The experience inspired Yoakum to assist others who were suffering. A few months after arriving in La La Land, he attended a Christian Alliance prayer meeting, where he was blessed by a priest and almost immediately healed. Following a serious buggy accident in Denver in 1894, Yoakum migrated to Los Angeles, hoping the city’s temperate climate would aid in his recovery from his many injuries. Yoakum House, named for the doctor-turned-faith-healer who commissioned it.

In real life, the property is known as the Finis E. Fortunately, the inferno, which was put out within 43 minutes of the fire department’s arrival, does not appear to have caused much damage to the locale because, as you can see below, the Lights Out house is currently standing and seemingly intact. One look at Street View images of the dwelling in comparison to the pad shown in the movie’s trailer confirmed it was the right spot. So I scoured the internet for reports of any fires at L.A.-area residences that year and came across this Los Angeles Daily News article detailing a blaze that struck a three-story home located at 140 South Avenue 59 in Highland Park on November 7th.

Being that Lights Out was released in July 2016, I knew that filming had to have taken place in 2015. Thankfully, the search was not very hard. We cursed that place.” A locale that was not only featured in a horror flick, but that also got vexed by the production? Count me in! I couldn’t imagine a place more perfectly suited to my Haunted Hollywood postings. From the basement, smoke was emanating up. In it, actor Alexander DiPersia was quoted as saying, “A week after we finished shooting the basement scene is very terrifying, I got a call from friends saying, ‘Turn on the news.’ And the house was on fire, like right after we finished shooting.

When I popped “ Lights Out” and “house” in to a Google search, the EW column was the first item kicked back. I first learned about the movie back in January from fellow stalker “sparklesnow” who left a comment on one of my Instagram photos asking for some help in tracking down the large Tudor-style estate where virtually all filming took place. As you can imagine, the words had me drooling. “ Lights Out Cast Accidentally Cursed the House Where they Filmed.” So blared a headline from an Entertainment Weekly article about the 2016 horror film.

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