The Playboy Mansion is haunted by an ex-playmate who has been roaming the halls at night – that is what Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend, Bridget Marquardt says. The 45-year-old, who retired her bunny ears made the revelation during an interview on Australia's "The Morning Show" on Channel 7.
She recalled an experience several years ago when she was watching TV in one of the mansion's bedrooms and a spirit suddenly appeared in the doorway. Marquardt said she was unable to get a proper look at the spirit but said it looked like "a woman standing there."
The former model added she felt a "positive vibe" from the spirit.
"I didn't get a negative vibe from it at all," she said, according to The Guardian. "I got a very positive vibe, and I think that it might have been a former employee of Hef's just coming to see the new addition to the family."
This is not the first time the Playboy Mansion has been said to be haunted. Over the years there have been multiple alleged ghost sightings. Paranormal investigator Paul Dale Roberts insisted in 2017 the mansion would indeed be haunted.
"The hauntings will be residual and some of the hauntings will be intelligent," he wrote in an article that appeared in The Costarican Times. "Since there was a lot of partying and debauchery going on, the enrgy from these gatherings will resonate into the atmosphere for years to come."
The Playboy Mansion was first built in 1927 in the Holmby Hills. According to Thrillist, Playboy acquired the mansion for a little over $1 million from world-renowned chess player and engineer Louis D. Statham. Hefner called it home for 43 years, until he died in September 2017. Marquardt calls herself a "ghost hunter" and is fascinated by the paranormal.
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