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A Disappearance from the Ocean View Hotel

A Disappearance from the Ocean View Hotel

Update: 2025-05-221
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In 1926, a wildly popular evangelical preacher named Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach, in front of the Ocean View Hotel. When her body wasn’t found, she was presumed to have drowned. There’s just one curious thing: Over the next few weeks, people kept on seeing her.

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A Disappearance from the Ocean View Hotel

A Disappearance from the Ocean View Hotel

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