The Paramour Mansion, also known as Cranfield-Moreno Estate or The Crestmount, located in sunny Los Angeles California is the mansion where MCR stayed from winter 2006 - spring 2006. (I'm not entirely sure how that is possible, but that's who it is presented in the vinyl. That would mean time would be moving backwards though, so I'm not sure if it's just a typo or what. But I am stated it as it is stated in the vinyl.) If you are familiar with Papa Roach you should know that they also stayed here while making an album, The Paramour Sessions.
Nice looking, isn't it? Very inviting and calming, a place to relax and get away. Maybe not so much, things aren't always as they appear. What I find very strange about this house is that there is very little history to be found on it. At least that I can find. However, both MCR and Papa Roach claim the house is haunted. Now, when you think of haunted houses one might think of the Amityville house or perhaps the Winchester Mansion. Both of those houses have huge histories behind them that can be found on the internet and in various books. The Paramour mansion is one that I can find almost nothing on, which strikes me as odd.
Once owned by silent film actor Antonio Moreno and his heiress wife Daisy Canfield, this house seems to be one that has little to tell yet many stories have come from it. From the few facts that have been consistent throughout the web I have only picked up one that would possibly be a reason for a haunting. Daisy Canfield died in 1933 when her car plunged off of Mulholland Drive. In Time it says that the only other person in the car, Rene Dussac, attempted to turn the car lights brighter to be seen through the fog however they were turned off. I'm not entirely sure how car lights worked back then, but I'm pretty sure you would know the different between the car lights being bright or being off. So why were they not turned back on?
It is claimed that after Daisy's death is when the incarnations started to appear. Now, I could understand why she would haunt the house, but why would others? The house became the Chloe P. Canfield School For Girls after Daisy's death when Chloe inherited the house. From there it became a convent for nuns in 1950 before it was sold in 1987 after it was damaged in an earthquake. From this point on I find nothing about the house until 1998 when Dana Hollister purchased the house. Seems to be an innocent house history, for a house that's so haunted.
Mikey Way stated that the house frightened him when they arrived. Not exactly the vibe you get from looking at the picture is it? Gerard said that they all drew numbers as to which room they would stay in, though he also mentioned that it was more like the house picked the room for you as each room seemed to fit all of the guys. Except for Mikey's, which Gerard stated as being "terrifying to be in" though he could not say why. It was just a bad vibe coming from the room.
Listening over their album again, I can hear now where the music picks up a sinister feel to it. The house clearly affected how they wrote, as well as how they lived. Gerard stated that it was slowly getting to all of the members. He said at several times he just wanted to walk to the bottom of the pool and stay there. Mikey became very depressed, to the point where the band felt they had to remove him from the house. The song "Sleep" was written by an experience that Gerard had one night. Where he says he woke and it felt as though something was gripping his throat, though he was unable to move to stop it.
Not exactly something that would come out of the seemingly innocent history of the house is it? So I ask you, if this house is haunted as so many claim it is....how did that come to be? Why is it that so many restless spirits flocked to this house?