Haunted Los Angeles - Union Station
by Jenny Revitz Soper
Title
Haunted Los Angeles - Union Station
Artist
Jenny Revitz Soper
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Union Station was built on the site of the bloodiest riot in this city’s history when in 1871, a Chinese gang war erupted into a lynch mob that spilled into neighboring communities. When the dust settled, at least fifteen bodies hung from the trees along Los Angeles Street, near where the entrance to the Union Station stands today. As a result, that dirt road was nicknamed "Hangman’s Street."
Although the legends of catacombs discovered during construction are untrue, the many stories of corpses, folded or in pieces, found in luggage at Union Station are true. The most famous occurrence of trunks dripping blood involved Winnie Ruth Judd, the infamous "Tiger Woman" of Los Angeles (a.k.a. the "Velvet Tigress" to avoid confusion with the two other notorious local killers also given the nickname the "Tiger Woman").
In addition, the murderer of "Lower 13" was arrested on the platforms as he and his slashed victim rolled into Union Station (perhaps on the now-closed track 13, whose walled-in gateway can still be seen).
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June 17th, 2017
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