Brad Pitt famously bought a home in Los Angeles in 1994 for $1.7 million. He spent nearly 30 years there, raising the six children he shared with Angelina Jolie in the house. Over time, they expanded to buy adjacent lots, added a swimming pool and myriad other amenities. Now, Brangelina is split up (though still dealing with a bifurcated divorce that Shiloh would allegedly like to see wrapped up), the kids are grown or nearly grown and Brad Pitt offloaded the property after listing it for around $40 million. In the time since, the Mistress of the Dark herself, Elvira, has reported the property is haunted.
Elvira and Brad Pitt are both celebrities with notable fanbases, but they are also both celebrities who one wouldn’t think would necessarily run around in the same circles. However, Elvira knows all about the property Brad Pitt recently sold, because she’s the one who sold it to him. Honestly, her recounting of incidents in the home sounds right out of the plot of one of the best horror movies.
I've seen people walking around upstairs, for example, real people just walking. One time [a ghost was] sitting downstairs in front of the fireplace, once walking into my bedroom and back out. We saw a person floating around at the bottom of the pool, things like that.
She revealed to People that she told Mr. Pitt about the spirits invading her home when she sold it decades ago. She said things got so bad, she and her previous partner Mark Pierson hired an exorcist. He seemed intrigued rather than scared about the prospect. In fact, she noted the actor was “wonderful” to deal with, also recalling:
We were just kind of warning him that a lot of weird things have been going on there in the house since we moved in. And he was very excited about that. He thought that was really cool. … So we were telling Brad all about that and he loved it. I mean, there are not many buyers who that would be a selling point for, but he was like, 'Oh, that's so awesome.' I love that he appreciated the house so much.
The Mistress of the Dark went on to buy property that presumably wasn’t haunted next door to the actor. She was even there when Pitt trained for Fight Club years ago. She's also mentioned the actor let a former homeowner live rent free on the property until his death at 105.
Elvira is far from the only celebrity to have felt a spectral presence. Friends star Courteney Cox revealed she once sold a home after a UPS driver claimed it was haunted. I dunno about ghosts in her home, but Kristen Stewart is so enamored with the paranormal, the Twilight star is making her own ghost hunting series. Elvira, on the other hand, says she is not simply trying to stay on brand with these claims about her former home.
I know that sounds nutty. I'm Elvira. I know you expect that from me, right? I don't have hallucinations, I wasn't high and I can't explain those things.
Back in 2008 a rumored report ran around in which Brad Pitt was also alleged to be into the idea of communing with spirits. That report specifically indicated he watched the documentary Tuning In: Spirit Channelers in America, leading to more of an interest. At that point, however, he’d already owned the “haunted” Elvira house for fourteen or so years.
Unfortunately, it now looks as if the spirits will have other individuals to haunt moving forward. The actor officially offloaded the 1.9 acre property back in March.
