One thing undoubtedly took the covers off me and I undoubtedly couldn’t get out of bed, after which, as soon as I did, I screamed, ran to my dad and mom’ room and I don’t suppose I spent many nights in that home ever once more!”
Alba confessed that she was nonetheless fully baffled by her expertise since she by no means received any closure on what could have occurred.
“There was undoubtedly one thing in my dad and mom’ outdated home – I don’t know what it was,” she stated. “I can’t actually clarify it. However they received it blessed and so they burned sage and stuff since then.”
George Lopez
The Lopez vs Lopez actor solely advised Us Weekly in December 2024 that he was satisfied his “home is haunted.”
“There was banging within the attic, and I’ve heard [the spirit] say, ‘Ma,’ ‘good afternoon’ and my title,” he eerily recounted.
Regardless of the unnerving encounters, Lopez insisted he wasn’t prepared to maneuver out of his home just because there was an surprising roommate.
“Till it really touches me, I’m going to remain,” he stated.