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The Comedy Store in LA is rumored to be haunted. So we went ghost hunting with the pros

Billy Tolley, at the Comedy Store, readies the XSLS camera that uses light detection and ranging and face/body-recognition software for gathering evidence of paranormal activities for Discovery+' s“ Ghost Adventures.”.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is rife with ghosts, and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans is on the hunt. The host of the Travel Channel's "Ghost Adventures" and his crew of spirit sleuths have roamed the city, capturing all manner of unexplained phenomena on camera. Among the haunted places they've explored are the dreaded Cecil Hotel, the Black Dahlia house, Hollywood's American Legion Post 43 building, downtown L.A.'s Roxie Theatre, Pasadena's Ritual House and the Los Angeles Police Museum.

"We focus on Los Angeles because the locations here offer so much in the form of hauntings and mysterious history," Bagans says. "It's a smorgasbord of pure, haunted dreams."

Today we're at the Comedy Store, the Sunset Strip club known for two things: launching the careers of such comedians as Richard Pryor, Jay Leno and Roseanne Barr and scaring the bejesus out of countless performers and patrons during its half-century run. Demonic growls in the

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