Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel is haunted by a chambermaid whose candle sparked an explosion in 1917. Guests have found their clothes unpacked and folded, and one had trouble getting out of bed after waking up with the covers tucked in.

Halle Berry had Dorothy Dandridge's dress on the set for inspiration "with plastic over it so it wouldn't get dusty. One night... we heard rustling... and saw that the plastic on the dress was rattling by itself. We hauled ass out of there... I said, 'As much as I love this dress, it's got to go.'"

Accepting a role in Casper was a difficult decision for 15-year-old Christina Ricci. "I was like, 'Casper the Friendly Ghost?' Will my friends think this is cool?" The clincher? "I heard I'd have a love scene with Casper. I mean, how friendly is he?"

John Wayne's boat, a converted 136-foot minesweeper, is haunted. After hearing footsteps one night, its second owner learned that Wayne took nightly mile-long strolls on the deck. The ship also lost its anchor at Newport Beach and reportedly defied nature by drifting against the current to the dock in front of Wayne's old home.

When Ann Jillian got an odd feeling on a film set at Beverly Hills' Greystone Mansion, a guard told her about a 1929 murder-suicide: "He said he'd show me where the bodies were found. I said, 'Let me show you.' I took him to the exact spot... I even described the position of the bodies. I never felt any danger... but I wouldn't want to spend the night there."

Director Peter Jackson saw a ghost whose face was frozen in a perpetual scream. Sure that he was imagining things, he mentioned the incident to his wife and was shocked when she replied, "Was it the screaming-faced woman?"

A woman awoke one night and found hands moving over the bed. She was so scared that she fainted. In the morning she discovered that her sleepwalking butler had set a table for 14 guests on her bed.

Unable to pay rent at his boarding house, Jackie Gleason donned shorts, dropped his bags out a window, said he was going to the beach, and didn't go back. When he went to pay, three years later, the landlady was shocked. "Oh, my Lord!" she cried. "I thought you were drowned!"

"In a recital, as Andres Segovia was concluding with a pianissimo there was a loud cracking noise," Gregor Piatigorsky recalls. "I found him muttering 'My guitar, my guitar,' as if they were the only words he knew. He later told me that his friend who had made the guitar had died in Madrid at the same time as the instrument had split in Berlin."

Actor Fred Allen saw a haggard, unkempt, long-haired cellist in the orchestra pit in a vaudeville playhouse. "How much," he shouted, "would you charge to haunt a house?"