The following is an excerpt from my website regarding secrets and little know facts about the Palos Verdes Peninsula (see http://maureenmegowan.com/PageManager/Default.aspx/PageID=1824011&NF=1 )
"There are persistent rumors that the Vanderlip mansion is haunted. Two untrue stories have been circulated on the internet that the wife of Frank Vanderlip went crazy there, or that a daugher of Frank Vanderlip had an illicit affair and was put into an insane asylum across the street, but the stories still appear on several websites devoted to haunted places. John Vanderlip and his wife Narcissa had 6 children, all of whom led normal lives. One story as to the possible source of the house being haunted is that Elin Vanderlip's father (Elin is the wife of Kelvin Vanderlip, one of Frank Vanderlip's children, and still lives in the Vanderlip Mansion Villa Narcissa) was of Norwegian descent and had a full head of white hair and would sometimes wander the streets at night in his nightgown, carrying a shotgun and accompanied by several dogs which had their voice boxes removed to prevent their disturbing Elin with their barking. The sight of the old man in his nightgown with white hair, gun and silent mysterious dogs may indeed have scared the daylights out of people."
Villa Narcissa (The Vanderlip Mansion in Rancho Palos Verdes
This is a picture of "The Cottage" which is the first home built on the Palos Verdes Peninsula by Frank Vanderlip in 1016:
For more about the history of Rancho Palos Verdes go to my website at: http://www.maureenmegowan.com/PageManager/Default.aspx/PageID=1471638&NF=1
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i know a little about that my friends told me about it and i might go there and check out that place but i want to know if all that is real?