4The Brookdale Lodge, Santa Cruz
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Built in 1890, The Brookdale Lodge has had numerous celebrity guests, including Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and President Hoover. A destructive fire and the death of a guest led to its closure in 2011. Prior to its six-year abandonment, several guests and employees claimed to have seen a little girl in a dated white dress running around here. She’s believed to be Sarah Logan, a girl who drowned in the creek there in 1892. Frequent sightings led to the designation of a specific area where people left books and toys that were often later discovered to have been moved.
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