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From the man who ran LA's notorious GRAVE LINE TOURS 
who is also creator of www.findadeath.com, welcome to:

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The Hollywood Tragical History Tour
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Experience the delightfully twisted underbelly of Hollywood with Dearly Departed Tours!  Scott Michaels founded Dearly Departed back in 1989, specializing in dead celebrity memorabilia before launching the tour business in 2005.  Since then he has been pleasing stars and their fans alike with his irresistible combination of wit, humor and insight into the morbid world of celebrity death!

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Experience the movies of L.A. while traveling the streets where they were filmed!

The city of Los Angeles is the star of this tour! Catch a glimpse of all the highlights while cruising the streets on our Movie Theater on Wheels. On board we will show scenes from over 50 films while in front of their filming locations.

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The Nasty Nellie Oleson Tour
(Returns Spring 2010)

Alison Arngrim grew up in Hollywood - and it shows!  , She became a television icon with her portrayal of Nasty Nellie Oleson on the classic show, Little House On The Prairie.

During this special 3 hour tour on wheels, Alison will amaze you with personal anecdotes from her zero degrees of separation to the legends. You name it, Nasty Nellie has a story for just about everyone from Liberace to Michael Jackson, from Paris Hilton to the Manson Family.

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The Helter Skelter Tour
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On this 3+ hour multi-media tour you will visit the sites of the brutal Tate and LaBianca murders carried out by the Manson Family.  Anyone who followed the murders and ensuing repercussions knows that this subject continues to shock and fascinate.  Learn and discuss the crime as we reconstruct the lives of both killers and victims leading up to the horrific crimes, and it's aftermath.

 

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ET goes to Scott Michaels for authoritative celebrity grave reporting.

On NBC Nightly News August 1, 2009

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FRONT PAGE of the Los Angeles Times on Saturday July 11, 2009.

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37 miles and 3.25 hours of the most famous and infamous sights of death, murder and scandal in Los Angeles.  

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"Your tour was the best!" -
Bridget, Holly and Kendra from The Girls Next Door on E!

"Imagine getting an invite that tells you the Smoking Gun had a lovechild with Google Maps, who happens to have a commercial driver’s license and a 13 passenger van."  - The Swell City Guide

"Creepy, Hilarious, but not for the kids or the prissy" - Lonely Planet

"Deliciously Twisted" - San Francisco Chronicle

"One of LA's hidden jewels." - Dave Navarro

"Think of Scott as the AJ Benza of the afterlife, the Perez Hilton of the dead zone, or the Hedda Hopper of the deceased." - DVDverdict.com

Why Gawp At The Glitz?  The Real Fun Is In LA's Seedy Underbelly" - Bizarre Magazine

"A Dearly Departed Delight!" - Leeza Gibbons

L.A.'s Seedy Sight-Seeing Tour is Back On the Road! - Los Angeles Magazine

"Morbidly Engaging!" - Rue Morgue Magazine

"With over three hours of Hollywood history, gossip, and myth-busting, the Dearly Departed Tour was the most fun I’ve had outside of a cemetery!" - Scott Stanton, author of The Tombstone Tourist

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If you don't see a date you are interested in, send an email! Being a small company affords us a bit of flexibility.  If you have a party of at least 4, more tours are possible.
Contact: info@dearlydepartedtours.com

 

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Just for Halloween, Dearly Departed Tours will take you on an escorted journey through spooky film madness, with a Halloween tour devoted to the famous horror film locations around Hollywood and Pasadena.

  • See locations from Halloween (1978), such as the cemetery, the Strode house, the HEDGE, the "speed kills!" street, and the famous Finale street. You thought it was Haddonfield, Illinois, but this horror film classic was mostly filmed in South Pasadena, CA!
  • Experience the horror of films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Fog (1980), Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982), Ed Wood (1994), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and more!
  • You'll also see home where Bela Lugosi died in real life and receive an actual copy of his death certificate!

Also, your guide will be decked out in Michael Myers gear, ready to pose with you at several of the locations, while these films play on our Movie Theater on Wheels!

Please keep in mind, this tour is devoted to horror films only. They are scattered about town, so we've done our best to make this tour as succinct as possible.

 

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5419 Hollywood Boulevard #C404
Hollywood, CA  90027

 

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