OBJECT FILE
The 'Bela Lugosi' mirror
FOLLOWZak Bagans' The Haunted Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
THE OBJECT
A mirror given to Zak Bagans by a woman named Cindy Lee, who with her sister said it had harmed them; displayed in his Haunted Museum, Las Vegas.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
DISPUTED. The museum's account: the mirror hung in the bedroom of the lawyer and film producer Frank Saletri, shot dead in 1982 in a house said to have belonged earlier to Bela Lugosi. Wikipedia notes that this mirror and another in the museum 'have been claimed to have dubious provenance', and Kenny Biddle examined the claims in Skeptical Inquirer ('A Closer Look at the Bela Lugosi "Haunted" Mirror').
WHERE IT IS NOW
On public display — kept by Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum. Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
PROVENANCE · 2 ENTRIES
TRACE ON THE MAP →1982 — CURRENT LOCATION
POSSIBLE LOCATIONFrank Saletri (by the museum's account)
Los Angeles, California, United States · not placed on the map
Date approximate: 1982 is the year of Saletri's killing, when the mirror is said to have hung in his bedroom; how long it was there is not recorded.
Source: Mental Floss (the museum's account); provenance disputed (Wikipedia; Skeptical Inquirer)
2017 — CURRENT LOCATION
POSSIBLE LOCATIONZak Bagans' The Haunted Museum
Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Date approximate: the museum's opening in 2017; when the mirror arrived is not given.
Source: Mental Floss (given to Bagans by Cindy Lee)
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS · 0
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